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- I love this streak of petty authoritarianism that runs through some conservatives. Rick Santorum doesn't like decisions coming out of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals? Get rid of the entire circuit! What a wonderfully relativistic universe of law and order! I can play this game! I thought Citizen's United was a terrible decision, so let's get rid of the Supreme Court! I'll even meet you halfway and grudgingly agree to do so using a constitutional amendment even though my "state sovereignty" tells me I don't have to follow any judgment passed by that "court" in the first place.
- "And if you do not understand that there is an ideology laying behind this, you are not going to be able to really evaluate these reforms Obama is laying out." That's Stanley Kurtz, once again making his case for "Radical in Chief." Let's just assume that Barack Obama is a socialist and his ideological motivation is to put most of American life under state control. How successful would you say he's been in the past two years? Well, there's the health-care mandate, a Republican idea, that might not even make it out of the courts intact. And ... not much else. To put it pithily without endorsing the premise, "Who cares if Barack Obama is a socialist if it doesn't lead to socialism?"
- You could say, to paraphrase Spinal Tap's manager, that Glenn Beck's appeal has become more selective, or at least that's how I read this David Frum post that posits the extra level of crazy on the show is attributable to a shirking audience share made up of the most gullible, least informed strata of the Tea Party crowd. It should also be noted that the hoard-yr-gold company routinely hawked by Beck has recently been giving sound advice on how to profit off of civil unrest in Egypt! Because nothing is more American than profit off the misery of others.
- Remainders: No complaints with Clinton, but I always thought Secretary of State John F. Kerry made a lot of sense; this pathological need for narcissistic rich people to need adoration on top of their money is seriously veering into Citizen Kane territory; how does the health-care mandate differ from Social Security privatization?; and why aren't more conservatives pleased with the conservative economic recovery?
