Archive for the ‘Burkean bells’ Category
It’s just emotion that’s taking me over
I am really digging the Santorum surge. What sucks about Romney is that he when he says something dumb, the wingers shake their heads and say “that was dumb”. When Santo says something dumb—like that women shouldn’t serve in combat because they’re too emotional—you get stuff like this: It is not a gaffe at all. [...]
February 10, 2012
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DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 
103 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Hoot-Smalley
Take a tote but don’t choke
David Frum has some more pieces on Charles Murray’s book (here; here; here). I’ll summarize: the book is mostly about how much Charles Murray hates tote-baggers, whom Murray wrongly believes make up the vast majority of the 5% of wealthiest Americans. Nevertheless, Tote Brother Number One, Nick Kristof (maybe he’s number two, after E.J. Dionne) [...]
February 9, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 82 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
High In The Middle And Round At Both Ends
So if you want to know what LEROOOOOOY NNNNNEWTON! was doing while he was drowning in flop sweat and Santorum last night, he was too busy playing for Ohio by attacking the President (and Mitt Romney) here in heavily Catholic Cincinnati yesterday. Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich today brought his talk of family, jobs and [...]
February 8, 2012
· Zandar · 91 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Burkean bells, Election 2012, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Flash Mob of Hate, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Republican Venality, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
At home he’s a tourist
Hate him or love him—and I go back and forth—David Frum’s piece on Charles Murray’s latest is one of the best things I’ve read in a while (via). Read the whole thing, but here’s his take on strapping young bucks watching porn on their welfare Xboxes. You are a white man aged 30 without a [...]
February 7, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 133 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
Reince, watch, repeat
What struck me about that clip from old man Schieffer that mistermix put up wasn’t so much how offensive Reince’s comparison was but how obscure it was. How many viewers could possibly have known who Captain Schettino is? I had no idea. I had heard of the crash, but not to the point where I [...]
January 30, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 132 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Hoot-Smalley
Principled, centrist hipsters
Tebow help us all: WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 26, 2012 – AmericansElect.org has been selected as a 2012 Interactive Awards Finalist in the experimental category by South by Southwest (SXSW), the annual music, film, and interactive conference and festival held in Austin, Texas. Americans Elect is on the cutting edge of political reform – changing the [...]
January 26, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 49 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
Hard to say it any better than this
Doghouse Riley (via James Wolcott): Last year Mitch Daniels signed a bill blocking Federal funds from going to Planned Parenthood in Indiana. And his is what passes for a credible voice on cultural détente in the Republican party. The moderate wing of the Republican party is dead and it isn’t coming back any time soon.
January 26, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 26 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
Useful idiots
One of the great victories of conservatism was framing every debate as the real, Tebow-fearing Murkins versus the dirty hippies who spit on soldiers. Is there anyway the left could try to do the same with banskters and bankster fanboys? A few months ago, I would have scoffed at this idea, but after the nosedive [...]
January 25, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 79 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Election 2012
Got to give it up
He’s a little late (early by Village standards), but this is remarkably accurate, coming from Bobo (h/t reader T): To me, this whole race (the Republican primary) is now about manhood. Newt won South Carolina because he’s a bigger Alpha and Republicans want bellicosity, not politeness. Mitt looked soft and in the debates seemed unwilling [...]
January 25, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 79 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
GOP CURIOUS
For the lulz. He just can’t help himself. It’s this simple. One party talks about the debt, one party is trying to do something about it. One party wants to slash taxes and follow policies that would make the debt worse, the other is willing to come to the table and make hard decisions. That’s [...]
January 25, 2012
· John Cole · 56 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Bring on the Brawndo!, Burkean bells
Thick as a brick
Watching this, I’m struck by what an idiot Santorum is. I’m not claiming that Newt is some kind of a genius, but he can string logical sentence together. Sanotrum is just a moron. Why would anyone want Santorum to be their nominee? I just don’t get it. I don’t want idiots coaching my football team, [...]
January 19, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 124 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells
Knowing nothing in life but to be legit
Aside from Bobo, everyone—including the National Review—is hammering Mitt for not releasing his tax returns. Usually, the right likes to defend its own no matter what, but my take is that they just can’t get behind geeky bean-counting shenanigans. If Bain had shot striking workers or used its own paramilitary force to overthrow left-leaning governments, [...]
January 19, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 107 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells
Straussianiam and journalism just don’t mix
This is exactly why I don’t think newspapers should employ Bill Kristol or Bobo: Brooks: ... Why do we make candidates release their tax forms? Has there ever been a case where a presidential decision has been influenced by some bit of information that might appear on a tax form? I doubt it. Has information [...]
January 18, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 120 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
Kickin’ it in the Caribbean
You know the solution to this problem, don’t you?: Although it is not apparent on his financial disclosure form, Mitt Romney has millions of dollars of his personal wealth in investment funds set up in the Cayman Islands, a notorious Caribbean tax haven. A spokesperson for the Romney campaign says Romney follows all tax laws [...]
January 18, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 173 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells
I’m searching for my mainline
I don’t find the future of the Democratic party especially interesting: I expect that ten years from now, it will still be the same moderate, corporatist-but-not-as-corporatist-as-Republicans party that it is today. The one change I see is that it will become less and less white, and maybe that will have some good effects. I think [...]
January 16, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 111 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Burkean bells
