Unca Darrell

APRIL 30 / Style, usage, journalism

Cultural allusions

Because Republicans oppose high-speed rail, therefore they would have opposed industrialization in the 19th century. They do plan to build a wayback machine[read WABAC machine?] to the Gilded Age, however, by handing a $150,000 check to every American millionaire, a million-dollar check to every billionaire, and a billion-dollar check to every trillionaire. (Editorial, "Paul Ryan's Hunger Games," Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2012)

APRIL 27 / . . . where your mouth is

IF YOU LOUDLY PROCLAIM your wish to defeat President Barack Hussein Obama on November 6 and do not (a) fill out this form, (b) attach the requisite item, and (c) mail it to the designated address, you are a blowhard, a gasbag, a clanging cymbal, a hypocrite, a poseur, a de facto supporter of the man you claim to oppose.

APRIL 26 / Click . . . click . . . click . . .

THAT'S THE SOUND of the political ratchet moving America inexorably in the only direction in which the political ratchet works: toward welfare statism, and the cliff of fiscal disaster.

APRIL 25 / "What a terrific speech . . .

. . . by Romney last night!" (Rush Limbaugh, minutes ago)

This is important as an early gauge of whether the Limbaugh/Tea Party wing of the GOP will support Mr. Romney enthusiastically.

As the campaign unfolds, there will be disappointments on the right, to be sure. But negative enthusiasm -- opposition to President Obama -- will go a long way towards heating up conservative support for Mr. Romney.

APRIL 24 / Kristol gets it right

ROMNEY NEEDS, over the next six months, to convince some number of swing voters he can and should be the next president. The easiest way to do this is by . . .

 

APRIL 21 / "Look to it, you Texans of today . . . ."

A bare account from The Handbook of Texas (reparagraphed) of San Jacinto, the battle that won Texas independence this day 176 years ago:

APRIL 19 / Edna Christine (Martin) Hancock

April 25, 1924 - April 14, 2012

Condolences

[Hearty] and caring people like Edna Martin Hancock have been the backbone of, and provided a foundation for, our great nation. I know you are proud of her. / . . . . I hope you are able to remember you mother as the vibrant woman she was during most of her time on this earth. As it is written in Deuteronomy: "Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee."

APRIL 13 / A White House, DNC mouthpiece says . . .

. . . Mrs. Romney never worked a day in her life. The next day, the Chronicle reports . . . 

APRIL 12 / That horrible crash you heard on the front lawn this morning . . .

. . . was all these figures of speech and cliches slamming into each other: 

MAY 12 / Promises, promises, promises

EXCELLENT STUFF, as usual, from Robert Samuelson: