Paul Begala, Libelous Defamer

From the Cybercast News Service, we hear the latest libel from a Democratic demagogue, Paul Begala. He seems to think that the existence of the Bush tax cut is a clear and present danger to his children.

Begala's presence on the panel created a stir when he declared that Republicans had "done a p***-poor job of defending" the U.S.

Republicans, he said, "want to kill us.

"I was driving past the Pentagon when that plane hit" on Sept. 11, 2001. "I had friends on that plane; this is deadly serious to me," Begala said.

"They want to kill me and my children if they can. But if they just kill me and not my children, they want my children to be comforted -- that while they didn't protect me because they cut my taxes, my children won't have to pay any money on the money they inherit," Begala said.

This begs satire. It's as if the Republicans are black-pajamaed ninjas creeping into Mr. Begala's house at night to murder them in order to keep them from overly confiscatory taxes. Henry Hyde as a katana wielding master assassin. It's insane.

The real point is that Democrats are arguing from emotion. They want power, and they don't have it. So the people that took it away are bad, nasty people. Anyone who feels bad about being the minority power can grasp the feeling. This is shown in the endemic attitude that despicable vile defamations may be false while being essentially true. How can something demonstrably false, like the assassination-based tax policy of the republican party, be true? Because it reflects or confirms the emotion of impotent rage the Democrats are feeling.

I search my memory to think of a time when this kind of overheated rhetoric was used before. I can only think of the Gilded Age, when presidential candidates were confronted by chants about their illegetimate children and other beyond-the-pale tactics. I'll leave it for a later post to probe that deeper.

Michelle Malkin reports comprehensively. Among the Virginia blogosphere, Shaun Kenney takes Begala on, and Commonwealth Conservative takes note as well.