The other day, I was talking to our Charlie Cooke — Sir Charles, to me — about a Charles Moore column (speaking of Charleses). Talking about a Charles Moore column, to me, is a little like talking about Scripture. Moore said something like the following: Our morality is all upside down. (Big news, I know.) The “moral” position is to keep spending on the social programs we have in place rather than avert economic collapse.

Think of it: It is more “moral” to continue the spending binge than it is to stop it, and save ourselves. That is both upside down and perverse.

In Impromptus today, I quote Jeb Bush to the same effect. I had an interview with him in which he talked about the pain that would be entailed in putting our house in order. But that pain is nothing, he said, compared with the pain of . . . what? Hyper-inflation, high interest rates, submission to the dictates of other countries around the world. All of that would be brutal, he said.

It seems to me that Republicans could do a better job of making this point: Economic collapse, which is where we’re headed, is unkind; the avoidance of such a collapse is very kind indeed. You know?

Why are we the meanies in this game? Because we always are? The Democratic leader in the House, Nancy Pelosi, said this about us the other day: “They want to destroy.” And “they want to destroy your rights.” Why oh why don’t we give it back to her? Who’s doing the destroying around here, lady? (At least we don’t accuse her of wanting to destroy.)