[.cnI redruM]

Liberals whine cbecause they know it works. If the squeaky wheel got tossed in the junk yard instead getting the grease, they stop it.

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[jmaroneps37]

Don't worry Jonah, it'll happen. Wait til the one year progress reports start coming in. First a big announcement in the State of the Nation then the biggie on May 1st ( a Democrat holiday).

[Dems_R_Losers]

God, this is wonderful stuff. Best nugget of the whole piece:

New York Times entertainer Paul Krugman.

[browardchad]

If giving as good as you get intimidates people from speaking their mind, maybe that's a good thing, because it most likely means those people haven't thought through their positions well enough to offer an opinion worth listening to.

Amen -- but I would delete "maybe."

[Oldeconomybuyer]

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[jcb8199]

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[VRW Conspirator]

It seems to me that the 'Pubs finally have a stick that they can bash the Dems with - anti-Americanism or unpatriotism. Come to think of it, these "isms" work because they smack of the truth. It is the spector (or is that penumbra) of the charges made by McCarthy and later by the House's UnAmerican committee. It will drive the Libs into moth-spin.

[mattdono]

If that makes you sad, if that makes you want your boo-boo-kitty and a cookie from your mommy, that's fine. But spare me the prattle about how dissenters are being intimidated. Either offer some facts or stop your whining.

The bolded comment has to be one of the classics, ever! Perhaps this is one of the greatest "closing" lines ever during a debate with a lib on just about any suject.

JonahG bump.

[mattdono]

Rum...you beat me to it. I had meetings off-and-on this morning and had this article open in my browser, just didn't get a chance to format and post it. Great article.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Clark promises a "New American Patriotism" where dissenters aren't afraid to criticize the government.

This is of a piece with the so-called "repression" of the so-called "McCarthy era." There was a real witch hunt in those days, but it wasn't a hunt for Communists but for anti-communists.

The proof is simple and clear:

In the literature of the Iraq of Saddam Hussain, would you expect to find more discussion of government tyranny than you would find in the literature of the 1950s, or less? You will find far less--for the simple reason that those with any detectable tendency to criticize Saddam Hussain got shredded.

In the America of the 1950s, OTOH, you will find a substantial body of complaints, described by a conservative critic as a cry rising up from all over the country of people shouting, "I am being cowed. I am afraid to speak out." And an even louder response, rising up from border to border, "Look, he is being cowed. He is afraid to speak out." And not a disappearance in a carload. Just a few people who had trouble getting the jobs they wanted.

It was an era far more of hunts for anticommunist "witches" than it was of a hunt for Communists. Because history reveals that the Communists were real, and far more numerous than their opponents--even many of their appologists--seriously suspected.