The Liberal Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the superconducting super collider of culture-war melting pot calling the kettle black!

Is Goldberg aware of the fact that the SSC was never actually built? Never mind.

Once again, I am in awe. He’s really giving Airmiles a run for his money, there. I mean, a run for the hills are alive or dead of night has fallen heroes rising tidewatergate.

It was completely covered with reflective death panels.

Like solar panels, but powered by death.

Is there a nonfiction version of the Bulwer-Lytton Contest? Because this is the winning entry. Until the next thing Jonah Goldberg writes.

And he completely ignores the fact that the left lost the grinding debate. You truly cannot get a decent cup of espresso here, unlike Europe.

Kieran’s “in awe” post inspired a wonderful short piece in the five-footed iambic from John M. Ford.

Much have I travell’d on the feet of gold,
And many tumbled walls and maidens seen,
Round many horny Africs have I been
Which bards like bosoms in their welkins hold,
Oft of a spare expanse had I been told
That fence-swung Homer looked on as demesne;
Yet never did I breathe its mountains clean
Till I heard Friedman speak out uncontrolled,
Then felt I like some Cousteau of the skies
When a new bubble undermines his ken,
Or sack-like Falstaff, when with precast eyes
He stared at echoes—and his fellow men
Harked back in multitudes like single spies
Silent, past their peak in Darien.

I’d have loved to have seen what he would have done with this.

“The government has surged over the breakwater and is now going to flood the nooks and crannies of American life.”

Does Jonah really want to remind us about what happened to New Orleans while His President’s Guitar Gently Laughed?

This would indeed have been a job for John M. Ford. I think it’s time to see what Fafblog is up to.

All I can say is that they better not send Cranny to a death panel.

And it does make one long for the days when the clear-headed, hard-eyed, rational men who run our free-market insurance business took charge of the big decisions, like men should, and simply told us what should and should not be covered.

Wow, that sounds like a terrible level. That’s why I usually park on P2.

It will throw off new and unforeseen cultural spectacles for years to come (if it is not repealed).

I’ve had the urge to throw off new spectacles on occasion, like when I’m just getting used to a new prescription and they’re giving me eyestrain. But I resist the urge, because new spectacles don’t come cheap. And I’m not talking about the fancy cultural kind, either…FSM knows what they must cost.

Well, mine are progressive, and they cost a fortune.

Elitist.

‘Obama isn’t Hitler yet.’

Fixed that for you.

Has anyone foreseen my spectacles?

The grinding debate over the Stupak amendment was just a foretaste. The government has surged over the breakwater and is now going to flood the nooks and crannies of American life.

First they came for the coffee, but I did not speak out, because I had not ordered coffee. Then they came for the Thomas’s English Muffins, but I did not speak out….

Truly, this thread marks the Waterloo of liberal fascism, the tipping point over which blood will be shed in a Reign of Terror that will erupt into a Hubble Telescope champagne supernova in the very halls of Congress.

And it does make one long for the days when the clear-headed, hard-eyed, rational men who run our free-market insurance business took charge of the big decisions, like men should, and simply told us what should and should not be covered.

As a man, I’ll take charge of this one: probably genitals & female breasts, absolutely prose like Goldberg’s.

Obama isn’t Hitler, but I don’t think this kind of government-corporate alliance can end up anywhere but fascism.

Yeah, that must be why Chomsky indicated that he would have held his nose and voted for it if he were in Congress, while bemoaning the fact that this was apparently the best our system could produce. Because to Chomsky, “slightly better than the status quo” means “inevitable further step towards fascism.” Hey, has soullite managed to purity troll Noam from the left, yet?

‘… that must be why Chomsky indicated that he would have held his nose and voted for it if he were in Congress …’

Pity that this argument doesn’t work if you are already convinced that Chomsky is a fascist–as, for example, Jonah Goldberg is. Remember, writing is very easy in Jonah’s universe, because words mean just what he chooses them to mean–neither more nor less. Impenetrability! Mixed metaphors!

Have you ever tried to get on the ballot in the MIT linguistics department? They throw out your nominating petitions for having confused LF and inadequate transformations. Southside Cambridge politics at its most thuggish.

Ahem. “Deeming and passing making Obama sign the repeal by telling him we just want his autograph for our kids.” What kind of modern Republican strategist are you, anyway?

From the Daily Beast:

On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama: Two-thirds think he’s a socialist, 57 percent a Muslim—and 24 percent say “he may be the Antichrist.”

And surely the choicest juiciest bit from JG’s article was

“Culture wars erupt because liberals urge expansion of the size and scope of the government, intruding into virgin territories of civil society”

I love the part where he says something false, comma, rushes headlong into rank incomprehensibility. By the time you’re done processing what ‘virgin territories of civil society’ are, that first part seems practically reasonable by comparison.

And really that comma’s where it’s at: government, intruding sums up his ethos/pathos/mythos/eros/Cheerios quite satisfactorily.

thanks for the complete howler for the day. you’ve got the craziness done really pat–love it & keep up the good humor.

Just because Jonah Goldberg is a retarted jack-ass doesn’t mean there isn’t a whole lot to be troubled about over the way Obama has conducted himself and bent over backwards to prop-up and defend corrupt business practices and their practitioners.

So, Obama is a contortionist martial artist, and a footstool?

I had no idea.

Arise, cast off off your cultural spectacles! For if we do not fear fear itself, the nooks and crannies of our breakwaters will be but a foretaste of delicious, buttery fascism.