Jackson, Sanford and weirdness (Mark Steyn)

Orange County Register ^ | 26 June 2009 | Mark Steyn

[JLS]

Jackson, Sanford and weirdness

Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits

In a lousy week, Mark Sanford had one stroke of luck: Michael Jackson chose the day after the governor's news conference to moonwalk into eternity, and thus gave the media's pop therapists a more rewarding subject to feast on – or at any rate one of the few stories whose salient points are weirder than Sanford's. Not that the governor didn't do his best to keep his end up on the pop culture allusions: "I've spent the last five days crying in Argentina," he revealed, in presumably unconscious hommage to Evita.

[JLS]

Steyn on current events

[JLS]

Steyn ping opportunity.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Small government, narrow responsibilities, part-time legislators and executives, a minimal number of aides, lots of days off: Let's burst the bubble."

Here, here!

Steyn does it again.

[FlingWingFlyer]

...and the next thing you know they're doing the rhumba on the floor of a Rio nightclub surrounded by Carmen Miranda and 200 gay caballeros prancing around waving giant bananas. In this case, the gentlemen of the South Carolina Press were the befuddled caballeros and Gov. Sanford was bananas.

Damn Mark! You owe me a monitor and keyboard! ROTFL!!!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Classic Steyn. Just classic.

Hey, it occurs to me that if we can have a Kenyan president, couldn't we have a Canadian one?

[ishabibble]

Wonderful!

[knews_hound]

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Thanks as always JLS !




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[MaggieCarta]

Thanks for the ping, knews_hound, and thanks for posting this, JLS.

Oh, if only I could write 1/10 as well as Steyn.

[MaggieCarta]

So, if ever there were a season for GOP philanderers not to unpeel their bananas, this summer is it.

LOL! I love this man.

[hattend]

BTTT

[PhiKapMom]

Stein has nailed it! He definitely has a way with words.

[autumnraine]

” So, if ever there were a season for GOP philanderers not to unpeel their bananas, this summer is it.”

Not very likely. It seems the GOP is bound and determined to do their very very best to allow the Dems to destroy this country as fast as possible.

[Albion Wilde]

keep those bananas zipped bump

[SC Swamp Fox]

"Small government, narrow responsibilities, part-time legislators and executives, a minimal number of aides, lots of days off: Let's burst the bubble."

...rinse, repeat.

[alrea]

It seems the GOP is bound and determined to do their very very best to allow the Dems to destroy this country as fast as possible.

ping

[COBOL2Java]

Mark gives me a new tag line...

[irv]

So big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.

And gangsters. Don't forget that part.

[Gritty]

Steyn BUMP!

[fortunecookie]

"Small government, narrow responsibilities, part-time legislators and executives, a minimal number of aides, lots of days off: Let's burst the bubble."

I agree, Steyn hits it again. But I can't see the current politicians rushing to agree to this small government plan. They won't willing give up their cash cows, their lovely luncheons and junkets and so on.

[Rummyfan]

There is a rather large point to all this. As my National Review colleague Kathryn Jean Lopez observed, a sex scandal a week from the Republicans will guarantee us government health care by the fall – in the same way that the British Tories' boundlessly versatile sexual predilections helped deliver the Blair landslide of 1997. And once government health care's in place the game's over: Socialized medicine redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in all the wrong ways, and, if you cross that bridge, it's all but impossible to go back. So, if ever there were a season for GOP philanderers not to unpeel their bananas, this summer is it.

all this folderol is merely distraction. Cap-and-Trade and health care reform must be stopped.