Stupid Shit Andrew Sullivan Says, Ctd.

"[Kevin] Williamson [of NRO] is dead-on when it comes to the past. The party of Lincoln was indeed a noble cause. But it was consciously killed by Nixon and then Reagan. Let me remind Kevin of the words of Lee Atwater, no liberal or knee-jerk Democrat..."

-- Andrew Sullivan, 05/22/12

Wowsers.

While not technically "stupid", this is amazing in exactly the same way it was amazing to watch Alan Greenspan -- the Pope of All Capitalism




-- finally and casually repudiate his 50-year, cultlike obsession with the lies of Ayn Rand.

See, kiddies, a long, long time ago in the dim and distant past before the Kenyan Usurper time-traveled to 1961 to change his birth records and then traveled back to 2008 so he could trick his way into the White House so as to better destroyed America, Mr. Greenspan's Randite fantasies nearly killed the world economy.

After this happened, Mr. Greenspan went in front of Congress and said, "Oopsie! I guess I was a liiiitle bit off about greed and the inherent morality of the our Galtian Overlords making markets so perfectly self-regulating that no government involvement is necessary."



After which -- for reasons that passeth all understanding -- a righteous God did not unleash a thunderbolt that blew Pope of All Capitalism to atoms. Neither was Mr. Greenspan's tarred, feathered and run out of Western civilization on a government-regulated rail. Neither was his head shaved, nor was he paraded naked around the public square wearing a sign saying "I Collaborated With Monsters" while everyone who lost a home or a job or their health care when the global economy collapsed threw feces at him.

None of this happened.

Instead -- like Mr. Sullivan -- Mr. Greenspan toddled right back to living the same prosperous life he had built for himself atop a mountain of terrible lies.

Because there is a Club kiddies.

And you are not in it.