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Exactly what is wrong with the Republican Party that it can't even beat a clown like Franken? I attempted to answer that question in a long post titled, "Fear and Loathing: Sarah Palin and the Conservative Intellectuals":
Just as the conservative intellectuals once projected their hopes onto Dubya, now they project their disappointments onto Sarah. But the fault is theirs, not hers.
It is a very long post, but I think it got to the nub of some very important issues that are fundamental to understanding how the GOP reached its ebb in 2008. Some other highlights and lowlights of the month:
- January 2009 saw Israel at war with Palestinians, which prompted my reflection "Sonny Corleone in Gaza."
- Natalie Dylan offered her virginity online and was offered $3.7 million.
- Of course, January marked the official onset of the Obama Nation, which was inaugurated with puddles of hope. I compared it to the experience of taking my daughter to Bush's 2001 inauguration.
- The biggest problem of the new administration was its economic agenda: Unicorns, rainbows and wasteful neo-Keynesian nonsense.
- I covered the RNC meeting that culminated in the election of Michael Steele as chairman.
- January also brought news of the Hindenburg-at-Lakehurst implosion of Culture 11, a not-unexpected disaster that could be explained in two words: David Kuo. Or perhaps, Conor Friedersdorf.
Darleen is on a roll.
ReplyDeleteEspecially with pointing out something I missed listening to Mark Steyn filling in for Rush today---Steyn is calling our Homeland Security leader Janet Imcompetano! Funny except this fool and her boss are going to get a lot of people killed.
Conor Friedersdorf
ReplyDeleteI used to read a Claremont site called "No Left Turns", until I discovered that the people there regarded Conor Friedersdorf as a conservative. The man makes David Frum look like Edmund Burke.
Janet Incompetano is just feining stupidity :
ReplyDeleteThe Transportation Security Administration did little to explain the rules. And that inconsistency might well have been deliberate: What's confusing to passengers is also confusing to potential terrorists.
"It keeps them guessing," transportation expert Joseph Schwieterman said.
Serpentine!
The terrorist was sad? Well that explains everything. We should let him go because being sad is obviously an affirmative defense to any crime.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that is clearned up. We need to seriously combat sadness amongst teens and young adults.
I didn't get no fancy ivy league schoolin' in them dead languages, so to me Annus Horribilus sounds like a bad case of hemorrhoids.
ReplyDeleteAnnus Horribilus and Al Franken are two things I naturally associate, Franken being a hemorrhoid on the American Body Politic.