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Morning Jolt
. . . with Jim Geraghty June 27, 2014 Dear Jolt Aficionados, Good Morning! With a little more enthusiasm? Take it away Donald, Gene, and Debbie. So, while this may seem like more cheesy opportunity-taking required by Operation Sell The Weed Agency, it may also be legitimate news. Or at least a third-rate conspiracy theory? As you know, back-on-Monday Jim Geraghty properly boasted last week that his NOVEL (dubbed in the subtitle a COMIC TALE) made the Washington Post's best-seller list. But not on the fiction list. No, on the NONFICTION list. And intelligence gatherers (Jonah is not the only NRO writer with flying monkeys) report that bookstores are carrying The Weed Agency in the nonfiction section. What gives? Inquiring minds want to know. So do non-inquiring minds. I'm going to get to what is worth reading today on NRO, but not until I fire all of my guns at once and explode into space on this book. A few reviews: - Mark Henshaw says "Anyone with a vested interest in efficient government — which should be everyone — who reads The Weed Agency will find themselves wondering whether they should laugh or cry."
- Rob Port lauds: "Really, this is the sort of work the conservative movement needs more of. Conservatives tend to get a bunker mentality when it comes to discussing the 'gargantuan, ever-growing, ever-less-accountable, impossible-to-uproot federal bureaucracy' (as Geraghty describes it in the book's forward), issuing dire, no-joking-around declarations."
- Pun Salad recommends : "You can read a tome on public choice theory, and you probably should, but this is more fun, and you'll get the basic idea.
- And Vic Socotra is delighted that he "stumbled into a little gem of a book," saying "I am about politicked out at the moment. . . but [The Weed Agency] rings true and is a light and fun read, even with the footnotes."
Now, on with the show. Here are five NRO things you have got to read (and SHARE!): 1. David French takes to The Corner to explain SCOTUS's Thursday bully beat-down of Barry and Eric, smart prose duly complemented by NRO's sharp editorial, "Another Judicial Rebuke for Obama." 2. The Mississippi GOP primary fall-out continues. Eliana Johnson profiles Mitzi Bickers, the scandal-plagued Democrat operative who was paid by the GOP establishment to run a pro-Cochran black/Dem-targeted GOTV operation. 3. Still in the Magnolia State: John Fund provides his usual sharp analysis in "Remember Mississippi!" which begins: How far did the establishment GOP forces backing Senator Thad Cochran go in Mississippi this week? Too far, and their tactics are likely to leave permanent scars in a civil war with Tea Party forces that are out of all proportion to the importance the establishment placed on saving one 76-year-old senator's ability to please Washington's K Street lobbying interests. "This is a win for the establishment, but it's a win with an asterisk, because it's so tainted that it might be one of those things where they're going to be sorry they ever won the runoff in Mississippi," Craig Shirley, a political consultant and the author of two respected biographies of Ronald Reagan, told Yahoo News this week. 4. Back to the courts: Check out Hadley Arkes' smart-as-heck piece, "The McCullen Case and the Craft of John Roberts," which looks at the SCOTUS decision overturning a Massachusetts law to stifle pro-lifers' First Amendment rights. 5. And Jonah Goldberg's new column says the Pride of the Cherokee, Senator Elizabeth Warren, may, to Hillary's regret, really be the Obama of 2016. A great read. Did I say five? Heck, I count six links up there, so since we've broken the rules, let's add two more items — written by our summer interns (give them a moment in the spotlight!) — as we wrap this up for the week. Molly Wharton reports on Ted Cruz's Senate floor speech calling for the appointment of an IRS special prosecutor, and Celina Durgin provides the skinny on the fizzle out of the New York soda ban. Now make these kids feel good — read their stuff (it's pretty darned good). Ladies and gents, it's been a pleasure pinch-hitting for Jim. You all have one of them-thar great weekends, and don't forget to reserve that cabin on the NR 2014 Post-Election Cruise, which you can do at www.nrcruise.com. Elvis has left the e-mail, Jack Fowler Publisher
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