Political Junkie Boomer

If you consider yourself a baby boomer political junkie and have never heard of P.J. O'Rourke, you're credentials are very suspect.  If you were born between 1946 and 1964, you're a baby boomer.  I was born in March 1946.  That makes me a baby boomer.  Just think, if I'd been born just four months earlier, the younger generation wouldn't be blaming me for everything that's gone wrong in this country.  As for being a political junkie, just stop awhile and roam around this blog.  I know, I know I'm a conservative political junkie, what can I say?                                    

Back to Mr. O'Rourke.  He was born in 1947.  That makes him a baby boomer. You have to call him a political junkie because he's a political satirist and currently the H.L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute.  He once was a hippie and is now a libertarian.  Draw your own conclusions.  But above all you should read his stuff.  Following is an excerpt from his latest article, "Of Thee I Sigh: Baby Boomers Bust" (he really slams our generation).

"When did America quit bragging? When did we stop punching hardest, kicking highest, roaring loudest, beating the devil, and leaving everybody else in the dust?

We’re the richest country on earth—four and a half percent of the world’s people producing more than twenty percent of the world’s wealth. But you wouldn't know from the cheapjack spending squabbles in Congress. We possess more military power than the rest of the planet combined. Though you couldn't tell by the way we’re treated by everyone from the impotent Kremlin to the raggedy councils of the Taliban. The earth is ours. We have the might and means to achieve the spectacular—and no intention of doing so.

Witness our foreign policy deliberations, mired in snits about what kind of underachievement to pursue. Should we quit following North Korea’s Twitter feeds? Unfriend Iran on Facebook? Withdraw our troops from the nuclei of terrorism too soon or much too soon? Aid Bashar al-Assad or abet him? Appease China little by little or all at once?"

Inspired by "World Affairs"