Here was, to me, the most astonishing quote in the news last week, a staggering admission — a boast actually — of moral imbecility. From a Washington Post item on the resignation of Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter:
that mean?" said Wendy Long, chief counsel to the Judicial Confirmation
Network. "Who do you have empathy for?"
The loathesome Wendy Long is proud to be against empathy, apparently. Idiot.
And now it seems some of her fellow right-wingers have decided to make this a talking point. They've decided that they can score political points somehow by standing firmly against empathy, which is just … words fail.
"Empathy," says Wendy Long, scornfully spitting out the word like an epithet. "What does that mean?" I wonder if it's possible to answer that question in a way she could ever understand.
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