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Quote of the Day: Farewell, TWS
In honor of the departed Weekly Standard, I wanted to share a favorite quote from one of their finest writers, Matt Labash. He wrote this during the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary.
“As one who was never terribly enamored of Hillary Clinton’s personality to start with, I grudgingly admit to enjoying her recent near-tears transformation. Plenty of critics concede her rarely seen emotion was heartfelt, but also that it was due to the 20-hour-day rigors of the campaign trail, making her perhaps the only candidate ever to win the New Hampshire primary because she needed a nap. Still, it was refreshing to watch her punch through the icy crust of her own phoniness, so that the molten core of artificiality could gush forth.”
Every magazine of any persuasion should be in a bidding war for his prose.
Published in General
Yep.
That is absolutely true that the House had not yet voted on impeachment, however it was clearly going to happen with all of the Democrats and about 30% of Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee had voted for the three counts for impeachment. (Note: there were a couple of counts that did not pass the committee, relating to Cambodia and tax evasion). This is why House Minority Leader (and my former Congressman!) John Rhodes joined Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott and Barry Goldwater in the delegation.
Yes. You are right.
This is the point now isn’t it: it was going to happen. But it didn’t.
Correct. Nixon was not impeached by the House.
Thank you, Gary.
That’s the trouble with all presidents.
I think Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan might done something about spending, but the country said “NO!” to electing them. Besides an Ann Coulter-endorsed President Romney would have had to worry about Paul Ryan scheming with Luis Gutiérrez and the cheap labor lobbies to flood the country with more immigration, so I doubt the unemployment rate for black and Hispanic Americans would not have hit a record low as under a President Trump.
George H. W. Bush ruined conservative trust in politicians for a generation or two by breaking his “read my lips pledge” — something not even Reagan did. If he wanted to try to be more fiscally responsible, then he should not have made the planning to make such a pledge essentially as a way to defeat Bob Dole and Pat Robertson in the New Hampshire primary after receiving less than 20% of the caucus vote in Iowa. Perhaps President George H. W. Bush could have been more fiscally responsible without his pledge, but maybe he would not have been elected without it. Art Laffer says that President Reagan essentially begged him to endorse Bush even though he was ideologically closer to Jack Kemp and Pete DuPont.
About 15 years layer, President George W. Bush tried to introduce some privatization into social security, but he was abandoned by his own Republican-controlled Party. The conservatives yelling for Congress to have more control over the federal government should remember this and the fact that Nancy Pelosi now controls the House of Representatives by a healthy margin.
No one is going to dispute @thecloakedgaijin ‘s comment and then it will be forgotten.
Our minds are filled with bogus idealism about “conservatism”.
Trump isn’t “nice.”
Nassim Taleb
Since 1980, haven’t the “conservatives” had enough power to improve this? What is going on?
#MAGA
I just heard something about this.
They wrote the “scope memo” after the investigation started. They won’t show it to anyone.
Republicans that hate Trump are fine with it.
Why shouldn’t Trump declassify all of it?
If you subscribed to the Weekly Standard, it is easy to get a refund. I just did. First, I called 1-800-274-7293. There was a prompt (#1) for subscribers of the Weekly Standard. The first person did not help me but put me on hold and transferred me to the main number. I was persistent and again entered the prompt (#1) for subscribers of the Weekly Standard. The second person tried to talk me into transferring my subscription to the Weekly Examiner. I declined, as the Weekly Examiner refused to allow the Weekly Standard to be bought by a third party but are seeking to harvest its subscriber base.
Just hold firm and demand your refund. You should have a copy of your Weekly Standard with you to be able to give them your customer number on your mailing label. Here is the confirming email that I just received.
“Dear Gary,
“This email message is confirmation that your subscription to Washington Examiner has been canceled.
“A refund check in the amount of $36.75 is in the process of being generated and mailed to you.
“Your credit card will be refunded for $119.00.
“Sincerely,
“The Weekly Standard
“E-mail: CustomerService@WeeklyStandard.net
“Phone: 800-274-7293”
The cashed my sub check three weeks ago!!
How will this net out for Anschutz?
I heard it as “sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”
I think as a net loss. I would be willing to check out the Weekly Examiner, if he allows the Weekly Standard to be sold. If not, no.
Net worth down. Check.
You get a refund check and a credit card refund? Ahoy!
Have you considered that there may not be any buyers?
How many of those magazines aren’t organized as nonprofits?
According to the Commentary Podcast today, there were a couple of buyers already. DC Media refused to allow the sale.
Kristol messed up by not turning it into a non-profit. Or not. So Anchutz gets to cannibalize it.
I’m pretty sure the daily signal is still under the thumb of Peter Singer. One guy.
Commentary is a nonprofit. Podhoretz has flat out said fund raising sucks.