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Remember, people:  to save conservatism, we have to be willing to rule like liberals.  And be largely indistinguishable from them.

Michael Walsh, The Corner:

I’ve been wondering why the spineless life forms known as the “GOP leadership” have been so darn quiet about the Obama administration’s increasingly lawless, in-your-face attitude toward what used to be known as the American political system, and now I know — they’re all in it together.

Welcome aboard, Michael.

I do so love it when they start to catch up!

(thanks to George O)

 

18 Replies to “Echoes”

  1. DarthLevin says:

    How unhelpful. Rich Lowry should fire his ass.

  2. Ernst Schreiber says:

    You get the leadership you deserve.

  3. sdferr says:

    Declaration and Resolves on Colonial rights of the First Continental Congress, October 14, 1774

    Thus do second class citizens react to the usurpation of their native liberties.

  4. happyfeet says:

    these are the same feckless whores what have hardly raised a fuss about four years of trillion dollar deficits and what couldn’t even unite around the proposition that our grossly failshit federal government shouldn’t incentivize food stamp enrollment

  5. JHoward says:

    Heh, Darth.

  6. JHoward says:

    Speaking of the One Party System, Ziad K. Abdelnour was just on the Prager show, and aside from some goofy partisan noise from Dennis, I found it really encouraging that this kind of clarity was actually on, at length, a relatively major red-state network.

    The only man in America that gets it, presentcompanyexcepted? I’ll try and post the interview if it shows up on YT.

  7. JHoward says:

    Merkel plays 100mph chicken with European socialism and European socialism blinks. This is how it’s done…now watch your back, Angela…

  8. dicentra says:

    I saw that and wasn’t sure it was a fer-real thing.

    Walsh, IIRC, wrote a good opposition piece over Derb’s firing.

    Good egg.

  9. sdferr says:

    Another — and related — piece by Michael Walsh at PJMedia: First Principles:

    Now we are engaged in a great Cold Civil War. But the decision American voters will make in November is far more than merely an ideological clash about what the Constitution meant or means. For that supposes that both sides are playing by the same rules, and have a shared interest in the outcome. That presumes that both sides accept the foundational idea of the American experiment, and that the argument is over how best to adhere to it.

    That is false.

    For some, this is a difficult notion to grasp. To them, politics is politics, the same game being played by the same rules that go back a couple of centuries. The idea that one party — and you know which one I mean — is actively working against its own country as it was founded seems unbelievable.

    But that is true.

  10. Ernst Schreiber says:

    First Principles!?!? When did Michael Walsh join the ranks of the fundamentally unserious? Somebody had to have chopped him off at the knees.

  11. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Or do I have him confused with somebody else?

  12. sdferr says:

    Is there a migration in progress? VDH, Andy McCarthy, Michael Walsh, possible others (I haven’t made sufficient note of the NRO stable of writers) move to straddling both NRO and PjM (until such time as they see fit to cut the cord at NRO)?

  13. LBascom says:

    Sounds like Dr Sanity has a handle on things too:

    THEY’RE ONLY DOING IT FOR OUR OWN GOOD !

    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”–C.S. Lewis […]

    We used to contemptuously call such people busybodies (which was not a compliment), and were mostly able to ignore their nitpicking power plays to control or change our lives.

    Sadly, we can’t do that anymore.

    These a$$holes are everywhere. They are in the Democrat and Republican Party (but mostly the former); they are in the chattering classes and media; they are the elites of Hollywood.

    We listen to their advice on everything from what car to buy to what deodorant to wear. […]

    Most congresscritters, be they Democrat or Republican, have never met a government program they didn’t like, as long as it helps them get elected or re-elected. “Promise the Suckers Anything!” (Suckers=Us). And, of course, human nature being what it is, every single one of us are enthusiastically willing to take something when it is promised to us for nothing.

    ps, from the above link I came across this nugget that I hadn’t heard before. Think of it as what is riding on Thursdays SCOTUS decision:

    Pelosi proclaims her goal to “do for childcare what we did for healthcare”

    “I could never get a babysitter — have five kids in six years and no one wants to come to your house. … And everywhere I go, women say the same thing” about how hard it is to find the kind of reliable care that would make their family lives calmer and work lives more productive. When it comes to “unleashing women” in a way that would boost the economy, she says, “this is a missing link.”

  14. leigh says:

    That was part of Hillary’s vast plan to institutionalize child care. Nancy is just playing catch up.

  15. Dale Price says:

    “I could never get a babysitter — have five kids in six years and no one wants to come to your house.”

    No shit, really?

    We had 6 in ten years. That tends to discourage even the doughtiest of would-be sitters, and cuts into our date-night opportunities.

    Nevertheless, I don’t think that fact entitles us to taxpayer-funded babysitters. What am I missing?

  16. Squid says:

    She probably offered two bucks an hour and no decent snacks in the kitchen. Honestly, this woman would ask a plumber to clear the house drain in exchange for “anything he finds in there,” and then propose a federalized plumbing corps when nobody showed up.

  17. Blake says:

    Sort of O/T, but at another site, I suggested to a devout leftist he look up the word “truth” so he would have at least an acquaintance with the word, if not the deed.

    I brought it up because the idiot went on a partisan rant about the wonderfulness of the Obama on a thread about Fast and Furious.

    I left it at that, because I’m tired of the “yay team” aspect of both sides and I no longer care to even try to discuss anything with such hacks.

  18. TRHein says:

    Isn’t it just a tad late for this sudden shift in attitude? Perhaps your erstwhile betters have found out there isn’t a place set at the table for them.

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