Yet another right-wing nervous breakdown

The Fifth Columnist By P.M. Carpenter at Buzzflash.com

Ever since conservatives went crazy last century, it's become a Washington ritual: Some Republican president nominates a reactionary ideologue to the Court and the right screams that failure to confirm could doom Western civilization and all we hold holy; some Democratic president nominates a learned moderate and the right screams that even pondering confirmation could doom Western civilization and all we hold holy.
This phenomenon appears to be an involuntary reflex among the hyperemotional right, much as they greeted Medicare as a godless scheme to Marxinize America's soul, or fluoridation of drinking water as a dazzling corruption of our psychic synopses, or, these days, the harmless AmeriCorps as a brain-sucking political reeducation plot.
Hence within minutes of Justice David Souter's retirement announcement the right once again envisioned America at the abyss -- everything, from religious freedom to the family unit, now wobbles at the edge of apocalyptic destruction, liberal-style -- so they march forth to clang the alarm of bogeymen, or in this instance, bogeywomen, everywhere.When it comes to a Democratic president's Supreme Court nomination, it's easy for the right to compile a public enemies list: it simply entails whoever is mentioned. They all, every one of them, we learn, are lifetime members of the monstrous liberal conspiracy, dastardly cultivated from the earliest age to join the socialist hordes at just the right moment and ring in a new era of atheistic, and undoubtedly forced homosexual, Stalinist and Richard Simmonsian collectivization.
So the sky is now falling. How could it not be? pleads the right. Just take a gander at President Obama's hair-raising phalanx of unquestionable radicalism eager to rip our Constitution, nay, our very way of wholesome life, to shreds: Federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York; Elena Kagan, U.S. solicitor general; Diane Wood, from the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm; Stanford University law professor Kathleen Sullivan; Kim McLane Wardlaw of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit; and Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears.
It just leaps out at you: Never has humanity been so imperiled by such a conspicuously unaccomplished throng, which, happily for the insecure right, is all feminine, and no doubt lesbians all, who, when not shredding the Constitution and forcing homosexual teachers to recruit kindergartners, go around quoting Alan Watts and the poetry of Sappho. Oh, gentle reader, these times loom dark indeed. Whole piece here.