Posted By Russ Emerson on August 25, 2003 at 9:33 pm
Jonah Goldberg:
In the 1990s the merits and/or popularity of the Contract with America were largely unassailable, so Democrats told us that Gingrich & Co. were “mean-spirited” and therefore their agenda was illegitimate, as if it’s better for nice people to do wrong than for “mean” people to do right.
and
The activist base of the Democratic Party today strikes me as demonstrably more paranoid and irrational about George Bush than even the most “obsessed” of my conservative brethren ever were [about Bill Clinton]. And to Bush’s credit, he’s not biting his lip and whining about it.
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Posted By Russ Emerson on August 23, 2003 at 1:23 pm
In Paris this spring, a government official explained to me how Europeans had created a more civilised society than America – socialised healthcare, shorter work weeks, more holidays.
We’ve just seen where that leads: gran’ma turned away from the hospital to die in an airless apartment because junior’s sur la plage. M Chirac’s somewhat tetchy suggestion that his people should rethink their attitude to the elderly was well taken.
But Big Government inevitably diminishes its citizens’ capacity to take responsibility, to the point where even your dead mum is just one more inconvenience the state should do something about.
Mark Steyn, in the Telegraph (UK)
[emphasis mine]
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