The closing thoughts from today’s Jolt:
I understand why we on the right hate Nancy Pelosi; she’s haughty, elitist, arrogant, unthinking, tone-deaf, insular, dismissive, San Francisco liberalism incarnate. What I don’t get is why Democrats keep Pelosi as their leader. The Democrats love to argue that the Republicans are “extreme” — check out the butt-kicking NRSC ad on this theme — but their leader is, indisputably, one of the most liberal lawmakers in the chamber. Of course, Congress is full of liberal Democrats who have figured out how to sound centrist and moderate when they need to back home; what’s fascinating is that because of her district, Pelosi either never learned or never cares to sound centrist or moderate.
So you end up with a Speaker of the House who, while citing the First Amendment in defense of the mosque, calls for (apparently government) investigations of people expressing opinions contrary to those of public officials.
Now . . . pretend you’re a mosque supporter. (Maybe you already are.) Would it ever cross your mind that the best way to persuade the 60some percent of New Yorkers and vast majority of Americans who vehemently disagree is to suggest that somebody start going through the finances of those who disagree? Even if you thought the opposition was all being funded by . . . well, Richard Mellon Scaife just isn’t the right wing conspirator he used to be, let’s say the Board of Directors of News Corp. . . . would bringing it up and banging the drum on this issue really be the most effective way to move the numbers on this?
I think the answer’s pretty clearly “no,” meaning that to mosque supporters, Pelosi is the single most ineffective advocate for their cause since Hamas and, of course, the imam, the developer, and whichever intern is manning the Twitter account today.
. . . She’s so far out there that she’s leaving Daily Kos contributors stunned: “So because she got some questions she didn’t like at a press conference, we have to investigate the finances behind people who oppose the mosque? Are you kidding me?” That’s right; chances are, you’re nodding in agreement to Howard Dean and the Daily Kos in the same day. In related news, the forecast is scattered showers of frogs and the Potomac turning to blood.
ADDENDA: Why can’t we put Khalid Sheik Mohammad on trial in Manhattan? Because the holdout juror from the Blagojevich trial might move.
I've long believed that the reason so many leftists hate Sarah Palin is that they see themselves in her. The Nancy Pelosis of the world listen to NPR and read the NYT. They like the slogan "question authority" but they've never questioned a professor's leftist diatribe and never had an original thought, and they fear those who do.
Simply, the Pelosis of the world aren't informed enough of their own side's views, let alone that of the other side, to form coherent and credible opinions. And when they see their mirror image on the right, someone utterly confident in her beliefs without having a basis for those beliefs, they lash out or laugh.
Like many evangelicals (and others), they're absolutely confident that their faith is correct, having been told so by the authorities, so they don't need to understand the basis for their faith.
The Pelosis, Courics, et al., don't seem to understand that they're really laughing at themselves, and that those who read and understand both sides realize that they are not the opposite of Sarah Palin but the other side of the same coin: they are no better, no worse, and no different.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live in the town,"
BUT
If I actually thought Sarah Palin was "no better, no worse and no different" than Nancy Pelosi,
"I would jump in the river and drown."
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRevoEmag, why the hatred for Sarah Palin? Whether you think that she deserves the high profile she has or not is one thing but she came by her political beliefs the right way.
You say "like many evangelicals" liberals are unthinking and are sure their faith is correct. Man everyone could say that about people they disagree with. The Evangelicals I know believe their faith is correct because of their personal and ongoing experience of God and His activity in their lives not because some authority told them to like it.
Again whether you think Sarah Palin is worth all the attention she gets or not she is waaaaay better then Pelosi and co.
Where do you come up with this attack on evangelicals on a post about the problems of Speaker Pelosi?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAbout the Blago addenda: does anyone know anything about that holdout juror? I know that juries are sacred & to be protected and all that, but what if that one juror turns out to have links to the local corruptocrats? It is Chicago, therefore "buying a juror" is not out of the question!!
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