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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The real HotAir is
cold.
CHILBLAINS. Once again, from the Green Room Ghetto at HotAir, we bring you Doctor Zero:
The two-party system probably isn’t
going anywhere, although one of the parties could radically change in
character, or give birth to a truly viable third party, which
eventually devours it. There is too much power to be gained from unity
of purpose, and for all the factional squabbling and single-issue
jousting matches, the division between the parties has become
increasingly clear… at least to everyone except the more clueless
Republican politicians. The past nine months have fast-forwarded us to
a point we would otherwise have reached in ten or twenty years, when
the old game of saddling free-market taxpayers with the bill for
socialist programs could no longer be played. Before we can move any
further to the Left, the essential character of our nation must be
forever changed. In a process that began with TARP bailouts and
auto-company takeovers, and is meant to continue through the
destruction of the health insurance industry, those markets will no
longer be “free” in even a rhetorical sense. To grow any larger, the
government requires serfs, not sugar daddies.
The choice now is between liberty and tyranny. It always was, but like a used car, tyranny can be made to sound like an attractive purchase: loaded with good intentions, and financed with no money down and low, low payments. That deal is no longer on the table, and never will be again. The restlessness of the Blue Dog Democrats is the queasiness of people who aren’t sure they stand on the right side of the battle lines, when the morning fog melts away and lances are lowered.
The choice now is between liberty and tyranny. It always was, but like a used car, tyranny can be made to sound like an attractive purchase: loaded with good intentions, and financed with no money down and low, low payments. That deal is no longer on the table, and never will be again. The restlessness of the Blue Dog Democrats is the queasiness of people who aren’t sure they stand on the right side of the battle lines, when the morning fog melts away and lances are lowered.
uh, shouldn't they promote him to the main page, given that he writes and thinks better than everyone else associated with the site?
Cute thing about "The Green Room." They don't even tell you who wrote what. Like, who cares, huh? It wouldn't do if he upstaged the scrupulous moderate, the shallow beta-male cynical atheist, or the airbrushed media superstar of the whole shebang, would it?
Only one point we're making here. Go to HotAir every day, look at the right hand column, scrolling down till you find the un-highlighted Green Room section, and click on everything till you find Doctor Zero.
If he's reading or watching, or if you know how to reach him, he should know that he has fans who admire and seek out what he has to say. We'd love to talk to him and exchange views. We're even prepared to pretend that HotAir isn't mostly hot air. Because his cold air illuminates.
Work on it.
