I wouldn’t have bothered to put this up – short version; CodePink threw glitter at Tim Pawlenty because Pawlenty opposes same-sex marriage. Speaking as a supporter of same-sex marriage, I personally don’t care overmuch one way or the other about empty gestures like these, but having CodePink join the cause… well, let me put it this way…
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Actually, let me not. That might have earned me a libel suit. Suffice it to say, I’m not a fan.
Anyway, Jim Geraghty had a good line:
During the Bush years, no administration official or Pentagon official could finish a sentence of testimony on Capitol Hill without some aged activist whose physique strangely suggested a great deal of inactivism leaping out of her chair and screaming some incoherent chant as a tired Capitol Police officer dragged them away, oh so slowly.
Which reminded me of a bumper sticker that I saw yesterday: the ‘classic’ “It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.” Given the way that the Obama administration – who the bumper sticker owner proudly voted for, judging from the other bumper stickers* – has gutted school choice and expanded our war footprint, it’s a good thing that irony isn’t actually a living thing; these days, it’d be on the Endangered Species List.
Moe Lane
PS: One of these days, somebody is going to taser a CodePinker for pulling stunts like this. Given the anthrax scares of the previous decade, I’m kind of surprised that nobody has, yet…
*Twenty or so. Yes. One of those.