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Douthat: We’d Experiment with Policy [Dan Collins]

but we’re afraid Rush Limbaugh might cut our cojones off and swing them around his head like a bola if we tried.

Boo hoo.

Dicentra, in comments: “Please. They’re not afraid of what Rush says. They’re afraid of criticism from NYT, NPR, NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, and the letter Y.”

Yolanda!

OMG, how gauche!

48 Replies to “Douthat: We’d Experiment with Policy [Dan Collins]”

  1. McGehee says:

    Don’t you just love how the “we need to be more like Democrats” bunch claims to be the reformers?

  2. Carin says:

    The GOP’s leaders desperately need some space in which to experiment a little, on policy and otherwise, and they don’t seem to have it at the moment.

    FAIL. Please explain to me how GOP leaders, during the last 8 years, were too afraid of Rush. Yea, they followed his advice to a “T.”

  3. Dan Collins says:

    The Atlantic is a very important publication, I think, McGehee. Why, the only true conservative in the world writes there.

  4. Carin says:

    I also liked the RUSH STARTED IT line.

  5. McGehee says:

    The Atlantic is a very important publication, I think, McGehee.

    Aside from declaring — long after the fact — that Dan Quayle was indeed right in his “Murphy Brown” comments, what have they gotten right lately?

  6. Dan Collins says:

    My favorite part is “the perils of blogging.” Such bravery.

  7. JD says:

    I would cancel mu subscription, but I could not live without the true conservative musing of Excitable Andy. And, I do not actually have a subscription. And I vowed to quit clicking on their links.

  8. dicentra says:

    Please. They’re not afraid of what Rush says. They’re afraid of criticism from NYT, NPR, NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, and the letter Y.

  9. Dan Collins says:

    Exactly, dicentra.

  10. Joe says:

    That does not sound very Outlawy to me. That sounds kinda Patterinicky.

  11. N. O'Brain says:

    Nice blog.

    Where’s the comments?

  12. phil says:

    there are no comments. Now stfd and stfu so your betters like David brooks can compare you to Neanderthals and in doing so get invited to more cocktail parties.

  13. Jeffersonian says:

    The conservative reformers aren’t afraid of Rush, they’re afraid of the millions of people who agree with Rush. He’s like the NRA that way…he only has power to the extent that others agree with him. What frosts guys like Frum, Brooks and Douthat is that, absent Rush, they’d be able to convince those millions that they are a tiny minority whose only possible hope of having a voice is through them and their statist worldview.

    No thanks, Ross. I’m not interested in America getting to the same destination a few years more slowly than we would with the Democrats.

  14. McGehee says:

    your betters like David brooks can … get invited to more cocktail parties.

    Nice to know what we’ve been fighting for all these years.

    Outlaw, hell. MUTINY!

  15. Dan Collins says:

    Yay! We can nationalize some Venezuelan firms and fix the price of rice for the peasants!

  16. Jeffersonian says:

    Like tellin’ a bear to shit in the woods, router.

  17. Jeffersonian says:

    Can we take up a collection and have a neck installed on that beaner?

  18. David Brooks says:

    You know that socialism has never been given a fair shake. We should give it a go with the right people at the helm.

    Like me.

  19. Judith Miller is on the “All-Star” Panel!?

  20. router says:

    judy went to jail for her beliefs

  21. router says:

    Beck’s indignant critiques of the Obama administration and gloomy outlook on the nation’s financial health have found near-instant resonance. His eponymous 2 p.m. PST program averaged nearly 2.2 million viewers last month — double the number the time slot attracted the previous February and a remarkable amount for the afternoon. That made “Glenn Beck” the third most-watched program in all of cable news for the month, after Bill O’Reilly’s and Sean Hannity’s evening shows.

    ?

  22. happyfeet says:

    I don’t really want to go to a Tax Day Tea Party what doesn’t involve breaking shit. No for real I think the focus on spendyness is lame and having it on Tax Day confuses the issue. I’m not gonna be all oh please don’t spend so much money, dirty socialists. That but also card check is even more horrifying, and cap-n-trade is more horrifyinger still, and our piece of shit president’s feigned obliviousness to the necessity of Social Security and Medicare reform is flat out fucking unbelievably scary. The message we need isn’t oh please don’t spend so much money it’s get your pitiful George Soros bought-and-paid-for Chicago street trash ass out of our little country’s White House. Please.

  23. geoffb says:

    Experiment with policy? Let’s see we know from the past what works and what has never worked, so why experiment?

    They need to find some twisty thing that will kinda-sorta work but still meet the goals of the social register doyens of the blue enclaves. Otherwise there will be constant hell to pay at home every evening that they don’t have that invite to the “special” event.

    Your bosses, you can placate or snow. The base, who the f**k cares about them. But your spouse is going to hang it on your ass forever and ever amen.

    The elite of the conservatives. Those few, those henpecked few, that band of weasels.

  24. dicentra says:

    router:

    Them’s Mormons, and Mormons don’t drink tea. They’d have to use green Jell-O powder.

  25. Joe says:

    Rachel Maddow defines how conservatives and Republicans should speak.

    If you are agreeing with Rachel Maddow, you might be a Democrat.

  26. Dan Collins says:

    I’m sorry, meya, but since you don’t give a rat’s ass about other people’s self-expression, you’re not welcome on my threads. I’m OUTLAWY that way.

  27. happyfeet says:

    She is sort of a fascist I’ve noticed.

  28. ccoffer says:

    Rush Limbaugh is mainstream. We need to remind the world of that.

    We are the normal people. We need to invite people back into the normal fold. We are reality. We are nature.

    The left is Disneyland with guns, badges and mandatory attendance at the Its a Small World ride.

  29. router says:

    calvin is cool with moi ode to the working man:

    President Coolidge, 1st Presidential Film (1924)

  30. Jeffersonian says:

    Freedom of choice in an age of compulsion. Liberal fascism on the march.

  31. Adjoran says:

    I believe Douthat is a conservative like I believe they wear long pants at NRO (well, maybe K-Lo and Nordlinger).

    The REAL problem the self-styled “reformers” have is that their so-called “reforms” bear little resemblance to actual conservatism, but a striking likeness to either watered-down liberal ideas or repackaged “Libertarian” nonsense.

    And yet they commiserate, whining that their wonderful innovations are given short shrift by thugs like Rush and populists like Palin (although they are never clear on exactly HOW this happens). With all that renting of garments and gnashing of teeth going on in Northern Virginia, it’s a wonder if they get a chance to sample the brie and Chardonnay.

    Pity for them that most conservatives are just NQOCD (Not Quite Our Class, Dear).

  32. Spiny Norman says:

    #15 router,

    From your link, Emperor THugo proclaims:

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday called upon US President Barack Obama to follow the path to socialism, which he termed as the “only” way out of the global recession. “Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States,” Chavez told a group of workers in the southern Venezuelan state of Bolivar.

    [snip]

    Chavez said that people are calling Obama a “socialist” for the measures of state intervention he is taking to counter the crisis, so it would not be too far-fetched to suggest that he might join the project of “21st century socialism” that the Venezuelan leader is heading.

    “Nothing is impossible. Who would have thought in the 1980s that the Soviet Union would disappear? No one,” he said.

    Oh, I do believe the irony of that last bit went ZIP right over his fat head.

  33. kasper says:

    Comment by ccoffer on 3/6 @ 9:14 pm #

    Rush Limbaugh is mainstream. We need to remind the world of that.

    We are the normal people. We need to invite people back into the normal fold. We are reality. We are nature.

    Agreed. But, how shall conservatives invite people? You either get conservatism or you don’t, it’s a matter of reason and common sense, and most likely brain chemistry.

    Liberals are happy to remain uninformed and incurious, it plays no part in their opinion making. MSM rhetoric contradicts what is unfolding in their very own lives, but MSM is blankly accepted.

    My family members are an excellent example. They are good, intelligent, capable people, but they admit not knowing anything about the information I have confront them with (i.e. Ayers, Wright, Barney Frank’s lover in Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac cooked books, Chris Dodd, conflict of interests all over the Democrat leadership, stimulus package, etc. etc. etc.). But, it matters not.

    There will be no changing of minds of any significance, I’m afraid.

  34. kasper says:

    Oh, and Happyfeet, I’m going to your Tea Party cause I wanna break shit! It’s time.

  35. Ella says:

    I would be much happier with the “Tea Parties” if they were less aimless standing and more rioting and breaking stuff.

    I’m seriously getting to the point where I want stuff to burn. We can’t stop this evil electorally once the majority of people are criminals (illegals) or on the dole, the GOP is a rotted fish head, and no one at any level of government cares about freedom – but they sure love them some punitive taxation!

    Atlas shrugged and then went to find his matches.

  36. Ella says:

    The only benefit I see to all of this is that the guvmint is going to bankrupt itself so quickly that it is just going to shoot Social Security and Medicare in the head. With those two out of the way, we stand a good chance of rebuilding a much smaller government.

    This is my possibly hallucinated silver lining.

    God, I hate paying Social Security.

  37. Joe says:

    The elite journalists, I repeat, got Obama wrong. The troglodytes got him right. As our national drama continues to unfold, bear that in mind.

    Now that Obama is in charge, it is time to speak truth to power. Isn’t that what the left always says?

  38. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    The only benefit I see to all of this is that the guvmint is going to bankrupt itself so quickly that it is just going to shoot Social Security and Medicare in the head.

    Unfortunately all of the (in theory) non-Ponzi pension funds are going down with it.

    I’ve actually considered quitting my job just so I can get my share of the contributions back out.

  39. Mike LaRoche says:

    …but we’re afraid Rush Limbaugh might cut our cojones off and swing them around his head like a bola if we tried.

    I reckon that’d be a pretty small bola.

  40. JD says:

    Mike LaRoche is a dirty filthy racist ;-)

  41. Mike LaRoche says:

    And proud of it!!! ;)

  42. JD says:

    You are sooooooooooooooo denounced. Denounced and condemned. I wish Christopher London would visit :-)

  43. Mike LaRoche says:

    Yeah, I wish Chrissy would visit too. You, Moxie, and I had a great time troll-stomping his candy ass a couple of moths ago! :)

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