Andrew Breitbart was another in a long line of cigar-chomping bad boys, starting, I guess, with William F. Buckley, Jr., and including such dubious characters as Newt Gingrich, Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., P.J. O’Rourke, and Rush Limbaugh,* propelled into political combat by the pomposity, sanctimony, hypocrisy, and incompetence of the Liberal Imagination, still reigning in many…
Tag: Republican idiots
Larry Lindsey, looking for work?
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Lawrence Lindsey, briefly director of the National Economic Council under George Bush, goes ballistic on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner for saying that wealthy Americans should be willing to pay higher taxes for the “privilege of being an American.” According to Larry, “Mr. Geithner’s argument highlights an unfortunate and very…
David Brooks, getting all meshugana because no one will save his fat ass
Over at the NYT, David Brooks gives forth with this primal scream of primal hypocrisy, suddenly noticing that the forces of modern conservatism, which he has aided and abetted for the past twenty years to great personal profit, constitute little more than a mob of know-nothing gangstas. Here’s Dave’s thumbnail of how we got to…
A fence to keep the bad guys out, and the cute boys in
The headline in the Phoenix New Times says it all, or at least most of it: “Paul Babeu’s Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff’s Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation.” Yes, Paul Bebeu, an Arizona sheriff who’s running for Congress as a Republican in Arizona’s Fourth District and who, until recently, was Arizona co-chair of Mitt Romney’s presidential…
Michael Barone looks at Metro, finds lugubrious morals therein
Over at the National Review, Michael Barone takes a look at Washington, DC’s subway system, or “Metro,” and doesn’t much care for what he sees. “Believers in central planning should take a look at Washington, D.C.’s Metro rail-transit system. While they will find many things to like, they will also see examples of how central…
Rick Santorum, God’s gift to pundits
Thank God for Rick Santorum! Just when the punditocracy was reduced to writing articles about pundits writing articles about pundits so desperate for something to write about that they will pretend that someone other than Borin’ George Romney* could win the Republican nomination, the two-term, lost by 18 points the second time around former Senator…
The agonies of Bill Kristol: très amusant!
Does Bill Kristol enjoy making me laugh? That’s the most likely explanation of his most recent effusion, “Why February could matter,” examining the supposed likelihood of Rich “Rich the Sweater” Santorum plucking the “Anyone but Romney” banner from the trembling, arthritic hands of Newt Gingrich and racing to victory at the Republican Convention in Tampa…
If you work for AEI, you may be a redneck
Or maybe just a racist. Charles “I’m not a racist” Murray is back at it, with a hot new book about how those damn hippies ruined everything back in the Sixties, turning us all into muesli-munching, boutique beer-swilling brats and generally sending the whole damn country straight on the road to perdition. The white folks,…
Newt goes down: the party’s over
I guess I’m not really ahead of the crowd on this one: the odds are very good that Mitt Romney will squash Newt Gingrich tomorrow like a thrice-married June bug. It gets worse: Despite all his bravado—and, surely, despite all his anger at being outspent by a margin of more than five to one—Newt will…
Mitch Daniels, Man of Steel
Is there anything more pathetic than a liberal like myself, who sees “his” President, Barack Obama, as the tool of both Wall Street and the CIA? Well, apparently there is, the fate of big-city conservatives like Ross Douthat and Bill Kristol, who are wetting their collective worsteds over the prospect of either Newt or Mitt…