MICKEY KAUS: “And here I almost believed Obama’s health care plans were all about lowering costs and getting the budget under control.” That’s for the rubes . ..
You know, back in 2004, when I reluctantly voted for George Bush on the spurious notion that voting for the lesser of two evils was the way to go, Young Goodman Brown spent the next several years ramming it down my throat every time I bitched about something Bush did.
And he was right to do so. I did vote for the schmuck, and I coudn’t even claim ignorance about what he was likely to do, given that I already had four years of watching him do it, and his agenda was hardly an unknown quality at that point.
So I just can’t take Kaus’ carping about Obama seriously. Mickey is a smart guy, and Obama made it quite clear what he and his party would be about. Yet Mickey voted for him anyway.
As YGB used to gleefully inform me, “You voted for him, he’s yours.” So, Mickey, you voted for Obama, he’s yours. If you didn’t want what he’s handing out, you shouldn’t have voted for it by voting for him. Enjoy.
UPDATE: And as for dumbasses like Chris Buckley:
All I can say is, what a perfect example of “from (intellectual) riches to rags in a single generation!”
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I didn’t vote for him. I’ve been taking great pleasure in telling the prancing, gloating, brainless Obamabots “Not my President”. And telling them that Obama gets the same respect from me that Bush got from them. (I got the idea from a commenter on DP. And it’s a goooood idea.)
This is why I didn’t vote in the 2008 presidential election. I couldn’t bear the thought of owning either of those two statists.
Billy: ditto.
In my more despondent moments, I think I may never get a chance to vote for a candidate I really want ever again.
At least not before the Big Jam Parade (the singularity system crash) arrives.
Hey Bill you could vote for me. Of course, since I tend to tell people exactly what I think, my chances of winning are exactly zero.
Lets hope our socialists in charge don’t fuck it up enough to prevent the Singularity from occurring. Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.
From 1949 to 1979 China’s leaders turned back the clock of progress so that they were practically living with 1800’s technology, or worse. Riding bicycles and living on subsistence farming and starving by the millions every couple of years.
Yes, it is possible for leadership to allow a technological revolution to pass them by. If the whole world adopts the same attitude and policies who’s to say we can’t go backwards into the Dark Ages like they did in 400AD for almost 800 years. Is the Singularity unstoppable at this point? If it is, it’s not a given that any one of us is going to be allowed to enjoy it.