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Tuesday, July 28, 2020
FINAL STAGE TDS
Slapsie Maxie thinks that a governmental decision that resulted in the deaths of thousands of New York's most vulnerable citizens was a mere "blunder." But Andy got the important stuff right.
"Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"
One of more useful things about the Trump era is that it revealed how bankrupt "conservative" leadership is.
It was all process, soundbites and forthrightly refusing to stand on anything that looked like principle when in power. Unless said principle involved "free trade" or big adventures in the Middle East. Now that they can't get any of that from a GOP perch, they've switched roosts and gone over to the Left--not that they are wanted over there, of course. Nobody likes a turncoat.
Yup. When Professional Conservatism tried to pass Mitt Romney off as a genuine Real Conservative, Donald Trump became as inevitable as the sunrise. Mitt was reading a script and not doing it very convincingly at all. That's probably why people like Jen Rubin, Bill Kristol, George Will and Slapsie Maxie are as bent out of shape about Trump as they are. Has to hurt when people refuse to take instruction from you anymore.
One of more useful things about the Trump era is that it revealed how bankrupt "conservative" leadership is.
Since 1973, 13 men have led the congressional Republican caucus. Seven of them never did much with their life apart from electoral politics, political staff work, and lobbying; another three were, prior to entering politics, government employees (one a prosecutor, one a schoolteacher, one a college teacher). (Of the remainder, one ran a small business, one was a lawyer in private practice, and one was a surgeon). Maybe two have been exponents of a distinct perspective on public policy and two others could be effective shepherds of a policy agenda emerging from their caucus or from the President's desk. It's been a mixture of meh and failure theatre since Newt Gingrich left Congress.
As for our opinion journalists, take a gander at National Review's bevy of employees and contributors. They're divided into several categories: (1) people who produce nothing of interest, (2) people whose contributions are very infrequent, (3) people whose efforts are devoted to attacking the current Republican president, (4) people whose assumptions about their social and political world are about what you'd expect from a randomly selected media employee, and (5) some combination of the above. The only exceptions are Andrew McCarthy and Charles CW Cooke. (Neither Victor Davis Hanson or Thomas Sowell are listed on the masthead). Commentary is run by a nepot who has managed to recruit one person under the age of 50 willing and able to make regular contributions. The Weekly Standard, of course, was shut down when their corporate patron looked at the haemorrahging of subscribes and figured out that an editorial policy of inveterate attacks on a President with whom 85% of the Republican electorate is satisfied was a feature of a stinky business model.
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Families of dead nursing home residents are likely to think their loved ones' lives were a big thing.
"Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"
One of more useful things about the Trump era is that it revealed how bankrupt "conservative" leadership is.
It was all process, soundbites and forthrightly refusing to stand on anything that looked like principle when in power. Unless said principle involved "free trade" or big adventures in the Middle East. Now that they can't get any of that from a GOP perch, they've switched roosts and gone over to the Left--not that they are wanted over there, of course. Nobody likes a turncoat.
Good riddance to all of them.
Yup. When Professional Conservatism tried to pass Mitt Romney off as a genuine Real Conservative, Donald Trump became as inevitable as the sunrise. Mitt was reading a script and not doing it very convincingly at all. That's probably why people like Jen Rubin, Bill Kristol, George Will and Slapsie Maxie are as bent out of shape about Trump as they are. Has to hurt when people refuse to take instruction from you anymore.
One of more useful things about the Trump era is that it revealed how bankrupt "conservative" leadership is.
Since 1973, 13 men have led the congressional Republican caucus. Seven of them never did much with their life apart from electoral politics, political staff work, and lobbying; another three were, prior to entering politics, government employees (one a prosecutor, one a schoolteacher, one a college teacher). (Of the remainder, one ran a small business, one was a lawyer in private practice, and one was a surgeon). Maybe two have been exponents of a distinct perspective on public policy and two others could be effective shepherds of a policy agenda emerging from their caucus or from the President's desk. It's been a mixture of meh and failure theatre since Newt Gingrich left Congress.
As for our opinion journalists, take a gander at National Review's bevy of employees and contributors. They're divided into several categories: (1) people who produce nothing of interest, (2) people whose contributions are very infrequent, (3) people whose efforts are devoted to attacking the current Republican president, (4) people whose assumptions about their social and political world are about what you'd expect from a randomly selected media employee, and (5) some combination of the above. The only exceptions are Andrew McCarthy and Charles CW Cooke. (Neither Victor Davis Hanson or Thomas Sowell are listed on the masthead). Commentary is run by a nepot who has managed to recruit one person under the age of 50 willing and able to make regular contributions. The Weekly Standard, of course, was shut down when their corporate patron looked at the haemorrahging of subscribes and figured out that an editorial policy of inveterate attacks on a President with whom 85% of the Republican electorate is satisfied was a feature of a stinky business model.
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