A Must Read Post from Tapscott
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I've been so tied up today, I've barely had time to breath or post my Paultard hit. I have to thank Rush Limbaugh for pointing out this excellent post from Mark Tapscott, which Mark kindly emailed this morning and the necessities of the day made me skip.
With a few moments of respite, here are the highlights.
Gallup's latest survey turns up extensive evidence of deep public disgust with the performance of the Democratic majority in Congress. On six major issues, Gallup found solid majorities either disappointed or angry with the performance of the Democrats.
Poor Democrats. They just can't catch a break. The left, of course, would have us believe that if the Democrats just cut off war funding, their popularity would skyrocket. But that just isn't the case. So what about the GOP?
But before Republicans get too happy about seeing the Democrats abysmal failure, I suggest the root of these numbers isn't simply a dissatisfaction with policy failures, but rather an indication of a deeper disappointment borne of the widespread failure of Big Government.
We have created a federal Leviathan that promises to deliver something for everybody, with its regulations and taxation directing virtually every corner of daily life. There is no way any government can do that, so failures are inevitable. But over a period of time, as the failures in particular arenas multiply, there comes a point when the many specific failures merge into one general mood of dissatisfaction.
This points to what Mark has been saying for a while now -- we need to cut the federal government. It probably isn't going to collapse under its own weight without taking down the whole nation.
If the GOP in Congress wasn't so spineless and still suffering from YoungStevensDoolittleLewis disease, it might have a good message on this. But until it purges itself (don't ever accuse the GOP of being bulimic. They binge, but never purge), it will have exactly zero credibility.
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...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
---Thomas Paine---
that we're not going to elect anyone to reduce the federal government. Oh well, I'll teach my children to find edible roots and hope they do well after the collapse.
and I immediately went to find the full article.
Count me as one who says a pox on both their houses. But a bigger pox (er, hammer) on the Dems, please. I favor the lesser of 2 evils.
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Mel Brooks at his best - one of the funniest movies ever...
... and sadly, it could never be made today. I mean, the "Nobody moves, or the (------) gets it!" scene alone would cause protests the size of Rhode Island.
I'll stop threadjacking now.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
It's really not objectionable -- it uses a word of questionable taste, but that's about it. There's no way to look at that scene and possibly interpret it as anti-black.
Now, Lou Reed's wonderfully amusing song "I Wanna Be Black", which takes the worst stereotypes of the 1970s black male and embraces them -- that could never be made today.
I just remember almost wetting myself the first time I saw that scene - it was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen and I don't even think it's the funniest scene in the movie.
The whole movie is about as un-PC as you can get, though.
OK, now I'll stop threadjacking.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
I predict this to be their theme for the '08 election:
"If only those Republicans would just get out of the way and let us pass our bills, the American people would approve. This is why we need to elect MORE Democrats in 2008, with a Democrat president too. Then we can REALLY get things done!"
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