A brief glossary of BN-isms
As evidenced by some new participants in the comment threads, readership is up here at BN. Welcome, everybody.
To facilitate your orientation to the BN view, herewith are definitions for some terms we’ve coined over the years:
TCM – Barack Obama. The Chicago Marxist. Also sometimes known as The Aquarian Totalitarian, or The Most Equal Comrade.
FHers - Freedom-Haters. By far the largest faction within the Democratic party. Their natural inclination in considering any issue is to curtail individual liberty and expand the scope of the state.
Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome - the illusion suffered by way too many Republicans that beyond the differences in core philospophy, FHers are just nice, reasonable folks and that there are many areas in which one can work with them in a bipartisam fashion. John McCain is the ultimate Reasonable Gentleman, and that’s why he got his clock cleaned in 08.
Sip their tea and munch their cookies, but give ‘em both barrels
It’s probably safe to eat their little niblets. They wouldn’t be so brazen as to off you in the foyer of the Cannon Building. But just remember what their endgame is. In the chilling words of San Fran Nan:
“Kick open that door, and there will be other legislation to follow,” she said. “We’ll take the country in a new direction.”
What started with the FHers’ attempt to make us think a few particular problems with the cost of health care necessitated a socialist transformation is now a Constitutional crisis
If the Slaughter solution, which is unconstitutional, is the means used to pass FHer-care, it’s not really law and something we have to comply with, is it?
As Hayek said, the worst will wind up on top
Ed Fuelner at Townhall says that the government’s zeal to respond with regulation to any financial crisis proves that Congress does two things well: 1.) nothing, and 2.) overreact. He points out that Sarbanes-Oxley, enacted in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom collapses, wound up costing, like all government programs (think Medicare and Social Security) vastly more than originally envisioned, and harmed smaller businesses’ access to credit. We’re about to do the same thing with Chris Dodd’s panel or council or whatever that will sit in judgement of investment banks that don’t meet government standards of performance. Just who is going to sit on these panels? The reason I ask is that the FHer record for choosing people to fill such seats of wisdom is not encouraging. Think Andy Stern and deficit reduction.
03.15.10
Paul Ryan hurls a thunderbolt
Beyond fabulous. Is it too early to start a support group advocating him for the oval office?
So what do they reflect? The will of the pomegranates?
TCM says never mind polls, do the will of the people.
Not wise to pile on after the apology
John Podhoretz at Commentary has the best take I’ve seen on the current juncture in the Biden trip-settlement-building announcement-Biden-condemnation-Netanyahu apology for the timing-Hillary screaming into the phone unfolding of events.
The timing of this was badly handled by Israel’s coalition government. Surely the responsible party sees in hindsight that it makes going ahead with the construction – which will happen and is a good thing, since we’re talking about an area inside Jerusalem – all the more fraught with US FHer histrionics.
And Roger Simon at Pajamas Media weighs in with the full set of factors that could make American Jews rethink – in the near future and big-time – their decades-long fealty to the Democrat party.
What the hell do student loans have to do with health care?
Nothing, unless you’re a desperate, frantic totalitarian socialist America-hater.
We could be doing this instead of handing our country over to tyrants
Rep. Paul Ryan R-WI in the Washington Post on what actual health care reform would look like, with a link to his Road Map website.
You wind up working for evil
In a supremely important WSJ column, Debra Burlingame and Thomas Joscelyn look squarely at the moral rot that inevitably ensues when American attorneys defend Gitmo-detained enemies.
03.14.10
They couldn’t be this evil, could they?
Would the Freedom-Haters really use the Slaughter Rule?
We’re in what’s known as a Constitutional crisis.
The numbers come out the way they do for a reason
Jack Cashill at The American Thinker offers a thought-provoking take on why the financial meltdown occurred. His opening line:
“Had the culture celebrated marriage and the government rewarded it, there would have been no subprime crisis, and all other tax-eating pathologies would have been contained.”
Why electing Scott Brown to the Senate was a great thing to do
. . . and why the state-run Associated Press is worthless as a sources for actual news.
03.13.10
As we approach the endgame for socialist health care . . .
. . . Chris Van Hollen and Louise Slaughter are vying for he status of most evil and Constitution-shredding Freedom-Hater of all.
03.12.10
The blade that finally severs the last human-being Dems from the Freedom-Haters . . .
. . . may be the issue of whether one is cool with the extermination of fetal Americans.
