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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Mona exposes herself

In reading Mona Charen's response to Jesse Barton, she let's us see for ourselves that she's no different than her leftie counterparts:

I’m all for reforming the tax system, but at least in the debates, Paul has not said what would replace the IRS. A sales tax? A VAT? He seems to like to leave the impression that he’d eliminate taxes altogether.

I have always favored smaller government – far smaller. But I don’t think you have to be a fanatic about it and in fact, overly ambitious or incautious approaches are doomed to failure in American politics.


I have to wonder if Mona realizes that her response is only a trivially modified form of Al Gore's "risky scheme" rhetoric. I doubt it. After all, remember what Mark Twain said about journalists:

That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

1 Comments:

Blogger Strother said...

That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

As a professional writer, I have to laugh with Twain on this one.

Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:13:00 PM  

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