Michael Gerson is full of wonder and concern for Republicans who associate with those “toxic” Tea Party candidates.

Gerson asks Three Questions For the Tea Party that no one is asking but himself–and possibly the Beltway punditry and the RINO-afflicted.

Here’s his three questions.

1-First, do you believe that Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional?

Apparently, either someone in the Tea Party (Ken Buck is Gerson’s example) believes that Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional or M. Gerson believes that Buck believes it.

It is not known whether Buck offered this as a provocative statement or as part of a well-detailed policy plan. If it’s the former, it’s kind of like you saying to your girlfriend, “There’s no way I want to watch a chick flick tonight.”

You’re just throwing it out there: you really haven’t sat down and thought the entire thing through and are not offering it as policy.

No one knows because Gerson doesn’t tell us. Maybe this is Michael’s way of being provocative himself?

2-Do you believe that American identity is undermined by immigration?

Here’s a question back at Gerson: when did you stop beating your wife?

I’m sorry, was that not a fair question? Was that frivolous?

Then it resembles MG question number two. I would suspect that Gerson’s not been in the room when a Tea Party member is arguing against immigration. It’s immigration of the ILLEGAL kind that got folks riled up.

It’s the different between consensual sex and rape. Not many people get upset at consensual sex–except parents, from time-to-time.

Rape another matter because it a completely different matter.

Same with immigration and illegal immigration. Two completely different things. But, of course, Gerson knew that.

Is he trying to be provocative again?

3- Do you believe that gun rights are relevant to the health care debate?

Gerson cites a quote from Sharon Angle as proof she’s nuts or something. Gerson is horrified that at some point, citizens might contemplate resisting the government. Is Angle advocating that action? Why, no, she isn’t.

But the possibility is alluded to IF the government continues to trample on basic human freedoms (think health care mandate, Michael). Same as Gerson is alluding that his article is one filled with genuine concern over the Republicans and/or the Tea Party.

Give me a break. Michael Gerson’s handwringing over potential Tea Party violence is indicative of the Beltway set–alll the while, it’s the other side that engages in the real violence [Tea Party Group Hit With Death Threats].

Gerson’s piece really needs to be taken apart like a fine watch.

But I’m running short of time and have no more than the ten minutes I’ve devoted to writing this.

Figured I’d put as much thought into this as Gerson did into his. Seems fair.

As it is, there’s not any time left to do anything other than dismiss Gerson’s entire piece out of hand.

That too seems fair.

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PJ Media’s Phyllis Chesler does a great job bashing TIME aboutst the head and shoulders.

Even more so than their dwindling readership has done!

FRom Is Time a Muslim Magazine?:

I did not think that the pro-Muslim/pro-Islamist and anti-Western propaganda could get any worse—and yet it just has.

Time magazine has an August 30 cover story titled “Is America Islamophobic?” Within, the article is titled: “Islam in America: It’s part of the fabric of life, but protests reveal a growing hostility to the religion of Muslims.”

Chesler relates in perfect detail why TIME’s slogan should be “Silly reader, TIME is for kids!”

TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults

Even the Onion has noticed.

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IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW DEPT.

Conservative.org publishes a nifty little web product called “Conservative Battlelines. Their latest explores the secessionist daydreams of Progressive daydream stylist, Dana Milbank.

From Federalism in the Air:

Pass the smelling salts: the progressives smell federalism in the air and are swooning faint. Every major intellectual on the left is suffering asphyxiation at the idea people may think someone other than their favorite “expert” in Washington can solve every problem in America – and they just cannot stop writing about it in a pandemic of total panic.

The most recent fainting spell hit The Washington Post’s resident fussbudget Dana Milbank. Those crazy rightwingers of the Tea Party movement actually want to restore the 10th Amendment to the Constitution. Horrors! From his cozy manse on the Outer Banks seashore, he mused sardonically about “how different things will be here when the South secedes from the Union.”

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Milbank can be counted to back most any person, idea or project which makes the Washington DC cocoon in which he lives a more powerful place. It’s an insular world, but someone has to live in it.

Issue 162, from which the above is taken has more.

Good org, good pub, check it out.

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Since we can’t get onto the Charleston Gazette site or Don Surber’s site this morning with the Charleston Gazette the number one Google search term we wondered if the Google search slam was due to today’s item in the New York Post under “Capital Punishment”:

Jobless claims rise, while Biden’s jobs claims not so much

Meanwhile, Don Surber sees the good news. He rekons that the $862 billion stimulus did work, it created exactly 75,000 jobs since last year.

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Prof. Glenn Reynolds cites the following as proof not to “mess with bloggers.”

We agree.

An aviation lawyer and pilot, Arthur Alan Wolk, sued Overlawyered‘s Ted Frank, for defamation. But the statute of limitations had run out, the judge ruled. Wolk’s lawyers have appealed.

From Discovery Rule for Libel Doesn’t Apply to Blogs, Says Federal Judge:

“Unlike mass media print defamation claims, where the publication is pervasive for a short time, but soon becomes yesterday’s news, the Internet is a different animal,” Rosen said.

“In cases such as Mr. Wolk’s, involving a blog that is relatively obscure, but which published a false statement that may appear on any Google type search, the discovery rule is of particular importance,” Rosen said.

Having read Overlawyered for years, I’d say that Rosen’s statement constitutes, if not outright defamation, then smack-talk of a sort that’s liable to start a flame war–if Rosen had a blog.

Wolk’s defamation case is the type of posts addressed by Overlawyered’s crew on a daily basis.

So, maybe Rosen had reason to talk a a little smack?

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No, Barack Obama couldn’t have been hinting at something unthinkable, could he?

Under the bus: Obama finds Rangel charges “very troubling,” hopes he ends career “with dignity”

“I think Charlie Rangel served a very long time and served– his constituents very well. But these– allegations are very troubling,” Obama told Harry Smith in an interview to be aired on the “Early Show.” and first broadcast on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.

“And he’ll– he’s somebody who’s at the end of his career. Eighty years old. I’m sure that– what he wants is to be able to– end his career with dignity. And my hope is that– it happens.”

No.

Say what you will: Obama’s no Sicilian mobster.

There’s been absolutely no proof that any of the president’s ancestors came from Sicily.

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THE RULING CLASS CLINTONS THROW A SHINDIG

Doug Ross (and his better half) made several good points about the Chelsea Clinton Wedding-aPalooza.

From The Wife was really P.O’ed this AM–Chelsea’s Wedding Extravaganza:

The wife was on a roll this morning, pointing out some interesting facts about the immense Clinton wedding that took place this weekend.

Among the facts that Ross & Ross pointed out: the immense cost of the Clinton extravaganza vs. the small, private wedding of Jenna Bush; and, “There really are two Americas: the Democrat ruling class and everyone else.”

One more may be added to the several points the piece made–readers really should check out the link to get the entire piece and it’s illustrated flavor.

When it was announced that the FAA had declared the airspace over the Clinton wedding as a “no-fly zone” earlier in the week, at least one person wondered, “What are the odds that Mr. and soon-to-be-Mrs. Joe Blow could get the FAA to declare a no-fly zone over an ordinary wedding? Not that they’d want to… But, really: what strings were pulled that were well beyond the reach of most ordinary, workaday Americans?

There really are two distinct groups in America: the “regular” Americans and those who fancy themselves part of the “Ruling Class.”

There’s two set of laws, rules and regulations, depending upon which set you frequent.

The Clintons belong the second set. Worth remembering the next time Hillary backers try to claim “she’s one of us.”

Really?

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