That Andrew Sullivan has become increasingly goofy is hardly a news flash, so this latest tidbit shouldn't surprise, really:

I think the right is currently divided between those who hate the American left more than the Islamist right and those who take the opposite view. I'm afraid my dislike of anyone to the left of Joe Lieberman is not as intense as my dislike of religious terrorism. Which is why it's getting lonely out here.

Yes, Sullivan's really nailed it there, hasn't he?

As if attempting to compound the stupidity of this comment, Sullivan approvingly links to a post by Matthew Yglesias, where the 20-Something Yglesias opines:

... the contemporary right has widely committed itself to the view that (a) presidential war powers during an undeclared, semi-permament war are essentially without limit, (b) political efforts aimed at curtailing and rolling back presidential war policy are essentially treasonous (see, e.g., Don Young's remarks about hanging members of congress), and (c) media reports that serve to undermine the popularity of presidential war policy are, similarly, treasonous.

Yglesias' incredibly broad assertions of the Right's supposed support for unlimited presidential war powers and its supposed acceptance of the theory that all opposition to the war is treasonous is of course ridiculous. Nonetheless, Sullivan calls it a "good post."

Then, if you read into Yglesias' comments' section -- lo and behold -- the first comment following Yglesias' assertion appears to liken Bush to Hitler and seems to advocate Bush's assassination:

I think patriotism can manifest itself in many ways. Circumstance may dictate an act deemed treasonous or criminal by those in power is viewed as heroic and patriotic by many in a nation and the outside world. Had Lt. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg been successful in his attempted assassination of Hitler Germany and the rest of the world may have been spared much additional death and destruction. A similar act of patriotism in these times might spare today's world more grief.

This stupidity doesn't reflect the beliefs of either Sullivan or Yglesias, but it sure says something about the company they keep does it not?

Yglesias is still young, so perhaps we can excuse these types of associations as youthful mistakes, but Sullivan is another matter.

He is simply a noisy, two-bit con man.