"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
…but healthy ones, finally
Believe it or don’t [heh]. In today’s Chicago Sun-Times, dted-in-the-wool leftist Mark Brown asks fellow lefties the tortured question, “Was Bush right?” He closes the article with
If it turns out Bush was right all along, this is going to require some serious penance.
Maybe I’d have to vote Republican in 2008.
Maybe? Hedging his bets all the way, but finally asking some serious questions. Just read the whole thing.
(h.t. Drudge)
John Podhoretz zings the Jean Fraud sKerrys of the so-called “Democratic” Party
… the junior Eeyore from Massachusetts, John Forbes Kerry, who had the distinct misfortune of being booked onto “Meet the Press” yesterday only 90 minutes after the polls closed in Iraq — and couldn’t think of a thing to say that didn’t sound negative.
“No one in the United States should try to overhype this election,” said the man who actually came within 3 million votes of becoming the leader of the Free World back in November.
No? How about “underhyping”? How about belittling it? How about acting as though it doesn’t matter all that much? That’s what Kerry did, and in so doing, revealed yet again that he has the emotional intelligence of a pet rock and the political judgment of a . . . well, of a John Kerry.
Just read the whole thing.
Life According to Frank J
Frank J, proprietor of IMAO, has another one of his, ummm, pieces of fiction up on life in the Bush administration. A sample:
The phone rang at her desk. “What?” Condi demanded.
“It’s your auto mechanic, Dr. Rice. It’s going to take longer to get out those dents than I thought. What exactly did you hit?”
“A California Senator. What of it?”
“Well, there’s dents in the front and back…”
“And there is a little thing called the reverse gear. Now get it done!”
[heh]
More at the link. Go thou and read.