Quote Of The Week

Aimai over at No More Mister Nice Blog weighs in on Republicans and Ted Kennedy:

Its not that Republicans don't use death, and death(s) to score political points or create policy. Jesus Christ, anyone? Not a Republican death per se, but certainly a recurring image in the pageant of right wing martyr funerals. Religious anti abortion rights activists routinely use the imagery of death and the fetus to compel policy changes they favor. Fred Phelps and his family routinely picket other people's funerals to make their political/religious points. And, of course, 9/11 was the greatest political funeral orgy in American History since Pearl Harbor. And the party that ran with the most necrophilic and abusive use of those deaths was, IIRC, tagged with an R. And they are still mourning their loss of the use rights to those deaths. A right which, apparently, goes with control of the Presidency.

Aimai is right on the money. Wingers are obsessed with death. Causing it to "enemies", fear of it to "loved ones", everything they seemingly do is driven by a morbid fascination with death. After all, "dead or alive" is the ultimate expression of the Wingnut binary worldview, and the Wingers do love categorizing everyone into deserving one of the two states.