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Two gems today.

K-Lo implicitly concurs with a reader's, and Bill Whittle's, sentiments:

Mulling over the Notre Dame / Obama mess, something that Bill Whittle wrote (and that you published on NRO) seems apt:

"The Russians say a fish rots from the head down. They ought to know. It may not be factually true that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, the saying has passed into common usage because the image as the ring of truth to it: time and time again, the good and decent common people have manned the walls of the city, and have been ready to give their lives in its defense, only to discover too late that some silk-robed son of a bitch has snuck out of the palace at midnight and thrown open the gates to the barbarians outside."

Okay. Obama's pro-choice. Obama was invited to speak at Notre Dame. This means he's a "silk-robed son of a bitch" whose mission is so "throw open the gates to the barbarians [i.e., pro-choicers, i.e., most of the country]"? Nice.

And this from Jay Nordlinger:

There’s something I like about Arlen Specter’s party-switching statement. He begins with the nonsense about how the Republican party has moved too far to the right, blah, blah, blah. That’s not to be taken seriously. That’s just rationalization, and not very smart rationalization at that.

Keep chugging, fellas. Pro-war, pro-torture, pro-life, anti-gay-marriage, pro-white, anti-immigrant. Great set of positions.