The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Out on a Limb
“Raising Interest Rates Will Help Some, Hurt Others”–headline, The Wall Street Journal, March 25
It Didn’t Go With His Robe
“Judge Returns Texas Beauty’s Crown”–headline, Arizona Republic, March 25
Senior Senator
Hey, how’s that “civility” thing going? Blogger Jordan Rickards has video of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, speaking at a rally for Planned Parenthood, a government-subsidized group that performs abortions and other services. Quoth Lautenberg:
The Tea Party Republicans in Washington claim they’re concerned about the budget balance. But it’s a disguise! It’s not true! It’s a lie! That’s not [what] they want. They want to–they want other people not to be able to have their opinions. They don’t deserve the freedoms that are in the Constitution, but we’ll give them to them anyway.
In one sense, “They don’t deserve the freedoms that are in the Constitution” is a trivial truth. Those freedoms are a matter of right, not desert. But Lautenberg’s emotional message is unmistakable. He resents that his political opponents have constitutional rights–and he says so just before complaining that “they want other people not to be able to have their opinions.” Projection, anyone?
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