Strapping kids to the fenders

Jonah Goldberg on Nancy Pelosi's latest idiocy:

[This] is what liberals do. They metaphorically lash children to the fenders of government so that the budget cutting blade must slice through them first. Then, after insanely putting them in harm’s way, they proclaim it is the sane budget cutters who seek to harm children. In fairness, sometimes liberals hold the young human shields in reserve and put firehouses, historic monuments, and old-age homes outside the budgetary walls of the fiscal keep. And, again, they declare that the fiscally sane want to get rid of firefighters and the Washington Monument — and not, say, the Export-Import Bank or agricultural subsidies.

When liberals accuse conservatives of wanting children to die, that’s hardball politics. When conservatives put banal targets on congressional maps, that’s incitement to murder.

Since the mainstream press is in the bag for the Democrat party, (and looks to remain that way for some time to come), this double standard continues. What I find grimly amusing is the fact that many of those controlling the media today were the hippies of the 1960s, the very people who saw themselves (mostly incorrectly) as fighting against "the Man." Now they are propping him up in the name of their jealous god, Social Reform. The irony is mind-numbing.