For Conservatives, It's Christmas in January: That Was the Week That Was

For long-suffering conservatives, Christmas arrived about a month late this year. But considering all the presents we got this week, it was like coming downstairs and finding the Budweiser Clydesdales under the tree, instead of that crummy used Radio Flyer your dad managed to find on eBay for twenty bucks.

First, on Tuesday, there was the Massachusetts Miracle, in which an obscure state senator named Scott Brown came out of nowhere — okay, Wrentham — to defeat a lackluster and morally dubious Democrat machine party hack who had expected to slow-walk herself, with David Gergen’s blessing, into “Teddy Kennedy’s seat.” But the Bay State voters had other ideas for the “Massachusette” —

Brown ran hard on the selling point that he would be the 41st vote in the Senate against Harry Reid’s and Nancy Pelosi’s screwball tax-and-wreck “health care” plan, a Rube Goldbergian contraption that would have made Elbridge Gerry weep with envy at all its cut-outs, set-asides, bribes and special-interest stroking. He also campaigned on the notion that taxpayer dollars would be better spent fighting terrorists instead of paying for lawyers for them. So, naturally, the first questions he got yesterday from the press corps in Washington were all along the lines of: “You’re not really a Republican, are you?”

To which the Democrats, caught flat-footed as usual, basically reacted like this:

In short order, Barney Frank headed for the exits on health-care, then briefly waddled back, until the pride of Baltimore, Anunciata d’Alesandro Pelosi, glumly announced that her beloved “health care” bill was pretty much sleeping with the fishes.

Yesterday was almost as much fun. First the Supreme Court handed the Maverick his head by eviscerating the notorious, blatantly unconstitutional “Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002” and sending it to the dustbin of history. As one of the major blots on the escutcheon of the Bush Administration was handily wiped away by a 5-4 vote, with the usual suspects lined up four to four on either side and Justice Kennedy tipping the scale to the right, the man who did more than anyone else to give us the Obama Administration was seen sucking up to… Scott Brown.

Justice Kennedy wrote:

Because speech is an essential mechanism of democracy — it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people — political speech must prevail against laws that would suppress it by design or inadvertence.

That principled defense of the First Amendment in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission naturally sent the left into high orbit. President Obama promised a “forceful response” — how many divisions does the Supreme Court have, anyway? — while New York Senator Chuck “Schemer” Schumer called the decision “un-American,” announced he would hold hearings and vowed to whip up some new laws in time for the fall elections to… to… whatever.

The purest, rawest and most crazed reaction from the lunatic fringe, of course, came from the super-special “Special Commentator,” the Former Sportscaster, Keith Olbermann, who disinterred the corpses of Roger Taney and Dred Scott in order to beat Chief Justice John Roberts with their bones. As a dark, paranoid, tasteless, moonbat fantasy, this one goes straight to the Hall of Fame:

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Wait! There’s more!

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To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, anyone who can watch Olbermann melt down on what passes for national television over at MSNBC without laughing has a heart of stone.

Meanwhile, almost lost in the shuffle was the news about this guy. You remember him, the one who ran for vice president in 2004, and was considered one of the front-runners for the Democratic nomination in 2008 until the National Enquirer caught him with his pants down while two crack reporters from the MSM, Time‘s Mark Halperin and New York‘s John Heilemann sat on the story. Well, the ambulance-chasing millionaire finally ‘fessed up about his own personal “two Americas.”

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Finally, stand me with here upon the terrace as we contemplate the wreckage of Air America. which quietly breathed its last yesterday after bravely struggling against the Rethuglican Smear Machine for, lo, these few, unsuccessful years. Perhaps Olbermann can salvage something from the debris and keep it on his desk as a kind of memento mori of the ratings fate that sooner or later awaits his network as well.