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  • DIANNE FEINSTEIN SAYS A COMICAL THING! Reliably annoying Democrat Dianne Feinstein is getting all “meh” on health care, right now, of course: “I just find that if you’re going to remake a sixth of the American economy, it’s very difficult at this time of great economic angst.” Yes! It’s not Smart to fix a major chunk of the American economy when said American economy is insanely broken. [SF Chronicle]


5:18 PM on Mon September 14 2009
By Jim Newell
1953 Views

  1. SayItWithWookies says at 5:21 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Hey, if it’s broke, don’t fix it.

  2. Crank Tango says at 5:27 pm, September 14th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: and if you do fix it, make sure the fix doesn’t take effect for four years, to the tune of what, 75,000 lives or so?

  3. Angst, not really the word I would have chosen.

  4. bureaucrap says at 5:31 pm, September 14th, 2009

    And if the economic angst is in part due to the brokenness of the system, even more reason not to fix it.

  5. SayItWithWookies says at 5:33 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Crank Tango: Of course — because it would be unfair to the opposition if your policies bore fruit before the next election cycle.

  6. AnnieGetYourFun says at 5:34 pm, September 14th, 2009

    If it ain’t broke, break it. Once broke, complain that fixing it is socialism.

  7. bitchincamaro says at 5:34 pm, September 14th, 2009

    She’s one mod who needs to get rocked. Go away, lady.

  8. The Cold Sea says at 5:36 pm, September 14th, 2009

    What a bitch. DINO.

  9. Jukesgrrl says at 5:37 pm, September 14th, 2009

    The current Mr. DiFi could personally insure all of Northern California. Perhaps he could forget about frolicking at the Bohemian Grove for a minute and get on that.

  10. AbstinenceOnly Ed says at 5:38 pm, September 14th, 2009

    “If it is broke, don’t fix it. Wait for it to fix itself and once it’s fixed THEN fix it, and you’ll look like a genius. Has anyone come up with a cure for having a face that looks like a saggy vagina yet? Just wondering.”

    -excerpt from The Wit, Wisdom & Wattles of Dianne “Vaginaface” Feinstein, D*-CA

    *stands for “Damn bitch’s face look like a vagina”

  11. Suds McKenzie says at 5:38 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Stop being reasonable and be More YELLY!1!1

  12. shadowMark says at 5:39 pm, September 14th, 2009

    I see the word “angst” up there, but I don’t see any poetry. Now is poetry. Has this “Dianne Feinstein” person posted poetry on her blog? Robert Reich ends his current post with:

    Yet without substantial reform,
    the nation and the world
    will almost certainly be plunged
    into the same crisis or worse
    at some point in the not-too-distant future.
    Wall Street’s major banks
    are already en route to their old, dangerous ways —
    now made more dangerous
    by their sure knowledge
    that they are too big to fail.

  13. AbstinenceOnly Ed says at 5:42 pm, September 14th, 2009

    shadowMark:

    Dianne wrote a haiku:

    Helping poor people
    is for faggots
    and hippies

  14. AnnieGetYourFun: Of course.

    Congress is best at passing laws that NOBODY wants. Even on the right, where was the grassroots groundswell saying, “We have to pass a bankruptcy bill now”?

    Those bills pass through quickly. Bills that real people actually WANT get mired down in a months-long battle with special interests and come out of Congress festooned with loopholes preventing the goal of the bill from actually being accomplished.

  15. It’s always great when a parasitic industry has ballooned to one-sixth of the American economy by feeding off the corpse of the other five-sixths!

  16. ManchuCandidate says at 5:43 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Lojik according to DiFi:

    “I just find that if you’re going to cut out a cancerous growth in your colon, it’s very difficult at this time of great personal angst.”

  17. Hooray For Anything says at 5:43 pm, September 14th, 2009

    DiFi likes to play cautious Centrist bear so everybody can praise her for being so “independent” and “moderate” and then goes off and does what everybody else does. She’s usually more reliable than Lieberman because she doesn’t watch herself on Sunday Talk Shows and masturbate or Evan Bayh because she’s got more balls.

  18. Extemporanus says at 5:44 pm, September 14th, 2009

    In DiFi’s defense, it might just be the Twinkies talking.

  19. commiegirl says at 5:45 pm, September 14th, 2009

    God damn I hate Dianne Feinstein. I was once at a luncheon where she got all Sista Souljah on teachers. TEACHERS. Fuck her.

  20. Extemporanus says at 5:49 pm, September 14th, 2009

    AbstinenceOnly Ed: You forgot to include the title: “Serving Milk and Kookies”

  21. Apparently Disney is against the public option.

  22. problemwithcaring says at 5:54 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Why the fuss? “Skeptical” is simply DemSpeak for FIRED UP AND READY TO GO!

    “If you put everybody on Medicaid at 133 percent of the federal poverty rate, the cost to the state is $2 billion,” Feinstein said. “Where does the state get that money when it’s got a $15 billion shortfall next year and probably for many years after that?”

    [S]he is to Obama’s right when it comes to expanding coverage, preferring to do that through community health centers that could provide basic care.

    Wealthy foreigners will pay for our community health centers. Everyone knows that.

  23. “whether this bill will create additional entitlements”

    Yeah, like entitlements to ‘Life’, member of the Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness trio.

  24. Eric Cheney says at 6:01 pm, September 14th, 2009

    ManchuCandidate: So, She’s colon contemplative? I didn’t know she was deep.

  25. V572625694 says at 6:10 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Her husband, a bigshot (or maybe the bigshot) at Bechtel, must’ve said, “Cool it on the health care reform, Diane! This could end up costing us big $$$.”

  26. No problem, we can just wait and fix it at a time when the economy is in better shape, like 1993.

  27. Hooray For Anything says at 6:22 pm, September 14th, 2009

    problemwithcaring: The Chinese are going to own our asses anyways so why not delay the inevitable?

    And, yes, “skeptical” is indeed a very Dem-like phrase. I think the last Republican who said the word “skeptical” in terms of a policy enacted by someone of their own party was taken out to be flayed and sodomized by a pack of rabid Limbaugh radio listeners.

  28. AbstinenceOnly Ed says at 6:23 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Joehoya:DiFi knows 2012 we all goanna die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  29. AbstinenceOnly Ed:

    Get a Brains, Morans!
    Health Care is for Communists!
    Coctober TruckNutz!

  30. V572625694: Richard (Dick, Dickie, Dickiest) Blum, hubbie of the helmet-haired Pac Heights Senator, is a dick in his own right, having nothing to do w/ Bechtel, which is a dick collective (aka corporation) of other dicks. Dickie & DiFi want to slow down any legislation until Dickie can position their portfolio to clean up in the aftermath of any “reform”.

    But I repeat myself.

  31. dillplatz says at 6:52 pm, September 14th, 2009

    I know it’s wrong, but I’d still like to dress her up like the Dolly Madison Snack Cake logo and do her.

    Although it still wouldn’t excuse her retrograde comments on health care. I know this.

  32. dillplatz says at 6:55 pm, September 14th, 2009

    On second thought, maybe Darla Hood’s mom…

  33. AbstinenceOnly Ed says at 6:55 pm, September 14th, 2009

    dillplatz: ur obviously a bot

  34. norbizness says at 6:57 pm, September 14th, 2009

    I believe that Dianne and the other 120somethings’ attitude is best summed up by the classic acoustic blues song: I Got Mine.

  35. V572625694 says at 7:16 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Mull_Man: I was in error with regard to Mr Feinstein. And it ain’t Boxer’s hubby either. And these are my own personal senatoresses. Old age is a-gettin’ to me.

  36. Long Form Def Certificate says at 7:19 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Oddly, I’m thinking Jello Biafra is in agreement with Feinstein, on this. I mean, actually fixing health-care would give that turd one less thing about which to complain.

  37. Amazing, in an environment that has a gun-toting, troglodyte ex-Republican, free-marketer, Reagan voter like me more than ready for single-payer (fuck it, let the hair go with the hide, screw the man AND his insurance industry, let’s ALL man up and figure out how to make it work!), then the major league Dem’s bowels start to loosen up. Get ready for the diarrheal flood of compromise, to ‘ju$t get $omething done’ $o they can get back to contribution$ and campaign$.

  38. V572625694: I too find it difficult to keep tabs on these senatwats & their dicks. Fortunately, a quick visit to muckety and all is clear.

  39. bitchincamaro says at 7:49 pm, September 14th, 2009

    dillplatz: “Darla Hood” of The Little Rascals ? You truly are a really sick fuck. Haahaa.

  40. ForTheTurnstiles says at 7:50 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Wow. Fuck you, Dianne Feinstein.

    Listen: It’s a marvelous night for a moondance. I hope you get that shit stuck in your head until you die.

  41. Is it her husband all rich with gubbernuts contracts or is that Boxer?

    As a CA native, I still get these two mixed up, politics-wise…

  42. Scoops McGee says at 8:02 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Damn you again, Dan White! We wouldn’t have to deal with all this bullshit if you hadn’t eaten so many Twinkies. Damn you!

  43. Come on now, lets go a little easy on her; after all, she is only a member of the United States Senate. How can she be expected to know anything about that economy stuff?

  44. problemwithcaring says at 8:09 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Every single American household is carrying, on average, about $18,000 in consumer debt (not counting mortgages), one and four borrowers owe more on their home than the crap shack can be sold for, and America as a whole pretty much stopped “making shit” like 35 years ago and she’s calls what is happening now “economic angst.” No wonder there is no urgency for health care reform - hell, poor folk only dying by the hundreds of thousands!

    DiFi (D- Dining Room) was so willing to pull the trigger on TARP but not on the President’s stimulus or health care plans, though.

    I guess what America really needs in order to get Democrats off the fence is a small (I don’t want to be greedy, God) global pandemic of a deadly influenza strain that threatens to topple humanity as we know it. Then this administration can have quarantined closed-bunker meetings with members of Congress, telling them that their only choice is to pass a health reform plan that gives the administration complete control over about $2 trillion dollars and every facet health services, but with zero over site.

  45. DustBowlBlues says at 8:16 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Okrahoma elects Inhofe and Spooky Doktor Tom because the majority of voters are ass hat crackers who don’t know shit from Shinola and don’t care.

    What’s California’s excuse?

  46. DustBowlBlues says at 8:24 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Mull_Man: About twenty years ago my commie union prez. husband coined the term “corporate cocksuckers”. In the family, we call them CCS to be polite. The more things change . . .

  47. DustBowlBlues says at 8:27 pm, September 14th, 2009

    I served on a commission with her sister in Seattle. Upper class twit who felt entitled by birth. It’s a family thing.

  48. I sent her a letter at the start of junior’s 1st term, when the economy was booming and tax cuts were on the way. My beef was no need for tax cuts when the economy is great, let’s bank the money for the bad times to come etc..

    She actually replied, stating that tax cuts were absolutely necessary and unstoppable, “Americans need a break”.

    She’s a republican in all but name, but could never be elected in Nor Cal if she jumped parties. BTW, her hubby, Richard Blum owns a lot of real estate in California, he received an ambassador position (Nepal, I think) from Clinton.

    I hate them.

  49. Bearbloke says at 8:30 pm, September 14th, 2009
  50. Bearbloke says at 8:32 pm, September 14th, 2009

    AbstinenceOnly Ed: Wasn’t that her constituency when she was on the San Francisco city council back in the 1970s?

  51. Suds McKenzie says at 8:33 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Bearbloke: Did someone finally back him in a corner?

  52. DickTaterPeeNoShay says at 8:42 pm, September 14th, 2009

    It’s angst when your neighbor loses his health care, but it’s a category 5 crap storm when you lose yours

  53. Alpha O. Mega says at 8:49 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Bearbloke: So now he’s a ghost?

  54. TCmac: “She’s a republican in all but name…” is a riot, I know the sarcasm flows thick around here but DiFi’s been a wingnut hobgoblin since the ’80s, believe me, hatred of that bitch has raised more money from the gun-nut crowd than any love for both Bushies combined.

  55. Dreadful Gate says at 9:14 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Open up for a sec, will you Dianne? Good. Now just let me rest my balls on your chin for a bit…

  56. ForTheTurnstiles says at 9:19 pm, September 14th, 2009

    plowman: Meaning: everyone fucking hates her. Seriously, if there’s such a thing as a DINO, she is one. The NRA still makes a villain out of Jane Fucking Fonda. Crazy hates irrelevant.

    Meanwhile, another of America’s great “blue dog” Republicrats, our pal Joe Wilson, has some splainin to do on the Ricky Ricardo front… evidently he voted to provide something like health care for some illegal immigrant people, just as he blamed Obama for doing…

  57. Bearbloke says at 9:27 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Mull_Man: Dreadful Gate: While you’ve got your bollocks in DiFi’s mouth, read to her from her money-chasing record from Opensecrets.org

  58. CaliforniaMike says at 9:30 pm, September 14th, 2009

    It’s a little known fact that in her pre-Senator days, DiFi had a small role in the classic Patrick Swayze movie, “Roadhouse.”

    Fortunately, she wasn’t on screen when Jimmy looked at Swayze’s character Dalton and sneered, “I used to fuck guys like you in prison.”

    Forget “Dirty Dancing,” forget “Ghost.”

    “Roadhouse” is classic Swayze.

  59. Bearbloke says at 9:33 pm, September 14th, 2009

    ForTheTurnstiles: But at least ‘Merkin Hereo Joe Wilsun didn’t call Kanye West a jackass, like Fascist Communist Muslin Anitchrist Diktater Vladimir Adolph N0bama just did!!1!

    … Yes - the two incidents are substantially equivalent, ‘cuz Mr. Beck told me so!

  60. So I take it she would describe Humpty Dumpty’s problem as a bit of “angst”?

  61. Bearbloke: Fucker was younger than me. Hey, no cutting in line, bitch!!!1!

  62. Roger the Shrubber says at 9:56 pm, September 14th, 2009

    I’m thinking the health care reform we get is going to be take two heaping helpings of go fuck yourself and call me in the morning. In the meantime don’t run with scissors.

  63. Sorry, she got her money from her third husband…her net worth had increased to between $43 million and $99 million.

  64. “Feinstein [while stroking her bitch poodle Greenspan] also worried about creating new automatic spending programs - known as entitlements [, which could be called:]
    - Social Security (welfare for useless old, social parasites who should have enough goddam dignity to just crawl off into some fucking pit and die)
    - Medicare (med welfare for old, diseased, social parasites who should have etc.)
    - Medicaid (med welfare for dumpster-diving, disease-ridden, social parasites who should have etc.)
    - SCHIP (med welfare for kids of parents at the cusp of dumpster-diving, parasites who should have etc.)
    - SSI (welfare for simps, tards, blindees, deafees, gimps and crips who should have etc.)

  65. Finally Farley and Swayze are reunited in the Chippendales of Valhalla

  66. I know I’m playing right into the hands of the teabaggers and the Republicans and the “sensible centrist” Democrats, but I just want this whole thing to be over with yesterday. I’m fucking EXHAUSTED from the worrying and the fretting and the insane blog comments and the tea leaf parsing about whether or not the public option is dead or alive or in some in-between stage in a box with Schroedinger’s Cat. I just want them to do some half-assed thing no one likes already so we can move on to the next clusterfuck (energy? financial regulation? rodeo clown regulation?) everyone can go batshit about. You have to sit back and admire the wingnuts for their energy, if absolutely, positively nothing else. Seriously, I don’t know how they maintain their constant frothing-at-the-mouth hysteria AND cultivate their panniculi without popping an artery.

  67. Bearbloke: Looks like Swayze upstaged Kanye’s attention whorin. Next: Kanye interrupts Swayze’s funeral with another tirade.

  68. lawrenceofthedesert says at 10:43 pm, September 14th, 2009

    norbizness: Even more appropriate to the health care debate than being a blues song, “I Got Mine” is what’s known as a “medicine show” tune. I hadn’t heard Frank Stokes’ version — thanks for that — but had heard the song from the great Pink Anderson and a very decent version by Ry Cooder, who credited Anderson’s version as his inspiration. (However, you might want to reconsider calling Dianne “a 120 something,” as that actually compliments her appearance.) As for Feinstein’s sound and fury, it’s obvious that there is something she wants from Obama that she’s not getting, so playing hard to get on health care is her tactic. It’s the oldest ploy in Congress. She’ll vote the right way unless she is sure that the bill will or won’t pass without her.

  69. conservethis says at 10:48 pm, September 14th, 2009

    New word, difi…angst makes me think about Twilight and High School Musical.

    The economic collapse that happened because hardly anyone in congress has the balls to regulate the financial services industry should be called something a bit more salient.

    How about something like “great economic rape/murder/disembowelment”….so I could think of movies a bit more in tune…like Clockwork Orange and Chainsaw Massacre.

    If you’re gonna represent Hollywood…you need to bring it. Get all Kayne on it.

  70. No worryin’ about new entitlement programs, Diane. No worryin’.

    In his 2009 health care bill [H.R.3478], Rep. Louie Gohmert (R - Nile Virus, Tx.), the guy who raised the homemade sign “What bill?“ during Barry’s speech, will more than compensate for any new entitlements with his bill’s repeal of Medicare, Medicaid & SCHIP.

    http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:1:./temp/~c111QNgE4D:e2230:
    Section 103
    “titles XVIII [Medicare], XIX [Medicaid], and XXI [SCHIP] of the Social Security Act are repealed”
    No worryin’.

  71. glamourdammerung says at 11:20 pm, September 14th, 2009

    Vulpes82: “You have to sit back and admire the wingnuts for their energy, if absolutely, positively nothing else. Seriously, I don’t know how they maintain their constant frothing-at-the-mouth hysteria AND cultivate their panniculi without popping an artery.”

    Meth and deep-seated mental illness help.

  72. Don’t blame me, I voted for Jello Biafra

  73. glamourdammerung: Of course! How could I have been so foolish?

  74. Vulpes82: “You have to sit back and admire the wingnuts for their energy”

    Like saying that one must admire salmonella for its virulence.

  75. dogscantlookup says at 12:04 am, September 15th, 2009

    “DIANNE FEINSTEIN SAYS A COMICAL THING!”
    Lets stop pretending there any liberal, let alone any leftists in local, state, regional, nor federal government. you immortal cock sucking corporate cum trap DIANNE FEINSTEIN and most dems explicitly the “Democratic Farm Labor Party”! I know it will never happen, but bring back the Farm Labor Party! I know it was socialist! I am a god damn socialist!
    I am an Minnesotan Farm Labor! and I am drunk as shit at 11.00pm And she is funny looking. FEINSTEIN son of Fein indeed! Hurumph
    To drunk to type hurmphhurmphhurmph

  76. Atheist Nun says at 12:15 am, September 15th, 2009

    My own experience with Her Highness:

    Me: Dear Dianne Feinstein, I am your constituent and I support a public option, blah blah blah…
    Dianne Feinstein: I’ll do what I want, fuckface.
    Me: Well, then. I guess I’ll be voting for someone else next time, bitch.

    The End.

  77. dogscantlookup says at 12:42 am, September 15th, 2009

    Atheist Nun: hip hip Hear, hear!

  78. President Beeblebrox says at 12:46 am, September 15th, 2009

    OT but teh funnee: Santorum/Trig ‘12! Imagine the laff riot if Santorum puts him and his identically-dressed kids back in Politix.

    http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/14/santorum-president-2012/

  79. Im’a just leave this comical thing here for all of the overnighters, before tomorrow morning when everyone will send it to you on the Twitterbookspace or whatnot, and you can go “FEH! I saw that YESTERDAY, which in social media time is APPROXIMATELY THE YEAR 1739″

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxKIcrDsJAs

  80. CaliforniaMike says at 12:55 am, September 15th, 2009

    El Pinche: Kanye jumps up and screams, “Jacko died better!”

  81. dogscantlookup says at 12:59 am, September 15th, 2009

    Iz got more funny for Democrat Dianne Feinstein Democrat Dianne Feinstein
    Moskau

    Раз, два, три!
    (Raz, dva, trii!)

    Moskau

    Посмотри!
    Пионеры там идут,
    песни Ленину поют.
    (Posmotrii!)
    (Piionyer tam iidut)
    (Pyesnii Leniinu poyut)

    Sie ist alt und trotzdem schön
    Ich kann ihr nicht widerstehen
    не могу устоять
    (Nye mogu ustoyat)

    Pudert sich die alte Haut
    Hat sich die Brüste neu gebaut
    построила вновь
    (Postroiila vnov)

    Sie macht mich geil ich leide Qualen
    Sie tanzt für mich ich muss bezahlen
    я должен платить
    (Ya dolzhyen platiit)

    Sie schläft mit mir doch nur für Geld
    Ist doch die schönste Stadt der Welt

  82. desertwind says at 1:18 am, September 15th, 2009

    Yup. That’s meh senator.

  83. My choice. My Wonkette. says at 1:33 am, September 15th, 2009

    This impotent old whore is also one of two Democrat Senators to come out against the Employee Free Choice Act. Will somebody kill her dog or something? “Union thugs”…?

  84. obfuscator says at 1:34 am, September 15th, 2009

    Extemporanus: milk/d!

  85. dogscantlookup says at 1:49 am, September 15th, 2009

    My choice. My Wonkette.: will someone rid me of this meddlesome priest? oh if he/she dies I had nothing to do with that!

  86. Georgia Burning says at 2:05 am, September 15th, 2009

    Saying bad things about guns/nice things about gays makes the Orange County crowd hate her guts with blind passion. Other than that she’d pass as Republican in thirty-seven states.

  87. desertwind says at 3:31 am, September 15th, 2009

    Georgia Burning: I’m grateful she turned my backyard into a national park, which the Republicans would never do, but I still hate her.

  88. gurukalehuru says at 4:16 am, September 15th, 2009

    MGBYG: No, no, no. Barbara Boxer is great, she is one of the few Democrats (Russ Feingold, Barney Frank) who actually act like Democrats. Dianne Feinstein is Joe Lieberman west. Do not confuse the two.

  89. gurukalehuru says at 4:35 am, September 15th, 2009

    Die, Di, die, Di, Die, Dianne
    Old and ugly, mean and rich
    Die, Di, die, Di, Die, Dianne
    Rot in hell, you fucking bitch

    If somebody could put that to music, I think it would be really cool.

  90. Feinstein thinks she has Angst now, but just wait until she wakes up with Welts on her Schmerz. Ja, she’ll be all Schade and we’ll be the feelin’ the Freude.

  91. LoweredPeninsula says at 5:16 am, September 15th, 2009

    Feinstein is the closest thing the California GOP is ever going to get to a Republican, so they better love her.

    BTW, do you Californians ever wonder how you got two Jewish, Bay Area women for Senators? I guess lightening really does strike twice.

  92. proudgrampa says at 8:02 am, September 15th, 2009

    She is so freakin’ annoying.

  93. Diane Feinstein is what I like to call scugly: scary ugly. That about rounds out my opinion on the subject.

  94. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 9:29 am, September 15th, 2009

    Angst is the new dead.

    /Mike Fuckabee

  95. Once a Dragon Lady always a Dragon Lady./

    The bitch successfully out-rednecked Orrin fucking Hatch on drugLaw frenzy and the mandatory minmums on crack. 10 years for a gram, a slap on the wrist for a gram of powder.

    The bitch loves black people so much she decided to give a million of them free room and board. at California’s largest institution, the prison systems.

    All those insane prison gangland murderers now on the streets

    Thank’s
    Diane.

  96. Mr Blifil says at 9:52 am, September 15th, 2009

    She is right. Just wait until things get better. As is happening in New Orleans and at Ground Zero at present.

  97. Angst is what makes the world go ’round, lady. Learn to embrace it.

  98. Speed Ball says at 10:14 am, September 15th, 2009

    It’s really difficult to change a tire once you actually have a flat tire on the side of the Highway. YOU SHOULD HAVE CHANGED IT BEFORE IT WENT FLAT, SHEEPLE.

  99. Vulpes82: …You have to sit back and admire the wingnuts for their energy, if absolutely, positively nothing else. …
    Sullivan had a post this morning about “Zombie Conservatism” — a term he picks from a post Rod Dreher made last week:

    Despite what Sam Tanenhaus says, conservatism is not dead. Rather, it’s undead. The conservative movement is herking and jerking like a zombie, dedicated to little more than frenetic gestures execrating Obama, and to regaining power. To what end? Given that they’re birthing a conservative party whose instincts are dictated by loudmouths, reactionaries and crackpots, and overseen by cynics, it’s dispiriting to contemplate.

    Where can those who wish to think and debate clearly about a serious politics of the right go? The degenerate form of populism now dominant on the right loves to praise “freedom” - but it has no use for freedom of thought, or thinking much at all. In turn, increasing numbers of thoughtful conservatives have no use for it.

  100. gurukalehuru: Works pretty well to ‘Barbara Ann’…

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