A Never Trumper Thanks Liberals

       Being a Never Trumper means that one always has to explain and justify oneself to other conservatives.  Typical accusations are of trying to ingratiate oneself to liberals, or of having impossible standards of purity when it comes to Trump's lamentable life choices.  George F. Will is an "elitist" who is "bitter" and "out-of-touch."  People who thought Paul Ryan a better conservative than Trump are just plain fools.
         The verbal abuse from the left includes the name of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which might as well be called the White Trash Law Center.  Originally formed to fight actual racists, the SPLC is now weaponized against pro-lifers.  Apparently, people who oppose abortion are white trash now.   Then comes this:

So we can now see that the left thinks everyone who rejected the demonic Hellbeast known as H-> is white trash.  And that the former Whigs who opposed slavery were white trash as well.  After all, the Republican party was formed by poor whites (easily distinguished from the fine slaveholding gentry who elected the Democrats of the 1860s).  Nancy Isenberg makes it so much harder to find fault with President Trump, and remain credible as a conservative in 2019.  The dismissal of a wide swath of Americans as white trash is amazingly arrogant, and enough to bring out the Dale Gribble in Estase.  I can see why a book like this was nominated for an award.  The NPR liberals must love Nancy Isenberg, as should President Trump.  Isenberg reinforces every trope of the Trump machine about "elitists" and the "establishment" who hate ordinary Americans.

Remember Joe?

Last week, Frank Rich railed that by rejecting a liberal Republican in New York state, conservatives were "eating their own." Mr. Rich never showed much concern when his own party did exactly the same thing to liberal hawk Joseph Lieberman. (Remember my August 2007 blog "Hypocritical Kos," which was about a tasteless photo promulgated by Daily Kos showing the Senator's head at the level of President Bush's waist.) What is good politics for Democrats is barbarism for Republicans.

It Starts With an "H"

There is a word liberals love to use whenever a Mark Sanford sex scandal or a Rush Limbaugh drug problem comes up. This word should also be applied to David Letterman, who for years has made fun of other people's sexual misdeeds (remember his two-priests-in-a-tree joke) or their possible sexual misdeeds (Sarah Palin's daughter might screw Alex Rodriguez), or even the way they dress (Sarah Palin dressing like "a slutty flight attendant"). Well, to Hell with all that nonsense, because Letterman himself is unable to control his sexuality. So I never want to hear another joke from David Letterman making fun of someone else's sex life. There's a word for this.

Consolidate, Regulate, Confiscate

There existed, at the turn of the century, two very different types of progressive thought. The thinking of Teddy Roosevelt was that the market should always involve a number of small interests competing with each other to produce at the lowest price possible. Hence, Roosevelt was known as a "trust-buster"; corporations like Standard Oil needed to be broken into smaller concerns.

A very different vision of businesses was held by Justice Louis Brandeis, who believed there was no such thing as a business that was too big. (Sound familiar?) Corporations should, in this view, be allowed to become enormous entities regulated closely by government. Ultimately, this view of business is totalitarian, because it takes no legal skill to nationalize behemoth corporations, making them part of the government.

The Obama administration follows the Brandeis model to a T- - consolidate, regulate, and confiscate.

What Reform Movement?

In November 2006, Estase wrote a blog entitled "Samson Leftism" where he opined Democrats had no policy objectives, and was told with great pride by someone calling himself Causal that

"[Democrats will] Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients."

was one of Bela Pelosi's great ambitions. However as Oh Blah Blah's health plan has led him to buy off big pharmaceutical, Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post writes,

"Critics on Capitol Hill and online responded with outrage at the report that Obama had gone behind their backs and sold the reform movement short. Furthermore, the deal seemed to be a betrayal of several promises by then-Sen. Obama during the presidential campaign, among them that he would use the power of government to drive down the cost of drugs to Medicare, and that negotiations would be conducted in the open."

Rough TIme For Oh Blah Blah

I guess Daily Kos is not the place to go for political news. The Kosites seem surprised everyone is not in love with Obamacare, and opine that Obama just is not aggressive enough. Daily Kos makes The Nation look conservative.

Appeasement Does Not Work

The foreign policy of Oh Blah Blah seems to be based on the idea that if we can just give enough money and sympathy to our enemies, particularly those who attacked us in 2001, they will decide that we are nice people and stop killing Americans. This is the logic behind nonsense like using American money to rebuild what Israel destroyed in its war in Gaza.

Unfortunately, the Catholic Church in America seems to believe the same sort of thing. If the bishops can flatter secondary liberals by endorsing their socialist vision as a "consistant life ethic" or a "seamless garment", they will stop doing the things the Church disapproves of. The most recent example of this is Notre Dame honoring Hawaii Forty-Four despite the fact that he is not only pro-choice, but has also declared war on the Catholic hospital system. Obama and his allies will not reconsider their policies simply because America's premier Catholic university did something nice for him.