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

by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON April 6, 2017 12:38 PM @VDHANSON

The House Intelligence Committee fights, the Susan Rice revelations, the stale Russian collusion story, the Gorsuch battle, the Bannon battles, the end of the filibuster, etc. are all different fronts of the same existential struggle: the unlikely Trump victory is unpalatable for the Left and its dangerous ramifications for the entire progressive project must be stopped by any means necessary.

I think it was understandable (though I might disagree with that decision) — after acting on whistleblower information and bringing the non-Russian-related intercepts, unmasking, and leaking to the attention of the committee and the country that otherwise likely would never have seen the light of day — that Chairman Devin Nunes both stays on as chair on the Intelligence Committee, but like Jeff Sessions in the matter of the Justice Department, temporarily recuses himself from directly investigating the various charges. In this entire hysteria, Nunes has acted ethically and was done an injustice by those who acted unethically and who will now only be emboldened.

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nuts, meet drawer

again :(

I think it was understandable (though I might disagree with that decision) — after acting on whistleblower information and bringing the non-Russian-related intercepts, unmasking, and leaking to the attention of the committee and the country that otherwise likely would never have seen the light of day — that Chairman Devin Nunes both stays on as chair on the Intelligence Committee, but like Jeff Sessions in the matter of the Justice Department, temporarily recuses himself from directly investigating the various charges.

Anyone who could publish such an ugly-ass, confusing, tangled up sentence and proudly attach his name to it, is neither a good writer nor a clear thinker.

P.S. @VDHANSON eh? When I was young, V.D. carried a very specific meaning.

It's related to the Mmmbop Virus

what aimless said x 10,00. not only is VDH smoke screening for the Putin-puppet, this jerk can't even write a coherent sentence. how er appropriate.

Well, he's of a type -- old Central Valley dude out here, complaining about everyone not like him. Been doing that for years, and now that his last big fantasy seems to be crashing badly, so is he.

what aimless said x 10,00. not only is VDH smoke screening for the Putin-puppet, this jerk can't even write a coherent sentence. how er appropriate.

― Dogshit Critic (m coleman), Thursday, April 6, 2017

I couldn't resist commenting.

aww..

Eons ago — like 2009 — I saw the word “bleg” a lot. It means, I think, to ask for information via a blog. I don’t see the word much anymore. But in any case: Can you help a brother out?

I begin my Impromptus today with the idea of a “Thank you,” “Thank you” society. America is such a society. The double “thank you” is inherent to capitalism. You want something, and you’re willing and able to pay for it.

You hand the money over. The other guy says, “Thank you.” He hands over the goods. You say, “Thank you.”

It’s “Thank you,” “Thank you.” Everybody wins. Nobody gets the shaft.

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Heartwarming.

Nobody gets the shaft except the people who aren't able to pay for the things they need but hey! It's "Thank you," "Thank you."

To be fair to Jay Nordlinger, that was surely inspired by the cranky right-wing thing going around a week or two ago by somebody who was super-mad about people thanking the clerk after they purchased something -- YOU are keeping THEIR STORE afloat with YOUR MONEY, YOU owe them NO THANKS!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-_z8P1XoAIvLIO.jpg

each forum gets the walter white it deserves

Well, it IS Williamson, he looks the part.

Can you help a brother out?

No thank you

Thanks for the Google lesson, Ramesh.

Dennis Prager remarks that most women, if asked, will embrace the label ”feminist.” The remark inspired me to do a few minutes of Googling.

A Vox poll from 2015 found that only 18 percent of respondents considered themselves feminists. I didn’t find a breakdown by sex, but women were 52 percent of the sample. Even if every man in the poll rejected the label, there’s no way a majority of women accepted it.

A YouGov poll from 2016 found that only 32 percent of women said yes to the label, while 45 percent said no.

But a Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation poll from last year found higher rates of self-identification as feminist, perhaps because it gave respondents both the options of “strong feminist” and “feminist” (as well as “not a feminist,” “anti-feminist,” and “no opinion”). In that poll, 17 percent of women chose “strong feminist” and 43 percent chose “feminist.”

I conclude that it is fair to say that whether most American women consider themselves feminists is at least open to dispute.

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that's about three hairs' breadth from opening a piece with 'webster's english dictionary defines <topic of this column> as...'

A quick Google search defines "feminism" as one of Taylor Swift's squad goals

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447746/donald-trump-self-inflicted-wounds-conservative-cognitive-dissonance-untenable

The comments are not as brainless as I expecte.

a bunch of NRinOs

The same theory of law, order, and personal responsibility without excuses that his attorney general has decided is good for petty drug offenses ought to be good for the conduct of the Oval Office, too.

tell'em, Mordy!

it's a quote from the article

god conservatives with a conscience have to be the most delusional bullshitters of all

"Any one of a basic array of conservative virtues — intellectual humility, deference to custom, acceptance of time-honored norms — would have spared Trump the last week’s news"

otm they think that Trump voters should value "intellectual humility" "restraint" zzzzzzzz but then these wouldn't be Trump voters, that's among what they're rejecting!

also with these dudes they're all "we must practice moderation" but there's always some issue (usually abortion ) where they go completely against that, it's so hollow.

well they probably think that the correct, traditional view was usurped or whatever so there's always a rider that you should be a good burkean except for when correcting the errors of history is concerned

Rationalization is a helluva drug.

it helps u be cool w voting for the iraq war tho yay values

Guess who's back and on the political beat!

President Trump was there with the First Lady and his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, now both administration officials, among others, including the Secretary of State. After meeting with the pontiff, the president could be heard saying: “I won’t forget what you said.” Both he and his wife appeared to be moved by the visit — it would be hard not to be.

Watching early in the morning U.S. times – the cable channels and EWTN, the Catholic channel were covering it live – it all seemed quite respectful, quite warm, quite human. One can imagine for a president who does appear somewhat in over his head, the encounter with a holy man, while official, could have also been a respite. (After all, is it possible that the most used word last week — especially in the media, but also in private conversations by non-politicos “impeachment”?)

Some of the photos seem to suggest as much.

Headlines and commentaries in the past — and today — suggest the two opponents. Taking the pope at his word, he wanted to hear the president out. Taking the president and the First Lady at their word — and tweets — there was something more about this day than other days.

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Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 9h9 hours ago

Honor of a lifetime to meet His Holiness Pope Francis. I leave the Vatican more determined than ever to pursue PEACE in our world.

truly, we have never seen a tweet of this caliber from this president before. perhaps there is something more about this day than other days.

ok then

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/447991/cook-poem

Jonah!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/448092/alien-covenant-review-androids

this bit is...otm?

And speaking of androids, Michael Fassbender, who reprises his robot role from Prometheus and as a second, outwardly identical, robot is really very good. But I would much rather Ridley Scott had made a My Dinner with Andre–style movie with the two robots just talking to each other for 90 minutes. That’s clearly where Scott’s heart is.

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Not jokes, just touched by this tribute to the late mailroom guy

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/448515/alex-batey-rip

Belongs on the rolling obit thread imo

Ladies and gents...Victor Davis Hanson.

by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON June 29, 2017 11:12 AM @VDHANSON

Just when the media take-out of Trump has backfired and exposed an endemic absence of journalistic ethics and chronic malpractice, Trump goes on another crass and extraneous Twitter attack against the increasing irrelevant MSNBC morning hosts (who have in turn often unprofessionally attacked him).

The point is not to suggest another “watch your tweets” warning to Trump, but rather a reminder that lots of hoi polloi Trump base supporters are slowly growing tired of the distractions. For them the point is not just “acting presidential” (we are, after all, in the post-Obama age of televised presidential Final Four picks, tough-guy attacks on Sean Hannity, GloZell, To Pimp a Butterfly, and ankle bracelets going off in the White House) but rather distractions from the agenda.l

he can't even hate the president without swiping at Obama and...Kendrick Lamar.

wow a whole universe of Obama scandals I was unaware of.

ankle bracelets!

I remember that time my Obama phone interfered with my ankle bracelet and I wound up teleported into the dumbest bill and ted's bogus presidency elevator pitch ever.

I remember when I signed up for Obamacare and was automatically registered as a member of the Gangster Disciples

LOLwry is disappointed

This guy.

Kind of staggered that out of "America First" / "enemies of the people" / "cosmopolitan" / "globalist", it's the first that he calls anti-semitic.

NRO-adjacent J. Pod tweet, but look at the actual list that he calls "sheer PC."

The sheer PCness of this list is suffocating. https://t.co/qkDH5Kf6D0

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) August 11, 2017

i mean i get it. too much munro.

I'm fine with him being suffocated tbh

the sheer PC-ness of Tolstoy