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October 28, 2002
OK, enough with the crocodile tears
Yeah, Paul Wellstone was a real swell fella. He was loving and kind and sincere. I hear he liked puppy dogs, too. Damned shame for his family, him getting killed and all. Certainly it is a great tragedy that his family members and staff and pilots died.
However, he made his name and his living on the huge, incredible presumption of using force of arms to spend OUR money and force US to give up our lives and liberty for HIS pet causes. In short, he was just another (friendly and sincere) commie jackass.
Here are a couple of folks who will break it down in ways that ol' Al is just too danged nice to:
Ayn Rand freak Arthur Silber at his Light of Reason site writes:
Wellstone wanted to point a gun at your head, and demand your money -- at the cost of your freedom, which means at the cost of your own life. Frankly, given the nature of his beliefs, I don't care that he might have been "sincere" or "principled." That only means that he really believed it was right for him, or for anyone, to do this: to enslave all men, to pay for his idea of what a "good" society should be.
The official Cold-Hearted Bastard prize here, however, must go to Billy Beck at No Treason! who writes:
Paul Wellstone was a common fool, risen to uncommon prominence. I don't give a damn for his sincerity, or his sunny disposition or any of the rest of it. In brief; I have no kind or patient regard for this or any other variation of the Nuremburg Defense: it makes no difference to me that he was "just doing his job". I say that his job was invalid and wrong.
Somebody here is not working and playing well with others. But was it the bloggers with perhaps less than charitable attitudes, or the big honkin' politician sending people with guns out to take your money and run your life?
On the other hand, James Lilek would get the big hearted guy award for his comments on Wellstone, if I cared about such things. Still, he makes me feel like something of a poopie head for being churlish. I just don't know what to think.
Even the day he died though, I heard various people wanting to push through some mental health entitlement in his honor, some grand scheme that he and Pete Domenici had been working on. I do not wish to speak ill of the dead, but screw him if his sainted memory is supposed to serve as the impetus for saddling the living with yet another multi-billion dollar welfare plan.
posted by Al at 10/28/2002 02:56:00 AM
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