Dec
22
2021

URLs du Jour

2021-12-22

  • Not much today, sorry. But I wanted to share the cute Christmas card I got from the Reason Foundation. [Click thereon for a glorious full size version, should you need to enhance the fine print on Santa's list.]

    [Ho Ho Ho]

    Aw, they shouldn't have.

  • Gee, Gerard, don't hold back. Tell us what you really think. Gerard Baker kind of let loose on President Wheezy in his print WSJ column yesterday: Biden Emerges as Progressive Government’s Mr. Bad Example. Key paragraph:

    It’s not too harsh a judgment to say that this is a man who has risen to the top of American public life without a trace of accomplishment. When you’ve been in national politics for almost 50 years, you ought to have achieved something, if only by accident. But this journeyman politician, when he wasn’t getting almost all the big issues wrong, was largely a bystander. He is now a husk of a leader, a dangerously debilitated figure, who oscillates between displays of vacuous incoherence and weird, angry outbursts, like a confused old man at the wrong bus stop.

    Whoa. Whoa. And it goes on:

    Meanwhile, a heartbeat and a spine-chilling cackle away from the presidency, is another living rebuke to the idea that government is virtuous and wise. Vice President Kamala Harris has demonstrated, evidently to the alarm of much of her own staff, that she is simply another of Mr. Biden’s many mistakes—perhaps the biggest one yet. It is a dismaying state of affairs that we must all pray nightly for the continued health of an inept president to avert the calamity of a worse one.

    All so true, of course. But I was still kind of surprised to see it so bluntly expressed in the WSJ.


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