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I?D LIKE TO MILDLY DISAGREE WITH THIS WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORIAL: The bogus ? and deeply hypocr?

By Glenn Reynolds

I’D LIKE TO MILDLY DISAGREE WITH THIS WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORIAL: The bogus — and deeply hypocritical — foreign-money claims coming from the White House and the Democratic apparat aren’t about campaigning. They’re about constructing a narrative of defeat for their base, so that when they get clobbered in November they can blame it on scheming billionaires and evil foreigners instead of admitting that they elected an empty suit, and proceeded to push a wildly unpopular program over the clearly stated objections of a large majority of American voters. If their base faced up to their ineptitude, it would go off and start a new party, and then they’d need to get a real job. Better by far to retreat into conspiracy theory than to go back to Pocatello.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 11, 2010 (boomark / email).