Time to Start Gloating
As Intrade continues to put Gov. Scott Walker's chances of winning the Wisconsin recall election this coming Tuesday at better than 95 percent, the Daily Beast has posted a preemptive post-mortem. "The left," reporter Sally Kohn informs us, "has seemed more comfortable being angry than channeling emotion into influence."
I suppose that's one way of putting it. Another? "The left" is merely a euphemism for the public-employee unions, which never had any policy argument on their side at all, instead merely operating a swindle: the state was required by law to deduct union dues from paychecks, the unions then used these dues to purchase political influence, and the Democratic party obliged them by giving them lavish benefits. When Gov. Walker ended the swindle, the unions had nowhere to go--nowhere, that is, except to the usual dreary rhetoric about "the left," "speaking truth to power," and on and on.
The swindle, the old dishonest rhetoric--the whole corrupt racket, operated for so many years by public-employee unions and their friends in the Democratic Party and the mainstream press. In Wisconsin, it's over--it's just over. Soon enough, we'll see about ending the swindle in other states--yes, California comes to mind--but for a few days, let's simply admire what the courage and tenacity of Scott Walker and his fellow Republicans in the legislature have accomplished.
And although you needn't join me--most of you, I know, lack my own lower impulses--as organs such as the Daily Beast wriggle and writhe, coming to grips with the Democrats' defeat, I myself intend...to gloat.
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Re: Time to Start Gloating
Basil Fawlty: Peter, you have imbibed insufficiently of the O'Brian canon:
36 minutes ago
Guilty.
Next time I feel the impulse, I'll smother it.
May '11
Re: Time to Start Gloating
Someone please call Rob McKenna.
or is Washington state (California, jr.) too far gone?
Oct '11
Re: Time to Start Gloating
The progressive project is the transfer of wealth, status, and power from the productive to the persuasive. It has never been anything else. All other excuses for it are lies. Every other rationale, every other flimsy and transparent motivation is fantasy, a product of stunted minds and corrupt morality.
It follows that the only way to deal with progressives is to impoverish them. Take their money, take their status, take their power. Then and only then will we have fewer of them. Don't call it tough love; they deserve no love. It is, however, the most humane thing to do to them, and the only effective treatment.
I gloat.
P.S. Hope Wisconsin GOP has some poll watchers ready for Tuesday, and some lawyers on call. Progressives will steal anything if nobody's watching.
Apr '11
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Barfly:
P.S. Hope Wisconsin GOP has some poll watchers ready for Tuesday, and some lawyers on call. Progressives will steal anything if nobody's watching. · 1 hour ago
The Wisconsin GOP has been putting a ton of effort into this, and has many resources.
Not enough resources. This isn't done yet; Intrade is often wrong when it claims this level of certainty.
The time for gloating is Tuesday night. And you'll feel even better in your gloat if you've turned out a Sconnie vote or two. Earn the smug!
Mar '12
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Don't get cocky
Feb '11
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You may be right, though I'd say that there's at least a good a chance we might win it for the same reason. As an Ohioan, it motivates me to do everything I can to fight the corrupt Union/Democrat bargain which allows a High School janitor to retire on full pay and benefits at age 48. And yes, that guy exists - I know him.
Sep '10
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Barfly: The progressive project is the transfer of wealth, status, and power from the productive to the persuasive. It has never been anything else. All other excuses for it are lies. Every other rationale, every other flimsy and transparent motivation is fantasy, a product of stunted minds and corrupt morality.
It follows that the only way to deal with progressives is to impoverish them. Take their money, take their status, take their power. Then and only then will we have fewer of them. Don't call it tough love; they deserve no love. It is, however, the most humane thing to do to them, and the only effective treatment.
I gloat.
P.S. Hope Wisconsin GOP has some poll watchers ready for Tuesday, and some lawyers on call. Progressives will steal anything if nobody's watching. · 5 hours ago
That first paragraph is one of the best descriptions of the left I have ever read.