You’ve read me on several occasions break down the current governmental dynamic in this country just that way — party doesn’t matter much any more because the establishment ruling class on the right is in fundamental agreement with the direction of progressive government, albeit it generally favors expanding the scope and influence of governmental authority more slowly, and with more deference to the private sector — and of late, this

So argues Rex Nutting at Market Watch. Of course, to believe Nutting, you have to engage in an awful lot of revisionist history — assign the 2009 budget to the GOP (hi, Nancy!), then keep it as the baseline — but then, that’s what the left is about these days: framing and re-framing narratives to create perception, which they then claim is reality. Manufacturing consent, so to speak. And honestly,

I’m with Patterico, et al., on this. Me. With Patrick Frey. In 2012. Curse those perspicacious Mayans. Here’s the thing: People who haven’t experienced it tend to downplay online harassment — and often fail to recognize how it spills over into the real world. Those who’ve experienced it will react in different ways, and use different methods to combat it (some you may agree with, some you may not: hi,

Question: is it possible to be as bad at what you do as Fred Davis is unintentionally? — and yet still get paid handsomely for it? Okay, of course it is. Otherwise most journalists wouldn’t have jobs. But just humor me. Because it seems that Fred Davis is so very bad at what he does that some on the right are beginning to suspect he may not be on the

…and when did she know it? Of course, I’d have gone with What’s Up, Speedway Bomber? or Speedway Yentl, but then, I like to live dangerously. update: Back in the days of the Speedway bombings, some were likely still calling this “a happening.”

— Kinda the opposite of Romney’s primary performances, if you think about it — he soared in states he’s unlikely to win in the general election, and floundered in the red states — but I suppose that’s a horse that’s already left the barn. Let’s just hope that Democrat disgruntlement is more powerful than Republican disgruntlement come November. Or that, as would happen in a healthy society, everybody decided to