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I'm afraid that I don't have a subscription.

So which book did you review, and are you for or against?

James

How the hell are we supposed to do election night without a Heh or two from instapundit?

I know it's off-topic, but I'm probably not going to be able to bear tuning in here tomorrow, and I feel obligated to give all the Bush-supporters a chance to get their kicks in (fairness as pain, I think), so....

Damn! Damn damn damn damn damn. Barring something fairly extraordinary in Ohio provisional ballots, the country picked your boys. Truly and honestly. I can't believe it, but they did. And they did it by more than a few thousand votes. Damn damn damn damn damn.

The country's helm is now clearly yours. You'll get to pick S. Ct. judges, and continue to make novel foreign policy. The tax cuts will be made permanent (and presumably, so will the deficits). I want to say, "Do your best, guys," but I think we've got wildly different ideas of "best." But, again, the country picked you. So I'll just say, "Do what you will."

OTOH, the election results have sort of turned me into a Republican. I no longer trust people outside of the coasts enough to want an ambitious ambitious social contract. I now deeply support tax cuts in conjuction with devolution of power to states. Let the blue superstates keep their cash, and see if what we believe is good government actually can produce even more. In turn, the red states can restrict benefits as much as they want, or whatever. It's the truest form of federalism - 50 little experiments in government.

I'm looking at the above, and I can see it sounds sarcastic or something. But I mean it. You got picked, it's your ballgame. You've got the Executive, the Legislature, and soon the Judiciary (Stevens is in his 80s; you'll get at least 3 appointments this term). Good luck guys. The helm really is yours.

Jane, try this link (subscription-free) to the story.

Tim, you're brave for showing up now. I commend your candidate and your bravery in fighting the good fight for Kerry here at AI. Enjoy.

Tim, if you don't backslide, welcome aboard.

A guy like Bush could do a lot less damage if the federal government was half the size it is now.

SomeCallMeTim:

That's really quite gratious.

I must say that I'm surprised at your post above. I didn't think I'd see you make such a statement. It takes guts to do so when your side loses. You're a better man than I'd given you credit for being.

Hell, if you're point of view is now tending towards desiring LESS central government and more local control, then we agree - at least on that. DC definitely has no monopoly on wisdom when it comes to how to govern effectively.

50 different variants and/or experiments in government? So long as they all follow the requirements of the Constitution (Bill of Rights, republican form of government, etc . . . ), that sounds good to me. 50 chances to find the optimum solution certainly sounds better than one. Hopefully the best solutions found will be adopted and/or adapted widely.

And if federal judges do indeed strictly interpret the law vice trying to make law, we might actually approach having 50 different ventures working the problem simultaneously.

If the Republicans spend in this four years like they spent in the last four years, with some caveats, I will not support them...unless the only choice is a Kerry-like opponent.

My point being, for the love of all thats holy Democrats, get some decent opposition to keep Republicans honest!

Meagan, I cannot believe you posted what you did on instapundit, about Tom Daschle. The guy obstructed everything he possibly could this past four years and then the Democrats tried to advance the meme that the Republican Congress was a do nothing congress.... The guy has made himself wealty in a thinly veiled extortion scheme with his wife 'the lobbiest'. The removal of Tom Dashcle from office is crucial, although if his replacement is no open to bipartisan legislation, than the Republicans will have to drop another 25 mil to remove another piece of crap from the legislature.

How do I respond to that McArdle slag? She wrote some stuff on Instafuckit that I'd like to rebut, but can't seem to find a way. Do you assholes not like contrary (and rude) opinions?

Epoch: you are truly offensive and have no respect for others. And then you have the nerve to ask if people don't want to hear from you. Well, most folks, unless they are insane don't want to hear from someone like you. What a moron.

Ms. McArdle, regarding your remark on Instapundit.com, "WELL, A LOT OF CONVENTIONAL WISDOM has tumbled...," one predictive scheme that held up once again was the Weekly Reader poll of children, who predicted the outcome of the election by giving President Bush 60% of their "votes" in WR's mock election. From what I've been told, the Weekly Reader mock election has predicted the winner of every Presidential election going decades back, except for the unusually messy one that included Ross Perot.

One rationale for the predictive character of the mock election is that the children hear their parents speak frankly at home and tend to "vote" their parents' real views, while their parents either refuse to talk to pollsters or perhaps even lie to them.

Doug:

Weekly Reader states that they have been right in every election since 1956. I believe them; that matches my recollection.

Makes sense to me. Kids don't know politics - but they know their parents.

epoch:

How about looking at your screen name, then doing the "Time Warp" again - elsewhere.

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