Latecomers to the Obvious Party...

Scientists recently reported that the Earth has developed a small eccentricity in its orbit. NASA experts believe that this orbital anomaly is caused by William F. Buckley spinning in his grave at supersonic speeds. The Department of Energy plans to use this source of perpetual energy to reduce American power plants' dependency on burning coal.

The money quote:

My old and dear friend Peter Robinson (we single-handedly won the Cold War together as Bush I speechwriters at the White House in the early 1980s) takes me to task Friday on Forbes.com for having recognized--finally, after all these weeks--that President Obama is a hard-left ideologue big-spender. He also congratulates David Gergen and David Brooks for similarly having come to their senses.

Robinson was much gentler on Brooks and me than Rush Limbaugh was. This week on his radio show he blasted the two of us in an Oscar Wilde mode, quipping, "Duh!"

Let's take a quick look at the tape. What I said in my Daily Beast endorsement of Obama last October was as follows:

"President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren't going to get us out of this pit we've dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and throws up tariff walls and opens the coffers of the DNC to bribe-money from the special interest groups against whom he has (somewhat disingenuously) railed during the campaign trail, then he will almost certainly reap a whirlwind that will make Katrina look like a balmy summer zephyr."

So much for my secular prayers. Maybe I should have tried the old-fashioned kind instead. For now, he is raising taxes and proposing Brobdingnagian government spending and expansion. It would thus seem that I was wrong about him. [...] But that's not what mainly bugs Robinson, who goes on to say that 'a deep, recurring pattern of American life has asserted itself yet again: the cluelessness of the elite. Buckley, Gergen and Brooks all attended expensive private universities, then spent their careers moving among the wealthy and powerful who inhabit the seaboard corridor running from Washington to Boston. If any of the three strolled uninvited into a cocktail party in Georgetown, Cambridge or New Haven, the hostess would emit yelps of delight. Yet all three originally got Obama wrong.'

First let me say, being a well-brought-up elite, I would never 'stroll uninvited' into a cocktail party in Georgetown. We elites don't do that.

Note to Chris "In Name Only" Buckley:


It's nice that you see the truth now, after a few months. However, lots of people who aren't super-psuedo-intellectuals like you saw the truth from the get-go. Thanks a lot, jerk. You're doing your father proud... NOT.