Now, almost everyone who doesn't regularly sniff glue wouldn't equate a medical procedure with taking a flight to Daytona. But the irony of a right-wing authoritarian like Carpenter -- who cheered on all of the domestic spying, indefinite detention and torture of the Bush administration -- complaining about invasive security measure, is indeed thick.

It must be really hard to be an anti-choice wingnut and not reach for absurd non-sequiturs like this.