Roger’s Rules

October 5th, 2009 7:02 am

Rats, Ship

This from the editorial page of The New York Times today:

Mr. Obama’s Promise of Transparency

Hopes for an effective law that would protect the public’s access to essential news from inside government have been dealt a severe setback by the Obama administration.

Uh-oh. And there’s more:

The latest hedging from the White House does not deliver on his promise for a new era of openness.

Gee whiz, guys, do you really think so? And it’s not just the editorial pages of our former paper of record that has been, however briefly, roused from its dogmatic slumbers. There is also “Old Reliable” Frank Rich who only yesterday was lamenting that

We’re not even nine months into the new administration, yet these swaggering, utterly un-self-aware influence peddlers [that would be Obama;s Demoratic lobbyists] seem determined to prove that nothing except the party affiliations has changed in the Beltway’s pay-for-play culture since Tom DeLay.

As Glenn Reynolds commented, “When you’ve lost Frank Rich, you’ve lost conventional-wisdom punditAmerica.”

More and more liberals are feeling it: Buyer’s remorse!

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12 Comments

1. David Thomson:

Frank Rich is first, last, and foremost into self preservation. It is dawning on the majority of Americans that Barack Obama is not even close to being ready to handle the responsibilities of the presidency. He may even becoming an object of pity! It is therefore best to jump off the sinking ship. We are going to see much more of this in the near future. Guys and gals like Rich will increasingly look to blame others for their gullibility. After all, they must have been conned to support this loser. It most certainly can’t be their fault.

Oct 5, 2009 - 7:48 am 2. cfbleachers:

I apologize for being dense, perhaps, but it is still early in the morning in this part of the world.

The entrenched media after covering up, photoshopping, staging events, distorting, plagiarizing, …on behalf of this administration and on behalf of the Prissy Proletariat fellow travelers worldwide…

…now wish to be heard that they are shocked and dismayed at the lack of transparency …in what exactly?

The full disclosure of how ACORN played a role in cheating America out of a fair election process? The turning off of the credit card security system? Frank Marshall Davis? The New Party? Rashid Khalidi?

When you live by the sword, do not be surprised that it becomes mightier than the pen.

Oct 5, 2009 - 8:19 am 3. Harris Tweed:

At least the election of President Obama “made history.”

Oct 5, 2009 - 8:57 am 4. James Currin:

Do not be misled. My own theory is that Rich was poised to write a column comparing the persecution of Roman Polanski by the American judicial system, to that of ACORN, the NEA, and Van Jones by Fox News until the extraordinary backlash against the stench of hypocrisy emanating from Harvey Weinstein and his like caused him to lose his nerve. Note the very pungent article by Michael Kimmelman on the front page of Week in Review. As the previous post makes clear, the sheer incompetence of this administration has, at least temporarily, brought right and left together. It is very hard to find plausible conservatives upon which to place the blame for his pratfalls.

Oct 5, 2009 - 9:34 am 5. biblio44:

Funny (but not surprising) to see Kimball so delighted by an editorial and article that argue that the Dems can act as badly as the GOP.

Oct 5, 2009 - 10:29 am 6. Paul:

How I wish, Roger, that it were truly “remorse” that has begun to appear within the great mass of those who believed that we were, not only saved, but miraculously self-saved — in virtue of our wisdom and goodness (in electing Mr. Obama.

But, no: “remorse” carries within its sack of meanings a clear implication of penitence, of *self*-reproach, however painful or, for that matter, painless.

So far I see nothing of penitence in the sayings of Frank Rich and the like. What I do see is incipient anger, so far unfocused (but potentially dangerous to others than the beloved boss), plus the knowingness I encounter regularly among my seriously leftist colleagues *as well as* those (few) too dead-seriously on the opposite side. Their smoldering fury is based on the conviction that the fundamental ideas they and the beloved held hold are perfectly correct, perfectly just, and beautiful to behold; but that the ideas have been defaced, vilolated, and sold down the river by bad or imcompetent people who wormed their way into the good boss’s office or affection.

Oct 5, 2009 - 2:02 pm 7. Lee:

Obama is the penultimate crypto-Marxist from the Saul Alinsky school. He is a Marxist who mastered the art of hiding his malign agenda behind the mask of moderation. Anyone who knows anything about Marxism and its perpetrators understands that the promises made are always empty, always a scam to obtain sufficient power to impose tyranny.

Those on the left who lament Obama’s refusal to deliver on his promises are the very definition of useful idiots. They drank the kool aid and believed the bullshit. Now they’re learning the hard way that evil is still evil even when it wears a nice suit and speaks soothing words in a melodious cadence.

It may well be that Obama’s presidency will mark the high point of the left’s subversive effort to destroy this country. I certainly hope so.

Oct 5, 2009 - 4:07 pm 8. Gaffe Prices:

Buraq Hussein 0bama: deranged psychopath or spineless, incompetent, spoiled, corrupt puppet of a hidden cabal? You make the call.

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Oct 5, 2009 - 5:44 pm 9. Gaffe Prices:

What, Frank, no kiss?

Buraq Hussein 0bama treated you fools like his personal brothel. And you loved the lie and now he has no further use for you.

He’s trying to take U.S. out of the picture and replace it with muslim world iron clad authority; he wrote a new chapter to your communist manifesto, with a *new* twist, whereby all property is now muslim, and all authority is now muslim as well.

It’s also the final chapter.

You didn’t see that one coming?

Buraq Hussein 0bama was always pretty transparent, to those with eyes and a brain, but that is all closed to you now Frank, and guess what? Its cause you’re white.

Revenge is the next phase on this creeps agenda. Now let’s see what you’re gonna do, what you’re willing to do Frank.

Oct 5, 2009 - 6:58 pm 10. Dred Scott:

All ashore who’s going ashore!

All aboard who’s going to drown!

Oct 5, 2009 - 7:22 pm 11. Carl Sesar:

All well and good, BUT

so what if in the near future a few more rat pundits jump ship? Is that time enough for the American public to get wise in numbers enough to put a screeching halt to all this? It’s make or break Obama time right NOW. The Democratic rat pack is not about to turn tail. The whole swarm, every rat bastard one of them, is out to vote their Rodent King’s healthcare into law, whether we the people want it or not.

Oct 5, 2009 - 8:56 pm 12. JOHN FRARY:

Eugene Robinson, Howard Fineman, Richard Cohen, Helen Thomas begin to sense failure as well. Krugman is preparing for the failure of Obamanomics by blaming it all on Reagan. If only we had stuck with stagflation all would be well,

Oct 6, 2009 - 12:24 pm