Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mph who wrote (69174)	2/3/2009 4:07:14 AM
From: Sully-	1 Recommendation Respond to of 90947

But We Won Jonah Goldberg The Corner Ramesh asked yesterday: "I'm not quite sure why so many liberals are spluttering with rage over the Republicans' failure to go along with their stimulus ideas." He then went on to provide perfectly rational explanations for why liberals should still be happy. But I think there's an answer for liberal rage: They won. They've been yearning for victory for a very, very long time. They've been full of passionte, netrooted, intensity. Like a starving man dreaming of his next big meal, they had all sorts of ideas about how great their repast would be. Moreover, they believed their own hype. They actually believed that the in-the-tank press was accurately describing reality when they described Obama's FDR-like and Lincolnesque abilities — and opportunities. They bought the idea that because Obama wanted a post-partisan era, he would get it. And they won, they won, they won! And like any kid on their birthday, they think everything should go their way. That's why this stimulus bill isn't a stimulus bill. It's a bill to catch-up on liberalism's yearnings for social democracy and a more generous welfare state. God gave them this financial crisis as the perfect excuse and Barack Obama as the perfect leader to bring it home. And yet, it didn't happen the way they hoped. Republicans didn't rollover. Conservatives haven't dropped their convictions. In fact, they seem to have found them. And the Republican vote was the first real proof that an era of New Politics isn't here, that not all the political stars are perfectly aligned for their moment even though, as Ramesh notes, the stars are still in their favor. And that makes them mad. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDQxZjVjZWE1ODZkYTkxYTA0Yzg0YzQ2MDM2YjI4NTM=