This entire post by Andrew Sullivan is completely hilarious:
Where Have The Sane Conservatives Been These Past Few Years?
David Brooks asks the question. PM Carpenter answers:
They were lounging in their cloakrooms' soft-leather, wingback chairs, breezing their eyes across conservative columns that dwelled, for example, on socioeconomic functions of "happiness," rather than conservative columns that relentlessly smashed the emergency glass and frantically rang the alarm bell: Has this party gone fucking nuts -- or what?The Brooks record is a little more complicated than that. But Bartlett and I started early. Frum was expelled from AEI for telling the truth.
Bwahahaha!
Well, drinks all around gentlemen! Heroes all!
After all, in only took until George W. Bush's 2nd Term ("Dubya II: Clusterfuck Harder") for it to begin to sink in on our Mr. Sullivan that the Right had gone completely mad (and who reacted to the bad news by seamlessly shifting away from demonizing his betters on the Left to insisting that all the bad people he had formerly sided with doing all of those bad things he had formerly endorsed were simply not "real" Conservatives.)
Then Mr. Sullivan lets David Brooks' long, long record of cowardice and mendacity off with a "complicated", because the Tory-careerist-suck-up-reflex is hardwired into Mr. Sullivan's head.
And then there is Mr. Sullivan's "Daily Beast" masthead buddy, David Frum. David Frum, who stooged for scumbags and fascists long after it was perfectly clear who and what they were. David Frum, who had to be pried out from behind his desk and thrown through AEI'a screen door to get him off the wingnut welfare teat, and who has been trying to burrow back into the GOP's good graces ever since.
Heroes all!
Finally -- as is true with every single column of this type -- Mr. Sullivan's self-congratulatory roll of honor comes without the slightest acknowledgement that the Left has been right about this stuff for decades [or, as one wag put it, "Repeating as epiphany stuff thoughtful liberals have been saying for the last 30 years"])
One of the technical terms for Liberals I remember from way back in the days when Messrs. Sullivan, Frum and Brooks were getting paid big money to napalm us for insufficient patriotism and disloyalty was "Murrica-hating, Commie surrender monkeys".
The technical term for us today remains "invisible".
This massive omission is one of the many inconvenient facts about Conservatism that Mr. Sullivan appears to be completely incapable of facing.
Why not email him at "The Daily Beast" at "andrew@thedailybeast.com" and ask him why?
(Brad DeLong asks the same question-that-dare-not-speak-its-name here)
8 comments:
Hey Driftglass,
Check out the reply I got back from Andrew Sullivan to my e-mailed question of Why?.....
i endorsed kerry in 2004. my criticism of bush on spending goes back to 2002. some factual correction is in order.
andrew
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Billy DiGiulio wrote:
Mr. Sullivan,
Why indeed sir, why indeed.
Bill DiGiulio
Bowdoin Maine
This entire post by Andrew Sullivan is completely hilarious:
Where Have The Sane Conservatives Been These Past Few Years?
David Brooks asks the question. PM Carpenter answers:
They were lounging in their cloakrooms' soft-leather, wingback chairs, breezing their eyes across conservative columns that dwelled, for example, on socioeconomic functions of "happiness," rather than conservative columns that relentlessly smashed the emergency glass and frantically rang the alarm bell: Has this party gone fucking nuts -- or what?
The Brooks record is a little more complicated than that. But Bartlett and I started early. Frum was expelled from AEI for telling the truth.
Bwahahaha!
Well, drinks all around gentlemen! Heroes all!
After all, in only took until George W. Bush's 2nd Term ("Dubya II: Clusterfuck Harder") for it to begin to sink in on our Mr. Sullivan that the Right had gone completely mad (and who reacted to the bad news by seamlessly shifting away from demonizing his betters on the Left to insisting that all the bad people he had formerly sided with doing all of those bad things he had formerly endorsed were simply not "real" Conservatives.)
Then Mr. Sullivan lets David Brooks' long, long record of cowardice and mendacity off with a "complicated", because the Tory-careerist-suck-up-reflex is hardwired into Mr. Sullivan's head.
And then there is Mr. Sullivan's "Daily Beast" masthead buddy, David Frum. David Frum, who stooged for scumbags and fascists long after it was perfectly clear who and what they were. David Frum, who had to be pried out from behind his desk and thrown through AEI'a screen door to get him off the wingnut welfare teat, and who has been trying to burrow back into the GOP's good graces ever since.
Heroes all!
Finally -- as is true with every single column of this type -- Mr. Sullivan's self-congratulatory roll of honor comes without the slightest acknowledgement that the Left has been right about this stuff for decades [or, as one wag put it, "Repeating as epiphany stuff thoughtful liberals have been saying for the last 30 years"])
One of the technical terms for Liberals I remember from way back in the days when Messrs. Sullivan, Frum and Brooks were getting paid big money to napalm us for insufficient patriotism and disloyalty was "Murrica-hating, Commie surrender monkeys".
The technical term for us today remains "invisible".
This massive omission is one of the many inconvenient facts about Conservatism that Mr. Sullivan appears to be completely incapable of facing.
Why not email him at "The Daily Beast" at "andrew@thedailybeast.com" and ask him why?
Because I'm likely to send something like "Die in a fiery auto crash, you worthless fuck!"
~
To If The Thunder,
I must admit, I like the simple poetry of it....
Mike.K.
But Bartlett and I started early.
Hahahaha! Was that back in '94 when he hired lying hack Betsy McCaughey to derail universal health care? Or when David Stockman admitted that supply-side economics were designed to funnel money to the rich? Or the many times the Republican Party used bigotry to sell plutocracy? There's the Iraq War and all the more recent crap, too, but it's cute the way he pretends that only recently did things go off the rails.
While PM Carpenter occasionally makes good points, I see he's still ignoring Corey Robin's well-documented work showing that the common conception of "Burkean" conservatism is a fantasy; the real Burkean ideology, as with all real conservatism, has always been reactionary.
For the chattering class, truth is socially rather than empirically determined. It is not socially acceptable to admit that the hippies are right, and have been right for decades. Sullivan, Frum and the rest do provide some service in allowing the Beltway dolts to acknowledge the festering boil of insane rage that is the Republican Party. But they simply won't go all the way. They still insist that Democrats should pursue a grand bargain with people who seek their utter destruction (and are determined to turn the country into a neo-feudal state).
Also, too: K-Thug.
Ding dong, another witch is gone..
:)
dhttp://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/andrew-breitbart-died-los-angeles-144221781.html
I can't feel sorry for Breitbart himself, but he did leave young children behind, and for them, I do feel sorry. That their daddy's money was dirty is not a reason to wish poverty on them.
David Fucking Brooks. You're just now noticing that your beloved Republican Party is no longer a political party but a cult? The clown car occupants currently contending in the Republican primaries aren't an aberration. The are the final products of a long process; The Marianas Trench at the bottom of the Barrel of Crazy. The only one with a vague connection to reality is the Marquis du Mittens, and he's more of a disconnected plutocrat than Bush I was.
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