It started out red, but is steadily growing brighter and more yellow by the moment; already, it is quite impossible to look at directly. It even… and I know that this will sound absurd… even seems to be generating something that I shall call ‘lack-of-cold.’
Most unusual. Continue reading There is a strange, glowing orb in the heavens. #rsrh
Southern Cross
Because it’s freaking cold out there, that’s why.
…but I belatedly realized that it invested too much emotional energy in said nonsense. Eric Robinson is a sloppy writer and researcher who let his hatred blind him. The people who gave him a forum will now suffer through a time of embarrassment and corrections. The people who uncritically believed him have had their misogyny revealed, yet again. So let it end, there.
They’re worth my scorn, but not any more of my time.
[UPDATE] My RS colleagues insisted that I put the original back up. Bear in mind that I consider it a failure; not of my sentiments, but of my ability to hold my temper.
I want to see Iron Man 2.
But I do not, in fact, have to. And I don’t particularly like being called a racist by your comic book writers.
(Reminded of this by AoSHQ)
It’s not that the title of this article (“Obama Says Bipartisanship, But What He Wants Is GOP Surrender“) itself is so startling – as Ed Morrissey notes, it’s not exactly telling Republicans things that they don’t already know. It’s that this:
It’s a familiar refrain from U.S. presidents who can’t get their way in Congress.
“We must put aside our political differences if we’re ever to set our economy to rights,” said President Reagan in 1982.
“It is time to put aside partisan rivalries and work together for our nation’s future,” said President Reagan in 1987 in trying to get Congress to enact deficit reduction
“We must put aside partisanship for the sake of our nation,” said the first President Bush in 1990 in appealing for congressional cooperation on the budget.
“We must now put aside bitterness and rancor, move beyond partisanship,” urged President Clinton in 1993 in trying to get Congress to pass his economic plan.
What these presidential appeals for bipartisanship always mean is: do it my way.
…is showing up in CBSNews. Imagine that happening in the pre-post-Dan Rather days.
Moe Lane
PS: I almost called this “Waltzing Bear Watch,” except that this particular ursine is waltzing pretty well by any reasonable standard. Blogging insiders will also note the opportunity for a jab that I passed up, mostly because I see no reason to boost the fellow’s anemic traffic.
Crossposted to RedState.
[UPDATE: By the way, the below link is to Demint’s Senate Conservatives Fund’s portion of the Rubio moneybomb. Said portion’s sub-goal is 100K, and they’re at 86.2K already.]
He’s trying to raise 787 thousand (in ‘commemoration’ of the 787 billion dollar ‘stimulus’ that the Democrats have wished upon the country): he’s well on his way, but it would be excellent if the Rubio campaign had to scribble an updated, higher fundraising goal all over their nice, clean design.
This primary is important enough to trigger my ‘throw in what money you can’ reflex: so go ye, and do the same.
Mind you, Matt Welch reveals himself to be a rampaging optimist in his last sentence:
In the truer-believing regions of the progressive political world, the broad agenda of carbon price hikes, centralized health care, greater regulation, increased taxes, and government-mandated diversity in boardrooms are not just sound and moral policy. They are inherently popular, if only the usual obstacles to justice and reform can be neutralized or removed. Back when he was still considered a plausible stand-in for “the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party” (enough to win 2.7 percent of the presidential vote in 2000, much of it from progressives disgruntled at New Democrat policies), Ralph Nader insisted on a daily basis that his agenda was essentially “majoritarian.”
Such fantasies can serve as a salve when you live on the margins of the policy debate. And as long as you remain on the sidelines, the underlying proposals tend to go largely unchallenged. But now that progressive economic thought has its first real foothold in Washington since the 1970s, many long-marginalized ideas are being dusted off for real-world testing, from taxing stock transactions to “getting people out of their cars.” If we’re lucky, those debates will take place before the ideas are cemented into law. Better yet, maybe the growing unpopularity of central planning will dissuade the enthusiasts from inflicting their experiments on the rest of us in the first place.
Bolding mine, and no: that’s not going to happen. A scapegoat will be found. Remember: we are talking about a group that is currently claiming with a straight face that having a 59/41 split in the Senate, a 255/178 split in the House, and the Presidency is not sufficiently overwhelming to let them accomplish their goals. Losing the House will not act as a laudable shock to their system; losing the House and the Senate will not do it, either. Losing both Houses of Congress in 2010 and the Presidency in 2012 won’t do it. God could descend from Heaven in all His glory (with Thorstein Veblen and William Jennings Bryan in attendance) and carrying a signed note from Franklin Delano Roosevelt telling progressives that they are being muddle-headed – and it won’t dissuade them from their belief structure.
Fortunately, it’s not them that we have to convince. Just the centrist voters who are swiftly coming to understand that what they signed up for is not what they’re getting…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
I’ve made no secret of it, either. Lord knows that former President Bush wasn’t perfect by a long shot, and Lord knows that the libertarians have a point when they grit their teeth on the subject, but I knew that we were in for a long four years even before the current President was sworn in.
See RedState, The Other McCain, The Camp of the Saints, No Sheeples Here, Troglopundit, & probably a bunch more people before it’s all over.
In an era where they did their best to come up with euphemisms that fooled absolutely no-one, this one stands out.
Pass The Dutchie
Ironically, if you trust Wikipedia – and it’s not about a hot-button item, so you probably can – ‘dutchie’ has entered into the world of drug slang itself.
Moe Lane
PS: Yes. It’s a song about marijuana. Surely you did not need to be told this.
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