Roger Simon and the party of race

Roger Simon: The Democratic party is the party of race.

Indeed, the argument can be made that the Democratic Party has destroyed the lives of minorities in order to save itself. Their programs, from the Great Society onwards, have done nothing substantial to improve minority lives, only to encourage dependency. The proof of this failure we see before us today in the dreadful statistics on black and Hispanic unemployment, far worse than the already horrendous national numbers. The more minorities are “helped,” the worse their lives become, the less equal we are.

The Democratic Party is then the true racist party, trapped in nostalgia for a time when genuine racism — Jim Crow, etc. — stalked the land. They have to assume significant white racism still exists because not to do so threatens the fabric of their being. A Tea Partier has to be a racist so you can dismiss his ideas without having to confront them or even think about them. Mitt Romney is just another rich white man so you don’t have to deal with what he is saying, you don’t have to evaluate whether he has a solution to a mutual problem.

Roger Simon on liberals, tea parties, and racism: "The real reason liberals accuse Tea Partiers of racism is that contemporary American-style liberalism is in rigor mortis. Liberals have nothing else to say or do.  Accusations of racism are their last resort."

Roger Simon: "The continued nostalgia for racism on the part of the Democratic Party never ceases to amaze me."

Why do Democrats cling to racism?

Putting it bluntly, the Democratic Party clings to racism because they are s–t out of ideas. They have nothing else to say. At this point, almost everyone acknowledges liberal policies don’t work economically and the Dems have little they can do but call names. This is even more true of socialism, a system which has consistently shown itself to be the initial ramp on an inexorable glide path to totalitarianism. Progressivism, liberalism, call it what you will, has completely lost its appeal to the majority of Americans on an ideological level. So what’s a poor Dem to do? Wave the bloody shirt. Cry racism!

Woman: "We're over taxed as is." And Obama goes off on her in a 17-minute rant on health care. See Jennifer Rubin's comments: Obama is a bore.

Roger L. Simon:  "And I am now convinced of what I have long suspected — the United States has a president with a serious personality disorder."

Jeffery S. Flier, dean of Harvard Medical School, has an article in today's WSJ.

In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will markedly accelerate national health-care spending rather than restrain it. Likewise, nearly all agree that the legislation would do little or nothing to improve quality or change health-care's dysfunctional delivery system.

Roger L. Simon adds: Game, set, match, tournament. But, hey, it’s only the Dean of Harvard Med. What would he know compared to such great clinicians as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi? This would be magnificent black comedy were it not our lives and – more importantly – those of our children that were hanging in the balance. The rush to enact this self-serving legislation is pretty much the most disgraceful US governmental act of my lifetime – at least that I can think of at the moment – and, as readers know, I am no longer in my twenties (!).

To me, that ought to settle it.

Roger L. Simon discusses the Hollywood types who are signing the list for the release of Roman Polanski. See the list here. They all will go on my list of people I won't watch.

Two million people yesterday demonstrated in Washington, protesting Obamacare, taxes, and deficit spending. They were tea partiers, and American patriots in action. Roger Simon has this reaction. Rick Moran notes that this is one of the rare conservative protest movements in American history. See Michelle Malkin's coverage.

Jennifer Rubin: "We are witnessing a grass roots outpouring of support for limited government, the rule of law, fiscal sobriety, and generational responsibility."

Matt Welch's impressions.

The numbers are in question but they were undoubtedly large.