Who Is John Gout?
IOZ on all the little Atlases . . . well, not shrugging exactly:
Anyway, Reynold’s army of John Galts (pray: come, let us snicker together), a gang of pencil-neck Sharper-Image shoppers with dreams of mountain redoubts and rough sex with heiresses, petulantly proclaim that they will . . . well, they do not seem to be proclaiming that they will stop the engine of the world. Rather, they will consider slowing it marginally, like union slugs caging an extra five minutes on every smoke break in order to stick it to Management. The irony. Oh.
Lots more.
Comment by Derek Copold —
November 5, 2008 @ 2:13 am
Again, they could “bet on Iraq.” Remember that ad campaign?
I guess that wouldn’t go with the whole “Left Behind” for libertarians motif, though.
Comment by absence of something —
November 5, 2008 @ 11:06 am
Filthy fkkingh hippies!
Comment by Eric the .5b —
November 5, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
I do kinda wonder what will happen to Reynolds and the rest of those “libertarians” who are medically unable to do anything but boost the most statist Reds.
Comment by Derek Copold —
November 5, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
Eric,
The opposition is always more fun than being in power.
You have all the joy of polemics, and none of the responsibility. They’ll do just fine, better even than before.
Comment by joe from Lowell —
November 5, 2008 @ 11:55 pm
Their little fantasies all have a common element; they take it out on people lower than them on the totem pole, who can’t really fight back.
Comment by Barry —
November 6, 2008 @ 11:58 am
Comment by Eric the .5b —
“I do kinda wonder what will happen to Reynolds and the rest of those “libertarians†who are medically unable to do anything but boost the most statist Reds. ”
As said above, they’ll be rolling in even deeper pigsh*t, because they don’t have to explain away their side’s failures (as much). In Reynold’s case in particular, he’s in a socialist-islamocommiefeminazi haven called ‘tenure’. He’d probably have to work harder than he’s capable of working, to get fired.
Somebody did point out that the whole ‘wingnut welfare’ system will be rather strained in 2009. A huge number of people will be leaving government service, and will definitely want to avoid the true private sector. Probably enough to strain the resources of Heritage, Hoove, AEI, CEI, Hudson, Brookings, Manhattan, etc.
Combining with that wave will be a low tide of billionaire money, since a lot of them took a big hit this year – and I sincerely hope that Obama taxes the living sh*t out of them, to pay for the bills that they’ve stuck us with, to help pay for repairing some of the damage, to keep them from funding more wingnut welfare, and also on the grounds that payback is a b*tch.