Jonah Goldberg at his best

Finally, here’s Jonah Goldberg at his best (discussing, in this instance, politicians’ shenanigans, duplicities, and irresponsibility over the looming “fiscal cliff”). Two quotations are especially noteworthy: While there are some responsible politicians and policymakers in Washington, if you look at the whole place collectively, Uncle Sam starts to look like a junkie. The logic of addiction dictates that you make a deal that allows you to avoid all of your problems now and enjoy a quick high in exchange for a painful confrontation with reality down the road THAT WOULD BE NICE: Grover Norquist: New, Larger ‘Tea Party Second Wave’ Coming. “We are about to have a Tea Party second wave that will dwarf the first wave and that is because while ‘spend too much’ brought the Tea Party into existence, we’re about to walk into ‘spend too much, regulate too much, and tax too much,’ all together. It’s going to be a perfect storm of annoying government behavior, which is devastating to the economy, and I think the small business community which is particularly hit by Obama’s tax increases are going to lead the fight bigger, stronger, tougher than the last Tea Party.”