Bill Bennett and Other Runaway Ideologues

Former Education Secretary, William Bennett's comments last week, tying the crime rate dropping to giving every black woman an abortion (his quote exactly; "But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that was your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."), is just the latest of a string of vile excrement coming from a conservative far right movement gone awry. They're outta control, so arrogant, so disconnected from reality, so full of their own twisted ideology that they can't even see how insensitive they seem, how incoherent they sound, and how weak they’re making America look.

How do other nations respect a nation that doesn’t take care of its own? With the confirmation of Chief Justice, John Roberts, under their belt, the Republican Party’s neo-con element are "feelin' themselves," "teeing off" with regularity on how they see the world from their ideological prism, and with a consistency that they couldn't do in Baby Bush's first term.