Comments Posted By smitty
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I was one of the critics, Rick.
Comment Posted By smitty On 3.11.2009 @ 12:32
When I come to your blog, what I expect to read is some lengthy piece that (in my opinion) majors on the minors. An argument in favor of baseball-ish precision in a football-ish world. A Hamlet-esque call to ponder in the face of the need for action.
You may not recall the time we met, at CPAC '09, when I brought you pictures from that initial Tea Party protest in Lafayette Park.
While I do enjoy and value reading your posts, at times you seem a frustrating wet blanket.
I want to see you, in writing, get pissed of and hurl some missiles.
Cheers,
Chris
Begging to differ with you, sir.
Comment Posted By smitty On 2.11.2009 @ 14:22
THE LEFT IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ABOUT JOE WILSON
Nicely done, Rick.
Comment Posted By smitty On 11.09.2009 @ 16:57
Is the Federalist argument (10th Amendment) a philosophical or slippery slope argument?
C'Mon, smitty. Of course it's a great philosophical argument. How the federalism argument against reform translates into death panels being anything but a deliberate exaggeration or some other arguments that make the jump from A to Z with no intervening logic or facts, I can't figure. Enlighten me.
ed.
Comment Posted By smitty On 17.08.2009 @ 12:51
Whereas she loses me on Federalist grounds; she seems to accept tacitly the Constitutionality of the false idea. Don't object to one brick: decry the whole wall in the name of real Conservativism.
Comment Posted By smitty On 14.08.2009 @ 13:46
Hopefully, as the anti-Obama, she's going to drift further to the right...
THE LOGICAL FALLACY OF SOME SLIPPERY SLOPE REFORM ARGUMENTS
The Progressive project, to which you seem tacitly sympathetic, is the single most expensive, un-Constitutional, slippery slope argument available.
Comment Posted By smitty On 11.08.2009 @ 10:30
See Perot charts for the pretty (ugly) picture version.
The 10th Amendment mocks the last 80-ish years of US history, and I pray that a full-on, peaceful Constitutional crisis ensues. We can live like Americans or die like Europeans.
PALIN'S OUTRAGEOUS DEMAGOGUERY: WHY NOT? EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING IT.
Rick,
Comment Posted By smitty On 8.08.2009 @ 19:11
I hadn't seen previously your comment over on Legal Insurrection, or I would not have redundantly called your attention to it.
As for your response, as usual, I fell you're arguing stylistic trees while missing the substantial forest.
Possibly you're correct, and Sarah will fall on her sword.
Do allow for the possibility, though, that she has a clear grasp of what she's about, and that her approach, while subject to your vehement attacks, might well carry the day.
Despite you.
Cheers,
Chris
Rick,
Comment Posted By smitty On 8.08.2009 @ 18:49
Your attention is drawn to Legal Insurrection, which renders your post more than a little sorry.
Cheers,
Chris
HEALTH CARE REFORM HEADING FOR DERAILMENT -- EVEN IF IT PASSES
As I said, the bill is far from perfect
Splendid British understatement, sir.
Comment Posted By smitty On 23.07.2009 @ 13:10
The bill is conceptually abhorrent from anything like a federalist perspective.
Lock Congress in the building, and tell them no one gets out until they produce 10 pages in a legible font describing how the established, working pattern of the 401k will be expanded to cover medical treatments, absorbing Social Security en passant, and we'll be making substantial improvement.
IT'S PAST TIME TO INOCULATE CONSERVATISM AGAINST THE BIRTHERS
Is there a middle ground, where one says: "I'll not bother me pretty head about the birth certificate, if you'll man up and open those educational records"?
While I can warm to the idea of accepting Chief Justice Roberts' swearing in as sufficient endorsement of birth validity, it seems that holding Mr. Transparency to the idea of transparency seems very, very reasonable.I have little doubt that racism plays a role in this for some, but for most, it is a continuation of a streak of radical paranoia that has afflicted a subset of modern conservatism in the post-World War II era.
Racism may never die entirely, but I hardly think it worth mentioning in this context. So let's not.
Comment Posted By smitty On 22.07.2009 @ 11:34
