Ramesh Ponnuru, perhaps to fulfill a quota of some sort, has dashed off what I like to think of as a semi, hemi, demi never Trumper, “Three Clichés About Trump That Have to Die”,1 soundly thumping those lazy, self-righteous liberals who say all sorts of mean things about the Donald which just are not true!…
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Rich Lowry, last seen grabbing his ankles like a man
You know what is like rape? Rape is like rape: when it’s inevitable, you might as well bend over and enjoy it. Such is the gist and giblets of Rich Lowry’s recent post over at the National Review, “The Never Trump Delusion”, informing his principled peers that anal rape is the better part of valor—though…
Shelf life of Trump Bump: 1 day
Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? One whole day of “Papa Trump” before that nasty “Russian Connection” began to rear its ugly head once more, its rancid scent rising to the point that even FBI Director James Comey—“No Nose Jim”, as I like to call him—might be moved to say, “Now, what the heck is…
Why isn’t the Fed omniscient? Conservatives want to know!
The Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression. It also caused the Great Recession. Why? Because it couldn’t predict the future. That’s the late Milton Friedman’s explanation for the GD, and it’s now David Beckworth and Ramesh Ponnuru’s explanation for the GR, “It took a bigger shock to the economy [than the decline in the housing…
Chaos in the House? Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along
How can you tell when conservatives (or anyone else, really) are really frightened? Whey they pretend that something that is a very big deal is not a very big deal. Ramesh Ponnuru illustrates this point beautifully when he “explains” that there are two things to keep in mind now that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy…
What should Republicans say now that the GDP is growing, the deficit is shrinking, and gas prices are falling? Reihan Salam has no fucking idea.
What should Republicans say now that the GDP is growing, the deficit is shrinking, and gas prices are falling? Well, says “thoughtful” Republican Reihan Salam, well, this is what Reihan said: According to Texas State University economist David Beckworth and National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru, the chief problem with the Republican worldview in the post-crisis years…
No, Chris Christie will not solve the Republican Party’s problems
It’s amusing to see so many establishment conservatives, and establishment liberals, rushing to embrace Chris Christie for “showing Republicans how to win.” In a post written just before the election, Ramesh Ponnuru said that “Christie has also avoided taking unpopular socially conservative stands on issues that aren’t live debates, and taken the occasional opportunity to…
O Lucky Obama!
A few weeks ago—or was it a few lifetimes?—I was remarking that it couldn’t be possible that President Obama could slide out of an utterly gratuitous, entirely self-inflicted mini-war with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with the help of Vladimir Putin, but that’s exactly what happened. But of course that was only a warm-up. Now the…
“Why Are Corporate Titans So Clueless at Politics?” How about “Why Are Corporate Titans So Clueless at Economics?”?
Over at Bloomberg, Christopher Flavelle asks the excellent question “Why Are Corporate Titans So Clueless at Politics?” Chris covered a recent Business Roundtable shindig, and here’s what he has to say: The Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of the largest U.S. companies, held a lunch for reporters this week on what’s wrong…
RDH
It’s no secret that half the thinking done by the Republican Party is done by ringers, “designated hitters,”* a band of Asian-American and Jewish outsiders who have nothing in common with the white, Protestant or Catholic masses whom they serve. What’s even more fascinating is that most, though not all of these ringers are double…