Not with a bang, but a whimper.... Damn that Angela Keaton!

For details, reported via Twitter and video, you can go here and here.

This is not to be confused with reportage--it is editorializing pure and simple.

Mules sometimes die of hunger, I am told, when stuck equidistant between two piles of food, unable to make a decision for lack of brains.

This is not the problem with the Libertarian National Committee.

You see, the LNC found itself stuck equidistant between two piles of shit: pursuing the witch trial of Angela Keaton, or mustering the gumption to tell Stewart Flood and company where to stick it.

Predictably, the LNC did neither. It followed the time-honored tradition of Democrat and Republican Statists when faced with the need to show leadership and make a decision.

So the LNC appointed a committee.

Angela appears now to be safe from her attackers, but the Libertarian movement is in deep peril.

And in appropriate honor of the occasion:

Comments

Thomas L. Knapp said…

Steve,

Yep. Pretty much.

Here's my take, slightly different in emphasis but about as pungent:

http://knappster.blogspot.com/2008/12/d1-situation-report.html

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