Hell yes I’m behind the curve. That’s my wheelhouse!1 Anyway, Kevie D., whom I’ve often trashed, has to be on something to write shtick like “The Passive-Aggressive Superpower”, averring that “Unilateralist tough-guy talk will get us nowhere against China,” and overtly snickering at the puffed-chest prose of two of his fellow NR authors, Rich Lowry…
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Yo, “conservatives”! Donald Trump is destroying the rule of law, and you didn’t even notice!
It is a long-running rap of Trump apologists that while the Donald may be a little rough around the edges, substantively (which is what counts, of course) he’s done little more than enact the standard Republican menu of tax cuts, increased defense spending, and, best of all, conservative judges! Well, we can pass over (for…
Why a “Partisan” impeachment of President Trump is necessary
Back in the day— I mean the day when Bill Clinton was trying to push through his plan for universal health insurance—Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued that such a sweeping program should only be enacted on a bipartisan basis, sage advice that was proffered again at the start of the Obama administration, and now, of…
“Thoughtful” conservatives getting awfully tired of thinking. But not all of them.
I remember reading as a boy that one can think for three days on the energy contained in a peanut. On the right, it seems, peanuts are getting scarce. Over at the New York Times, David Brooks is finding solace in Donald Trump’s lizard brain, which, it appears, is kicking ass all over the world:…
Which is worse, kissing a fourteen-year-old girl or torture?
Roy Moore, the kissin’ judge, seems to be just about the limit for a lot of people, everyone from the reptilian Mitch McConnell—“I believe the women”—to compassionate libertarian Nick Gillespie—“Roy Moore and the End of Republican Credibility”—not to mention one-time Republican hitman Rich Lowry—"He can’t quite bring himself to deny dating underage girls”. Of course,…
I cannot keep silent! Part Deux
This not talking shit is hard! Yesterday, I couldn’t/wouldn’t keep silent about some year-old bullshit from David Ignatius. Well, today it’s the National Review’s Rich Lowry, opining about General Trump’s plans to reignite the war in Afghanistan: “At the end of the day, this is Trump concluding that he doesn’t want to lose a war…
For the Right, All Roads Lead Through Russia. Unfortunately.
For the “Respectable Right,” I mean—the Wall Street Journal Right, the National Review Right—the “Thoughtful Right”—I guess you could call them, Big Donnie’s recent speech in Poland, which I, uh, didn’t like, made their little hearts beat faster than Max Roach’s Night in Tunisia drum solo from the Jazz at Massey Hall album (which you…
You have to talk to those people in a language they can understand—that is to say, Spanish
“The message has been received that President Trump is, to coin a phrase, a bad hombre,” the ethically and ethnically challenged Rich Lowry informs us, gloating over the decline in illegal border crossings since the advent of Herr Donald. Granted, Trump’s wild and vicious threats during the campaign—to build a “great wall” and force Mexico…
Neocons at the end of their tether
Over at the National Review, Jonah Goldberg has a second, and more anguished, cri de cœur—I discussed an earlier one here—remarking, not simply on the horror that is Donald Trump, but on the horror one feels when one observes one’s friends proudly embracing that horror—if one has such friends as Kevin Williamson, Charlie Cooke, or…
Republicans to Hispanics: Hell yes we love you! Just not right now!
Did I predict this? Well, probably not, but, anyway, Bill Kristol and Rich Lowry, two of the biggest DC dicks going, have joined forces to take out the immigration-reform bill, which was likely 99.44% dead in the House of Representatives already. As about a million people have pointed out, Kristol is playing the same game…