Libertarians suck

Date: My best friend Steve's birthday
Time: Too late to call him
Place: Beverly Hills 10044

I consider myself a centrist Democrat, one who realizes that our American economy is a tightly, to paraphrase Paul Krugman, "raveled" phenomenon, and that the broad prosperous middle class is a highly artificial though sustainable construct depending on redistributionist and protectionist government policies, and is in no way remotely a natural offshoot of laissez-faire economics, despite all the braying to that effect you may hear on CNBC or Faux News.

That being said, I realize also that no American politician can say this, for we are a nation of self-deluded, er, sufficient libertarians and if asked to formulate our own beliefs on the point above, would probably come up with stuff like this apologia from St. Ronald Reagan upon being caught with his pants down on Iran-Contra,

REAGAN (3/4/87): A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true. But the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

How do you argue with logic like that? Anyhow, the reason I bring this up is that I saw Dennis Miller on the Daily Show the other night. To me he epitomizes the desperation of the American conservative movement at this point in time. The poor sad bastard came out trying to spit as many shots at as many Democrats as he could, all so that no time could be left for Stewart to ask, "Man, did you clowns get ANYTHING right about Iraq?" In future posts, statistical correlations between Bush's approval rating and Bill O denouncing pedophiles, Chris Hitchens, and the bizarro world oracles of the neocon movement.