The Lois Lerner Defense

Mark Steyn, link via   Free Republic

Pretty good writeup, this is.  Hmm.  Am I writing like Yoda talked?  Jedi Master am I.  Tee hee.

Anyway, Steyn and a lot of conservatives, or maybe even all of us, are afflicted with something of a disease.  You read through Steyn's article and you see what needs to be done, but you have to read between the lines to find it.

He advocates abolishing the IRS.  Now that's not the disease.  The disease is what it will take in order to abolish the IRS.  It will take a head-on confrontation with the left that the right simply seems incapable of managing.

The conservatives or right wing or whatever you want to call them are not the knuckle dragging Neaderthals that the left likes to claim that we are.  If only!   No, we're the Dr. Jekyl of the paired up Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde.  The Democrats are Mr. Hyde.  Democrats and the left will say anything and do anything to hold on to their power.  But there are limits to what the conservatives will do.  That's the very essence of that story.  Dr. Jekyl is very civilized---too civilized for his own good.  He seeks a potion that will relieve him of his inhibitions.  When he discovers it, he turns into a monster that has to be slain.  But it will take Dr. Jekyl along with it.

The best metaphor that isn't, says Yoda.  Indeed.  Perhaps there's another. I was looking at the T.S. Eliot poem last night.  It is called the Love Song of Alfred Prufrock.  Well, this fellow in the poem is too civilized for his own good and he fails.  He cannot summon within himself the power of the Id, which is what he needs to succeed.  You see, Alfred wants to get it on with some ladies, but he cannot "disturb the universe" while he dithers on such silly topics such as "eating a peach".  In short, he is too civilized.  He Super-Ego inhibits him too much and he fails.

I think that's the trouble with the so-called right.  They make the most splendid arguments as this one by Steyn.  But is the lamb arguing with the wolf, and the wolf always wins that argument, no matter how good the lamb's arguments may well be.  As Aesop of Aesop's fables said, "force has the better of the argument".  Being right is not good enough.  Conservatives need to summon their Id, or perhaps their inner Neaderthal, but as Cornball Cornyn showed, they just can't do it.  Or won't do it.  Whatever the case may be, from downright corruption or just plain incompetence, the conservatives may as well be Alfred singing his love song.  In the end, as in the poem, they will drown in their own incompetence or fears.

I insist that I will run for the Senate if somebody will step up to the plate and help me out.  Or maybe I won't.  Just too much of a challenge.  Maybe for me.  Maybe for you out there wherever you are.