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Quote (and Thought) of the Day, WSJ edition.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 31st, 2010 at 08:30 PM  | 

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The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page despises the current leadership of the Democratic party as only a group of people with an iconic link to free-market capitalism can be, and said despising shines through every word of this piece sneering at the ‘accomplishments’ of the 111th Congress. Scare quotes deliberate: the WSJ opines (and I agree) that the Democrats are guessing and gambling that they can get their hideously unpopular agenda functional for long enough that people will simply start treating it as part of the landscape.  I think that that is wishful thinking on the Democrats’ part, and so does the WSJ:

The difference between the work of the 111th Congress and that of either the Great Society or New Deal is that the latter were bipartisan and in the main popular. This Congress’s handiwork is profoundly unpopular and should become more so as its effects become manifest. In 2010, Americans saw liberalism in the raw and rejected it. The challenge for Republicans is to repair the damage before it becomes permanent.

So get your game faces on. 2011 is going to make 2009 look like the first Woodstock.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: This is rapidly becoming the point where people start producing comments of their own about how it’s all useless because the Republicans won’t fight / the two parties are just the same / we’re all doomed.  If you truly believe the first: get off of the computer and hie yourself down to your local Republican party group and fix it*.  If you truly believe the second: I’m sorry, but you’re not even wrong.  And if you truly believe the third… well, I’m a blogger, not a trained mental health professional / member of any organized clergy.  Casting off this shroud of despair that you’ve saddled yourself with is something that you’ll simply have to handle on your own.

*I didn’t ask you what your excuse for not doing that was.

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  • luvnthebigsites

    Don’t let the pessimistic posts get ya down… Just part of the fun of open threads… and sadly, I can only see it getting worse.

    Its not that the Republicans wont fight for the people (or even few Democrats) the problem is they are getting their news (still) from the Old circle jerk DC media. Not from “US”. To make them listen we must do more than just vote, We must remove and replace the old media. When they are all gone the curtain will be pulled back to find out who OZ really is.

    How you ask? One post at a time that’s how. ;)

    Happy new year all, God bless and stay safe out there.

  • pantera

    the republican party had to pacify their liberal 40% wing and thats why they became little democrats….

    but the rhino club has been cut in half and the rest are on the defensive….

    the wheat and tares are being separated and the fence sitters are being made to pick a side…

  • libertyatstake

    Actually, I’m thinking 2010 = 1773, and that’s all good. :)

    http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
    “Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”

  • joecollins

    Looking forward to the new year.

  • 1stRichard

    Any conservative that knows the slightest bit of history should be horrified at the sight of Populism, this Egalitarianism could be one of the most destructive forces in the history of politics. If people become accustomed to a new policy, it becomes popular. Thanks in most part for the Tea Party making this past Congress unpopular but there was a careful balance not to make all Republicans popular. On the Left, they kept preaching the plight between proletariat and bourgeoisie to gain popularity and fortunately, in part to American exceptionalism this issue was partly negated. Yes, we do need to keep the newly elected in check but we must not forget our fight against Populism. The Great Society and the New Deal was Populism, so was Stalin, Hitler and Mao, and this is a fight we must never forget. Short of public flogging or tar and feathers, I think we need a way to expedite those that step out of line back in line. Disparity is part of the problem and adding part time nanny, a new battlefront is a problem as well. Furthermore, these fights are intertwined, what motivates most professional politicians is Populism. Not to make excuses, I only have time for one battlefront so what is more important?

  • jacksonandy78

    Happy New Year Hedge Fund Managers and enjoy your $2.3 Million/ Week IN OBAMA TAX CUTS.

  • mikestephens

    You are right Moe and right above this is why. Obama didn’t cut any taxes. The socialist progressive’s game has been found and a bright light is being shined on the perpetrators. It will be held on them until they are voted out. Speak out all of you, America needs freedom, not government and We The People are still the majority.

  • jacksonandy78

    Trace the money and it leads to the Deep Pockets on Wall Street that have Bought and run Washington.

    Average of $10 Million every for year to buy the votes of each Senator.

    CBS Reported $10 Billion by the Finance Industries were paid to politicians over the last ten years. The People’s voice is blocked by this flood of campaign Cash.

    opensecrets.org

  • anjinconsulting

    Is to identify key sponsors, post them and then boycott their products.

    At the same time, we need to be aware of revisionist history. People often believe what they read in the MSM (and Wikipedia) becasue they have never been taught otherwise; others simply dont care or are too lazy to do some simple reasearch. The summary paragraph in the WSJ article that you cited is a good example. Call a spade a spade when you see it.

  • johnt

    As can an expressed and complete contempt for the people of a nation, the ugly lust for control over others, an anti-social insanity, and of course, stupidity.
    Talk about a witches brew !

  • pastisprolog

    Isn’t it at last time to stop calling them liberal? There is nothing liberal about progressivism. Liberalism is individualistic, enables the exercise of free will, protects private property and is rooted in Scripture. In other words, liberalism is the home of individual liberty and is the political expression of free will.

    Progressivism is another form of collectivism along with facism, socialism and communism. It inhibits individual liberty and seeks to eliminate private property in any meaningful sense. Progressivism works to replace representative government with the bureaucratic state. Where liberal government requires a moral and upright people who depend upon God, progressive government pushes faith aside and replaces it with dependence on government.

    Progressivism needs to destroy individual liberty and is therefore the enemy of liberalism. Progressives aren’t liberals anymore.

  • seestraight

    is the term the leftists co-opted when they grew tired of pinko, commie, fascist, radical, and socialist. Now that most relate liberal to those ideals the left have changed the term again. Progressive will soon be a dirty word too as thinking people use it to describe the political left.

    Another example is “Global Climate Change” for AGW and global warming. It is still nothing more than a taxing scheme to fund the progressives agenda of domination.