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FREE AT LAST. Having listened all day yesterday to the bleatings on wingnut radio, I was struck by the let's-make-lemonade-out-of-all-this-Santorum happy talk bubbling forth from the superstars of Radio Wingnuttia. They were happy -- nay thrilled -- not to have to defend any more the boobs, hucksters, and ideological turncoats of the Republican congressional majority. Neil Boortz was overjoyed, and Rush Limbaugh sounded like he was only eight milligrams short of religious ecstasy. Which reminded me of this stirring passage from a great national leader:
Relieved from the necessity of guarding cities and particular points, important but not vital to our defense, with an army free to move from point to point and strike in detail the detachments and garrisons of the enemy, operating on the interior of our own country, where supplies are more accessible, and where the foe will be far removed from his own base and cut off from all succor in case of reverse, nothing is now needed to render our triumph certain but the exhibition of our own unquenchable resolve. Let us but will it, and we are free; and who, in the light of the past, dare doubt your purpose in the future?"You'd think, given their audiences, they'd have the good sense to credit ol' Jeff Davis for originating their latest meme.
--Charles P. Pierce
