But that's not the point. The real gold is in these two comments down below, where some cranky conservatives are venting about past and future Chrysler bailouts.
Comment #1:
Meet the new Amtrak, same as the old Amtrak.
Comment #2:
Yancey, that's completely ridiculous. Chrysler is NOT the new Amtrak.
The new Amtrak is building a "high-speed" rail network that everyone will be forced to ride because the Chrysler they got in lieu of a tax refund is in the shop drawing on our new universal coverage car-care plan ("Car care is a human right!"). The waiting lists for oil filters are going to be awful, don't you know, and you won't be able to get "life-extending" care after 50,000 miles.
Well played, sir.
2 comments:
Commenters are accusing her of having supported Obama because all the cool kids in DC were doing it. Do you think that young DC/NYC libertarians and conservatives are really affected by that?
Tom, are you kidding? Of course the DC/NYC cool kid libertarian/liberaltarian wannabes are affected by that. There is a huge clique-ish flock mentality in Gen-X/Millenial libertarian class. I find it next to impossible to take Mcardle and Reason mag crowd seriously when they talk politics. I'll listen to their thoughts on policy and/or economics, but when it comes to politics they are a joke. Anyone who purports to be a fiscal conservative and voted for Obama turned in their seriousness card at that moment. Their logic was MINDBOGGLINGLY retarded: "I am a fiscal conservative, George W. Bush was a terrible president because he expanded government too much. Therefore I have decided to vote for Barack Obama!"
"But Obama wants to increase the size of government even more"
"But Bush was a terrible president. Bushitler! War Criminal! Bush!!!!"
Don't forget, these people would do and say anything that would raise their profile or land a TV gig.
Problem is: it works. See, Sullivan, Andrew; Buckley, Christopher; Mcardle, Megan; and on, and on, and on..
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