Of Course, This Is What Republicans Need: More Advice From Their Enemies!

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Headline of a Salon.com article I won’t link:

Mann and Ornstein: “Brighter future
for politics and policy requires
a different Republican Party”
The Republicans have become a party beholden to zealots
— with little respect for science, facts or compromise

Science! Facts! Compromise! Yes, Democrats are famously devoted to these values, and the only problem in American politics is that Republicans are not equally scientific, factual and compromising.

Last time I checked, Salon.com was losing money at the rate of $2 million a year — TWO MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FOR A FREAKING LIBERAL BLOG — which makes their daily net loss $5,479.45.

Here’s an offer for Reince Priebus: You pay me $38,356.15 a week, and I’ll tell Republicans how to win elections. We got a deal?

UPDATE: Donald Douglas reminds me that in July, Norm Ornstein criticized Republican efforts to “sabotage Obamacare,” saying that these efforts were “sharply beneath any reasonable standards of elected officials with the fiduciary responsibility of governing.”

Ornstein is a dinosaur, a fossil who was marginally relevant 25 or 30 years ago when “Scoop Jackson Democrats” still existed, but who has become merely another obsolete pundit nostalgic for “bipartisanship.”

Wake up, Norm: The Democrat Party is now controlled by radical leftists devoted to liquidating all opposition By Any Means Necessary. Your own usefulness to the Democrats has passed its sell-by date. And if Republicans listen to your advice, they’re hopelessly doomed.

 

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  3. It’s true, we mostly reject Science*. Of course, any administration or Congress or whatever will make political decisions that ignore this or that scientist. Sometimes it’s for good reasons, because science doesn’t really dictate policy (I recommend looking into Roger Pielke Jr on this topic) in a vacuum (economics, morals, etc., count too).

    And we reject Compromise**.

    These are good things to reject.

    * killing babies because it’s not wrong and better climate predictions through video games.
    ** letting the leftists do only part of their full agenda.

  9. IIRC, 25 or 30 years ago, la gauche like Jefferson Morley would lampoon Ornstein as a press agent for Capitol Hill insiders (always busy handing out bon bons to favored constituencies). You likely could not have picked a better example of an advocate for the bipartisan Regime Class.

  14. “Of Course, This Is What Republicans Need: More Advice From Their Enemies!”

    This is so perfect!

    After they won O’s re-election, every single liberal now has an opinion of what conservatives (or Republicans) should do to fix the latter’s “problems. ” And how they love to gab on and on about it. What is the solution? for Republicans to become liberals! Which many Republicans stupidly are already, concerning culture wars issues

  18. To those on the Left everything is a vehicle for their policies. Science. Culture. Politics. Religion when they can co-opt it. And they h8 religion when they can’t.

  19. This is a good spot to remind folks of Monckton’s massive takedown of the kind of person salon thinks is “pro science!”

    These salon types are people who wave the word ‘science’ around like a rebel flag, but like some kid in New York building a Revel model of the General Lee back in 1977, have zero understanding of what it means. ZEE-ROW.

    My kids knew more about science when they were in fourth grade that these global-warming screamers at salon.

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