The Left and The Right on Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart has become a frequent target of the wacky left, and today I read two columns, one from the right and one from the left, on the Wal-Mart battle. A quick sample - first from Jonah Goldberg in the Los Angeles Times:

NED LAMONT'S primary victory against Joe Lieberman in Connecticut supposedly represented the triumph of the antiwar, anti-Bush "net roots" within the Democratic Party. Alas, our troop presence in Iraq is increasing; it appears Lieberman, running as an independent, will trounce Lamont; and President Bush is having his best week in the polls in six months (which is not quite the same thing as saying he's doing well in the polls).

So have the Lamonters and other victims of so-called BDS — Bush derangement syndrome — been routed? Not quite. Because BDS sufferers have a related secondary affliction: WMDS. This refers not to the unfound weapons of mass destruction but to Wal-Mart derangement syndrome. And the Democratic Party is ministering to these patients with reckless abandon.

And from the left - Ezra Klein at the American Prospect:

WHY WAL-MART MATTERS. I'm of the opinion that how to handle Wal-Mart is among the two or three most important issues facing the country.

I don't have to excerpt any more than that for you to understand the mentality of the nutty left. Anyone who thinks Wal-Mart employee pay is among the two or three most important issues facing the country is clearly not paying attention. Try reading a newspaper or watching Fox News sometime. You might learn something.

How is trying to raise costs for Wal-Mart, which of course will raise prices for their 127 million weekly customers, going to be good for America or the Dem party?

These people are fools.