*The New York Times on the Brown victory:
“To our minds, it is not remotely a verdict on Mr. Obama’s presidency, nor does it amount to a national referendum on health care reform — even though it has upended the effort to pass a reform bill, which Mr. Obama made the centerpiece of his first year.”
Emphasis mine. Gentlemen, even Chris Mathew’s recognizes that you’re “whistling past the graveyard.”
RELATED: Message? What Message? By Mona Charon.
*Rest In Peace: Ignore the media, ObamaCare as we know it is dead, by James Taranto.
*Democrats on the Precipice of Failure, by George Will.
“The 2008 elections gave liberals the curse of opportunity, and they have used it to reveal themselves ruinously. The protracted health-care debacle has highlighted this fact: Some liberals consider the legislation’s unpopularity a reason to redouble their efforts to inflict it on Americans who, such liberals think, are too benighted to understand that their betters know best. The essence of contemporary liberalism is the illiberal conviction that Americans, in their comprehensive incompetence, need minute supervision by government, which liberals believe exists to spare citizens the torture of thinking and choosing.”
*Our Philosopher-King Obama, by Victor Davis Hanson.
*Hubris is Ruining the Democrats, by William Murchison.
“Hubris — unchecked arrogance — is ruining the very Democrats the voters put in office to rebuke the Republicans who seemed for a while to be ruining everything they weren’t actually ignoring.”
*Obama’s Broken Promises, by John Stossel.
*Best line of the day: John Derbyshire
“Culture is just customary collective behavior. If I ask: “Why do people in this place behave in this way?” and you reply, “Because of their culture,” you are asserting that they behave in this way because that’s how they behave. “Culture” is a sort of phlogiston or luminiferous æther that sounds as if it’s explaining something, but actually isn’t.”
