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Welcome Back To The Decade That Never Ends

December 7, 2009 - 3:56 pm - by Ed Driscoll

The parallels are indeed ominous:

  • The reincarnation of Jimmy Carter in the White House? Check.
  • A feckless, asleep at the wheel foreign policy and neutered military? Check.
  • Ridiculous male fashions? Check.
  • Granola-environmentalism? Check-aroonie.

And this just cliches it:

Remember the dreaded 55 mph national speed limit, the dreaded Double Nickel? It’s virtually assured of making a return engagement in the very near future, thanks to a new ruling by the U.S, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

We have indeed returned to the 1970s, the decade that never, ever, ever, ever ends.

I’d love to be wrong, but it’s difficult to picture another Gipper on the horizon to restore peace and justice to the Old Republic in 2012, either.

Filed under: Bobos In Paradise, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal, Liberal Fascism, The Assault On Reason, The Future and its Enemies, The Return of the Primitive

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  1. 1. David Thomson

    2012? We don’t have that long. We had better kick some serious butt in the 2010 elections—or the country is finished. We will be living in a reincarnated version of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The odds are on our side—but we don’t have any time to waste.

    December 7, 2009 - 4:04 pm   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. steveegg

    All I have to say is, “Cannonball Baker, where are you?”

    Paging Mr. Yates. Paging Mr. Brock Yates. Please pick up the courtesy gas pump.

    December 7, 2009 - 7:13 pm   Link to this Comment
  3. 3. OCBill

    The double-nickel speed limit might cost the Democrats California in the next election. Rush hour traffic here averages between 75-80mph (when it can) with some people commuting 60 miles each way or more. Change to 55mph and it becomes a noticeable difference.

    December 7, 2009 - 10:27 pm   Link to this Comment
  4. 4. Joe Tetreault

    I think the restoration of the double nickel is assured for a completely different reason. Revenue. I can’t speak for anything other than the small trek of the I95 corridor I travel everyday from Stamford, to Branford. For the most part that stretch is a 55 mph zone. The speeds people drive tend to be between 70 and 85. I’ve been put putting along at 61, because the police presence is much stronger. I do not believe that traffic enforcement is up when the state of CT faces a sizable budget deficit.

    December 8, 2009 - 6:12 am   Link to this Comment

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