Steyn is a brilliant and wise guy. His coments on Hillary and the Senate Dems deserve to be repeated:
HH: All right. Your National Review article, The Icewoman Cometh, available in part at National Review.com, is very entertaining. She is coming. Joe Biden is standing in her way. Is she going to cut through him like a machete through sugar cane?
MS: Absolutely, and the reason is, Joe Biden is one of these figures who, he doesn't have the leeway to offend the base that Senator Clinton does. I mean she's basically the one woman, the one person in that party who's in a position to move to the right, or at least pretend to move to the right on issues like abortion and so forth, without offending the Democratic Party base. She's big enough to get away with it, in the way Joe Biden and Evan Bayh and these figures aren't. And so I think she is...and basically the history of the last fifteen years is that the only electable Democrats are those happen to have Clinton as their surname. And that's the story. If you've got...the Clinton's Democratic Party has been great for the Clinton's, and disastrous for the Democratic Party.
HH: But the Senate Democrats are so out of their mind. I mean if Harry Reid goes to the mattresses on the judges, doesn't he drag Hillary with him?
MS: I think she'd be very shrewd at avoiding that. You know, the problem with people like Harry Reid is that when you can't get elected to power, obstructionism is all you have left. And that's a good short term tactic. But if you're on T.V. every day of the week just obstructing something, like these whiners in this John Bolton thing, where they're basically complaining because they said something to him and he put his hands on his hips, and they thought that was an aggressive symbol. I mean these people sound like whiners and losers. Obstructionism is a useful short term tactic if you deploy it once every couple of years. As a way of life, it's disastrous. |
