GOP Ostrich, originally uploaded by stormbear.

Congressman Curt Weldon has marched in lockstep with the Bush-Cheney neo-con agenda. He still thinks there are WMD’s in Iraq, and a few months ago he even wanted to make a trip there personally to go dig them up.

But after two decades of putting a cute, little elephant symbol on his lawn signs, Curt has ditched his GOP trappings and is calling himself “an independent fighter.”

Since he won’t use an elephant, maybe Storm Wilson’s ostrich would be more appropriate.

If the GOP didn’t have fear memes, what would it have? Rep. Weldon’s latest take…

Curt Weldon on CNN: “We either fight them there, or we fight them in the supermarkets and streets here.”

Craig Crawford: “If Bush could not keep the terrorists out of Iraq, how can he keep them out of the local supermarket?”

For those who may have missed it on Sunday, Santorum and Casey debated on Meet the Press. I provide this synopsis so that you won’t regret missing it.

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Am I crazy, or does it seem like the Bush administration has some kind of political deathwish? Americans don’t like this war.

“How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?” –Dwight D. Eisenhower

Also, see Olbermann’s Murrow-inspired response.

Even the conservatives are mad at Santorum, apparently.

For five and half years of each term, Rick Santorum drives us liberals crazy with his gay-bashing, chauvinistic, environment-raping, worker-jipping assaults. Then an election year rolls around, and back comes Senator Pothole. It was bad enough when he made a PA district pick up the distance learning tab to educate his kids where they live…in Virginia.

But now even the ultra-con Washington Times reports on conservative disaffection with Santorum. (Story spotted by new blogger on the block, Brett Lieberman, of Pennsyltucky Politics.)

I should have done this weeks ago when it was fresher, but I honestly just noticed that the vote on reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act happened almost exactly one year after Ken Mehlman’s noteworthy apology before the NAACP.

Of all the things I have to dislike about the modern Republican Party, that many in its ranks exploit bigotry is the thing that makes my blood boil and is capable of sending me into a frothing rant.

The threat to civil society isn’t gay people, racial minorities, or immigrants. The threat is people who perpetuate hate and mistrust of decent people.