What was the last "big one" that secular, small-government, constitutionalist
conservatives won under the GWB administration?
Instapundit, whose politics I almost respect, answered sardonically: "If you give me a week, I might think of something."
However, that exchange isn't what I found noteworthy. Rather it was this update that Daily Pundit posted in response to Instapundit:
UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! More here.
Apparently, by "more", Daily Pundit meant "come read an advertisement for ammo, and give me money." I don't have anything against making money blogging. But, do you have to be so libertarian about it; and -- for crying out loud -- trick a flood of potential new readers? Don't make me suggest a correlation with this attitude, and the strength of the Libertarian party's overall support.
My opinion of whether the deal was a victory for Democrats has increased
somewhat after looking over the rather astounding reaction from Republican blogs
and netroots.
Bowers than cites numerous reactions from GOP blogs ranging from to the pretty boys at Powerline, to the incontinents at Free Republic. Them darn freepers; they must be angels disguised as really stupid rednecks as a way for god to test our compacity for compassion! God is beautiful -- and the shining beauty of the freeper is worth citing in this instance:
"We in the grassroots worked our tails off for this majority and
McCain et al., have betrayed us, our president and his future Supreme Court
nominees." "Not another frigging dime or a minute of my time, I stay home in 06' or vote
libertarian. Unfreakin believable."
"The Dems will likely gain in Congress in 2006 because of this kind of cowardice.
What's the matter with you folks in Arizona????? Is McCain the best you can do??
"I just left the GoP. I'm done with them. Cowards."
The funny thing is that all the democrats got was the filibuster -- which I consider a essential safeguard to guarding the rights of a (SLIM) minority. Of course, these fascist bozos haven't read their Madison, so they'd never know why protecting the rights of the minority is important to the health of our Republic.
"It takes...a mind debauched by learning to carry the process of making the natural seem strange, so far as to ask for the why of any instinctive human act. To the metaphysician alone can such questions occur as: Why do we smile, when pleased, and not scowl? Why are we unable to talk to a crowd as we talk to a single friend? Why does a particular maiden turn our wits so upside-down? The common man can only say, Of course we smile, of course our heart palpitates at the sight of the crowd, of course we love the maiden, that beautiful soul clad in that perfect form, so palpably and flagrantly made for all eternity to be loved!
And so, probably, does each animal feel about the particular things it tends to do in the presence of particular objects. ... To the lion it is the lioness which is made to be loved; to the bear, the she-bear. To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not the utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.
I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together.
I choose this day for my departure because I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity with oppressed populations everywhere -- reciting all the ways Iraq's democratic experiment might yet implode.
…Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom…
I completely agree with Thompson. I’m fed up with a large portion of these American "leftists" myself. The quicker true progressives* can seperate themselves from them, the better.
*I'll make an effort to define "true progressive" later.
In addition, this blog's feed is more than worthy of your RSS reader's exclusive tastes. If increasing your readership interests you at all, put this feed [XML/RSS] in your RSS reader. You'll thank me later.
I never completed this blogs redesign. Thus, I think the time has come to finish what I started. I'm feeling too lazy to do the redesign on another file, so excuse the sudden changes in color, size, and other weirdness.
Reader, go ahead and file this post under, "who gives a rat's ass". That said, if you must stick around, I recommend checking out this blog's new InfoJungle newswire: http://nicklewis.smartcampaigns.com/latestitems It is far more interested in my own delusional ramblings.
Everyday, I spend about two hours or so filtering through thousands of items from hundreds of sources on my RSS reader. One blog, in particular, has been catching my eye on a daily basis: Darren Rowse's ProBlogger. Â
Darren describes ProBlogger as a site "dedicated to helping other bloggers learn the skills, share their own experiences and promote the blogging medium."
If ProBlogger isn't in your RSS reader yet, than get this feed[xml/rss] entered into right now. If you've never visited ProBlogger, than repeat after me:
