I won’t count the ways I’ve abused “thoughtful” right-winger Ramesh Ponnoru, because if I did I’d be up all night, but today I come to praise Ramesh, not to bury him. Ramesh has generally been a “on the one hand, on the other” guy when it comes to be the Trump impeachment, but it appears…
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Want to take your eye OFF the ball? Eli Lake, Ross Douthat, and Ramesh Ponnuru can help!
Did you know that Nikki Haley’s defense of Donald Trump contains a significant logical contradiction? Did you know that there are good reasons for rejecting the impeachment of Donald Trump, but these same reasons also argue against his reelection? Did you know that Donald Trump’s and Barack Obama’s policies towards Ukraine, while different from one…
Is Ramesh Ponnuru afraid of a baseball bat? [Short answer: YES!]
In what was once one of the most shocking scenes in American cinema, in Brian De Palma’s 1987 gangster flick The Untouchables, über mobster Al Capone beats three treacherous lieutenants to death with a baseball bat. Ever since, baseball bats have had a way of turning up in the hands of über mobsters like Tony…
Short takes
Donald Trump not a nice person, Megan McArdle discovers Well, he isn’t. As Megan explains, following the announcement by Texas Republican Representative Will Hurd, the sole black Republican in the House, that he is retiring: All of which [Hurd’s intelligence, honesty, and decency] makes Hurd’s impending departure the perfect symbol of what has happened to…
Ponnuru doubles to left
Or right. Or center. Whatever. Supply your own metaphor. While others seem too polite to speak, my sometime pal Ramesh lays the wood to Judy Shelton, one of President Trump’s two new picks for the Federal Reserve, to wit: “Trump’s choice for the Fed Board is now disavowing some of her terrible economic ideas. It’s…
Just because I don’t loudly s*ck the president’s c*ck every day doesn’t make me a traitor, loudly exclaims an aggrieved Ramesh Ponnuru
My apologies to those who, like me, prefer their vulgarly sexual terms of abuse unasterisked and unexpurgated, but you never know whose algorithm you’re going to trigger these days. Anyway, to the point: Right-winger Ramesh Ponnuru, whom I last blasted for gratuitously taking sides with Donald Trump against U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts with regard…
Shorter Ramesh Ponnuru: “We don’t need no lousy, stinkin’ Independent Judiciary!”
Yes, I may have condensed (slightly) Mr. Ponnuru’s sentiments, so let me provide some backstory. A few days back, as Politico’s Matthew Choi reports, a federal district court judge in California, Judge Jon Tigar, ruled against President Trump in an immigration case, causing the president, unsurprisingly, to bellow in rage, claiming that Tigar ruled the…
Political notes from all over
Maxine Waters is 1/536th as obnoxious as Donald Trump, Republicans admit Well, they would if they had any honor, which of course they don’t. Yes, Maxine has an affection for conspiracy theories, and, furthermore, she is a black chick who doesn’t act white, which in conservative circles is an unforgivable sin. Yo, Maxine! Get a…
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along.
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!…
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…