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September 29, 2005
Staying The Course--In Other Words, "Don't Panic!"
AJStrata made note of the same post by John Hinderaker at Powerline that I did, in which John speculates that Ronnie Earle timed his indictment to help prepare the ground for a Democratic filibuster of the coming SCOTUS nominee. As AJ observed, it's a little bit of a stretch; but Hinderaker constructs his arguments well, and it's hard to come up with anything else that makes more sense.
Leaving aside the question of whether or not a Democratic filibuster will succeed (I think it will be crushed), AJ is of the opinion that the Delay indictment is small potatoes: members of Congress have been in trouble with the law for ages, and in a year's time this will be a fading blip.
As I ground out some hard interval training on my bike today I was concurrently ramping up my outrage at the ridiculous actions of Ronnie Earle, until I suddenly remembered last year's interminable crucible of election stress. I, too, realized that in comparison to the election of GWB and the defeat of the awful Kerry, the indictment is just another political tempest in a teacup. And this on a day when John Roberts is overwhelmingly confirmed. AJ put his finger on a central thread:
Folks, if the conservative cause is going to falter every time it is challenged, or it hits a rough patch, then it is not ready for prime time. [...] Since Reagan’s first term I have heard so many predictions of doom and gloom that I would be richer than Bill Gates if I had a dollar everytime conservatism was supposed to be on the rocks. We are ushering in the Roberts’ era of the Supreme Court, soon with another conservative justice to be added to the court. How is it we are about to crumble???
And because DeLay has some bogus indictment thrown at him by an incompetent partisan hack I am supposed to be seeing the coming of the end? Geez, I understand how desparate liberals need to grasp at these kinds of scenarios - what else do they have? But conservatives?
That is very well said. The excesses of the information age (of which we bloggers are sometimes contributors) have made focusing on the big picture ever more difficult. While I would never vote for going back to the information Dark Ages, I think we need to realize that the instant snaphot can be misleading; the trend is always what's important. (Ergo, the Coalition of the Chillin').
I sometimes share AJ's frustration--we conservatives are supposed to be less emotional and more reasonable. I've decided to celebrate Roberts and forget Delay, for now at least.
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