Now that we've watched economic fundamentalism slide down from its Malibu cliffside perch and crash into the Pacific and have then watched voters fling Republicans down on top of it, there are fewer good reasons than there used to be to read from the right side of the blogosphere. Disaccreditation coupled with electoral rejection tends to make the right-wing polity and its blogs irrelevant (at least for the time being).

But, you can be sure that the internet's right-wingers continue in their various oligarchic, authoritarian and theocratic crusades. Betsy Newmark, for one, holds fast – at her blog Betsy's Page – to the right-wing themes of the Bush heyday.

Betsy is the government teacher at Raleigh Charter High School in Raleigh, North Carolina who never lets fact, accuracy, overwhelming countermanding evidence or common sense stand in her way of regurgitating the most up-to-the-minute Republican talking point. Although, at least one of Betsy's recent blog-articles has to make you wonder if Betsy's reflexive bashing of those who don’t toe her partisan line hasn't gotten the best of her.

Betsy likens Governor Rod Blagojevich to – He's a Democrat, Betsy. Bingo! – Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. It's an absurd comparison and, coming from a celebrated educator, startlingly malicious.

Betsy cites Blagojevich's reaction to being accused of selling Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder:

"I will fight, I will fight, I will fight until I take my last breath," he added. "I have done nothing wrong."

Except, in quoting Blagojevich from a FOXNews report, Betsy coyly truncates the Blagojevich quote. She leaves off the part where Blagojevich asserts his innocence, which is an assertion that softens the strident temper of what precedes it.

After committing that little dirty, Betsy goes on to take her potshot at Blagojevich and claim:

Rod Blagojevich might have thought [he] echoed Winston Churchill but he sounds a bit like Robert Mugabe who made a similar vow.

Except, the FOXNews report provides no evidence to suggest Blagojevich was modeling himself after Churchill or anyone else. Betsy just made that up.

She thinks she's neutralized her partisanship by including so many weasel words in her comparison of Blagojevich to Mugabe ("might have," "sounds a bit," "made a similar"). We're not supposed to notice she can't distinguish between a politician who's accused of a crime and a dictator whose policies have rendered his country a failed state.

Makes you wonder how Betsy's willful partisanship finds its way into her classroom, doesn't it?