Seriously! Yeah, I know I’ve said a lot of mean things about Ramesh in the past—because, well, not to toot my own horn or anything, but they don’t call me “Mr. Truth” for nothing—but recently he wrote a column, Not even the Supreme Court can make Congress do its job, which, I’m pretty sure, is…
Tag: Ramesh Ponnuru
The Republican Party: Now with 6% fewer murders!
Back in 2006, right-wing Republican panjandrum Ramesh Ponnuru published The Party of Death, a book aggressively attacking the Democratic Party for its embrace of “abortion rights”, or, as Ramesh, and the Republican Party, described it, murder! For if, as the Republican platform claims, every human fetus, from the moment of conception, is, or should be,…
Shorter Ramesh Ponnuru on House Republicans unanimously electing Mike Johnson as Speaker: “Guys, guys, guys! I have a strong stomach—I have a VERY strong stomach—but GODDAMNIT!”
Yes, poor old Ramesh Ponnuru, whom I have sneered at ever since the Era of Trump began as the Toadie of Toadies, the Toadeater of Toadeaters, the anti anti Trumper of anti anti Trumpers, the man who was never without a “what about”, who always found a way to ingratiate himself with the True Trumpers…
Shorter Ramesh Ponnuru: Sure, Hitler went too far, but so did his critics!
Haven’t had your morning coffee yet? Well, too bad, because I am playing the Hitler card this morning, and there’s nothing you can do about it. I will do Mr. Ponnuru the favor of quoting him according to the letter rather than the spirit, to wit: DeSantis lacks moral clarity on Ukraine. His critics lack…
Yuval Levin (and Ramesh Ponnuru and Ross Douthat) and the utter hypocrisy of the “responsible Republican”
Yuval Levin, hailed by none other than Lyin’ Paulie Ryan as a serious conservative thinker, has a ponderous, and thoroughly repulsive “think piece” up at the New York Times, Democrats, Voting Rights Are Not the Problem, in which he tries to pretend that there are good arguments for election law reform “on both sides”! Because…
Chuck Grassley to semi-Never Trumpers: Suck my aging, wrinkled, disgusting, shriveled dick!
Who are the semi-Never Trumpers? Perhaps the most famous/infamous is Ross Douthat, who recently spent a column, The Once and Future Threat of Trump, desperately trying to explain away the fact that his previous writings on Trump, both before the January 6 riot and after, were politely yet accurately skewered by Robert Kagan in his…
Ramesh Ponnuru sincerely wishes that Donald Trump would stop farting so loudly. Particularly when he’s sitting on Mr. Ponnuru’s face
Well, he does. In a recent post, “Trump’s Record on Clemency”, written before the president’s most recent (to date) rogue’s gallery of releases, Mr. Ponnuru acknowledges that, well, the president can do anything he goddamn pleases when it comes to pardons, including pardoning a bunch of murders and corrupt political pals whenever the mood strikes…
Ramesh Ponnuru is a great big jerk! Why? Let me count the ways.
Yeah, I could have said “Ramesh Ponnuru is a disingenuous dipshit”, or “Ramesh Ponnuru is a Jesuitical jive-ass” (because he’s Catholic), but I like to keep it classy. My latest bitch-fest regarding Mr. Ponnuru is occasioned by a recent post of his in Bloomberg, Trump Tax Cut Was Neither Bane Nor Boon, which I was…
Anne Applebaum’s analysis of “collaborationism” is theologically incoherent, an offended Ramesh Ponnuru exclaims
Yeah, a lot of people talkin’ ‘bout Heaven ain’t goin’ there, and two of them are Attorney General William Barr and talkin’ if not squawkin’ head Ramesh Ponnuru. A recent article in the Atlantic by Anne Applebaum, “History Will Judge the Complicit”, has been getting a lot of play, and Ramesh, it seems, is a…
Shorter Bill Barr: “Let it be said of me that in Donald Trump’s first administration I released the guilty. And let it be said of me that in Donald Trump’s second administration I jailed the innocent.”
Over at Lawfare, Robert S. Litt, former associate attorney general (under Clinton) and former general counsel for the Director of National Intelligence (under Obama), makes short work of Attorney General William Barr’s thimble and pea sleight of hand that converted Michael Flynn’s arrant lies into airy nothingness on the grounds that they could not be…