NYP: STOP! (IN THE NAME OF LEFT)

New York Post ^ | April 26, 2005 | John Podhoretz

[OESY]

In 1955, William F. Buckley Jr. famously declared that the purpose of conservatism was "to stand athwart history, yelling 'Stop,' at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it."

That astoundingly witty remark was a rueful acknowledgement of the uphill challenge facing the nascent American right, half a century ago — trying to halt the forward movement of a self-confident liberal left that was utterly certain it could make the world a better place through government action and forced social change.

Who could have imagined, reading Buckley's words in 1955, that 50 years later the liberal left would have adopted Buckley's screaming "Stop" as its mantra? Only there's nothing whimsically philosophical about the Democratic "Stop," as there was in Buckley's case. Rather, there's something primal about it, something desperate, something heartbroken and enraged.

Judges appointed by a twice-elected president who received the greatest number of votes in American history? STOP!

Find new sources of domestic oil to combat our dependence on Middle East petroleum? STOP!

A nominee for U.N. ambassador who has been confirmed four times previously by the Senate and whose views clearly dovetail with the president who nominated him? STOP!

And on and on it goes. How else to explain the wild enthusiasm, indeed the almost romantic praise, expressed by Democrats and their cheerleaders in the media for the Senate filibuster — a legislative maneuver created by a quirk in Senate rules that was most famously used to block civil-rights laws in the 1940s and 1950s?

After all, the filibuster is the ultimate "stop" — a device that has no other purpose and no other effect other than to halt the passage of a piece of legislation or a nomination for high office....

[goldstategop]

ROFL! As John Podhoretz, explains, the Democrats are bound to yell themselves hoarse. And they have no horse sense for the reality of our time, which is something positive to offer the public. No Democrat can tell you what their party stands for. Every one knows they're against Bush. When they wake up in November 2006 with yet another hangover, they still will not understand why the American people keep rejecting them.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[MaxMax]

Imagine that everything that was invented, was invented before 1899.

And nobody ever needed to create a darn thing since.

Ohh, what a wonderful world it was to think it was the end of Humans.

Damn the luck!!

[MortMan]

Bill Bennett played a song from the Marx brothers' movie "Horsefeathers" that was absolutely appropos. The song was named "I'm against it!".

[yoe]

"...they still will not understand why the American people keep rejecting them.

They can not see that they have been duped into Socialist/Communist thinking; they can not see that their thinking has failed in any country that has tried Socialism. They have become part of this:

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened----
Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU

Fortunately there are many Americans who have not been indoctrinated by the liberal press and the many liberal academicians who for some unknown reason see something rosy in the historical blood thirsty communist theory - a romance with the devil.

[Edgerunner]

What ever it is, I'm against it!

[MaxMax]

Only God could understand you're defiant pain.
Grow up.

[randita]

All that yelling is leading to a potentially terminal case of laryngitis.

YEAH!

[MaxMax]

I vote too Zot.

[driftless]

I prefer to think of liberals and the Pie Party members as infants who squall when their medicine is being given to them. We know they like to throw food.

[Ann Archy]

I'll tell you what the Democrats stand for: Abortion, Hatred of Real Chrstians, epitomized by Bush, Abortion, Soft on Criminals, Abortion, Hatred of Real Christians, anti-Americanism, Abortion, dictatorship of relativism, Abortion, Hatred of Real Christians.