I don’t often read all of a NY Times story, for the same reasons I don’t wander around asking people to hit me with a baseball bat. And while the story is somewhat interesting, the language, focus, and mindset of the reporter John Broder, the editors, and the organization that produced it are much more interesting. The primary source is Lisa P. Jackson, Defender of The Children, versus Bill Daley

Of the people, by the people, for the people. Senate Rules Committee staff on Thursday removed microphones and locked the doors of a hearing room in the Russell Senate Office Building where an informal hearing was scheduled to review the findings of the Tea Party Debt Commission, a months-long crowd-sourced effort to develop a budget proposal that balances the budget, reduces the debt and gets America’s fiscal house back in

The biggest problem with Americans? They trust in stodgy, old-people ideas. Clingers, they are. Who really need to get off their lazy asses and embrace the exciting new normal of democratic socialism. Like you young kids do! Nanny government controlling your every move and involved in every aspect of your lives? Why, what could be more hip and liberating than that? HEY HEY, HO HO, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY THAT PROMOTES THE

Squatter’s rights. Liberating foreclosed homes from those who own them. This is quite the plan for home ownership the left has given us: keep interest rates artificially low, require banks to give loans to those who can’t pay them back, put in place economic plans that destroy the economy and lead to large scale job loss, crash the housing market, destroy the middle class, evict people from the homes, then