Comments on: BUT I DIDN'T SIGN OFF ON THIS.

By: jazzbumpa

jazzbumpa — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:08:06 +0000

It sure was a surprise to see Curtis Lemay's name again. I had totally forgotten about that old coot.

A long time ago I came to the realization that reality has a left-wing bias. It took a while longer for it to sink in that the right is just bat-shit crazy.

But the nicer ones among them will pray for us.

By: yam

yam — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:41:33 +0000

Is this on?

(tap, tap, squeal)

Ahem…

Elections have consequences, fuck you.

Thank you.

By: Sharper

Sharper — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:54:27 +0000

Not to pick nits, but while Farago has contributed editorials to the WSJ in the past, TTAC is not his "personal blog," but rather a decent site for car reviews and explaining (for four years now) just why GM and Chrysler are so effin' retarded. Much of the opinion work on the site tends to skew rightward, but that might be because many of the submissions come from avowed car nuts, a demographic that skews rightward.

He also seems willing to publish any decently-written car-related opinion piece that's decently written (even if it is poorly argued). A lot of the readership gave him flak for posting some inane "how to" guides on regularly doing 150 mph on the highways.

That said, you've got it pretty right from paragraph #2 on down. Capital work!

By: John

John — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:34:43 +0000

Nice write-up, Ed.

This is all along the same lines as 'dissent' with the right: Disagreeing with Dubya was Anti-American, Traitorous, and not to be tolerated. How dare you not support our Great Glorious President?! Disagreeing with Obama, however, is a sacred and protected political right that should be respected, and only mindless government lapdogs would follow him without question!

The main problem is, as you said, that the right doesn't see politics as a matter of different approaches to solving the same problem. They see it as the Correct Solution (right) and the Wrong Solution (left). They do not believe in compromise, which is why they've earned the title Party of No. It's either their way, or the wrong way, and they won't accept the wrong way in any way, shape, or form.

They are, in a very real sense, everything that is wrong with the modern American political system.