On November 8, 2016, in the wake of Donald Trump’s first triumph, I wrote “It is, appropriately enough, gray and wet in Washington, DC this morning. Brilliant sunshine would be almost more irony than one could bear.” Today, we are not so lucky. What I had to say in my earlier post, which bore the…
Tag: Democratic Party
Megan McArdle is an idiot, a liar, and well deserving of many other harsh and insulting adjectives that my fingers lack the energy to type.
Yes, I am getting awfully tired to yelling insults at Megan McArdle. Why, it seems like I was yelling at Megan only three weeks ago for her arrant hypocrisy in blaming the fall of pro-seditionist Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker on the Democratic Party, because I was!. And now she’s turned around and written the…
There are two kinds of Republicans: True Trumpers and Cowards. Megan McArdle is not a True Trumper
I have, before—many times before—ridiculed dear Megan’s frequent efforts to find something—anything—to criticize about the Democratic Party rather than deal with the elephant-sized pile of dung in the room that is the current day Republican Party. In her latest “just trying to be helpful” effort—Democrats should have helped McCarthy hold his job — for their…
Shorter Josh Barro: If I shut my eyes very tightly, Donald Trump will go away
You know, he’s got a point there! If you shut your eyes very tightly, Donald Trump will go away! And so will everything else! Like Josh, I wish that Joe Biden were more than minimally competent. I wish he didn’t sound like a 79-year-old man (I’m 77) who’s tired of all your back talk and…
Barack Obama, wise before the fact, but not, alas, during
Timothy Shenk, a professor of history at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, which is “within” (somehow) George Washington University, has a nice article up at the New York Times, A Lost Manuscript Reveals the Fire Barack Obama Couldn’t Reveal on the Campaign Trail. What the good professor is talking about is a 250-page…
Democrats behaving badly. Again!
Oh yeah, it’s self-flagellation time around the Literature R Us corral, and my comrades in arms have supplied me with an awesome array of whips, knouts, and other assorted scourges, painful even to look upon, much less touch. But, well, duty calls. Yo, Joe Biden! Shut up! “They’re killing people,” bellowed/whined Uncle Joe back in…
Yo, Joe! When Denouncing Donald Trump, It’s Considered Bad Form to Imitate Him!
Yeah, Uncle Joe was in rare form at his Independence Hall spectacular, complete with “dramatic” lighting and U. S. Marines in full dress uniform. I mean, who was the advertising wizard who came up with that one? But, seriously, folks, it’s a seriously dismal idea to use U. S. military as the backdrop for any…
The Democratic Party has a duty to ensure that the Republican Party will nominate Senate candidates who will defeat their Democratic opponents in November, Megan McArdle explains
Why are the Republicans putting up such shitty candidates for the Senate this year? So shitty that the Democrats might actually maintain control of the Senate in what should be a shitty year for them? Well, it’s all the Democrats’ fault, says Megan McArdle, who apparently likes to think of herself as the “thoughtful” (“thoughtful”…
Yo, Ross Douthat! William Jennings Bryan was no Donald Trump!
My God! Has it already been almost five months since I last insulted Ross Douthat? Well, time flies when you’re fightin’ the COVID, I guess (a very mild case, fortunately). But now I’m back, definitely, and loaded for bear! Not to mention smart-mouth conservatives! What got me a little ticked was a recent Ross confection,…
The Benedict Strategy, Spinoza Edition
I don’t know if you’re up on Rod Dreher, who moans and groans with varying degrees of accuracy regarding the woke folks over at the American Conservative. Rod, a floridly passionate Christian, seems to have undergone several denominational makeovers, rejecting the Catholic Church to settle, I think, somewhere in the fields of Eastern Orthodoxy. Awhile…