No, Valerie, That’s Speaking Power to Truth

White House adviser and well-dressed slumlord, Valerie Jarrett, claims that the administration’s aggressive stance toward Fox News represents the act of speaking “truth to power.”

She has it exactly backwards, of course, but when you’ve formed the habit of using buzzwords and clichés as substitutes for, you know, actual thought, you’re bound to experience the occasional misfire. This is one of the many worrisome attributes of this administration, to date. Obama and his legion of hopesters descended on Washington in a soupy fog of cant and intellectual baby-talk, designed to mask their hard-edged, cleared-eyed vision of a greatly-expanded nanny-state. As reality begins to burn off the fog, the true shape of this worldview is becoming more apparent, and the ability to disguise it increasingly difficult.

Meanwhile, conservatives continue to regroup and are showing remarkable strength and resiliency, not only in their fight against Democrats, but against the appeasers in what should be their natural home, the Republican Party. The next few years will see a (possibly) decisive struggle to win the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens. We will find out whether we have become a nation of sheep, or whether we can still legitimately refer to America as the land of the free and the home of the brave.