On Monday, when Senator Barbara Boxer asked Daily Kos readers to sign a petition to Donald Rumsfeld, her thread was immediately hijacked by commenters who showed the impeccable logic and sense of reality for which Kos readers are justly reknowned. A sampling:

Domestic Politics

“It must be awful being in Congress on the wrong side of a dictatorship”

“After we take back the Congress in nine months we expect you to impeach Bush – Cheney for their crimes and then to hand them over for their international war crimes trials.”

“First we take back the Congress in 2006
The House then impeaches Bush – Cheney
Nancy Pelosi then becomes President
President Pelosi will naturally want to select her own cabinet.”

“I can tell you that back in Marin/SF, there are many, many people who feel the way I do. I used to feel alone in my radicalism. Now I hear people mumbling about possible revolution.”

“Glad you’re circulating a petition Senator but um well maybe there are things you could do that are more worthy of the time, like—takin Frist into a torture chamber, hanging him by his wrists for two days, pulpifying his legs, and then ask him if HE REALLY thinks that stonewalling on investigations into prisoner abuse is FAIR.”

Defense and Security

“Get rid of the Department of Homeland Security. It doesn’t work. Our homeland security apparatus was working just fine, pre-9/11.”

“We can stop fighting WWII now. We don’t need Cold war weapons to hunt down Osama bin Ladin and guys armed with box cutters and zodiacs, that makes us look stupid. What we should do is beat our swords into plow shares and use our defense industry to defend us against the threat of global warming.”

A … um, different reality

“There isn’t any evidence that Bush is NOT tapping Boxer’s phone. …”

“What are you doing to get rid of these damn (voting) machines that allowed Bush to steal the General Election?”

“… as a Senator, can you find out if people who sign such online petitions (like Boxer’s — ed.) or otherwise contact their representatives are marked, data-mined, or targeted in any such way?”

“Republicans loan U.S. troops to private corporations to further revenues and use them as an excuse for corporate looting and crony no-bid contracts.”

“The plan was to oust Saddam Hussein because he refused to agree to permanent U.S. bases in his country.”

(as ‘Donald Rumsfeld’): “The military is to be used to protect globalization goals, the WTO, IMF and all their interests.”

And the most delusional of all –

“I very much enjoyed your novel ‘A Time to Run‘”

The aide posting as Boxer stopped replying about halfway down the comments, perhaps figuring a stiff drink in a Georgetown bar was a better use of their time. We need one ourselves.

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