Last Call

You knew Bill Kristol had to weigh in on Cordoba House and Mike Bloomberg's defense of it.  It's typical drivel, but it's notable for a line that has to be the winner of Wingnut Stupidity of the Year:

His remarks will be read with curiosity by future generations of Americans, who will look back in astonishment at the self-deluding pieties and self-destructive dogmas that are held onto, at once smugly and desperately, by today’s liberal elites. 

Only Bill Kristol would consider the First Amendment's clause that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" as a self-deluding piety or a self-destructive dogma.

I would think future generations would look at Bill Kristol, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and the rest of the GOP bigotry squad and ask why we were so hateful to gays and lesbians, Muslims, science, and you know, fact.  That is if there are future generations, which if the GOP gets back in control so they can continue to strip the treasury and cook the planet, well...