A Part of the National Psyche
by NewsFeed on Mar.11, 2010, under Watchdog Related News Feed
Victor Davis Hanson notes that one reason for American exceptionalism may be that we did not inherit from England “a large underclass of only quasi-free people attached to barons as serfs.” Sadly, a worse institution took root here, but never became part of the national psyche.
–Rich Lowry & Ramesh Ponnuru (National Review Online, 3/8/10, via Crooked Timber, 3/9/10)
So, David Paterson will become the massa who gets to appoint whoever gets to take [Rep. Eric] Massa’s place. So, for the first time in his life, Paterson’s gonna be a massa. Interesting, interesting.
–Rush Limbaugh (Rush Limbaugh Show, 3/9/10, via Media Matters, 3/9/10)

