Heady heady and more goes right in here and more - Mark Steyn

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | October 8, 2006 | Mark Steyn

[Tom D.]

Mark Steyn with his usual wit and style.

[Darkwolf377]

Reading this gives me hope that this "scandal" erupted just early enough that, by election day, enough people will realize just how they've been had by the Dems and MSM, and the Republicans will retain control of Congress.

[mother22wife21]

bump

[Right_in_Virginia]

Still, I take my hat off to the media and Democratic Party. Indeed, in the spirit of Bill Clinton, I take my pants off to them. .... What an awesome force the Dems would be if only the ruthless skill and cunning that went into this operation could be applied to, say, national security.

Classic Steyn. :-)

[Tax-chick]

When a member of the House of Lords went abroad after a homosexual scandal, King George V is said to have remarked, "Good God, I thought fellows like that shot themselves." It may, indeed, be a less revolting spectacle for a chap to take a tumbler of whiskey and a loaded revolver into his study than to go on "Oprah" and bore on about his personal demons, abusive father, etc., etc. But we live in different times.

There's nobody else like Mark Steyn.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping list ping.

[Mad Dawg]

The man is a genius. That is the tightest, most consistent barrage of off-hand jokes I've seen in a long time.

[codercpc]

I was out last night, and even when the talk turned to politics, this subject was never brought up. The talk was all local issues, and I didn't see any of what the media is calling GOP backlash. I was not surrounded by rabid GOP'ers, just around 50 normal everyday Americans. I just don't see this story having the national impact that the MSM imagines.

[kabar]

Great article. That has been my view all along. Where's the beef [sex]? It remains to be seen whether any laws were actually broken, but e-mail, IM sex isn't sex.

[Rummyfan]

But, insofar as I understand it after the last week, American politics is divided between: teenage pages; guys who are hot for teenage pages; guys who are enablers for guys who are hot for teenage pages; guys who devote inordinate time and effort to entrapping guys who are hot for teenage pages; guys who are rattled by guys accusing them of having devoted insufficient time and effort to nailing the guys who are hot for teenage pages and get panicked into holding press conferences where they announce the following:

Or so the MSM and the Dems would have it!

Steyn ping!

[Rummyfan]

Many laws, in fact. And it's not clear any of them were broken. It's a good basic rule of thumb that no matter how bad a scandal is, the political class' response will be worse, largely hysterical and lacking any sense of proportion. But, even by those minimal expectations, this last week has been unbecoming for a serious nation.

Dead on! And Foley is gone. Everything else is MSM and Dem howling.

[Christian4Bush]

bttt

[Tom D.]

When Republicans allegedly make off color comments, ala Clarence Thomas, it is sexual harassment. When Deomcrats drop their pants (Clinton and Jones) or grope women (Clinton and Wiley) or rape women (Clinton and Brodderick) it's ok.

When Republicans write provocative emails to pages and resign, (Foley) it is sufficient cause to remove every Republican from the Congress. When Democrats bugger pages, (Studds) it is grounds to give him three standing ovations or when Democrats run a male prostitution ring out of their office (Frank) it is grounds to give him a leadership position in the Democrat Party.

[F-117A]

Steyn Bump!

[kabar]

Or President Clinton's pardon of Cong. Mel Reynolds who had sex with a minor. Or Kennedy's complicity in the death of a staffer.

[GOPJ]

...Dems are bi-swingers, happy to flay the GOP as either (a) uptight prudes or (b) pedophile enablers, according to what suits.

Good one...

[sinclair]

SAVE

[wita]

Won't it just be special when there is no longer a double standard in the congress, and those of both parties no longer enjoy any Schadenfreude. The viscous glee, and downright evil ecstasy at the misfortune of anyone not of their own party persuasion. It can happen. I imagine it was so in the early days of the Republic. Party at the polls, but the rest of the time it is the country and the people that deserve far better than we have gotten.

This little character quirk, is owned by the party out of power, but that would be leaning toward how they appear to operate, so lets strike that comment, and hope and pray for a congress, and especially a senate, full of wise, intelligent, caring people without a bad bone in their bodies, and watch those lessons distill on the American public that they have been negatively influencing for longer than I have been alive.

[Txsleuth]

bttt

[malia]

bump a good read