The Day After

Posted by Will Collier on 05 Nov 2008 at 09:26 am On The Day After, Jonah Goldberg’s column, “Now Govern,” is as good as a place as any to begin: [N]ow the Democratic Party is for all practical purposes America’s super-majority party. It has complete control of the presidency and Congress. It’s time to put away childish things and govern. If Democrats govern from the center, good for the country. If they govern from their instincts, good for the Republicans. I strongly suspect we’re going to see Jonah’s Option Number Two out of a unified Democratic government. After effectively fourteen years out of power, I do not think this bunch can stop themselves from indulging their fundamental instincts, i.e., abandoning our allies in Iraq and/or Afghanistan, yanking up taxes, slashing defense spending, regulating anything that moves... [read full story]