[nathanbedford]

The virtue of capitalism is its Darwinian devotion to merit but it is this characteristic which liberals find most offensive about capitalism. Similarly, when you need someone to rescue Grandma from the fourth story of a burning house, you want your firemen be chosen on merit. As Michael Barone points out, our liberal mayor and our liberal Rev. are doing everything they can to wring merit out of the process for advancement of firefighters. This is not good news for Grandma.

Sometime ago I wrote a post in a different context which makes the same point:

"The whole idea of liberalism to repeal natural laws and substitute the will of the liberal. Liberalism, for example, repeatedly founders because it ignores natural laws of human behavior such as the disincentives which come from taking away private property.

A main idea of liberalism is to do away with the profit and loss system and substitute a command system with, of course, the chief of the system being the proponent of the system. The whole idea of communism is to do away with the profit and loss reality and create an economy which operates on a different set of principles.

Liberals do this in the legal arena as well. They forum shop. If they do not like political result on the municipal level they go to the state level; if the state level does not avail, they go on to the federal level; ultimately they will take their case to the world court. Each forum is only a whistle stop on the way to the desired result. Liberals are always changing the rules of the game at halftime."

We have a brand-new liberal in the Senate and I think he got there by changing the rules of the game in midstream.

[ME-262]

Sotomayor claims to be a “wise Latina”. I, however, am a wisecracker.

[neverdem]

Enjoy Ricci while you can. The good guys won for a change.

The socialists are determined to make a hash of it all in the economy and foreign affairs. Obama wants to be the socialist Reagan for the left, as his most recent biographer just said as much on the Charlie Rose Show. The moderates and the independents didn’t have a clue when they elected Obama.

The weird part is that to take back and keep the Congress since 2006, they moved to the right fiscally and socially. They started spouting “pay as you go” fiscal rectitude, and they ran pro-life and pro Second Amendment candidates where necessary. IMHO, the rats are going to go off the cliff.