$20

I don't know when the last time was that I "chipped in" (as they always like to term it) to a MoveOn.org campaign. I know it would have been during the '04 election cycle.

But this idiocy about the "General Betray Us?" ad so peeved me that I chucked them $20 this afternoon. 22 Democrats and Joe Lieberman joined all Senate Republicans in passing a condemnation of MoveOn for questioning the veracity of the esteemed General's (Petreus) rosy surge assessment.

Dear me, how dare they.

As John McCain said in response to the ad, they should be kicked out of the country (and who's "they"? Eli Pariser? Or the 3.2 million Americans who've signed on with the organization? And if the latter - and, for that matter, if the former - to what locale are the offending parties to be kicked?)

...In the past two days, of course, the Senate has scuttled real legislation to preserve Habeas Corpus, and to stanch the indefinite deployment of our troops (more on these parliamentary antics in a subsequent post). But then this thing goes sailing through. $20 is, of course, utterly meaningless; and I can't even quite go so far as to say that it makes me feel any better to have donated it. But I did, doggone it, and there you are.

If you're so inclined as to sign a petition of solidarity with MoveOn's right to have run the ad, it's here.