[Pokey78]

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[BlessedBeGod]

Steyn nails it again.

[eureka!]

bump for later...

[GretchenM]

For Ronald Reagan, America was the "shining city on a hill". For M Giscard and his fellow founding fathers, the European Union is affordable housing on an environmentally protected hill. I can't see it working myself.

Bravo!

[RobFromGa]

glad you beat the quidster again...

Great piece by Steyn, I liked this line:

they maintain that the Soviet empire would have collapsed anyway, their belated belief in the inevitable failure of communism being in no way inconsistent with their previous long-held belief in the inevitable triumph of communism.

They wouldn't want the USA and conservatism to get the credit for turning back totalitarianism so they pretend it didn't happen, this leaves it open to come back in an improved form, controlled by them.

[Paul Ross]

Bump!!! Yet again, Steyn proves to be a phenomally acute observer and political analyst.

[Carolinamom]

Thanks for the ping and the post, Pokey. Steyn is both perceptive and a heck of a writer. I relish every one of his columns. Have they been collected into one or more books? Since he is so prolific, we'd have the equivalence of a set of Britannica Encyclopedias!

[Plutarch]

The intelligentsia persist in believing this had nothing to do with Reagan…[they believe] if anyone was responsible, it was Mikhail Gorbachev.

Steyn of course, is right on. For example, the MSM couldn't’t acknowledge RR as the Man of the Decade, oh no, not him. Those small minded ideologues at Time awarded MOTD to their darling, Gorbachev, for haplessly failing to avert the Communist U.S.S.R’s inexorable decline and ultimate fall.

This is the equivalent to awarding Sportsmen of the Decade to the coach that takes a team from perennial dynasty to cellar dweller prior to being ignominiously fired.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

For those intered the web page for the UKIP (U.K. Independence Party) is here : http://www.ukip.org/

[Paul_B]

Excellent. Superb ending.

[Billthedrill]

Many of my New Hampshire neighbours wander round with the constitution in their pocket so they can whip it out and chastise over-reaching congressmen and state representatives at a moment's notice.

Oops. LOL! Uh...guilty as charged, m'lud.

[avenir]

"I slept easier in my bed knowing he was sleeping easier in his."

Ditto, and the same goes for President Bush.

[Cicero]

That's the basic problem with the EU. It's a bunch of bureaucrats who micromanage everything and are responsible to nobody. Don't like them? Tough. No way to vote them out.

[hershey]

Wonderful...every line is priceless...and God knows we need a laugh or a smile right now.

[July 4th]

This guy is an international treasure for the Anglosphere.

[crazycat]

"The Tories have an established modus operandi on Europe: first, they tell us they're going to stand firm; then they sign on to it anyway; finally, they assure us it doesn't mean anything. The biggest question facing the country today is this: is the United Kingdom to be a nation state or merely a westerly region of a highly centralised European entity? The Tories, as a matter of policy, have fudged that question for 15 years, and in so doing have assisted the remorseless march of the Euro-fantasists. So I'm afraid I cannot agree with my eminent colleagues. This Thursday, vote UKIP."

15 yrs of Tory funk, debunked in one paragraph.

[KOZ.]

bttt

[McGavin999]

This Thursday, vote UKIP.

OUCH! Looks like the Tories are about dead as a party.

[moonhawk]

Thanks, Pokey...

And well said, as usual, Mr Steyn.

EU: People by the Government, of the Government, and for the Government.

And God Bless you, Ronald Reagan.