For a few weeks, I've been checking on the Op/Ed section of Yahoo! News each day, because the conservative and liberal sections balance out each other nicely and keep me up to date on the current political gossip.

Usually it's The New Yorker's job (at least it was back in the day, before I got sick of The New Yorker) to keep Ann Coulter in check, but as she continues her steady descent into madness, I'd just like to post, as a concerned moderate, a sample of the twisted rhetorical processes currently at work in her diseased brain. She's been good recently, writing Op/Eds about the romantisization of poverty and the suddenly-racially-mixed statue by the WTC ruins. I actually agreed with her.

But sometimes, her rhetoric goes too far:

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips. Which one was an "investment in our future" and which one is a "choice"? Was that killing babies or taking our money?

That's from her cleverly-titled article "Put the Tax Cut in A Lockbox".

We won't get into my views on the subject, because I really don't think guys should be messing around with womanly stuff at all, especially since I attended the Vagina Monologues.

The women of the country can have the sensitive, completely definitional issue of abortion to themselves, but to compare taxes to abortion? Gah?? And that makes Ted Kennedy who, Hitler?