Paglia agrees with Palin

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As liberals go, Camille Paglia is a fairly bright one. She's a little too obsessed with Bush and the Iraq war (what leftist isn't?), but she's historically been pretty good at spotting BS in her own party.

She eviscerates the Obama admin on health care, calling his handling of the issue grotesque, vague, and slippery. She's even harsher on Congress, calling them chaotic, rapacious, solipsistic, and demanding Pelosi stand down.

[S]omehow liberals have drifted into a strange servility toward big government, which they revere as a godlike foster father-mother who can dispense all bounty and magically heal all ills. The ethical collapse of the left was nowhere more evident than in the near total silence of liberal media and Web sites at the Obama administration's outrageous solicitation to private citizens to report unacceptable "casual conversations" to the White House. If Republicans had done this, there would have been an angry explosion by Democrats from coast to coast. I was stunned at the failure of liberals to see the blatant totalitarianism in this incident, which the president should have immediately denounced. His failure to do so implicates him in it.

As a libertarian and refugee from the authoritarian Roman Catholic church of my youth, I simply do not understand the drift of my party toward a soulless collectivism.

Pretty interesting thoughts. Paglia's only failing here is that she continues to be "stunned" when her party's true colors are exposed.

Worth a read, in any case.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/...ls/index1.html