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Posted on 01/21/2010 8:30:05 PM PST by Saije
What does the Massachusetts election mean? It means America is in play again. The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. ***
America never stops moving now.***
We are in a postromantic political era. They hire you and fire you, nothing personal. Family connection, personal charm, old traditions, fealty to party, all are nice and have their place, but right now we are immersed in crisis, and we vote on policies that affect our lives.
It is not the end of something so much as the beginning of something. Ted Kennedy took his era with him. But what has begun is something new and potentially promising.***
Is it a backlash? It seems cooler than that, a considered and considerable rejection that appears to be signaling a conservative resurgence based on issues and policies, most obviously opposition to increased government spending, fear of higher taxes, and rejection of the idea that expansion of government can or will solve our economic challenges.
And it's taking place within a particular context.
Speaking broadly: In the 2006 and 2008 elections, and at some point during the past decade, the ancestral war between Democrats and the Republicans began to take on a new look. If you were a normal human sitting at home having a beer and watching national politics peripherally, as normal people do until they focus on an election, chances are pretty good you came to see the two major parties not as the Dems versus the Reps, or the blue versus the bed, but as the Nuts versus the Creeps. The Nuts were for high spending and taxing and the expansion of government no matter what. The Creeps were hypocrites who talked one thing and did another, who went along on the spending spree while lecturing on fiscal solvency.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
I agree.
Peggy who?
Wow, even Peg is starting to see the light.
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Maybe someday Peggy will become a conservative. /s
Or relevant.
What also amazes me is the "snarling Republicans" line. That's what Dems think of her hero and former boss Ronald Reagan.
I agree- enjoy all those cocktail parties with All The Kool Kids in DC, Peggy-- because I won't be inviting you to the family cookout anytime soon.
Pity, she used to be a good writer.
Anyone who looked at his record, and his associations, could tell that was not the case. Poor Peggy...
I don’t read her anymore. She is too smug and “inside the Beltway.”
With apologies to Michael Corleone.
This one is just strange. You're right; too many Upper West Side cocktail parties/echo-chambers.
bttt
This is the most important part of the article, in my opinion:
And he [Scott Brown] needs to avoid the Descent of the Congressional Vampires, who’ll attempt to claim his victory as their own and suck from his neck until he’s a pale and lifeless husk. Not to understate. But they’ll want him fund-raising and speaking all over the country, not knowing or perhaps caring that the best work he can do for his party is succeeding in the eyes of his constituents, who couldn’t care less about the fortunes of the GOP.
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