Robert Samuelson, moderate economics op-ed editorialist for the Washington Post opines in today’s paper that the stimulus is mostly just a collosal waste of money and a huge, unexamined advancement of the long-time liberal wishlists not to mention political payback to all of Obama’s political supporters.  (Although that is my way of interpreting the result).

HT to AmericanThinker.com

Seth

During the election cycle, Scott encouraged Steve and I to tune into the Daily Kos as a place to get an understanding (and maybe some sympathy) for the views espoused by the “progressives” (as they like to call themselves) on the left who were so virulently in the tank for “the man” O and so vocal in their hatred for McSame…as he was called.

I did that and since then I have regularly tuned into left-leaning websites.  I have subscribed to Daily Kos and read the posts there at least once a week.

It has not “helped” me.  I have found the Daily Kos, particularly, is prone to feed itself on bogeymen and strawmen and it so very RARELY turns its ire or sarcasm or wrath on itself or the progressive ideas that it espouses that there is no way that what it says could possibly be true.  (In this respect I find the Huffington Post to be much more balanced and enjoyable.  I still disagree with most of the content there but you do find some writers who sometimes get the alternative, too.)

For example, the EERY ease with which the Daily Kos dismisses conservative objections and reasonable warnings about the congressional spendulus package is telling.  The heat and vented rage which has spewed from them over the completely partisan breakdown in the congressional votes and their foaming cry to just eschew bipartisanship paints their colors.

And yet…Daily Kos is what it is.  I appreciate that their is no pretension about it.  And no veiled attempts to disguise their motives.  In that regard it is much better that the Mainstream Media which is almost as completely committed to progressive politics as the Daily Kos but veils itself in supposed media objectivity.

In that respect, you have to love AmericanThinker.com.  It truly is the Daily Kos of conservative internet.  I mostly agree with AmericanThinker.com and I REALLY appreciate the perspective they bring.  Like Daily Kos, the writers their are well-educated and really smart.  And, yes, sometimes they spew vile.  And sometimes they are given to  chasing bogeymen and strawmen.  But on the whole, the writing there is engaging and funny and serious-minded.

And, unlike Kos, mostly correct.

Click here for a funny example.

Seth

This is a good article showing what happens when liberal politics become the dominant politics.  Read the comments, too… funny and depressing.

Western New York as an example.

Seth