Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Saturday, January 08, 2011 3:00:55 PM
I grumble about Cocktail Party Conservative James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal so often that some might wonder why I bother reading him at all. Taranto is like the little girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead. (Boy, did I just give my age away!) When he's good, he's very, very good. See below:
Yesterday the Post also carried on its website, though apparently not in the paper, a piece by one David Cole, "legal affairs correspondent" for The Nation, a hard-left magazine, titled "The Conservative Constitution of the United States." It begins:
We, the Real Americans, in order to form a more God-Fearing Union, establish Justice as we see it, Defeat Health-Care Reform, and Preserve and Protect our Property, our Guns and our Right Not to Pay Taxes, do ordain and establish this Conservative Constitution for the United States of Real America.
It goes on in that vein for 900 cringe-making words--a misconceived joke that only reveals Cole to be a small-minded vulgarian.
Absolutely true, and very well said. I could not have done better. (The full item is
here.)