Here comes vomit time.

Three different ‘scandals’ sucking up the oxygen in the political room. My throat is tightening, my head is bobbing and my face is turning green. Can I say I don’t appear like this normally? I wonder who it is making it so darn difficult to breathe . .

Warning to reporters and sources: Assume all your communications are being monitored. Time to move back to the parking garage #longhotsummer

— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) May 13, 2013

. . and it’s people like this. Matt Drudge. He’s the Walter Cronkite of conservative news, only with a thousand times more honest points. You earn those for service without palpable facts, accuracy, character or courage. And when he tells you that the government is targeting him and Jim Hoft . .

. . though he doesn’t know what a phone tap is, you can be sure he’s got the essential story right. He’s got the meaning of it. And that’s what you need to know in times like these, when they’re lining up to impeach the President, whether you like it or not.

D.C. turns on Obama
Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei | Politico

The town is turning on President Obama – and this is very bad news for this White House.

More indications that the ‘scandal’ mess has become deadly serious business.

Republicans have waited five years for the moment to put the screws to Obama – and they have one-third of all congressional committees on the case now. Establishment Democrats, never big fans of this president to begin with, are starting to speak out. And reporters are tripping over themselves to condemn lies, bullying and shadiness in the Obama administration.

Buy-in from all three D.C. stakeholders is an essential ingredient for a good old fashioned Washington pile-on — so get ready for bad stories and public scolding to pile-up.

Here we go. One: The leviathans who run Politico report on it. Two: Everyone in Washington (why not make it all of America, guys? [just you give us a couple of months, wink]) agrees with them. Or at least with their gossip, which is to say the breaking news they made up on the spot. Three: The need for serious reporting is so pressing that the headlines are outsourced to metaphors. [Note: The Founding Fathers originally meant to establish the bar for impeachment at "high crimes and turnings-on" but thought the former tilted toward the abstract.]

And how about that snazzy sub-hed? “Obama’s holier-than-thou rhetoric has left him with little reservoir of good will.” Do Jimmie and Mikey back up their journalism with quotes from anybody with any power in Washington? Anyone who could detail what and who exactly were “holier” and “thou”? No. But is that really what you want? Or is it this?

Armageddon For Prezzo As O’Bam Cast Out By Political High Priests
A LITURGY OF CARDINAL SINS AND HOLIER-THAN-THOU BEHAVIOR
Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei | Politico

I thought so. More tingly. That’s what you want to see when the lunatic 27%, plus the gullible Americans who presume they’ve been reading journalism, start lining up to impeach the President, whether you like it or not.

You wanna know another signal that it’s getting real? When the press go out of their way to warn you that the press think it’s only a matter of time:

Once the dogs are released, they bark, they bite and it takes a very long time to calm them down. . . Read Tuesday morning editorial pages of every paper for a taste of things to come. Or watch a rerun of Tuesday’s “Morning Joe,” in which reporters made it sound like Obama is a latter-day Richard Nixon.

“And it goes beyond even the story,” National Journal’s Ron Fournier, who covered the Clinton and Bush scandals and was once the AP Washington bureau chief, said on the show. “One common thing with Benghazi and the IRS scandal, is we’re being misled every day. We were lied to on Benghazi, on the talking points behind Benghazi, for months. We were lied to by the IRS for months and now they’re sending a clear message to our sources:

‘Don’t embarrass the administration or we’re coming after you.’”

The great Ron Fournier, who has come down with a case of Scandoliosis. It’s a disease that causes malfeasance to appear upon the body politic. Or it’s a disease that causes vicious lying, systemic corruption and Vince Foster’s assassinated left-handed corpse to materialize in the media, making it look as if a scandal lurked nearby. No one knows how one causes the other any more, we’re only aware the disease starts after ninety-nine bureau chiefs appear on Morning Joe and cry out “They’re lying! Now I’ve got to hide!”

But lo, unfortunately the truths are not those, but these. And they are sad, because they are facts and could stop a dazzling impeachment in its tracks. The administration came clean about the botched-up Benghazi talking points a few days after the attack, not months. The underlying crime was the attack by the terrorist militia, and nothing more. The IRS did screw up, but Tea Partiers ended up with tax-free designations anyway. No harm was done. And the DOJ feared they had a high-end CIA leak who detailed the role of an Al Qaeda operative in Yemen placed there by Saudi intelligence –two, three, breathe– and whom the Associated Press uncovered with their sourced reporting. This prompted the phone-logs judicial overreach, which is, also, in addition, after all, not a crime.

But then who would listen to me? I’m hardly Walter Winchell. It’s the journalists we charge with the awesome responsibility of knowing when it’s time to line up and impeach the President, whether we like it or not.

Hello Hitler, hello Stalin. Academic totalitarianism is back and better than ever. Visited upon you by us, the tungsten-hard Left, here come carnage, cataclysms and lecture notes very poorly organized. If we aren’t the most seriously dangerous bastards in the world . . .

Burning books, again. The nerve. Sure we pretend to be denizens of a world whose currency is words and ideas. But we’re nothing but fascists motorbiking from town to town, torching television towers, firebombing libraries. Burning rubber your arm felt nice wrapped round my shoulder, and I-ee-eye had a feeling that I belonged. I-ee-eye could be someone, be someone.

Once the photo started going viral, university officials removed it from their website and insisted it was just a joke. Hilarious, no?

Joke or not, while academia constantly warns of metaphorical right-wing book burners, academic arson is literally happening on the left.

They literally burn books, the metaphor. But we pretend to burn books, literally. Oh kill me.

The Air Force being a secular progressive hellhole overrun by the proselytizing of evangelical airmen, and by megachurch pastors given limitless access to their institutions (Al Qaeda? This is your way in.), it’s difficult to believe the military could have problems with a certain corrosive culture:

On Tuesday, the Pentagon will release the annual report on sexual assaults in the military, which shows some startling numbers.

While the report will show that the number of reported assaults in fiscal year 2012 rose only 6 percent to 3,374 — up from 3,192 a year before — the number of people who made an anonymous claim that they were sexually assaulted but never reported the attack skyrocketed from 19,000 in FY11 to 26,000 in FY12.

So you can see sexual assault is not much of a problem. Victims who make anonymous claims, by the thousands, are a different story. Some of this may be due to the military’s direct approach to problem-solving. It may be difficult to understand why when an airfemmeman is assaulted she doesn’t just fire an AIM-9 Sidewinder up someone’s Command and Control Center then send David Martin the digital replay. Hello, Dateline.

Air Force Officer Accused of Sexual Battery
by ARLnow.com | May 6, 2013 at 3:20 pm

The chief of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response branch of the U.S. Air Force was arrested and charged with sexual battery in Arlington over the weekend.

Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski is accused of fondling a woman in a Crystal City parking lot early Sunday morning.

. . or why she doesn’t just go all mountain lion on his face. That works pretty good when you forget where exactly you parked your F-22 Raptor at the Crystal Springs Applebee’s. Or when you’re just a citizen.

“A drunken male subject approached a female victim in a parking lot and grabbed her breasts and buttocks,” according to a Arlington County Police Department crime report. “The victim fought the suspect off as he attempted to touch her again and alerted police.”

“Jeffrey Krusinski, 41, of Arlington, VA, was arrested and charged with sexual battery,” police said. “He was held on a $5,000 unsecured bond.”

And maybe that’s the point. When you’re not in the military, you don’t have commanding officers like this guy. You can fuck up a douche pretty good without having to worry about your career, or your life.

After getting divorced by his younger wife, harassing her by way of the Catholic Church, pressing the local cops to investigate the new husband, and bribing the kids’ therapist to prevail in his custody battle, Bill O’Reilly himself sat down to the television Sunday. Some of the programming lacked une esprit de Easter . .

. . a TV show about good and evil aired on the History Channel — the final installment of “The Bible” miniseries in which Jesus is executed. AMC ran the season-ending episode of “The Walking Dead” — the series where zombies try to eat the brains of human beings. One footnote: The world might have been a better place had the zombies preemptively gotten to the guy who thought up this series in the first place.

They try to eat what? Seriously?

Honestly, I have no idea what this zombie phenomenon is all about. Way back in the 1960s, I saw the first modern zombie movie: “Night of the Living Dead.” Things were creeping along OK until a little girl turned into a zombie and tried to eat her mom. At that point, my entire group decided enough was enough, and we bolted out of the theater.

No apologies. Nobody has to sit in urine.

But today that scene would be tame. Now zombie kids will eat their entire families if given the opportunity. Depravity doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Scared, maybe. Frightened. Holocaust.

The Supreme Court finally takes on gay marriage, and this makes for some excitement. But it’s not really all that. If I were gay, I imagine it would be a bigger deal. More of an event if I had any skin in the game, wink. But the case for legalization is air tight. As your one decent history teacher used to say, the arc of history bends toward justice. The outcome is a pretty sure thing. Without palpable tension in the third act, it’s not really much of a thriller.

If you’re one of the culture warriors, the whole thing’s different. There’s a sense of dread and reckoning all around. As every conservative is a Constitutional expert, flanked only by more brilliant legal minds to the right and left, they know the involvement of the Supreme Court is bad news. There the conceptual headwinds of ‘freedom’ and ‘equality’ run fast, and bigotry constructed as ‘traditional values’ won’t stand. Which is the long way ’round to say it’s all over. And the losers know it, poor things.

So this would be a good time to get in some parting shots.

In some sense, it doesn’t really matter how the Supreme Court rules on the gay marriage case it’s hearing today. The culture war is over on this front, and gay marriage has won.

Megan McArdle threw this punch early.

At this point, it’s just a matter of time. In some sense, the sexual revolution is over . . . and the forces of bourgeois repression have won.

You people just had to have your Marriage, didn’t you? Now you’re all dorks. Happy now?

You thought the fifties were conformist? Wait until all those fabulous “confirmed bachelors” and maiden schoolteachers are expected to ditch their cute little one-bedrooms and join the rest of America in whining about crab grass, HOA restrictions, and the outrageous fees that schools want to charge for overnight soccer trips.

Goodbye swingin’ nation. Is that Tailgunner Joe? You old dog (. . he’s the only one we bother to call ‘tailgunner’ any more.) Here I have a list of 57 Americans suspected of face-to-face relations in the shadows of America’s rest stops and bus stations. And how many of you pinkos will protest? Hmm? They say for the want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For the want of a pervert, the McArdle was lost, then left to her devices. And is it me, or is that Larry Craig one helluva dancer? Here’s Mark Steyn:

. . there are those who argue it’s a victory for the powerful undertow of bourgeois values over the surface ripples of sexual transgressiveness

*stentorian* . . In A World. Where boys kissed girls. And Wonder Bread didn’t hurt your heart. And hot arsenic meant fine tobacco — they did the unthinkable. They kissed boys. They were . . THE SURFRIPPLES OF SEXESSIVESSNESS. Oh. Really.

Gays will now be as drearily suburban as the rest of us. A couple of years back, I saw a picture in the paper of two chubby old queens tying the knot at City Hall in Vancouver, and the thought occurred that Western liberalism had finally succeeded in boring all the fun out of homosexuality.

Remember when the queens were reedy and attractive? Oh MAN Mark does. He thought about smooching one. But now with all their open-mouth chewing, and their legal whining, without the muscled butt-ripping and orgasmery, they’re not as handsome. God opens a window but he turns off a lamp, on the vanity. You’re no longer in Mark’s league fays.

Oh my what’s that thing called? Where your opponent beats you in the game and all you do is slag them? Not sour grapes, it’s something else. Let me know.

The House yesterday finally renewed the Violence Against Women Act. Erick Erickson’s staff personally congratulated the wife beater’s lobby for their patriotism:

We’d like to thank the following members who understood that the entire premise of the bill is flawed, superfluous, and an unconstitutional federal power grab. The only thing the federal government can do to protect women is to pass a universal right to carry bill. Everything else is just big government demagoguery.

A rape shield law being part of that. So Red State victims, when a sleazy defense lawyer presses you at trial about your rape fantasies, unholster your weapon and shoot his balls. Or am I missing something? Oh to live in Erick’s America . .

We Are The World, social conservative edition. The National Review makes a clumsy attempt to convince the bubble blowers that Hollywood is still terribly insulting of them, Real America®.

You wonder how one goes about such a thing? The same way a wingnut argues that Blue States are painfully out of touch with the country. Example: ‘Liberals wanted to make us all gay but they barely got two percent. Ha!’ Like that. Ninety-eight percent of America is exactly like the Red States: No-homo. See? Tidy.

How about attacking Spielberg’s Lincoln? I’d say that’s a bad strategy. The protagonist is well-liked and a Republican after all. Plus he freed the slaves which is currently a hip credential, even in parts of Alabama. But then there’s Steven Spielberg to consider . .

. . one would have to imagine the reaction had the gay community learned that Milk, the biopic about one of the most beloved members of its community, was going to be directed by Clint Eastwood, star Mel Gibson, be based on a book by David Barton, with a screenplay written by Dinesh D’Souza.

Golly. Eastwood the curmudgeon, Gibson the drunk, Barton the fantasist and D’Souza the imbecile. In the hands of those four, Lincoln’s battle with Congress would end up Goonies vs. Superfly. Which, naturally, I’d like to see.

“Sadly, the movie also contains about 40 obscenities and profanities, including four ‘f’ words and more than 10 GDs,” noted MovieGuide, a site that a good number of traditionalists consult before attending movies.

Hollywood could use some movie magic when it comes to its docudramas. Did the Titanic really have to sink? Couldn’t Ray have had a bionic eye? Imagination, people.

Declining to give Lincoln its much-sought-after seal of approval, the influential Dove Foundation also questioned the veracity of the cursing, noting that “the language they feature in the film (and this includes Lincoln cursing as well) does not line up with the morals and language of the time period.”

When the Dear Abbys at the . . uh let’s see . . right the Dove Foundation pinch their noses at you, you’re in for it. This probably means Spielberg’s an Oscar shoo-in for everything, Best Underpants included. The Coodle-oo Institute might want to reconsider the argument that our slave era was a more moral time than today. Really.

. . they surely cost Lincoln some amount of foot traffic, if a 48-year-old named Leigh who posted her concerns at Christian Answers is any indication:

“I refuse to pay for and go to a movie where God’s name is taken in vain. There are numerous Web sites out there which will tell you positive and negative aspects of a movie, so that you don’t unknowingly subject yourself or your family to movie content that all Christians should refuse to be a part of.”

He saved a nation, he freed millions of people, and these are of some little good. BUT HE SAID DAMN. Which is like watching Christ take a scud to the groin. No wonder they shot Abe’s melon. Hark! It’s Tim Allen in Santa Claws: Unleashed . .

The 79 percent of Americans who, according to Gallup, make up the center-right majority of the nation are showing their displeasure with Lincoln by voting with their feet and asking important questions: Why would moviegoers shell out money to see a picture that seems to intentionally offend their core values?

The Greatest American Who Ever Lived is an insult to these fusspots. Credits please.

Red faces, hissing and hot tears. An all-out slap fight has broken out behind the scenes of our greatest reality show, America’s Top Model Citizen. Brent Bozell unnghs one at Karl Rove:

“. . he’s shamelessly calling this entity the “Conservative Victory Project.” Yes, and I could call myself Ray Lewis, but it doesn’t make it so.”

What? You whore. Karl Rove’s bestest friend slurps his hand and lames it across Brent Bozell’s face:

“Bozell is a hater and he also has a long sordid history hating Karl Rove. He has weird personal axes to grind . . “

The? You slut. (Incidentally Brent Bozell is a hater. A twenty-four hour whine. Behind his orangutan beard of ginger and pinprick eyes of Van Cleef lie sad deserted spaces where brains should dwell. Echoing throughout the spaces, shrieks of animus. On Barack Obama, U.S. President: “. . that he looked like a skinny, ghetto crackhead? Which, by the way, you might want to say that Barack Obama does.” Ellen Degeneres, TV lesbian: “There’s this sense almost of horror … there are some elements in Hollywood who are bent, come hell or high water, on thrusting garbage down the throats of children.” And there is all, in toto, what Brent Bozell has ever done with his life.)

And this is where it gets good. Two dozen mewling meeping denizens of Real American Country Day Care overran the internecine weeping. Why? Because? Get a load of this: Because it turns out L. Brent Bozell is really Martha Washington:

Ronald Reagan often saluted the contributions of the Bozell and Buckley families to the cause of American conservatism.

. . The sheer audacity of political consultants maligning a beloved and critically important player in American history is simply a bridge too far.

Certainly. Remember when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation? I believe it was the historic American pundit Brent Bozell who took to Fox News, Dixie:

“Sheer audacity! It wouldn’t be long before the yankees were calling for Jeff Davis’ hide if he’d turned loose their livestock. I declare. By the way, you might wanna say the President looks like a whisky-stinkin’ nigger, which he does.”

Such is greatness.

On the front page here, five months ago:

Arch-conservatives continue their banner August. In the first week of the month unemployed white supremacist Wade Page shot and killed six Sikhs at a temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. In week two unemployed gun nut and Palin/Beck/O’Reilly fan Thomas Caffall killed two people, one a constable, in College Station, Texas. Also in week two a group of barely-employed “sovereign citizens” and their girlfriends shot four Louisiana deputies in and around St. John the Baptist Parish, killing two.

Then four soldiers who planned a shooting spree (and a presidential assassination) were arrested before they could do any harm. Still: Ten dead and more wounded as the American right-wing made its presence known throughout August 2012. A hell of a month for the wingnuts.

The violence wasn’t that surprising. A 2009 Deparment of Homeland Security report predicted home-grown terrorism would likely emanate from the ultra-conservative crowd. As much as Michelle Malkin screamed about the conclusions, the report ended up being perfectly accurate. A trail of corpses proved how dangerous the far right-wing really were.

Which brings us to Monday. And the butthurts at the Daily Caller:

Army should fire author of report on conservative terrorism
Bill Wilson | President, Americans for Limited Government

. . the report warns of the rising militancy of so-called “anti-federalists” — or Americans who embrace radical notions like “civil activism, individual freedoms and self-government.” In other words, anyone expressing support for the fundamental democratic ideals upon which our nation was founded could be a terrorist.

According to [Dr. Arie] Perliger, these “anti-federalists” are dangerous because they “espouse strong convictions regarding the federal government, believing it to be corrupt and tyrannical, with a natural tendency to intrude on individuals’ civil and constitutional rights.”

Wait — government isn’t corrupt? And warrantless wiretaps, forced participation in a Social Security Ponzi scheme and Barack Obama’s health insurance mandate aren’t intrusions on our liberties?

It’s deja vu. And this is today, right now, this very hour and minute:

The man who ignited a hostage standoff in southern Alabama when he shot a bus driver and took a child into an underground bunker is a “survivalist” who has ties to the antigovernment movement, an official with the Dale County Sheriff’s Office told Hatewatch this morning.

The gunman is identified as Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, a Vietnam veteran. On Tuesday afternoon, Dykes allegedly stormed into a school bus in Midland City, Ala., shooting the bus driver four times with a 9 mm pistol before taking a child to an underground bunker behind his home. The bus driver, identified as 66-year-old Charles Poland Jr., later died.

Tim Byrd, chief investigator with the Dale County Sheriff’s Office, told Hatewatch that Dykes had “anti-America” views. “His friends and his neighbors stated that he did not trust the government, that he was a Vietnam vet, and that he had PTSD,” Byrd said. “He was standoffish, didn’t socialize or have any contact with anybody. He was a survivalist type.”

Jimmy Lee Dykes is still holding the six year-old boy hostage and the police at bay.

Wunderkind turned kinderscheisse Ben Shapiro, acolyte of Andrew Breitbart — cause of death: recurring remitting ragesclerosis — focuses his clawing out of the wingnut fifth-tier doldrums with a Goldberg impersonation:

President Obama and his leftist allies like to claim they’re anti-bullying. They stand up for the little guy. They stand up to the powerful. They protect victims.

They’re liars. What’s more, they’re the true bullies, as I explain in my new book, Bullies: How The Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America.

Fascists! Michael Savage recently called for the creation of a “Nationalist Party.” Conservatives by the thousands weighed in on the WhiteHouse.gov site to deport Piers Morgan after he conducted a less-than-patriotic TV interview. Wingnuts are petitioning to imprison and maybe execute Sen. Dianne Feinstein because she might, maybe, someday, we’ll see, you never really know, it could happen, how about that thing when your psychic cousin complimented your optimism then you got a McDonald’s Monopoly scratcher that won a bag of fries, argue for gun control. Note: Back off.

When the DHS wasn’t busy running StopBullying.gov, they were busy bullying religious employers into violating their consciences by forcing them to cover contraception for employees. And who headed up the It Gets Better Project? Dan Savage, the thug who screamed at Christian teenagers who had the temerity to walk out on one of his anti-Biblical screeds.

The crucial part of bullying, where a “bully” can seriously harm you, is lost on these folks. Dan Savage can’t do squat to anyone walking out while he’s talking.

Obama isn’t against bullying. Neither is the left more broadly. After all, when someone stands up to a bully – say, Israel standing up to Islamic terrorists, or even George Zimmerman standing up to a young bully pounding his head into the pavement – the left goes berserk.

Poor Israel somehow dispatches the “bullies” at better than a 10:1 clip. And I can’t imagine how a teen with his fists full of candy can bully a vigilante carrying all of a racial grudge, stand-your-ground presuppositions and a Kel-Tec semiauto.

Happy New Year. Another one! Greetings.

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again
may God the Aviating Pasta Anomaly hold you in the palm of His hand. Noodle?

Peace be with you.

There’s a reason thousands of Americans have been purchasing guns of all description and laying up stores of ammunition and it may go beyond concerns of gun bans. A lot of patriots think that 2013 could turn very ugly, very fast, with fears of martial law, Homeland Security goons, mass arrests, secret incarcerations, and worse.

This is your fault.

What stands between most Americans and those who might wish to engineer the end to the Constitution is the fact that America is home to hundreds of thousands of hunters who comprise, by virtue of being armed, the largest army in the world . . Revolution is never pretty, but Americans did it once and can do it again to protect the Constitution and our rights.

So they’re coming to shoot you. Wonderful! Anything else?

Obama everyday that goes by you smell like a SANDY HOOK FRAUD and the whole world can see right through your nigger whore 911 ACT

— jeffrey l tilson (@tuffbuddy) January 1, 2013

2013! Totally new and improved.

New York Times’ Ross Douthat, socket-orbed neckbeard of penetrance, will talk the logic right out of you. If, mind you, you let him.

So why let him? Don’t do it. He makes no sense. Like dogs don’t make dinner. Like mosquitoes don’t make friends. Like don’t never gonna happen. Not likely, as if. You are incorrect, sir. Take your coat? Fine, I throw it upon the fire.

In Ross’ eyes, and I’m seeing cannon balls at the bottom of abandoned smokestacks, there gapes a wind-blown void between the post-Sandy Hook political sides. The tower of Wayne LaPierre, weapons-warlock, stands to one side, and the monument of Michael Bloomberg, mayorship-connoisseur, looms upon the other.

Why is there no logic to be found between them?

Unfortunately for our country, the Bloomberg versus LaPierre contrast is basically all of American politics today. Our society is divided between an ascendant center-left that’s far too confident in its own rigor and righteousness and a conservatism that’s marched into an ideological cul-de-sac and is currently battering its head against the wall.

LaPierre would have us purchase hundreds of thousands of guns to weaponize our schools. Strangely, neither he nor his armament industry clients will pay for the massive program because, you know, billions in profit. They won’t even foot the bill for the students’ emergency room visits or funerals, sadly. Here we have Ross’ cul-de-sac, hip-high in blood and money.

Conversely, Bloomberg is mayor of a town where there are over a thousand shootings a year. He’s calling for a fresh dollop of gun control. That’s a rather unpleasant tone you’ve taken with America, Mayor. O Where Has Reason Gone? There the stacks go, filling with brine. S-l-o-w-l-y.

On issue after issue, debate after debate, there is a near-unified establishment view of what the government should do, and then a furious right-wing reaction to this consensus that offers no real policy alternative at all.

You think this is funny? Douthat seeing both sides of a single side? Why can’t a titmouse shake hands with a rattlesnake? Have you two even talked? Sincerely: Your friend, Ross. For me, though, it’s the following that rates the money quote. Watch him take us to the political shed:

The establishment view is interventionist, corporatist and culturally liberal. It thinks that issues like health care and climate change and immigration are best worked out through comprehensive bills drawn up by enlightened officials working hand in glove with business interests.

God no! Faced with problems, smart people look for a consensus and legislate. Call the cops, it’s government! Out to do things! Ahem:

“Whereas it is in the national security interests of the United States to restore international peace and security to the Persian Gulf region: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States…”

The Iraq War resolution. A comprehensive bill legislated by liberal interventionists after building a consensus. (Oops — let us not forget the unfunny truth, the votes of our current Secretary of State, the next Secretary of State, etc. . .). The same goes for all of Ronald Reagan’s glorious tax cuts, and the Voting Rights Act, and whatever ancillary hell the government raises. That’s a pretty big bone to pick, with Federalism. This is not exactly a sober opinion, Moonflower. But then, well . .

As for a conservatism with a serious program, and a real understanding of the challenges facing America today — well, hopefully it will surface by the 2016 presidential campaign. Till then, it’s the hubris of Bloomberg versus the humbug of LaPierre. Merry Christmas, America.

In other words, our Ross: I don’t consider your side. Well, then just say so.