Posted on 10/04/2013 6:39:55 PM PDT by neverdem
Way back in January, when it emerged that Beyoncé had treated us to the first ever lip-synched national anthem at a presidential inauguration, I suggested in this space that this strange pseudo-performance embodied the decay of America’s political institutions from the real thing into mere simulacrum...
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Meanwhile, Republicans offered a bill to prevent the shutdown affecting experimental cancer trials for children. The Democrats rejected it. “But if you can help one child who has cancer,” CNN’s Dana Bash asked Harry Reid, “why wouldn’t you do it?”
“Why would we want to do that?” replied the Senate majority leader, denouncing Miss Bash’s question as “irresponsible.” For Democrats, the budget is all or nothing. Republican bills to fund this or that individual program have to be rejected out of hand as an affront to the apparent constitutional inviolability of the “continuing resolution.” In fact, government by “continuing resolution” is a sleazy racket: The legislative branch is supposed to legislate. Instead, they’re presented with a yea-or-nay vote on a single all-or-nothing multi-trillion-dollar band-aid stitched together behind closed doors to hold the federal leviathan together while it belches its way through to the next budget cycle. As Professor Angelo Codevilla of Boston University put it, “This turns democracy into a choice between tyranny and anarchy.” It’s certainly a perversion of responsible government: Congress has less say over specific federal expenditures than the citizens of my New Hampshire backwater do at Town Meeting over the budget for a new fence at the town dump. Pace Senator Reid, Republican proposals to allocate spending through targeted, mere multi-billion-dollar appropriations are not only not “irresponsible” but, in fact, a vast improvement over the “continuing resolution”: To modify Lord Acton, power corrupts, but continuing power corrupts continually...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Steyn Ping
BUMP
Excellent!
Wham!
Out of the ballpark!
BRAVO!!
Really excellent article. Thanks for linking to the print version.
This one is absolutely inexcusable. The media are sitting on their ample backsides reveling in an insult to a class of people that Simply Aren't Their Kind. This has been a sharp divide since 0bama slouched onto the national scene and now constitutes an chasm across which communication simply isn't worth the effort. They are the enemy. They need to be treated that way.
Reading Mark Steyn makes you smarter
Tie Dingy to the stake and light the faggots.
Only if we don't take the fight to the rats, set the terms of the debate, will we be beyond salvation.
This past week was a good sign.
They also closed down the PRIVATELY OWNED Pisgah Inn and Mt. Vernon!! TYRANTS!!!
I feel kind of bad now. I had an opportunity to take my family to meet some of the incoming vets last Saturday, but chose not to because I needed to be at the airport an hour ahead of time—6:30 Saturday morning. That would have involved getting up at 4:00 am to don my fancy dress uniform, and leaving the house by 5, all while pushing husband and son to get ready. It appears we missed out on meeting some really feisty guys.
Mark Steyn:
“...a visiting party of veterans pushed through the barricades,
noting for reporters that,
when they’d shown up on the beach at Normandy,
it too had not been officially open...”
Steyn, brilliant even when he’s simply repeating the remarks of genuine heroes.
GENIUS.
Make certain we never reopen the FMCS. I had never heard of it before, but it is the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The “M” should stand for Massive “C” should stand for Corruption.
Read more here:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/watchdog/just-sign-here
You won’t believe it.
Mark Steyn ping.
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Thanks for the ping neverdem.
He is totally brilliant, thanks for posting this.
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