First they come for your Social Security checks, then they come for your erections: Great moments in blog commenting

Quisp, commenting over at Majikthiese about Senate bill S. 1113, which would ban federal reimbursement for sexual or erectile dysfunction therapies, summed it up in way less than 30 words:

That's so great. First they come for your social security checks, then they come for your erections.

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Over at Busy, Busy, Busy, Tom Friedman's "C.E.O.'s M.I.A." column riled up dittofinger:

Our dear leader said we don't have to take a "global test" and by God we won't. Just close the borders, build me a house with easy access to the outer-bypass so I don't have to see homeless people on my commute to and from work, give Ritalin to my kids and Prozac to my wife, a little CSI and Idol on the tube, and a flag in the wind on my Foxxy News (Old Glory never looked so good). Screw the rest of the world. They are just afraid of our freedom. And I hope Castro dies soon so I can watch another combat jump from my Lazy-boy.

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Parsec visited Roger Ailes's blog and offered his views on Bernard Goldberg's new "book" -- 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken Is #37):

Is Bernie still "riding the retro?"

That means trying to find the market for the most perverse, backward, obstinately blind, willfully ignorant point of view imaginable. You do this because there's supposedly no market for the truth and it's easier than troubling to get your facts straight.

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On Rush Limbaugh and the popping of right-wing blood vessels, Petey, over at The Next Hurrah, observed:

I find it difficult to think that otherwise intelligent people don't understand the intentional uses of outrage by the right wing demagogues. See Newsweek, Ward Churchill, etc for any necessary clarification. The VRWC runs on perceived victimization the way cars run on gasoline.

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