Showing posts with label Ed Driscoll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ed Driscoll. Show all posts

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Quote of the Day Begets Quote of the Day

by Smitty

Ed Driscoll, noting the Obama Administration's employment of Smart Diplomacy against the Norwegians, let fly with:
I thought he was the tautology he’s been waiting for.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Happy (Segregated) Holidays

Ed Driscoll's got that PC multicutural holiday spirit. It seems the New York Times is haunted by the ghosts of Christmas past.

Oh, wait. Thoses aren't ghosts. Just dudes in white sheets.

Glad I never worked for the New York Times. Somebody might accuse me of supporting bigotry!

UPDATE: This one's turning into a festive holiday occasion for the blogosphere.
NYT offers thoughtful gift guide for the minority in your life
-- Hot Air

Things White People Like To Buy (For People Of Color)
-- Just One Minute
Merry Snarkmas!

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Whom You Hire Matters, but How Much?

by Smitty

I think Obama's Parade of Rookies a red herring. If you're driving toward a brick wall, it really doesn't matter whether you're coasting in, or all ahead full-tilt boogie. You smack the wall, the Corvette's modern art, and your name is not Rick Allen.

Consider:Wildly inappropriate for Thnanksgiving, yet still a fine summary: If you listen to fools, the mob rules.

Ed Driscoll quotes Jonah Goldberg, quoting Paul Krugman, emphasis mine:
For years, conservatives and liberals have flirted with the idea of disposing of the fool's errand of bipartisanship. Seeking compromise with partisans across the aisle is a recipe for getting nothing important done.

For liberals, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has been a leader of this school. In 2007, Krugman wrote in Slate magazine that progressives should abandon any pretense at working with Republicans. The "middle ground," he wrote, "doesn't exist — and if Democrats try to find it, they'll squander a huge opportunity. Right now, the stars are aligned for a major change in America's direction. If the Democrats play nice, that opportunity may soon be gone."
Krugman speaks truth. As with malignant cancer, there is no middle ground with this socialism. Anyone calling themself a "Progressive", Democrat or Republican, intentionally or idiotically, supports the destruction of the country. The coward-driven Cloward-Piven Strategy is just such a chaser to FDR's free-basing of the Constitution:

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all regardless of station, race, or creed.
Among these are:
  • The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the Nation;
  • The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
  • The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
  • The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
  • The right of every family to a decent home;
  • The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
  • The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
  • The right to a good education.
The lack of a medium like the netty-tubes in 1944 meant that there was much less chance for people to say: "Hey, FDR: 'We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights' is a steaming loaf of crap. Article V, mike foxtrot--have you heard of it?" Krugman echos this anti-Constitutional idiocy: "the stars are aligned for a major change in America's direction".

The stars are aligned for a restoration. It's either the original, Federalist direction, and let the States succeed or fail on their own merits, or unknown economic chaos. There is scant room for compromise with Cloward-Piven. States should follow that road to hell at their discretion, but the country as a whole must reject it.

We come full circle to the inexperienced cabinet question. If the remedies under discussion fail to address the strategic issues, then, tactically, you may as well put Conor Friedersdorf in there.

But, hey, it's thanksgiving. Ending on a downdbeat note is among the few things I ain't goin' to do. I'll leave you with kind of an old clip of Stacy enumerating just a few other things that we ain't.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Ed Driscoll praised by Andrew Sullivan

Prompting Ed to ensure that this never happens again:
Andrew sure knows how ruin someone on the right -- my reputation amongst my fellow Neocon Rightwing Death Beasts is forever tarnished, as Sullivan utters those dreaded words, "Ed Driscoll has a good point."
Don't worry, Ed, we Death Beasts are far too busy "opposing the working poor having a chance to buy health insurance" to pay any attention to Sully.

UPDATE: Time for another episode of Dr. Andrew Sullivan, M.D., OB-GYN, Republican Uterus Expert.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Why am I covering NY23?

"The situation in New York 23 is simply bizarre."
-- Michael Barone, Real Clear Politics

Let's fact it, folks: When the going gets bizarre, there's only one man for the job. And don't miss what Ed Driscoll called the "Scozzafava-palooza."

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

The NEA gave Ed Driscoll a grant . . .

. . . and he subcontracted the job to Iowahawk:

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Does this tune sound familiar?

by Smitty

As Ed Driscoll notes, "Hollywood Unites To Defend Polanski". Forget the "What if that was a conservative" question. The more interesting question is "How does this resemble Ted Kennedy?"

On the one hand, we're asked to justify statutory rape. On the other, some sort of murder. We'll let the legal beagles split those hairs.

In either case, the left enjoins us to reject standard interpretations of the law, and pursue instead some hand-wavy sort of justice: "He's an artisté", or "He's done so much good legislative penance".

So I differ slightly with Ed on this one. It's not so much a dark Kafka moment of the Law attacking an individual, but a bifurcation of the idea of equality under the law into a common and elite branch of law.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Mel Brooks, political commentator?

Not Many People Know It, But The Fuhrer Was A Terrific Dancer

Ed Driscoll borrows that line from The Producers.

The surprising thing? He wasn't blogging about Tom Delay's appearance on "Dancing with the Stars" . . .

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

PJTV: Ed Driscoll on Walter Cronkite

The Most Trusted Man in New Media has an excellent video examination of Uncle Walter's legacy, with contributions from Noel Sheppard and Austin Bay.

Frankly, I'm becoming worried. Ed hasn't been linking quite so much lately and . . . Well, if I've lost Ed Driscoll, I've lost the blogosphere.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

'Rendezvous With Scarcity'

Ed Driscoll's latest "Silicon Graffiti" video: