re: "The "centrist" National Journal has a question"

Jeff G at Protein Wisdom ("because not just anybody can summarize the news") unleashed some snark in support of the War Powers Act.

8/23

re: "Harbinger"

Jeff G. at Protein Wisdom ("because not just anybody can summarize the news.") examined the London rioters.

Money quote(s):

"Products of the long march.

Europe wants to walk it back, and the riots are in part a product of that desperation. Too many in the US, alternately, seems to think this way lies Utopia — and our government is more than happy to join them in their fantasies by continually kicking the can down the road, pretending that necessary reforms can always be put off indefinitely.

Worse still? The people in the US haven’t had their guns taken way just yet…"

The looming impeachment of AG Holder may delay that last part a bit more.

8/10

re: "Let’s see. What else can the GOP surrender on…? "

Jeff G. at Protein Wisdom ("because not just anybody can summarize the news") has a good handle on the nature of the problem.

Money quote(s):

"I understand that we can’t deport the more than 12 million illegals already in this country; but we shouldn’t reward them with a “path to citizenship” either. Secure the border. Then let the illegals decide what they want to do once we make it clear that we will not be granting any amnesty to lawbreakers. Period.

If these people are living scared in the shadows, there’s a reason for that: they are here illegally. And with real unemployment and underemployment already at close to 20% in this country, the last thing we need to do is flood the labor market with millions of legal, unskilled laborers.

You want to talk to me about increasing guest worker programs? Fine. But in the meantime, we need to be cracking down on employers who take advantage of illegal labor — in conjunction with releasing these same employers from growth-choking taxation and the kinds of ridiculous and redundant regulatory burdens that drive up the cost of doing business to begin with."

Nothing dramatic. Simply enforce the laws that are already on the books.

re: "Is the GOP going extinct? And if so, is conservatism to blame?"

Jeff G. at Protein Wisdom ("because not just anybody can summarize the news") remarks upon an entire paragraph of wrong.

Money quote(s):

"(T)hat single paragraph is so densely packed with wrong — from the idea that Bush was a “conservative” to the notion that waterboarding, to conservatives, is a thrill rather than a necessary evil — I won’t bother deconstructing it."

"(I)t reinforces a manufactured narrative that the progressives are hoping to push as consensus opinion; it enables the Big Lie about “what Americans want” (gay marriage? according to what polls? higher taxes? terrorists treated as criminal defendants in a courtroom?); and — and here’s where it’s supposed to really work, as a piece of propaganda — it serves notice to the leadership in the GOP that, should they not move the party more toward what leftists are out to portray as “centrist,” the party is doomed to fail."

&

"Bush’s presidency was a success in that it kept Americans safe and beat back a dangerous enemy — not because he was a “conservative” or classical liberal."