http://www.nationalreview.com/article/380812/bureaucrats-bureaucrats-bureaucrats-jonah-goldberg

What’s frustrating about conservatism is that all the bricks are there, but they’re mostly heaped up into a pile of nothing.

I for one am thoroughly enjoying the news cycles– the diseased southern invaders, the DC pantomime, the unravelling of USG foreign policy…

The popcorn must flow!

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-crumbling-cultural-foundations-american-democracy-10687

I predict that NRx will more and more start to look like a core of libertarians mugged by reality surrounded by an ever increasing mass of conservatives mugged by reality.

A high-level administration official called our cellphone to say that, based on his own exasperating experience, Lois Lerner’s IRS emails might really be unrecoverable. Demanding anonymity, the official said he had been trying to assemble an archive of his own email while in government, but underlings told him there were gaps of months at a time. When we asked what the excuse was, he said: “I can’t get a straight answer. You know the bureaucracy.”

We told him that if he’d document his experience and email it to us, we’d print it. Recoiling, he said there was no way to write such a thing in an email because of “the climate.” We told him to just send it from his personal email. “I can’t do THAT!” he replied. “Gmail really IS forever.”

Bulgaria or Zimbabwe? Either they planted it to cover their asses or they really are this incompetent — it’s one or the other.

(Here we see why the law might be necessary: so that people should not seek to escape penalty by claiming stupidity.)

It’ll be instructive to see the difference between what happens to a president hated by the media and what happens to a president loved by the media. If they can kick out someone they don’t like and keep in someone they do like… well, that makes them pretty damn sovereign.

Then there’s the issue of Roberts’ Obamacare reversal, about which conspiracism is most definitely warranted. We’re back in Bulgaria — how long until the Forrestals start dropping? (If they haven’t already; it’s not like we’d hear about it.)