To the left, a feature, not a bug. De Toqueville wept. (h/t Carin)
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February 22, 2011
“House Republicans and Senate Democrats in talks to avoid government shutdown”
Never let popular conservative momentum get in the way of a good “compromise,” right GOP? Unbelievable: With funding for the federal government set to expire in less than two weeks, Senate Democrats and House Republicans are in discussions to avoid a government shutdown, a Senate Democratic leadership source told CNN. News of the negotiations comes a day after several Republican lawmakers indicated they might accept a short-term spending bill as
February 21, 2011
“Federal, state and local debt hits post-WWII levels”
Just a reminder. To those who aren’t busy marching for their rights to have the rest of us pay for [half] of their pensions,* and 88% of their premium health care plans, I mean. Those folks are too faking sickness so that they can avoid going to work to teach the children — which they’re doing for the children, naturally — to pay attention to such materialistic trivialities. They’re idealists.
February 21, 2011
Manufactured consent
Literally. We pretend we live in a free country. Increasingly, we don’t: the optics and propaganda, by way of a complicit media and a growing corporatism, is controlled by the left, with unelected bureaucracies writing policy, and politicized courts subverting the electoral will. It is not “fringe” to say that we need to take our country back. And you aren’t a hick for saying so. These are not Good Men.
February 21, 2011
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth
The (Establishment) Empire Strikes Back. Here’s a clue: teaching people how to best massage the truth while speaking in euphemisms and empty platitudes, is not civil. It is dissembling in dulcet tones, using gentle language. And the more we reward empty, feel-good rhetoric, the more we reward the emotionalism and bumper-sticker politics of the left. So. Fuck your “civility.” Dicks.
February 21, 2011
FDA-holes
“Another Triumph for the Greens,” Jonathan Last, Weekly Standard: It so happens that in the last six months, a lot of people have suddenly discovered their dishwashers don’t work as well as they used to. The problem, though, isn’t the dishwashers. It’s the soap. Last July, acceding to pressure from environmentalists, America’s dishwasher detergent manufacturers decided to change their formulas. And the new detergents stink. One of the key ingredients
February 21, 2011
Lying liars and the lying lies lying liars lie about lying about lying about
Oh, wait. You can fact-check that? Well. Okay, then. — Wait, look! Bunnies!
February 21, 2011
“Feds Gave $669.6 Million to Wisconsin Public Schools—More Than 20 Times What Proposed State Cuts Would Save”
Turns out you don’t have to live in Wisconsin to pay the benefits of Wisconsin teachers. So they’re protesting against you, too, you out-of-state private sector pigs. Why do you hate the working man?
February 21, 2011
Prepare yourselves for a GOP cave
Pragmatism! Somebody’d better contact these “moderate” Republicans and tell them that to “compromise” on something that is to the left of FDR, for Chrissakes, is to surrender the country. Period. Full stop. Thing is, if Walker’s coalition breaks down, Ohio will do the deed. That supposed GOP “moderates” are looking for some cheap grace here is repulsive enough. But doing so after watching the thuggish, childish, and downright anti-democratic behavior
February 20, 2011
“Wisconsin: What’s the Right Analogy?”
Think Gettysburg: Gettysburg was a battle in a war over federalism and states’ rights — in this case the dubious and odious “right” to treat human beings as chattel — a cause that has given the phrase a notorious name for over a century and a half. Madison (ironically, named after a Founder and drafter of the Constitution) is also a battle over states’ rights — in this case the