Lucid Links and Bombastic Blather (030109)
Noteworthy Net-Worthies:
From the New York Times’s Ideas Blog — “The Tea Party (Again) as Political Protest,” in which Tom Kuntz or someone else on the NYT’s Week in Review team risks their career by linking to WorldNetDaily.
Gawker — “Obama’s Chief Vetter Has His Own Tax Problem.” Zheesh. Update, March 2: Stephen Cohen tells TaxProf that it isn’t so.
Cultural Barometer? “California Teen Wins Praise — and Thousands of Hate Messages” (and other forms of harassment) for starting up NoCussing.com.
Bob Krumm (HT Instapundit) — “Democrats Own the Deficit.” Well of course. They’ve owned the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy since June.
Patrick Poole at PJM — “Was CPAC an Epic Fail?” His answer is “yes.”
Slight Counterpoint at Hot Air — “Limbaugh Brings Down the House at CPAC.”
CPAC riposte — You know who this helps (”Romney wins CPAC straw poll”)? Democrats. Nationalized health care advocates. Proaborts. And those searching for a viable third-party.
Christian Brose at ForeignPolicy.com — “Obama’s Iraq speech: Brought to you by George W. Bush”
Churlish Children of the Tubes:
Doug Stone at the bankrupt Minneapolis Star-Tribune — “I would not use (Rick) Santelli as a role model for my journalism students.” Oh yeah, your fave journalists neeeeever express a strident opinion or slant a story.
Michael Hiltzik at the LA Times (”Obama recovery plan stimulates whining”) is worse, and can’t count — “staged an extended rant from a Chicago commodities pit about the injustice of helping people in distress, especially while there are still a few people around who aren’t in distress.” The vast majority in this country is not in (financial) distress.
Maureen Dowd’s BDS has not gone into remission.
Someone needs to tell Hiltzik that the problem is not that of helping people in distress, it’s in the fact of government forcing others to help people in distress. It’s not the governments job to play Superman and/or force others to do so. Not to mention how so many of those in distress put themselves in that state, which is what the crux of Santelli’s “rant” was about. If I want to help someone, it’ll be because I want to, not because a proverbial gun has been put to my head.
If Hiltzik and Obama want to play savior and solve everybodys problems, let them do it with money from their own pocket. Leave the rest of us alone.
Comment by zf — March 1, 2009 @ 12:41 pm