In Other News, the Check is In the Mail
Oh no! The Republican Party came in Glenn Reynolds’ mouth!
Republicans like to point out that you have to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything. The leadership, at least, of the Republican Party has abandoned the principles of small government and federalism that it used to stand for. Trampling traditional limits on governmental power in an earnest desire to do good in high-profile cases has been a hallmark of a certain sort of liberalism, and it’s the sort of thing that I thought conservatives eschewed.
Look, this site is, in general, pro coming in mouths. But if you get a promise that that won’t happen, and I have to assume that Glenn got one based on the way he’s going on about it, then no one has the right to pour you the old protein shake, no matter whether you are man or woman, blogger or Emm Ess Emm.
Some people always blame the victim, of course. What did you expect, they demand? He hits people and makes excuses afterward. He spends like crazy. (Hm, “spends.”) He’s got his paranoid side. Sure he looks strong and rugged, and that’s comforting in a scary world, but it was only a matter of time. And sometimes he’s all We’re a coalition, baby! and other times it’s You’re just a skank I like to use. And it’s not like your friends didn’t try to warn you. (”Is there anything whatsoever that neolibertarians favor that the rest of the Republican coalition does not where you have gotten or expect to get your way?”)
Next thing you know you’re spitting into a tissue and wondering whether these are tears of rage or sorrow, and saying to yourself, “Once bitten, twice shy.”
Though I’m really not comfortable with the word “bitten” in this context.
Comment by Lis —
March 31, 2005 @ 11:09 pm
I don’t read Insty regularly, so I don’t know if he’s written elsewhere that I haven’t seen.
In the post you link to, he writes “Robert George writes on hate mail and death threats on both sides of the Schiavo business”
But the post in question only mentions death threats against those who side with the husband. Elsewhere I’ve heard of death threats against the judges who ruled against the parents, against the husband and his family, but always from people who claim to be the Schindler’s supporters.
Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place, but I haven’t seen any reports of death threats against the Schindler’s or their side from people claiming to support the husband.
Is Glenn falsely setting up a “plague on both your houses” situation to cover misbehavior on only one side? Or have I just not been following the news closely enough?
Comment by Jim Henley —
March 31, 2005 @ 11:25 pm
I haven’t seen any reports of death threats against the Schindlers myself. Five minutes with Google finds stories about threats against Michael Schiavo, Judge Greer and a Florida legislator who voted against Jeb Bush on one of the recent bills, but nothing toward Terri Schiavo’s parents. I think the devil in Glenn’s details is his use of the phrase “hate mail and death threats.” Pro-Schindler people have clearly gotten hate mail. Pro-Schiavo people have clearly gotten death threats. I don’t see them as the same thing myself, though I get little hate mail and no death threats, so what do I know?
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Comment by alkali —
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Block that metaphor!
Comment by Bill Sherman —
April 1, 2005 @ 8:00 am
The real question is: do you think Reynolds’ll remember writing this a month from now?
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