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Right Wing Round-Up

  • Media Matters has compiled an extensive list(link is external) of quotes from conservative commentators denouncing the use of filibusters to block President Bush's nominees to the Supreme Court or lower courts.
  • David Neiwert catches(link is external) Newt Gingrich claiming that President Obama "thinks he should get up in the morning and punish Americans."
  • Tips-Q notes(link is external) that Rudy Giuliani backed out of attending his gay friends' wedding at the very last moment.
  • Good as You comments(link is external) on the irony that NOM is running ads claiming that gay marriage supporters want to silence the opposition while refusing to accept comments from the opposition on its blog.
  • Publius takes a look(link is external) at the Oklahoma GOP's platform and notes its obsessive focus with homosexuality.
  • Steve Benen takes issue(link is external) with Sen. Orrin Hatch's assertion that "empathy" is a code word for "activist judge."