surprisingly risqu comedy material for

Surprisingly risqu� comedy material for Laura Bush.

Laura Bush took over for her husband doing the comedy at the White

House Correspondents Dinner tonight. I was surprised by how risqu� it

was. She talked about her frustration that Bush goes to bed early,

while she stays up and watches "Desperate Housewives." She portrayed

herself going out to Chippendale's with Lynne Cheney and Condoleezza

Rice and running into Justices O'Connor and Ginsburg there. And she

described Bush's ineptitude in his early days of ranching with the old

joke that he "tried to milk a horse ... and it was a male horse." So,

thanks, Laura, for leaving us with that picture of George with a

horse's penis in his hand!

But I don't have a problem with this because I'm tired of the recent

upsurge of social conservatism. Was Laura's routine a sign that we're

entering a libertarian conservative phase? I hope so. And is it too

much to imagine that the appearance of those two Roe-upholding

Justices in that Chippendale's scenario is Laura's way of assuring us

that Bush is not planning to nominate a social conservative Justice to

the Supreme Court?

UPDATE: Ambivablog connects Laura's routine to Frank Rich's column

about "South Park Conservatives." There's also some discussion along

these lines in the comments. And I'll just say that horse joke

reminded me of this "South Park" episode. Oh, and that I also thought

that Frank Rich column was too dull to talk about. Obviously, there

are social conservatives and libertarian conservatives. Who thought

"South Park" was promoting socially conservative ideas? No one who

likes "South Park" could have been surprised by the way it treated the

Terri Schiavo case (in the "Best Friends Forever" episode). Rich acts

like Republicans were taken by surprise after thinking "South Park"

was on their side. What a straw man!

Labels: "South Park", Cheney, Frank Rich, genitalia, Ginsburg, law,

O'Connor, Supreme Court