John and Nell Coulter’s Pride and Joy

I’ve always enjoyed Ann Coulter’s humor though, at times, I’ve had to back away from it because my head was full.

Human Events Online (HE) had good opinion on her flirtation with John Edwards in which she used “faggot” as an inference to his habits. Oh, the uproar.

Her latest column deals with the Democrats’ justifiable yet sanctimonious outrage over conditions at Walter Reed and other military hospitals.

It’s a good article.

In it she points to a source that is at least equally culpable in the collective blame for the situation.

Coulter says, “…the problems at Walter Reed are further proof of the Democrats’ failed domestic policies – to wit, the civil service rules that prevent government employees from ever being fired….

Thanks to the Democrats, government employees have the world’s most complicated set of job protection rules outside of the old East Germany. Oddly enough, this has not led to a dynamic workforce in the nation’s capital.”

How true. Even at the state level, try spending some time in the DMV. Ever feel a slow rumble building in your gut as the orgins of the word “smug” gain clarity in your mind?

“…the problems at Walter Reed are not with the doctors or medical care,” Coulter continues, “The problems are with basic maintenance at the facility.

“Unless U.S. Army generals are supposed to be spraying fungicide on the walls and crawling under beds to set rattraps, the slovenly conditions at Walter Reed are not their fault. The military is nominally in charge of Walter Reed, but—because of civil service rules put into place by Democrats—the maintenance crew can’t be fired.

“If the general ‘in charge’ can’t fire the people not doing their jobs,” she writes, “I don’t know why he is being held responsible for them not doing their jobs.

“You will find the exact same problems anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government and there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls and so on.

“It’s almost like a cause-and-effect thing.” Get it?

ara

Published in: on March 15, 2007 at 8:48 am Comments (0)

The Frenzy

Late last evening I posted on the Gonzales/US Attorney uproar.

This morning I read Joseph Farah’s column and, behold, it was a masterpiece in summation. Read it here.

One of his consistently solid points is that the party in charge for the time being is in a frenzied courtship with Presidency 2008. Among their first actions was the concerted and somewhat covert effort to censor anyone not associated with the lamestream media. Bloggers in particular.

For the time being that specific effort is in the tank, but you can rest uneasily with the truth that it is kept well oxygenated and alive in the guise of being dead and gone. This will. be. resurrected. It was, after all, blogs that outed and demolished Kerry and Rather.

Might you have thought that the lamestream and it’s political wing would forget this? Ever?

No, not ever.

Efforts to censor outright, to reinstate the UnFairness Doctrine in broadcasting—Air America was an abject failure in leftist verbal flatulence, so the next best avenue is intrusion on markets that 1) tell the truth and 2) are successful. Theft of a product built by wise people, in a sense. Funding for “public” broadcasting is on the rise again, with the Propaganda Broadcasting Systen and National Propaganda Radio dancing for joy.

As with “Scooter” Libby, another non-sequitur, the Democrats are so slavering insane for power that they invent stuff because they are so close to tanking this entire nation they can taste their goal.

At this point fabrication is their tactic. They use it well.

ara

Published in: on at 8:05 am Comments (0)