It may no longer instruct (p. 68), but the liberal mind
continues to amaze. Just in one sitting I come across two splendid
examples, both intended to defend our president against his alleged
enemies, none of them foreign, all of them domestic. In the first,
the columnist Ms. Maureen Dowd heaps scorn on Justice Antonin
Scalia yet has the cheek to call him "venomous." Justice
Anthony Kennedy, as the "swing vote" on Obamacare, gets off easier.
Suddenly Dowd turns silly, asking "Could the dream of expanded
health care die at the hands of a Kennedy?" Teddy must be sitting
up in his grave.
In the second example, the New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert, in the weekly's lead editorial, goes after Republicans who say Mr. Obama's energy policy is the product of radical ideology and responsible for our nation's rising gasoline prices. That's all "hokum," she notes, as if "the President could, if he wanted to, reduce the price of oil." But she doesn't stop there, expressing joy instead that he doesn't want to. "When it comes to gas prices, it's been clear for, well, let's just say forever that the cost of gasoline in America is actually too low. Cheap gas generates sprawl and traffic. It discourages the use of mass transit…" Before you know it, it causes global warming. So what's one American's radical ideology is another's "rational policy option," as she terms it.
At least with Ms. Kolbert, we know where she stands. She simply wants to overturn the American way of life.
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/05/01/the-choice-is-ours
In the second example, the New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert, in the weekly's lead editorial, goes after Republicans who say Mr. Obama's energy policy is the product of radical ideology and responsible for our nation's rising gasoline prices. That's all "hokum," she notes, as if "the President could, if he wanted to, reduce the price of oil." But she doesn't stop there, expressing joy instead that he doesn't want to. "When it comes to gas prices, it's been clear for, well, let's just say forever that the cost of gasoline in America is actually too low. Cheap gas generates sprawl and traffic. It discourages the use of mass transit…" Before you know it, it causes global warming. So what's one American's radical ideology is another's "rational policy option," as she terms it.
At least with Ms. Kolbert, we know where she stands. She simply wants to overturn the American way of life.
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/05/01/the-choice-is-ours
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