Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Friday, November 05, 2010 1:45:49 PM
From a particularly good post-election
Impromptus (by National Review's Jay Nordlinger):
"How bad does California have to get, before the voters turn from the Democrats? How dire does the state’s economy have to become? Going down the tubes, Californians still know how to do one thing: reach for the Democratic lever. As far as I’m concerned, that’s like grabbing an anvil when you’re drowning."
Loved it -- and he's right.
Burt Prelutsky, formerly of this site (and how did THAT happen??) says this in his November 5th
column:
"Speaking of rich people, I saw a list recently that listed the dead people who had made the most money during the past year. Michael Jackson pulled down $250 million; Elvis Presley, $60 million; Charles ("Peanuts") Shultz, $33 million; and Stieg Larsson, the Swedish novelist, $15 million. I assume the only thing that kept Harry Reid off the list was that he took in less than $15 million."
Burt also points out that there would be no room in the modern Democrat Party for a man with John F. Kennedy's beliefs on taxation, national defense, and communism, and that he'd have to be a Republican. I've thought that for years...
"The media are rebelling because they have wakened up to the current polls and concluded that Obama in 2008 had charmed them into sacrificing their reputations for disinterested reportage. Then once elected, he cynically counted on their continued subservience to destroy any shred of credibility that they had left."
I strongly suggest reading the whole essay. Everything that appalls us about our President, Ferdinand Marxos, was capable of being known before Election Day 2008. If the media (with some noble excetions) really doesn't understand where their reputations for objectivity went, they should read this, too. (My local paper, the Rochester Democrat and Socialist, er, Chronicle, had no reputation left to lose. They support the disgusting Louise Slaughter, for Heaven's sake.)