NRO's The Corner: Obamacare ‘like a house on fire’ with more flammable parts yet to come

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/jan/22/us-election-2016-campaign-live-coverage-donald-trump-sarah-palin-bernie-sanders#block-56a2816ee4b05f5c24ca529b

Over at the Washington Post, Callum Borchers interviews National Review editor Rich Lowry, who is God’s answer to the question, “What would the sentence ‘Dad, I lost my retainer’ look like if it was a person?”

This is the first exchange:

FIX: How long ago did you start this project? It must have been quite the undertaking.

LOWRY:It was a month in the making.

Go to hell, you steaming turd:

In sum: Isn’t Trumpism a two-bit Caesarism of a kind that American conservatives have always disdained? Isn’t the task of conservatives today to stand athwart Trumpism, yelling Stop? -- William J. Kristol

if there's a worse image than that this year it will be something come from revelations

I assume the slime Kristol oozes would make it p difficult for him to stand athwart anything

the steaming turd emerged from one of the seven seals iirc

kristol is the most reliable contrary indicator in politics. he was trump-curious in the earliest stages when it would still have been possible to bury him, and now look at that. donald has it locked up i think.

locked up? not a single vote has been cast! he's going to lose in Iowa.

what happens after that I have no idea

the NR writes another cover story, that's what

Yeah, Jeb Lind collected all his posts today:

http://mrdestructo.tumblr.com/post/137840337770/the-national-review-against-trump-liveblog

America’s #1 magazine of conservative thought and genteel, boat-shoes white supremacy, National Review, decided to take the fight to Donald Trump yesterday. Apparently, a bloviating wealthy white guy with essentially no interest in anything other than performative Christian morality trying to win your votes by demonizing Muslims, Hispanics, women and leftists is now harmful to the conservative brand.

two-bit Caesarism of a kind that American conservatives have always disdained?

What about all those times when they planted their lips on Douglas MacArthur's insubordinate ass?

otm.

weird that they didn't get an essay from derbyshire

i have not investigated directly but i believe derbyshire is happily pro-trump

https://mobile.twitter.com/DissidentRight/status/690714262994604033

Oh look dude has a podcast, too, hosted by the lovely people at vdare

reassuringly relatively small number of followers

know it's pronounced darb or whatever but can't stop laughing at "radio derb"

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@JAYNORDLINGER A couple of words on a couple of posts, below. I have a bias where Ted Cruz is concerned — as a friend and helper of his — but I must say I find his stance on ethanol, in Iowa, downright noble.

There’s a reason that Governor Branstad has singled out Ted, and no other candidate, as a man who should be unacceptable to Iowans: Ted has taken a principled conservative stance on subsidies.

At the debate in Des Moines the other night, a moderator, Chris Wallace, made sure to highlight Branstad. He called him “the popular governor of Iowa” who, moreover, “is in the hall tonight.” The cameras showed Branstad. There was big applause for him. Then Wallace asked Cruz why Iowa voters should “side with you over the six-term governor of the state.”

I thought Ted answered logically, compassionately, bravely, persuasively, and, again, downright nobly.

Today in Iowa, he’s getting hammered on ethanol. And also on birtherism, or by birtherism: the charge that he is ineligible to run for president on account of his mother’s presence in Canada. (Can’t you tell Ted is Canadian? He is so self-effacing and modulated.)

If you can know a man by the attacks on him, these attacks are pretty complimentary.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/430552/ted-cruz-donald-trump

Someone should tell Ted and Jay that the only voters who care about the ethanol subsidy are voters who like the ethanol subsidy. Telling the uncaring voters that they ought to care about Cruz's noble brave compassionate (?!) stance is like trying to re-crisp milk toast after the hot milk has been poured on.

A Friend and a Helper-- sounds like Oscar-bait title for 2017

nordlinger vaguely . . . otm?

ethanol subsidies are total horseshit, weird that they didn't get banned along with every other pork barrel/local appropriation

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Israel_Defense_Forces

precisely

What does Norway, Israel and Eritrea have in common?

kind of odd that women are mothers and daughters, not sisters

Or widows

The army needs battalions composed entirely of widows. What have they got to lose, right?

NRO has been less offensive than usual lately

Do you think these guys would be fer or agin' a film about the Nachthexen?

On the one hand, a WWII movie where Nazis get blown the fuck up but good. On the other, a flick about Red Army women fighting and dying on the front lines as True Believer Communists, put into the pilot seat as a direct result of ideological gender equality.

by Andrew C. McCarthy February 10, 2016 7:23 PM

I was just in the car flipping radio channels. Landed on the classic rock station and was treated to Mick Jagger, er, crooning his way through “Wild Horses.” Painful … so I switched over to the political station only to find Hillary screeching her way through the end of last night’s speech. Mick is starting to sound like Bing Crosby to me.

xp kind of amazing to me that the scale of shared brutality of the eastern front has spawned so few movies tbh

probably bc Americans are generally uninterested in war narratives outside their direct experience but still

by Jay Nordlinger February 13, 2016 6:48 PM @jaynordlinger

A student wrote me, many years ago. I’m going from memory, but I think I have it. S

calia was visiting the law school at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. A student mentioned to him, “My roommates and I bought some fish. We named one after you.” Scalia said ,”Oh, so you called him Nino, did you?” “No,” said the student. “We call him Justice Scalia.” “Well, what about the other fish?” said Scalia. Replied the student, “Justice Scalia ate them.”

What a great guy, Antonin Scalia. Connoisseur of the opera. Lover, and singer, of the American Songbook. Master jurist.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

Jay Nordlinger does not realize that, the fish being a symbol of Christ, Our Savior, that 'Justice Scalia' devouring them all is emblematic of Satan's dominion over the earth.

It’s Time for an Anti-Trump Manhattan Project

weird that they would call for an enormous, expensive and secretive government project to stop their own party's front-runner

I'm disappointed this thread isn't revived daily. Are K-Lo and her rosary beads sitting this one out?

https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/702534912205836289

from that stop-Trump piece:

On its face, this theory is irrational to the point of absurdity — if I am told one more time that it makes sense to nominate a single-payer-supporting defender of Planned Parenthood because Congress’s repeal-and-defund bill was vetoed by the incumbent, I shall begin to order bourbon in bulk.

Lev Bronshtein • 5 minutes ago

National Review has spearheaded a GOP Establishment that is, in a nutshell, a traitorous cabal against the American people.

Offshoring our jobs, bringing in hordes of foreigners to undercut Americans on the jobs that are left--the GOPe is the only class to benefit.

Harry Holder Lev Bronshtein • 3 minutes ago

You act like jobs and your neighborhood turning into Guadalajara are more important than conservative talking points on free trade and open borders.

id du Lev Bronshtein • 3 minutes ago

I once had a malignant tumor that did nothing but lecture and belittle me. I had it forcibly removed.

•... Lev Bronshtein • 3 minutes ago

Unions and welfare state did that....nice rant though

enjoyed his use of 'redounded', 'pace' and the seven years war in a piece despairing of his party's base

"Melt down the fences if you have to" was also great in that regards.

trumpist revolt against neoconservatism/nro has been fascinating.

lotta trump fans are antisemites, if twitter is any measure

Trump, standing athwart NRO and telling it to stop

maybe the democrats will notice the nixon pact is unraveling and actually offer something to the underclass before they learn how to goosestep

"Mr. Gorbachev, melt down this fence."

Hmm. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?

Earring wearer and civil rights history illiterate Kevin Williamson:

But, beyond that, the presidential blog post (what an odd thing to write!) and his previous statements remind us of something more fundamental: Barack Obama rejects the notion of the rule of law as such, and he nominates to the bench justices who also reject it, which is dangerous and corrosive. Contrary to the president’s insistence, yes, the law is — or is intended to be — a set of abstractions, a neutral body of rules that applies equally to everybody, be they gay, straight, black, white, old, single mother, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, or Methodists. That is the beauty of the rule of law — and it is, incidentally, the only thing that makes the rule of law useful to the poor and the marginalized.

President Obama and like-minded thinkers (“thinkers”) believe that the law should be a respecter of persons for purposes of restitution, putting a thumb on the scale in favor of the poor, the powerless, minorities, etc. There is good reason to object to that on principle — you either believe in equality under the law or you don’t — but there’s a practical reason to reject that, too: If the law is a respecter of persons, you can bet that it will have outsized respect for persons of wealth and power. Consider all of the economic policy over the last 60 years that has been, in theory, aimed at “leveling” some imaginary “playing field” (one of the great examples of mistaking the metaphor for the thing itself) or raising blue-collar wages, or promoting manufacturing, or stimulating the economy, etc. Who actually benefited from all that? In almost every case, it was the powerful and the politically connected, and generally the wealthy. (The owners of Solyndra thank you very much for your investment in their well-being.) The powerless, above all, should want a rule of law that is truly neutral — it is their best chance at achieving real justice.

thinkers (“thinkers”)

this just isn't how you do snarky scare quotes