RADIO TIDBITS

Last week, Mark "Foamer" Levin was again attacking Democrats and liberals. He thinks they are unpatriotic and said "liberals of the past were patriotic," referring to people like FDR and Truman. Foamer also said that Europe "is 20 to 30 years ahead of us on the road to tyranny." One immediately thinks that this is a VERY long road, considering that Europe has has social welfare states for decades. I think this is also an implied attack on any plan to improve our health care system that doesn't make the insurance companies richer.

This morning, Slots Bennett parroted Bill Kristol's remarks about DailyKos and the Democrats, down to mentioning that no Dem presidential candidate would be appearing at the DLC conference. Attacking DailyKos seems to be a concerted effort by the GOP Noise Machine to discredit anyone to the left of Joe Lieberman. I think Atrios gets it exactly right:

Over the next couple of weeks there will be a grand effort by the wingosphere/conservative pundits/Falafel boy/their mainstream media enablers/etc... to try to undermine Yearly Kos and to marginalize anyone who attends.

Slots also echoed a lament I've also heard from Fats and Insannity: The GOP has no chance in 2008. Insannity has already gone into his "don't despair, go vote" mode, the one he adopted before the 2006 mid-term elections. Let's hope his current recommendation works as well as his 2006 one.