Jonah Goldberg: This guy is almost as delusional as Chimpy!

[Atman]

I've never liked the guy, and I shouldn't be surprised at 90% of the crazy crap in this latest column, but the other stuff is truly amazing. I had almost the same reaction reading this column as I did watching the homophobic doctor on The Daily Show last night..."Is this guy for real?" Except that unlike the homophobic doctor, I know Goldberg is "real." Although Goldberg starts off with all the right points, and seems to be relatively sane, he actually goes on to say he has fears for "the future of the republic" should Nancy Pelosi assume the speakership. Sheesh!

ON EDIT I missed one of the most comical points of the article...that Bill Clinton's high approval rating toward the end of his term were because of the republican's impeachment efforts, not in spite of it, and posits that Bush would similary benefit from the democrat's going after Bush. :crazy: Yeah...Iraq has nothing to do with Bush's low poll numbers! It's all because no one is trying to impeach him!

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Governing Realities
Where are the conservatives?

By Jonah Goldberg

Conservative Republicans have learned a painful lesson over the last few years. It turns out power isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Republican control of the White House and Congress hasn’t resulted in lights being turned off in Cabinet agencies or enormous garage sales of office furniture. Instead, Uncle Sam is still looking like Marlon Brando at the end of his career: bloated, sweaty, and slow moving. The GOP has become a Brando-like parody of its former self, reading its lines about cutting government without plausibility or passion.

The rub of it, from a conservative perspective, is that Republican control of the House doesn’t equal conservative control. It may not seem that way to liberals who think Joe Lieberman is right wing, but from the vantage point of the conservative movement, GOP dominance has been an enormous disappointment — good judicial appointments and tax cuts not withstanding. Our hopeful joy upon the 1994 takeover of Congress was like finding a new pony by the Christmas tree. Now it’s more like finding it slumped over dead on top of the presents.

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But what would actually happen? Well, the first thing we’d hear would be the metaphorical snap of the rubber glove as the House prepared to investigate the executive branch with a zeal and thoroughness normally reserved for prison guards who enjoy looking for contraband just a little too much. Subpoenas would fly. Perhaps printers would churn out bills of impeachment.

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But a Pelosi-run House could so horrify voters that it would probably prepare the soil for a Republican presidential candidate in 2008. Pelosi is, if anything, a moderate in the Democratic caucus, but she is indisputably far to the left of the American center, in part because she and her colleagues mistake passionately angry bloggers for the mainstream. Letting voters see this crowd try to have its way for two years would only help the GOP in the far more important 2008 election.

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[acmavm]

1. He's a sorry sick piece of shit. His mother is worse.

[KittyWampus]

4. Lordy, you just put it into a nutshell

[gratuitous]

2. Speaking of self parody, Jonah

When are you going to volunteer to fight this war you have so assiduously advocated? Or is actually fighting for freedom something "your people" don't do?

[Gman]

3. No, Bush would benefit from impeachment proceedings

just like Nixxon did. Oh yeah, Nixxon was real popular when he resigned.