The Competition Seems To Be Heating Up...

Well, it seems another brain-dead Pajamas Media blogger has joined the League of True Defenders of Whiteness™:

LaShawn Barber is calling for George Bush's impeachment.

[Not that anyone in a position to actually impeach George Bush gives a flying handshake, mind you.]

Why, you ask?

For not keeping all them nasty Brown Folks in Mesko.

Huh...

Call a me spineless librul, but I can't fail to notice that we're well into George Bush's second term.

Or that the South o' the Border Situation hasn't really changed that much from the days of Clinton, or Daddy Bush, or Reagan, or Carter, or...

Which leads me to this painfully obvious question...

Why now?

Why wasn't this a B.F.D. to LaShawn three years ago?

Why wasn't LaShawn calling for impeachment in October of 2004?

What has changed?

And if this is such a B.F.D., why hasn't she set forth some policy proposals to correct the situation that might have a chance in breaking the present deadlock in Congress?

Wouldn't that be a bit more on point, if illegal immigration really is a B.F.D.?

As well as a tad more realistic than calling for impeachment?

Then again...

Is illegal immigration really what this is about?

Or could it be that LaShawn took a look at Michelle Malkin's site traffic and book sales and decided she'd do whatever it takes to become the biggest bug in the manure pile?

Comments

[Catherine]

The melt-down on the Right is suicidal. This sudden anti-immigrant hysteria, right after the flare-up of Dubai Dubya, is not natural and the timing is suspicious. In the big scheme of things, little PJM is a bit player, except for Malkin who is a bit more of a bit, but Roger's bloggy corporation is doing its little part to encourage the idiots. I had thought from the beginning that PJM would trend in a way that hurt the GOP. You have:

Libertarian nano-fetishist Glenn who has been wanting to vote for a hawkish Dem

Roger, who is still a Democrat and who said recently that putting a Dem in the Presidency in '08 could help the Dems become serious about national security (??! recycled inanity from Andrew Sullivan '04);

Charles Johnson who is a hawkish-on-Muslims liberal

Belmont Club which has gone absolutely batguano/Buchanan insane in the comments these days, no matter the topic (Bush is a traitor! Punish the Repubs this fall!)

many other PJM types I don't read, but you point out Lashawn Barber today,

and, of course, Malkin, who most of us thought was a Republican, but who apparently is more of an uber conservative reactionary working to radicalize and split the party in order

I wonder about Malkin's Murdoch connection and his to Hillary, and whether her husband Jesse is a paleo Repub or Libertarian? It certainly looks like someone has made a financial/professional advancement decision to take down the party this fall and become someone to court by aspiring pols.

[Catherine]

Ha! Died in mid-sentence up there. Should read about Malkin's efforts: "split the party in order to lose the next several elections for 'our' side."

Just want to add that National Review paleo pundits aren't helping, either, and now Noonan is jumping the shark. Well, OK, she's been pretty insipid for a while. According to her, unless Bush immediately revamps policy to suit the tantrum of the month, he is "out of touch with his base." Shades of Bush I not knowing what a grocer scanner was, a particularly effective urban myth that hurt him.

Well, the base is crazed, but the Dems are not an alternative for me. Neither is a spoiler third party. I'm praying Rove pulls a rabbit our of the hat this fall and maybe a pretty bouquet of flowers from his sleeve. Good luck to this country.

[Agent Smith]

Saw this at bash.org, so forgive me:

Dennis, it seems you have been leading two lives:

During the day you are Kenton Kelly; you live in Ohio, you work as a CPA with a thriving business and a Mercedes Benz SUV.

And at night you are Dennis the Peasant, spreader of pro Somalian, anti Pajamas Media and conservative propoganda and being a general nuisance.

Only one of these has a future...

[independent conservative]

Agent Smith's source, Freefirezone.org, says Dennis needs to learn a little "target discrimination" in order to be the right kind of conservative. Apparently, the peasant needs to stop spreading "propaganda" (??!) against cons and Pajamas, rev up the rants, and join the wingnut juggernaut power grab in shouting illegal-Mexicans-are-an-emergency-threat-Bush-is-a-liar-and-a-traitor-punish-the-GOP-this-fall-elect-Dems-and-impeach-Bush!!

It's only one long, loud word. You can do it, Dennis. Think of Wrinkle in Time. The beat is irresistible. Of course, if you don't stop resisting, they know who you are and consider you a nuisance...

[Guesst]

Here's some shocking info:

LaShawn "GiantHead" Barber is yet another "former" liberal blogger who claims to now be an independent conservative. There is no such thing.

[Guesst]

From Barber's site comes this:

I know my opinion about what should be done with Bush is controversial. Controversy sells. I can handle controversy. It’s the reason I’m a high ranking blogger.

I guess this explains why Barber can bill herself as 'credentialed' blogger who is also a blogging 'consultant'.

Shameless. Just shameless.

[Terrye]

Well Barbar can kiss my ass. I am getting really tired of this stuff.

[Zhombre]

The blogosphere can prattle on and on and on. The voters will have the final say in the matter this November.

[Terrye]

Zhombre:

Tis true.

[Guesst]

Here's something entirely off-topic that bears watching for the "told ya' so"s among us.

Quite a few of the "Minutemen" types who are inciting the antiMexican border confrontations, are former FReaks who were banned years ago from Free Republic once people wised up to their radical agendas.

The last thing President Bush should do is give them any credence, because they are mostly extremists who thrive on violence and "controversy" (remember, controver$y sells!!, and the organizers of these groups know it). That Malkin, FNC, Hannity (his girlfriend is a paid media consultant for the Minutemen, doh!) and others pay them any heed, says it all. Such lemmings.

ps: LaShawn Barber idolizes Rev. Jesse Peterson. Another former FReaker. (Who isn't?)

[Jim]

Last thing we need is a serious border incident between Mexican nationals and the Minutemen in the next eight weeks before the Mexico election in July. Fox's candidate Calderon is neck-in-neck with leftist opponent, Obrador (AMLO), an ally of America-hating Chavez, and any Minuteman violence toward Mexicans could tilt the vote to Obrador, which we definitely don't want to happen.

To try to salvage the election, Fox and Calderon would have to be confrontational with the US, and that isn't a desirable outcome, either. Do the vigilantes know this and will be careful, or are they out to polarize the situation in the short-term and American interests be damned? "Securing" the border does not have to mean screwing us with most of this hemisphere for years to come.

(Just googled "Minutemen, Mexico election" and the first site offered was some kind of white supremacist group that supports the Minutemen and wants Obrador elected... It was a creepy place with pictures of blonde, blue-eyed girls and ads for Prussian something or another.)

[David N. Scott]

Yeah, my mom's getting on this, too. Meanwhile, she suggests I go to Home Depot and hire illegals to help me plant my garden. Insert brain popping here.

[Tim P]

Kenton,

Your arguments are compelling and I have to agree, more or less, with them. However, come November, I don't think that the republicans will do nearly as bad as many are predicting for one simple reason.

Look at the alternative.

You want batshit crazy? You want barking at the moon? Corruption in spades? Then look no further than the democrats. Many might not agree with all the republican proposals, but at least they're proposing something. The democrat's only song for the last six years has been the one noter, 'Bush bad.'

Sorry, that doesn't cut it. I don't agree with all of the republican agenda, but at least they have an agenda that they're willing to talk about in public. Until we have a serious opposition that actually has some ideas and can spell out its own platform, I'll hold my nose and vote for the republicans.

[Tim P]

Sorry, my earlier comment above is with respect to this post and the latter one "The New Other."
Specifically, I was commenting about the following quote.

It is hard to shake off the idea that this isn't about either illegal immigration or the supposed failings of George W. Bush. In fact, the very hysteria of the "conservative" pundits on both these issues suggests that there is something else going on that people like LaShawn Barber don't want to admit or discuss.

I think it is the spectre of political failure and defeat.