The attraction is inescapable. Pantload ejaculates:

Congratulations Glenn! [Jonah Goldberg]

My man Glenn Beck is moving to Fox.

Just the place for a half-witted dipstick wingnut tool with miserable ratings.

And lucky Jonah is around to enjoy the wafting putrescent fumes of Glenn Beck hovering around FoxNews instead of Headline News. . . .

Teh Corner’s K-Lo breathlessly passes on a flattering reader email:

Last night I was speaking with a colleague about how great it would be to have an additional 12 hours each day. Of course, half of that time would be dedicated to NRO and the other half of the time would be dedicated to growing my business which has slowed to a crawl due to my NRO addiction.

Possibly this reader would be better off if there were 6 hours less each day, so he wouldn’t be able to spend time on NRO getting dumber by the minute, and thereby ruining his business.

In reaction to an email about the Corner’s ignoring Palin’s de-cleating by media lightweight Katie Couric, K-Lo shares her most secret, innermost fantasy:

“Actually, I’m just sitting here wishing Sarah Palin could have married Mitt Romney — then these Christianists could rule a Brave New Theocracy together and I wouldn’t have to pay attention to another politician again.”

If you just vomited all over your computer, sorry.

It goes without saying, but anyone who pines to be the vassal of a Theocracy sired by Mittens and Hockey Mom ought to be institutionalized immediately.

BREAKING K-LO BATSHIT CRAZINESS: Brad asks, Is K-Lo wasted right now? after she writes this following the debate:

I think Obama supporters are happy enough tonight. But I suspect they wanted McCain to show up tired and cranky and he didn’t he appeared a leader whose dont some of that leading. I have my quibbles with some of what McCain said and didn’t said. . .

I think that given given K-Lo’s lack of physical conditioning and the fact that she says this kind of crazy shit all the time, Occam’s razor favors disturbed, rather than wasted. Just because if she were that wasted all the time, she’d be dead by now.

Those little sods in the corner are en fuego with teh stoopid today.

Many are concerned that the fact that William Ayers was a radical is as unknown as the fact that McCain was a POW.

But teh stoopid cake today is taken by Jay Nordlinger with this putz-worthy effort:

Yesterday, I posted with some fury about one of Joe Biden’s lines. He said, “These times require more than a good soldier, they require a wise leader.” I thought that was pretty disgusting. You could interpret Biden to mean, “McCain may be good enough to go off to Vietnam and get himself tortured. Good for him. But he just ain’t smart enough to be president.”

You could interpret that way, if you’re a frickin’ idiot trying to manufacture a golden slur out of simple straw. (Although Nordlinger is sure to get Wingnut Bonus points for pointlessly working “McCain was a POW” into the narrative) On the other hand, it doesn’t take any “interpretation” at all to understand “It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign” as a direct and unambiguous slur against Senator Obama. Especially when, at the time Obama publicly stated his opposition to the Iraq war, support for war and President Bush was extremely strong, and any political calculus might have led a me-first/country-second politician to say absurdly unhinged things like, “I am proud of the leadership of the President of the United States,” or “I believe the President of the United States has done everything necessary and has exercised every option short of war,” or “obviously, we will remove a threat to America’s national security because we will find there are still massive amounts of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,” instead.

Nordlinger tops this already solid dumbfuckery by purporting to quote Thucydides as saying, “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.” Until he is corrected by another cornerite pointing out that Thucydides never wrote any such thing who admonishes, “Don’t Rely on Wikiquote!” These wingnuts be lovin’ their ersatz-Thucydides.

Over at teh Corner, Larry Kudlow thinks John McCain should link his empty threat to unleash NATO’s Army Group Steiner on the Rooskies with his demand to drill, drill, drill so that gas will go down 5 cents a gallon in the next 10-15 years, figuring the coupling of those two issues will produce a sure winner.

Will John McCain turn Tsar Putin’s invasion of Georgia into a drill, drill, drill issue? He should. It will throw Democrats even more on the defensive — especially Sen. Obama whose weak response to Putin’s neo-Soviet actions have already put him way behind the eight ball on Russia.

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But global strategist Thomas Barnett has the energy angle on Russia’s invasion of Georgia exactly right. He says, “Now we all have clarity about the nasty nature of Putin’s Russia,” and this gives us clarity on the need to dramatically reduce our dependence on foreign oil. He asks: Why would the U.S. want to expose the American economy to the potential risk of being held hostage by a couple of oil pipelines that run through the old Soviet empire? He goes on to say, “It’s all-of-the-above time, gang — domestic drilling, nukes, concentrated solar, deep geothermal, clean coal, and whatever else Silicon Valley and heroic capitalists everywhere can dream up as we conduct a market-driven transition to a post-hydrocarbon economy.” (Hat tip to Jimmy Pethokoukis.)

Barnett is exactly right. I simply call it drill, drill, drill — total deregulation and decontrol of the great American energy sector. Unleash all manner of energy for an America First energy policy that not only will fuel our economy but will create millions of high-paying jobs in the future.

Absofuckinglutely brilliant. McCain can not only threaten Putin with troops NATO and the US doesn’t have available, he can also threaten action which might knock a few dollars off the price of a barrel of oil 15 years from now. Expect the American people to be cheering in the streets after all that. . .

That’s really hitting those Rooskies where it hurts.

Corner expert Larry Kudlow plans anti-Russian counteroffensive.

Turns out that the formation of “Republicans for Obama” is good news for McCain.

. . . for a man on horseback.

Over at the Corner Derbyshire notices that, unlike Bush and McBush, Putin seems to know what the fuck he is doing:

There are some spectacles that are at once tragic and farcical. One such has been the sight of Georgian troops scuttling back from assisting us in whatever it is we imagine we are doing in Iraq, to help defend their homeland, while Condoleezza Rice stamps her foot, George W. Bush watches a basketball game, and John McCain says that he will do such things, what they are, yet he knows not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth.

We are governed by fools. At least Putin knows what he wants, and how to get it. If only freedom had such leaders!

Sounds like if Putin were running, he’d have the Derb’s vote.

MORE: Here’s a more emphatic and detailed critic of McCain’s statement:

The outbreak of war in Georgia on Friday offers a disturbing and somewhat surreal taste of what to expect from John McCain should he become our nation’s Commander in Chief. As the centuries-old ethnic animosities between Georgia and Ossetia boiled over into another armed conflict, drawing in neighboring Russia, McCain issued a stark-raving statement from Des Moines that is disturbingly reminiscent of the language used in the lead-up to NATO’s war against Yugoslavia in 1999, a war McCain zealously pushed for:

“We should immediately call a meeting of the North Atlantic Council to assess Georgia’s security and review measures NATO can take to contribute to stabilizing this very dangerous situation,” McCain said.

Calling on NATO to “stabilize this dangerous situation” is not going down well with Russia, where images of dead Russian peacekeepers and of frightened Ossetian refugees streaming across its borders have put the country in a very vengeful mood. It’s hard to imagine what measures NATO could take under a McCain presidency, but in the mind of a man who thinks US troops should stay in Iraq for 100 years, and who runs around singing “Bomb Bomb Iran!” it’s not hard to guess–and even harder not to be horrified by what it may mean come January 2009, should he win.

McCain’s call to NATO-ize the war is not only frightening, it’s also delusional: both NATO and US forces are already stretched beyond the breaking point, even by Joint Chief of Staff chairman Michael Millen’s own recent assessment.

And yet the Doughy Pantload was uber-impressed. . .

The Doughy Pantload has his panties in a twist because Obama mentioned, among a score of other items (ceasefire, mediation, humanitarian assistance, etc., etc., etc., ) the possibility of bringing a resolution before the UN Security Council calling for an end to the fighting:

Why on earth is Obama calling for a UN Security Council resolution, essentially against Russia? Doesn’t he know Russia has a veto? Isn’t it crazy to think that Russia will vote against its national policy? Does Obama understand this? Or is this just the sort of thing Democrats must say whenever something bad happens? What am I missing?

What Jonah is missing is awareness of the bringing of such resolutions with the knowledge that the party holding a veto will be forced to either accede to the will of the Council or further isolate themselves politically. Does this moron actually think no one has ever brought a resolution before the Security Council even with the sure knowledge that it will likely be vetoed? When the US sought a Security Council resolution following North Korea’s invasion, they did so with the awareness and even the expectation that the Soviet Union could end its boycott of the Council and veto the resolution.

Hell, is Pantload stupid enough to think that even if the Security Council passed a resolution, it would somehow be self-enforcing and make the Russians immediately cease operations? If so, why bother with any resolution, ever?

Obviously, Russia is going to have to agree at some point to stop fighting — and asking for a broad resolution for an immediate end to the violence, which would ostensibly include Georgian military operations against Ossetia, might be one way of obtaining it. What is so difficult to understand about that?

Meanwhile, of course, teh Pantload is curiously silent about Bush’s strategery to stop the fighting in Georgia — doing an affably dumb interview with Bob Costas and chumming with the US Olympic baseball team, before surfacing at the Rose Garden briefly and flapping his gums. . . .

That’ll make those pesky Rooskies think twice about their aggression. . .

Cornerite Charlotte Hays siezes upon a variant of the flypaper theory, as if it were some kind of brilliant new insight instead of a pathetic and long-discredited excuse.

Even Rudyard Kipling thought Afghanistan was a hellish place to fight. So why is Obama itching to fight al-Qaeda there rather than Iraq? Yes, we did draw the bloody monsters to Iraq, but, as it turns out, it was a better place to fight them. But the Left dogmatically insists that it is better to confront al-Qaeda in Afghanistan’s fastness, a terrain that gives al-Qaeda a huge advantage. Such is their antipathy to George Bush and (as is now more certain than ever after Obama’s Berlin rally) the use of American power.

It’s not antipathy to Bush as this simpleton suggests, but rather the fact that our presence in Iraq has enabled al Qaeda to recruit more and different sources and recruit native Iraqis to fight in Iraq without impairing in the slightest their ability to recruit from their untouched bases in Afghanistan. Iraq is more accessible than Afghanistan or Waziristan to potential jihadist recruits, and as our national intelligence estimates stated, the occupation of Iraq has provided al Qaeda affiliated groups with a cause and motivation for jihadist recruits. A larger recruiting bases and more fodder for al Qaeda recruiters is not a good thing.

An analogy would be a patient with an infected lung deliberately causing another infection in his arm, so he could fight the infection there since it is, after all, easier to reach. Just like Iraq.