Posted on 03/22/2010 10:19:39 AM PDT by C19fan
As the fugleman for conservative despair, I am of course neither shaken nor stirred at the passing of the health-care bills. It was to be expected.
I see plainly that Western civilization, over my lifetime, has been a slow-sinking ship. The few who have known what is happening have worked desperately to seal the watertight doors, repair the fissures, pump out the flooded zones. It's been a losing fight, though. The tilt of the decks is harder and harder to ignore. Last night, a major bulkhead gave way. Soon a funnel will topple over with a great crash and a shower of sparks. Yet still the band is playing, the people are dancing, the food coming up from the galley.
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We are building a bigger boat!
Hang on there Skippy!
If they keep moving on amnesty and cap/trade...there may just be a boiling point.
Just sayin.
Keep the faith.
God help us in our day, in Jesus name. Amen.
I was wondering if what happened last night was the dam bursting moment. You have these Blue Dogs and the like who just burned the bridge behind them and now have nothing to lose by voting for Shamnesty and Crap and Tax before Nov. Also, there are enough squishy RINOS like Graham who support both.
“pessimistic camp”
Keep reading NR for a few years. I have little doubt they will become Obamacare’s biggest supporters, calling it “compassionate conservatism” or something like that, and calling all attacks on it anti-American and anti-Business.
For the most part, they were good useful idiots, giving people hope that there really was a “public option” that would provide an escape from private insurance company tyranny.
I think 20 million illegals will vote in November, and I think the Dems may gain power in Congress.
What I dislike most about NR is the defeatest Brits on staff.
Derbyshire sucks.
People don’t strive for freedom, they strive for security. The Founders were aberrations. In the mid-phase of the Iraq war look how many were willing to live under Sadr’s homicidal thugs as long as it brought a halt to bombing in their neighborhood.
The GOP is about to get a lesson in the real nature of the electorate. Like the Brits and Canadians, a consistent majority will prefer the certainty of “free” poor government care rather than the tumult of the marketplace. The only really unpopular part of Obamacare is the taxes. Convert it to debt and the Dems would surf a popular wave to victory in Nov.
Screw it. We fight - there is no other choice.
What kind of life will it be if we’re under tyranny?
This country may go down but there’s no need for it to go down with a whimper.
If our destiny is to fall in a blaze of glory - SO BE IT.
And so, we fight.
Derbyshire is a beat-down, an idiot savant. I’m a long-time reader of The Corner and learned pretty quickly that he brings nothing to the discussion and his posts should be routinely skipped - you’ll never get back the time you waste reading his pointless, mostly irrelevant crap. Every time I read him, I remember why it’s been so long since I last did. And this latest post is a great example. But thanks for posting this on FR.
Not sure how much more government the people will tolerate.
Expand the IRS by 16-20 thousand?
That's scary stuff, that's real freakin scary.
This government is outta control by a long shot.
From “Brave Heart” —
Craig: Sir William, where are you going?
William: We have beaten the English, but they’ll come back because you won’t stand together.
Craig: Well what will you do?
William: I will invade England and defeat the English on their own ground.
Craig: Invade? That’s impossible.
William: Why? Why is that impossible? You’re so concerned with squabbling for the scraps from Longshank’s table that you’ve missed your God given right to something better. There is a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with FREEDOM. And I go to make sure that they have it.
Good grief, Derb. If you feel that bad, you ought to just snuff yourself. I suspect that you don’t only for one of two reasons: Either you still harbor hopes you might be wrong about this, or fears that some of your colleagues are right about the existence of an afterlife.
But, alas, we elect politicians who will give us goodies. Oh! Lookee! My politician just gave me health care! Hurrah!
Makes me sick.
The cure for pessimism is action.
Made me go look up the word “fugleman”, at least.
Amen. John Derbyshire is an American citizen and Mark Steyn lives in my own native NH but neither of them fully appreciates how different we Americans are from the Brits and the Canadians. We have resisted the socialist virus far better than they and we aren't likely to succomb now when socialism is on the ropes.
The left has just about run out of money having stolen, borrowed and printed to the max and its whole enterprise is on the verge of collapse. We will fight them better than any foreign born intellectual is likely to expect to claw out of the abyss they have prepared for us. There are deeper wellsprings of strength in this society than John Derbyshire can imagine.
Isn’t Derbyshire an atheist? That means he hasn’t a clue about “Western civilization,” which was Christian.
I think I’m going to watch the John Adams mini-series again this week. I recorded it, and I think I need to see it again.
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