Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Two Great Points

Gary Gross has the well-deserved smackdown that T-Paw delivers to DFL "leaders" Larry Pogemiller and Margaret Anderson Kelliher, as the governor declines to attend a "Minnesota Leadership Summit" that they were attempting to gin up:

The state already has an annual “Minnesota Leadership Summit.” It’s called the legislative session and it lasts approximately five months. This past year, rather than taking timely and decisive action to deal with our budget deficit, the Legislature’s DFL leadership wasted the first few months of the session. Passage of your final budget bills in the last few minutes before midnight on the final day of the session was indicative of how you managed the situation.

That's going to leave a mark.

Meanwhile, the idiosyncratic and highly valuable Camille Paglia, who supported Obama and still seems to want to, makes another great point, even though she seems to want to avoid the obvious conclusion:

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" -- a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

But somehow liberals have drifted into a strange servility toward big government, which they revere as a godlike foster father-mother who can dispense all bounty and magically heal all ills. The ethical collapse of the left was nowhere more evident than in the near total silence of liberal media and Web sites at the Obama administration's outrageous solicitation to private citizens to report unacceptable "casual conversations" to the White House. If Republicans had done this, there would have been an angry explosion by Democrats from coast to coast. I was stunned at the failure of liberals to see the blatant totalitarianism in this incident, which the president should have immediately denounced. His failure to do so implicates him in it.


Implicates, you say? Keep thinking, Camille. You're getting very close to the truth, even if you'd rather not acknowledge it yet.

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