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February 22, 2012

Debate open thread

I’m sick. I’m tired. I don’t care about Satan or phony theology — and I think the entirety of the remaining field should show up tonight with their joints out and all bagged up in some fancy Naturalamb Trojans. Adorned with red white and blue tassels. But then, I’m a bit of a rightwing bad boy.

“Leftist caller wishes rape on radio host Dana Loesch”

Sure. But was it rape rape, or, like, rape rape? And either way, doesn’t their inherent goodness, compassion, intellectual superiority, and demand for “social justice” — born of their having embraced a set of political principles that of necessity, when taken to their natural ends, lead to totalitarianism and a “benevolent” police state — mean that we must first filter their utterances through the holy trinity of postmodernity, contingency, irony,

“Hard work, fair play, shared responsibility. That’s who we are as a people.”

So says President Obama, who then raises our taxes, deficit-spends us into a devalued currency and a lowered credit rating, and subsidizes those who in turn subsidize his political aspirations — through phony green energy boondoggles, sops to public sector unions, and ever-growing entitlement spending on the dependent class the Democrats rely on as their voting base, and whom they therefore must always endeavor to keep dependent. But here’s the