Clue-by-Four of Truth

• "Conservatives" won't face consequence of their "budget cuts."  Republic of T paints the picture:

  Paul’s challenge underscores the dishonesty of his budget, as well as those proposed by other conservatives. Paul and other conservatives wear their proposed budget as badges of honor, but they lack the courage to state clearly the human impact of their budget cuts, and the candor to confess the unreality of their proposals.
  
  [...]
  
  But the snapshot of consequences in Kentucky underscores a point driven home at the end of the Lexington Herald editorial.
  

  Paul pines for a land built on libertarian theory. But the country of his ideals is a place that few Americans would want to leave their children.

  It’s a place that few Americans want to live in, or want their children to live in, today.

  [Emphasis and link in original.]
  
• Driftglass again demonstrates his qualifications for the Mike Royko Memorial Chair at whatever school of journalism has one and in the process reminds all that Mr. Brooks of the NY Times needs to revisit the difference between journalism and public relations.

  First, however beloved and renowned Rahm Emanuel might have been in Mr. Brooks' D.C. social and political circles, back in Chicago he is still regarded as a carpet bagger. He has no natural constituency here, and when he went away to join the DLC Elite, he left behind no appreciable mark, or legacy, or footprints in the sands of Garfield Park Conservatory that he could in any way plausibly use to claim clear title to the status of a Favorite Son finally returning to the bosom of his home town.
  
  He pulled no swords from stones here, and no Watery Tarts of Lake Michigan threw him any Excaliburs.
  
  Instead what Mr. Emanuel has going for him is an assload of money, direct, hard-wired connections to every million-watt insider/power-broker in the Democratic Party and, most importantly, a tacit but unmissable nod from the Daley Machine. A formidable and very-probably unbeatable political armory to which he can now add Mr. Brooks' free, full-page political advertisement masquerading as a New York Times Op-Ed.

  (If you click through, you get a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  You won't get that from conservative Republican columnists, even if they understood it.)