Category: Progressives
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’ Grotesque Puppet Show — Now with Tea Parties!
I hesitate to call DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz a liar, but I have noticed that she’s taken a precipitous turn toward partisan claptrap that has no basis in reality in her role as Official Spokesjerk of the Democratic Party. “We need to make sure that we tone things down, particularly in light of the [...]
Uhhh…Greenpeace? Can We Talk About History for Just a Second?
Well, at least only one of them was clad in brown.
Goodbye, Barney, And Thanks for the Housing Crisis
This shocked me when it came across my Twitter feed early this morning: It is true, though. Barney Frank, Democratic Congressional veteran and Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, won’t run for re-election. Most folks, if they had Frank’s history of scandal –see if the name Stephen Gobie and the phrase “whore house run [...]
Why You Should Not Bring Rookies to an Activist Fight
We knew they were coming; they told us when they planned to arrive. The bloggers and activists at Blog Con 2011, they said, were tools of the Koch Brothers. Apparently, they labored under the delusion that the conservative philanthropists slash Satan’s Earthly henchbeings poured limitless buckets of money into FreedomWorks, the sponsor of the convention. [...]
Occupy Whatever is Quickly Becoming Occupy Morgue
The Occupy Whatever has sent another person to the morgue. According to local media reports, an unidentified man died from a gunshot wound just a day or so ago. The protesters prevent local media from reporting on the incident as it happened and even beat a cameraman so badly that he had to be hospitalized. [...]
Hey Hey! Ho Ho! Let’s Push An Old Woman Down Some Stairs!
This is what democracy looks like, which is why our very wise Founders built America as a republic.
Beware the Howling Mob
In her latest book Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America (which I’ve yet to read, though it’s parked on my Wish List), Ann Coulter details how the elements of mob mentality are also the central elements of the progressive worldview.
Our Problem is Too Much Freedom, Says the Super Smart Guy.
Peter Orszag, the former Director of the Office of Budget and Management in the Obama administration, thinks we have entirely too much democracy. According to him, we need lots of commissions and panels that will just do things for us, without all that messy voting and debating and gridlock. In an 1814 letter to John [...]
That’s What You Said