Haranguegatang

Here, elected Democrats, is your assignment:

Make the CONNECTION!, loudly, persistently, persuasively, passionately, that when you have an administration that considers the Department of Justice a tool of its political machine, and would subvert the law to solidify its power, you HAVE to assume its DOMESTIC SPYING is predominantly aimed at its CITIZENS for use against those citizens.

Cronies as federal prosecutors plus spy-databases from which those cronies can cherry-pick and manipulate personal information to intimidate and harass and silence opposition equal a tyrant's wettest dream of suppressing internal dissent.

And say: This is their philosophy of governance, nakedly exposed. This is what they fundamentally believe, this is who they fundamentally are.

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But I'm luxuriating in my anger, says Lord Wills, who starts his latest silliest column EVAH with a chuckleful anecdote from 1812, then compares Paul Krugman to Anne Coulter, then accuses me of feckless self-indulgence in st(r)oking my outrage where no outrage is justified.

Time to play again Which Is Worse? That Wills (and Krauthammer) believes his bullshit or knows it's bullshit?

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What Brzezinski says. What Frank Rich says (thanks, Egalia). What Thers says. What The Editors says. What Doghouse Riley says. What Cline says. What Maha says. What Wolcott says. What Ape Man says. What NTodd says.

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And speaking of harangues: