CIVILITY FROM THEE; but not from me. Victor Davis Hanson on the political Left’s civility scam:

[T]he calls for a general toning down of rhetoric translate far more into a toning down of both an effective media opposition and a rising political obstruction to the Obama agenda. “Can’t we all get along?” in essence means, “Can’t we all just keep quiet and keep going on with the big-government, agreed-on politics of the last fifty years?”

Will that work? No.

The White House introduced the ‘punch back twice as hard’ philosophy. Now it’s time to show the Left that well-aimed return fire at the appropriate targets is effective.

Republicans should not hold back. Reload and return fire. With scorn. Mockery. Ridicule. Challenge. Derision, disdain, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, and finally, refudiation (a wonderful new word introduced by Sarah Palin).

DANA MILBANK: I’m declaring February a Palin-free month.

He won’t last a week.

He’s right on one point though: “my obsession ... cheapens and demeans me.” Every time Milbank opens his mouth or writes a word - especially regarding Mrs. Palin - he polishes his credentials as a world-class loon to an ever-declining audience.

ANOTHER REASON to keep government - at all levels - small: cat is summoned for jury duty in Boston; court rejects owners' appeal to disqualify him.

The cat is smarter than the average Boston juror?

SAYONARA, KEITH: MSNBC says goodbye. I had the good fortune - or misfortune - to catch Olbermann's closing monologue when the cable channel I was really watching lost its signal momentarily.

“I KNOW OBAMA HAS A LIBERAL AGENDA, but more recently he seems to have no agenda, as he flits about, trying this and trying that, in the manner of a forty-something academic who found out his faculty utopianism does not quite work outside the quad.”

For Obama, a lesson unlearned. Read it all.

ROGER KIMBALL: Another stupid idea from the donkey (jackass?) side of the aisle.

Rep. Robert Brady (D-PA) “plans to introduce legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress.”

But it wouldn’t be a crime “to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening” against a non-office-holding political opponent ... like, er, Sarah Palin?

CONFIDENCE: ”[B]ased on the past two years I’d vote for a syphilitic camel if he ran against Obama.”

FROM THE COMMENTS: “It must be unconstitutional to have a Congressional representative this stupid.”

And she’s a Yale University and University of Virginia Law School graduate. Sorry, Texas. You deserve better.