Some days I'm still shocked. After all these years. But, as the minute man reminds us, the GOP grief police are always with us.
MWO says:
So how did the Right react to the service?
Sadly, the soulless, seething Right did everything but physically crash it.
They filled the Internet with expressions of their excruciating pain over witnessing a celebration of one man's love, compassion, commitment, and, ultimately, sacrifice.
They put forth characteristically gauche, desperate cries for hate radio host Rush Limbaugh to commiserate with them in their contempt for all good things, calling on him to publicly dissect and trash the beautiful Wellstone tribute. They mocked the laughter shared among the Senator's admirers in hopes of making it a political issue. They did what the Right does - scrutinized, invaded, and attempted to defile a sacred realm.
What got them so enraged? For the soulless Right, politics is about power for its own sake. For the soulless Right, politics is about "getting theirs," wars, and angrily resisting those who would seek to promote American ideals like social justice.
So, naturally, they could not grasp a connection between the mourning of a beloved Senator and father by Paul Wellstone's friends and family, and their urgent, heartfelt pleadings for an election victory that would honor his life and legacy.
But trashing a memorial service of one of the most universally respected and revered public servants of our day?
It is because there are pitiful, spiritless people like them, whose blackened, hardened hearts know no limits of depravity, that the decent people of an entire nation cherish people like Senator Wellstone that much more, and will dedicate themselves to continuing his fight.
Instapundit says:
Meanwhile a bunch of people who watched the ceremonies on CSPAN2 say the whole thing was rather unseemly, more like a fundraiser than a funeral. I didn't see it, but that would get Clinton, Lott and Mondale off the hook, I guess. It's perfectly seemly to laugh and gladhand at a fundraiser.
Actually, it's perfectly seemly to laugh and cheer at a memorial service. God, hasn't any republican been to a jubilant memorial service?