Great, important post, Glenn. Very interesting comment thread. It's real, it's growing and it doesn't have to be coherent, reasonable, or rational. It also doesn't have to be about Glenn Beck. Just happens to be at the moment.

"Yes, Beck is a loon. He couldn't pass a sanity test given by G. Gordon Liddy. I'm not sure it matters." Very nice, and precisely true.

Also what CarolynC said.

This is nice, too: "Any government and/or private sector that ignores or denounces the interests of millions upon millions of citizens but accommodates the fears and demands of a severely misinformed and whacked out minority (as we're seeing now with regard to health care "reform") is one that knows there are no consequences for ignoring or denouncing the majority, but fears there will be severe (indeed, terminal) consequences for not accomodating the minority."

E.g. capping Van Jones, or the immediate policy acomodation to Joe Wilson's "concerns."

Is Obama fiddling while Rahm burns Rome, or is he just a nice guy trying to get along?

One, two, three, four

If I had ever been here before

I would probably know just what to do, don't you?

If I had ever been here before on another time around the wheel

I would probably know just how to deal with all of you

And I feel like I've been here before

Feel like I've been here before

And you know it makes me wonder

What's going on down under the ground

Do you know? Don't you wonder

What's going on down under you?

We have all been here before, we have all been here before

We have all been here before, we have all been here before

We have all been here before, we have all been here before

We all saw this coming, right. Zazi is a one-man state-of-siege wet dream for the national security state types, of whom Orahma has become captive.

But you don't have to throw it in our faces, Glenn. Now I have to write more checks to ACLU, EFF, FDL, etc. This shit is getting expensive. OTOH, I'm saving big bucks on Dem politics.

OK so things aren't looking too good on the police state front, but at least we're getting a "robust" public option stalking horse for the communist, Muslim single-payer take-over of our lives. Look out, Granny, Orahma's death panels are coming for you. Oops, maybe not.

But it's all good. Bernbart has got me rolling on the floor splitting a gut. "...because it's balanced!!!!!..." OMG. Too good.

BTW, to foolishly respond to Glenn's rhetorical snark, the military are not active in law enforcement here, yet. That's a ways down the road. Maybe reserves on the Mex border first. Let's see, maybe we could call it a training exercise. Vacation in Mexico? Anything but deployment. Think lobster, pot, slo-o-o-o-owly to a boil.

Anyone heard from Dawn Johnsen lately? Probably staying home, counting the change she can believe in.

Rory Stewart via Greg Djerejian:

“It’s like they’re coming in and saying to you, ‘I’m going to drive my car off a cliff. Should I or should I not wear a seatbelt?’ And you say, ‘I don’t think you should drive your car off the cliff.’ And they say, ‘No, no, that bit’s already been decided – the question is whether to wear a seatbelt.’ And you say, ‘Well, you might as well wear a seatbelt.’ And then they say, ‘We’ve consulted with policy expert Rory Stewart and he says ...’”

Says it all.