TSO has a post up over at TAH that seemed to require some a more detailed response than I feel comfortable giving in a comment. It’s not polite to visit a friends place and pee on their floor.
Read his piece then come back here so I don’t have to quote the whole thing, please.
Railing against WND is a bit like Don Quixote tilting at windmills. It may be noble but those windmills will never be fire breathing dragons.
Those that take every word published at WND seriously will not be dissuaded by reason. That’s not to say everything that comes from WND is junk, only that with some items come with what amounts to an element of faith attached.
In this case TSO brings up what some see as a Tenth Amendment issue. It needs to be pointed out that, not unlike The Tea Party folks, some Tenth Amendment advocates are not being careful about those who attach themselves at the fringes. And there are simply those hangers-on who are willing to take advantage of these situations for their own purposes.
TSO highlights many of those in his posts.
But at times I feel he uses too broad a brush.
So I must take gentle umbrage with …but pushing this kind of crap just gets folks worked up, and they don’t understand the subject enough not to act like imbeciles.
For one thing you’ve doomed yourself to a life of disappointment if this aspect of human behavior surprises you. People will regularly go off half-cocked. That there is a Law of Unintended Consequences should be a clue. Hell, that Obama got elected should be a clue.
Perhaps I should have been more clear on that. yes, folks will always do this, and usually I have no problem. But when they are ostensibly on our side of the aisle, i think we owe it to the cause to either educate them, or ask them to stop blathering.
It’s like the post i did yesterday with the woman talking about how Walter Reed shows that our veterans get bad treatment and thus we shouldn’t have this health care bill. Right result, horrible logic, and it maligns the people who work hard at WRAMC. It wasn’t a health care fiasco, it was out patient housing.