From Neo-con twist on Xena Eris:

Hot on the heels of the news that 2003 UB₃₁₃, nicknamed Xena for a while, has gotten the official name “Eris”, a neocon blog has already tried to distort this into an anti-liberal rant.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Amazingly, right-wing blogger Mike Janitch says that the renaming is a liberal sniping at the current world situation. After all, the name Eris means “strife” and “discord”, right? And the discoverer of Eris, Mike Brown, is at Caltech– which is in California! GASP

Philosophia Naturalis also seems relevant here.