Testing our Capacity for Outrage

The American Spectator provides one of today's "must reads," written by Jed Babbin:

Our capacity for outrage is being tested daily, and not just by Harry Reid. We could concern ourselves with the election of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe to the U.N. Human Rights Commission last week, or with Kofi Annan's scolding the U.S. for maintaining a nuclear arsenal that has kept the free world free since World War II while ignoring the impending North Korean nuclear test. We could even marvel at the inanity of U.N. goodwill ambassador and Hollywoodenhead Angelina Jolie talking to Pervez Musharraf about the plight of refugees, believing she is being taken seriously. By the end of last week, it came down to this: which government -- the U.S. or the U.N. -- has jurisdiction over Robert Parton?

Contributing to the outrage is the extreme manner in which the left totally disregards the overt corruption of the U.N. and feigns apoplexy in how John Bolton may deal with the third world thugs on the East River if he were allowed to be approved as the U.N. Ambassador.

(Note to the left: you are marginalizing yourselves by allowing the extremists in your party to be your spokesmen. Your party desperately needs a Bill Cosby to set you right. O sure, you'll probably reject the message just like the poverty pimps in the Black community have rejected Cosby's message. Someone in your own midst needs to take you by lapels and shake some sense into you. You seem to be bent on blaming George Bush for your losses. Wake up and admit your shortcomings! Your party is committing suicide, and that's from Historian extraordinaire, Victor Davis Hanson.)