QUOTE OF THE DAY, FROM VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, TRAVELING IN EUROPE - AT 7:26 P.M. ET:  From Pajamas Media:

No, Europe should not only not be our model, but Euros know it should not be our model. A few brilliant Europeans whisper, “Of course, it is lost here, since no addict insidiously hooked on government entitlement ever gives such largess up. But you over there still have a chance.” For a few Europeans, America’s military (drawing on fewer people and less territory and GDP than the expanded EU) is the only hope for Western defense. It’s where most life-saving drugs will emerge, new technologies are birthed, and huge sophisticated markets grow for European goods. So they have a stake in not allowing us to become like them.

And, on the administration's attitude toward dissent:

There are no legitimate critics, only those Obama & Co. claim are shills for the insurance industries, who unfairly attack the Canadian health system, the greedy who go to Vegas and the Super Bowl, the Neanderthal who cling to their guns, the dissidents known as Nazis, stooges, mobs, and the well-dressed who dare to become rude to the Congresspeople.

COMMENT:  Well said on both counts.  It's strange that Europe is moving right as we're moving left.  Well, at least our government is moving left.  The American people seem to be resisting more and more.  But, of course, what do they know?  They cling to their guns and religion, and...they like soldiers.

August 13, 2009