In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
Peter Robinson ·
November 27, 2012 at 2:49am
Over the weekend I exchanged a few emails with my friend Glenn Reynolds, known to millions as the utterly inimitable Instapundit. I sounded blue, writing a few words in the vein of the YouTube clip I posted several days ago in which Thomas Sowell said that "we're lost."
Glenn's reply?
Meh. The left will overreach and flame out. Happens every time. It's already starting. Be not afraid.
No righteous indignation. No big speeches about the wellsprings of regeneration. Just "meh."
I love that guy.
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Oct '11
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
You are like a see-saw, my friend.
Sep '10
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
I think its the Rob Long Sanity Distortion Field.
Sep '10
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Pseudodionysius
I think its the Rob Long Sanity Distortion Field. · 0 minutes ago
Pop culture over exposure to Jobs, Long and Shearer (which already sounds like a form of waterboarding) has made dear Peter manic depressive.
Aug '10
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
They'll flame out, sure. But not all fires are renewing. Some are merely destructive.
Sep '10
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Yes, the left will overreach, but by then we will be so overrun with debt that it won't matter which party is in charge.
May '12
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If there is much more overreaching, and I am confident there is, I agree with BlueAnt there won't be anything left worth having after the immolation.
Apr '11
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
Peter Robinson:
Glenn's reply?
The left will overreach? Really? How would you (the "universal you") describe the past four years? I mean, what's it really going to take to turn this ship around? The past four years have been one colossal overreach starting with the ramming of the Affordable Health Care Act down our throats. Predictions of the left just "flaming out" are about as reliable as the predictions of a "Romney landslide". We can't sit back and think that our problems are just going to float away---we have to be smart and we have to have a plan. Right now we don't have either.
Edited on November 27, 2012 at 4:01amSep '12
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Black Prince
Peter Robinson:
Glenn's reply?
The left willoverreach? Really? How would you (the "universal you") describe the past four years? I mean, what's it reallygoing to take to turn this ship around? The past four years have been one colossal overreach starting with the ramming of the Affordable Health Care Act down our throats. Predictions of the left just "flaming out" are about as reliable as those who predicted a "Romney landslide". We can't sit back and think that our problems are just going to float away---we have to be smart and we have to have a plan. Right now we don't have either. · 0 minutes ago
If you are to believe that Mitt Romney lost because of entitlements, then there is no plan to be had other than to "over-overreach" the Democrats. But this will do nothing to advance any culture or ideas that are/were remotely American unless you count socialism as one of ours.
It was fun while it lasted.
Oct '11
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
love that guy!!!!
Jul '12
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
Didn't they overreach 80 years ago and kept congress for40 years
Feb '12
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
Thanks. I needed that. But I still fear the Republicans will underreach.
Jun '10
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
"Meh. The left will overreach and flame out. Happens every time. "
Yea, but that flame out can take quite a while and take quite a toll. Think "The Soviet Union" - "The Cultural Revolution" - Cuba (still a little glimmer left on the end of that cigar)...
Edited on November 27, 2012 at 4:01amJul '12
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
Instapundit is whistling past the graveyard ~ as conservatives often do. Peter, your first reaction was correct. I'm about your age and I see no hope in my useful lifetime. I worry for my teenaged children; even after partially homeschooling, I see what they are told in the public schools. I do not see a happy score or two of years. Perhaps a renaissance will emerge, Phoenix-like, from the ashes of what will follow, but even if so it will be an unpleasant journey.
Sep '12
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
"Meh. The left will overreach and flame out. Happens every time. "
To borrow another Instaquote:
Heh. Indeed.
Dec '11
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
I think 2010 is the model of what happens when the Democrats don't have the cult of personality that Obama brings to the ticket. That's a rabbit they can't pull out of the hat twice.
Mar '12
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
Bad news? Good news? Who knows?
There once was a simple farmer who lived and struggled alongside his neighbors.
Relatives brought a very fine horse, left to the farmer by his father. The villagers and neighbors gathered to celebrate his good fortune, but he just said, "Bad news? Good news? Who knows?"
One day the horse escaped into the hills and when the farmer's neighbors sympathized with the old man over his bad news, the farmer replied, "Bad news? Good news? Who knows?"
A week later the horse returned with a herd of wild horses and this time the neighbors congratulated the farmer on his good news. His reply was, "Good news? Bad news? Who knows?"
When the farmer's son was attempting to tame one of the wild horses, he fell off and broke his leg. Everyone thought this very bad news. The farmer’s only reaction was, "Bad news? Good news? Who knows?"
Weeks later an army marched into the village and conscripted every able-bodied youth they found there. When they saw the farmer's son with his broken leg they let him off. Now was that good news? Bad news? Who knows?
Oct '10
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(ed.- apologies to Black Prince for already making this point)
Really? "Overreach and flame out?" Overreach in WHOSE eyes? Flame out in WHOSE eyes?
If the consequences of Obambi's first 4 years weren't enough of an "overreach" and "flame out" already, weren't enough to thwart his re-election, who, exactly, is going to consider anything else he does, any other harm he and the Dems inflict on America, to be "overreach?" Fact is, what WE call "overreach" and "flaming out" a majority of Americans JUST VOTED FOR MORE OF!!!
Doc Sowell is right. We're toast.
Edited on November 27, 2012 at 4:35amMay '11
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
When I read an article such as Ken Burns' October 18th opinion piece in the Union Leader: Ken Burns: Why I am voting for Barack Obama: http://www.unionleader.com/article/20121019/OPINION02/710199989 I think, am I crazy? Really, does he actually believe all this so wholeheartedly? So simply. And if he does; a very talented individual and a student of history, what does this imply re what many other people believe? And how do you reconcile such differing views?
Mar '11
Re: In Which Instapundit Tells Me to Cheer Up, For Goodness's Sake
I'm not in Glenn Reynolds' class... hell, I'm not fit to polish his boots on matters such as these... but I think he's wrong about this. I think something has changed, seriously, deeply, changed, and we're in a new paradigm now. I think that no matter how much the Democrats fail now, they're basically failure-proof in the eyes of their new majority coalition of minorities, single women, and kids. I think we're in for a very long period of darkness... not unlike the FDR era... where no matter how much the New Dealers screwed things up or made things worse, the public simply never blamed them for it. It was always Hoover's (Bush's) fault, and ole FDR kept it from being worse. I think we have a majority that is so enamored with big government, the 99%, and gay marriage, that they're going to rule for a long, long time.
Nov '11
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Darkness or not, meh or not, each and all of us has a set of non-negotiable core principles to which we hold ourselves...We can and will hold and model them "shining like lights in the world", as Someone said. I'll hold my candle aloft each day, every day for as long as I can...