"Tone It Down" ... NOT!

So El Presidente sez to his nail-spittin' constituents, the mullahs of the Right, "tone down your attacks on my friend and All-American Lightweight, Alberto Gonzales, 'cause I don't like it when people attack my friends," which just sends the mullahs into more paroxysms. Radio talk duchess Laura Ingraham apparently bared her considerable fangs at her Dear Leader over "tone it down," according to Michelle Malkin, whose big claim to fame is that she thinks the internment of thousands of loyal Japanese-Americans during WWII was not only justified but salutary.

The nastiness of the Right over Alberto Gonzales is only part of the problem they're posing for El Presidente and his lieutenants in the Senate. The NYTimes has an article this a.m. about the rather desperate (pathetic?) attempts of Republican Senate staffers to get the mullahs to stop sounding like, well, MULLAHS. They want everyone on message ... that the confirmation process for Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement on the Supreme Court should be "dignifed." (Sunday morning, I heard at least three different Republican Senators use that exact word on the Sabbath Gas-Bag shows.)

"The extremism of language, if there is to be any, should be demonstrably on the other side. The hysteria and the foaming at the mouth ought to come from the left," said the chief of staff to Senator Bill Frist.

But when it comes to foaming at the mouth, you can't beat the Extreme Right. And you obviously can't silence them, Mr. President. Asking the mullahs to be dignified about this Supreme Court business is like asking a hyena to stop belching wildebeest.