I like this comment in Ron Radosh’s take-down of John Judis:
It would appear that while the American people want a new government, the Democrats would like a new people. Let’s see how that works out.
As another commenter points out, we know how that worked out for leftists in the past, in Germany and Russia. Not to mention Cambodia.
Jonah Goldberg’s Twitter feed is pretty funny. I like Nick Gillespie’s comment that it’s like a stage show at a water park. I’ll be curious to see how much of a mess they leave. They may be media savvy enough to clean up, though, given recent experience. This sounds about right, too:
Criticize the political content & you’re reminded it was a comedy show. Point out it wasn’t funny & you don’t have a sense of humor. Repeat.
I might have watched, but I think that space settlement is more important. Besides, the Spartan game took up all my multi-tasking capability. And I was at a secure undisclosed (well, unless you went to the SSI web site) location at NASA Ames Research Center, nowhere near a teevee.
A new historical revelation, which should surprise anyone who’s been paying attention:
Mr. Weber has discovered that, briefly at the turn of 1918-19, and unmentioned in “Mein Kampf,” Hitler wore a red brassard and supported the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic.
But remember, National Socialists are “right wing.”
We have to be careful to analyze our enemies in terms of their circumstances, not ours. An analogous mistake is made by those who claim Guantanamo Bay “causes” terrorism or materially contributes to terrorist recruitment; the jihadists themselves care only about the fact that we are detaining Muslims — they don’t care where, and they don’t have a clue or a care about the differences between military and civilian processes under U.S. law. Good intelligence requires taking the enemy on his own terms, not as we would think or act under the enemy’s circumstances.
This, in the context of whether or not the latest attempt had anything to do with the elections.
The Rally To Restore Smugness is apparently stuff white people like. Plus, multiculturalism and sharia.
At long last, a Kennedy-free federal government.
Of course, there never really was a Camelot. And despite all the instant-mythology from two years ago, the current administration was the furthest thing imaginable from a return to it.
…who favor the Tea Party:
Rasmussen tracking polls show that 64 percent of Americans believe that “the country is headed in the wrong direction.” A CNN poll found that 56 percent of adults surveyed believe that “the government has become so powerful that it represents an immediate threat to the freedom and rights of citizens.” The size and scope of government, which currently amounts to 43 percent of GDP, will continue to exert downward pressure on economic growth as our generation matures.
Stewart, Colbert, McCain, and others may deride the Tea Parties as stupid, uninformed, and fearful masses, but these insults do not change reality. Unless we alter our current path, America’s reality is a grim one. The soaring national debt will fall squarely on the shoulders of today’s youth.
They’re at least as entitled to claim the mantle of the voice of their generation as Meghan McCain.
My thoughts on the deficiency of public education (and education in general), over at PJM.
The PC police are going after NPR. Delicious.
Iowahawk has the transcript of the meeting between the “progressive” bloggers and the president. But remember, he’s a moderate!
It’s pretty funny (as would be expected).