Saturday, April 20, 2013

Good Riddance To Margaret Thatcher

I know, I know, one must not speak ill of the dead.

But I can think of many reasons why the Rusty Lady should be exception.

She destroyed the British working class, of which she was a member.

She did so for the sake of advancing her own social position.

She produced a momentary upturn in the British economy that quickly crashed, leaving more moderate leaders (John Major and Tony Blair) to clean up the damage.

And, in concern with The Great Dissembler, she has frozen our politics at the year 1979.

I think that about sums up her life and career.  If nothing else, I've been brief.  And I'll say this for her:  she seems to have belatedly given Senate Democrats some semblance of a spine.

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