Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Here's why y'all's posts always break clean into 5 parts

Idiotia politica est divisa in partes quinque.
An antidote to Andy McCarthy's hysterical conspiracism.
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5 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Not a bad article, though the theme of the conspiratorial or paranoid style in politics is well worn. At any rate, I still don't understand your new-found animus against Andy McCarthy. What exactly did he write to raise your hackles against him? I lost track. Anything in your thinking re McCarthy different than, to take a random example, Andy Sullivan would have?

3/09/2010 8:15 AM
Mr roT said...

OK, Sullivan is completely crazy in the suspicions confirmed mold. No, McCarthy is not there yet.

Still, the idea that this healthcare thing is an irreversible catastrophe and the panic attack he logs in fervent page after page is pretty OTT.

I agree that it is dumb policy and a waste of money. I would go further and say that its running for a few decades would change the character of the relationship between citizen and state and all that.

I also have lived in lots of countries that have it and it's not that goddamned bad. If it were, then Americans would find an alternative or fix what's wrong, like people do here.

I think we have a real un-American president and that is a first. Carter was an idiot that did a lot of harm, but he didn't actually wish to wreck the USA out of hatred or even a lack of reverence.

I bring up the lack of reverence for the institutions and temples thinking of course of Clinton's bjs in the Oval Office and now Obama's hosting a thug in the situation room.

Perhaps at some point we will wash that shit off our sleeves...

3/09/2010 8:28 AM
Mr roT said...

The article has more varieties than just the paranoid style.

3/09/2010 8:28 AM
Tecumseh said...

Herr Rot, Herr Rot. You think a socialist-style health care system in America can work -- well, at even 25% of what we have now and <200% the cost? I don't think so. I think it would be much worse much faster than just about anything in Europe right now -- probably at the UK level, which is real bad, let me tell ya. The Euros have had over 60 years to tinker with their Nanny State, freeloading under the American defense umbrella, and taking a whole bunch of technology (and medicines, etc) developed here (on our dime) at a fraction of the cost. If and when the US system of health care is dismantled and replaced with a Chavez-style pinko nirvana, we'll all be in a much deeper doo doo than your nonchalant, puzo-laden attitude predicts.

3/09/2010 3:02 PM
Mr roT said...

First point: How many different styles did you hit?
Powww!! OK, that was maybe unfair.

About your message now. As Bucky would say, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I think these doomsayers are overdoing it.

I think the Reps could reverse this nonsense in the future and it could even be the case that the Dems would. They are not all on board here, as Jay Cost put it. Did you read this piece?

3/09/2010 3:19 PM

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