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"The GOP's Feigned Outrage
It takes chutzpah to protest what you've created."
[
Those who followed news coverage of the "tea party" protests last month
will
recall that one target of the partiers' ire was the TARP bailout of the
banking
system -- a policy of the Bush administration that President Obama has
carried
on.

And yet, in a television interview last month, we find no less a
representative
of the late administration than former Vice President Dick Cheney
endorsing the
protesters' accusations with what is, for him, considerable enthusiasm.
"I
thought the tea parties were great," he told Fox News's Sean Hannity.
"It's
basically a very healthy development."

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, one of the Republican Party's few
remaining
stars, has also cheered the public's willingness to "fight back against
Wall
Street and Washington insiders."

A Republican who wants to fight Wall Street! A Bush official who thinks
protesting Bush policies is "great"! Contemplating these curiosities, we
begin
to realize how easy it has been for conservatives to swing back into
full-throated opposition only months after their cataclysmic defeat.
]

[
As an example of this habit of mind, consider the essay that Mr. Gingrich
published in Human Events last week. "The current liberal bloodlust over
interrogations," he wrote, referring to the Nancy Pelosi-CIA flap, is
merely
"the Left's attempt to hunt down and purge its political opponents." And
yet, in
a different essay he published on the very same day (this one in the
Washington
Times), Mr. Gingrich regretted that, in all the years of Republican rule,
"there
was a strategic failure to root out the left and the special interests of
the
left."

Mr. Gingrich's side failed to "root out" and destroy their opponents; now
he
imagines that this is what is being done to his team.
]
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[
In his much-discussed speech last Thursday, Mr. Cheney intoned, "We hear
from
some quarters nothing but feigned outrage based on a false narrative."
And so we
do: A form of protest that persistently misses the point, a type of
populism
that only empowers the elite, and a brand of idealism that cohabits
comfortably
with corruption.
]

Remember the world of Bizarro, in the old Superman comics? The home of
the Anti-Sillygism and anti-logic, which is essentially what Gunner et al
uses.

Well, it's rahcheer. More strikingly with Big Tobacco, telling you not to
smoke!
Holy ****, just how does DAT compute? Dats like dividing by effing zero!
Another one of Gunner's talents: divide by zero, get a finite number --
any number you want, in fact.

The bottom line, it doesn't matter what you do or say, really.
Just don't get caught with hookers or get photo'd getting blown in an
airport bathroom -- or the white house, for that matter.

BUT, you CAN take Pubic money and essentially burn it, in the form of
bonuses, $600 hammers/toilet seats, eminent domain for private interests,
etc.
Lots of flutter and clucking, but nuthin really happens.

Cuz no culpables are dangling from the end of ropes, yet.
Except us, financially.
--

Mr. PV'd

So, get into the rope business before it gets too hot. There's a silver
lining in every cloud. d8-)

--
Ed Huntress