Evening roundup

  Wow. The rhetoric is really getting heated out there. 
  One of the most seasoned, wise and articulate writers on the web is Victor David Hanson. He has a smackdown for Palin critics. Totally awesome. Here's a smidgen:

Someone like a President Palin could really blow it with a hickish bow to a Saudi Arabian autocrat or a rambling apology about American sins in Turkey of all places, or nominate some nut who would have a Truther past or resort to racism or a yokel who would brag about her hero Mao.

But more germanely, Palin need not run for the presidency in 2012 in the manner commentator and newly elected governor Reagan did not until 1968, and did not successfully until 1980 — all the while establishing a populist conservative persona as hated — and successful — during his near two-decade pre-presidential career as a younger Palin might be in the two decades ahead.

  Then we have a dopey guy over at the Palm Beach Post who is shocked, SHOCKED, that Giffords' doctor's parents who are also doctors have contributed to tea partiers.
  The frontal lobe of your brain may be trying to figure that out right now but it's just what you think....he's offended that Giffords's doctor's PARENTS....
  Groan.
  Then all over the news today are the complaints liberals have lodged against the Republicans for repealing the health care debacle:

• Republicans are Nazis-Steve Cohen
• Republicans are killing people-Sheila Jackson Lee
• Republicans are robbing citizens of 14th amendment protections & 5th amendment rights
• Republicans are anti-civil rights and racist-CLYBURN

  Somewhere behind MS LEE is a dopey shaky intern desperately trying to provide the appropriate picture background for Sheila Jackson Lee to make her dopey points. Her interview with Cavuto was pret-ty, pret-ty lame.

  Also the "memorial" motto seems to be cropping up everywhere: first at the Obama rally, then on t-shirts at the "memorial" and now on a bench in Tucson. Gateway Pundit:

  CNN apologizes for a guest using the "c" word. That's right. "Crosshairs."

CNN's John King: "Before we go to break, I want to make a quick point. We were having a discussion about the Chicago mayoral race. My friend Andy Shaw used the term 'in the crosshairs' in talking about the candidates. We're trying, we're trying to get away from that language. Andy is a good friend, he's covered politics for a long time, but we're trying to get away from that kind of language."

  This from the guy who, a month or so ago, screamed, "I wish I brought a gun to work" when some poor minion didn't perform adequately for his talent that day.
  This from the Crossfire station.

  We're trying, we're trying to not be critical.

  Did Obama high five Michelle after his "memorial" speech in exultation, completely forgetting the whole "memorial" idea? Does the mysterious Ulsterman's deep throat think there's something seriously, seriously wrong there? Read here.

  The nation awaits breathlessly for the anonymous book about O.

  And then there's this.

  Heh.