More Right Wing Fear Factor

Listening to the intro to the putrid Scarborough Country on MSNBC tonight, I was amazed by two things:

First, considering they are at different ends of the informational spectrum, the never-quite-explained-why-he-left-Congress-or-how-his-female-office-manager-died-in-his-office-at-that-time Joe Scarbrough seems to steal what few interesting moments his show has from Keith Olbermann's Countdown on MSNBC, and...

Second, Joe's started what some of the other nutwingers have been doing for a few weeks: trying to scare everyone in a "What happens when the most leftist liberals take over the country" fear factor episode.

The latter is even more laughable than the first, because we have never seen a far left scenario in Washington so I truly doubt we'll see this if the Dems do manage to do well in the mid-term elections. One he cited was how Congressman John Conyers already had compiled his articles of impeachment against Bush. Apparently Joe failed to hear about Nancy Pelosi's comment saying there would be no impeachment if she became head of the majority in the House.

But more importantly, Dems know that this is a mid-term election heading into a presidential bid in 2008. They will hardly run amok knowing the most important prize is right within their sights. However, I doubt they intend to do this anyway. Only the "compassionate conservatives" of the last six years have acted like they could do anything they wanted, no matter how outrageous and illegal it was.