There seems to be somewhat of a pattern here:

A neocon who has had problems dealing with a non-white non-conservative running the country was slain by his wife (he was also a serial spouse abuser - funny how that seems to go with the neocon mindset so often…) before he could try and get his dirty bomb together (and then presumably try to use it on the gubmint - not that he would have much of a chance of accomplishing this task, but the potential for lots of damage along the way is significant). Funny - it seems that the whole neocon conservative domestic terrorist angle has been slightly downplayed by the mainstream media on this story…

Everyone favorite neocon skank, Ann Coulter, has shown (amazingly, I know..) a superlative amount of hypocrisy while excusing the terrorists who are acting on her behalf, as far as David Neiwert (and most rational human beings) are concerned (when they are concerned with the antics of an anorexic fifty plus year old spinster who preaches traditional family values while simultaneously refusing to live by them herself).

Remember that person who shot up a unitarian church in Tennessee? It seems he wanted to make sure that everyone knew that he was engaging in deliberate acts of domestic terrorism, and using the writings of modern neocons and conservative talk radio as a primary source of inspiration and guidance. Funny thing though - you don’t really hear all that much about this story outside of the liberal blogsphere…

It is also interesting to note that the notoriously corrupt sheriff Joe Arpaio is being federally investigated for his liberties in failing to follow the law while, you know, being an officer of the law and all. I wonder if footage of this hearing would be worthy of inclusion in his news TV show?

And, another funny thing about that shooting in Tennessee: when you do hear bloated elitist conservative gasbags bloviate about that particular conservative domestic terrorist, they trash anyone who points out that they inspired the guy and tell them to go Cheney themselves.

Finally (for this brief scribbling), we see one of the founding fathers of the Riech wing neoconservative movement spewing more incendiary bile and openly calling for liberals to be massacred. On the public airwaves. If there were a Fairness Doctrine (or even, seemingly these days, the ability to sue people for slander and libel when they make factually incorrect statements in public, or prosecute them for making public death threats), how would you ever think that this sort of diatribe would be defensible at all?

Mix in the ongoing depression that has been enhanced by Republican’t fiscal policy (cough), the (when they get to come home at all) soldiers with record numbers of mental illness returning to civilian life, the ongoing Republican’t Taliban Party’s attempt to terrorize the current Democratic government and sabotage the legislative process, and the increasing problems due to climate change, and you’ve got us all living that ancient Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.

Is anybody else scared yet?

A big tip of the hat to David Neiwert for his tireless efforts to illuminate the festering wound to our nation’s psyche that is the modern neoconservative movement.

Editors’ Note: this entry has been cross-posted at the Funny Farm]