Pun Salad

• MoveOn: We were for free speech, before we were against it.

• MoveOn: Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, unless you're dissenting with us.

• MoveOn: We have all the lawyers that George Soros can buy, so do you really want to mess with us?

• MoveOn: Why are you picking on us when Dan Rather's back in the news?

Any other suggestions out there? Well, Michelle has lots.

From "How do we equalize incomes and make American society fair?" the preoccupying question of Democrats and social progressives became, "Say, where'd all this money come from?" Some goose somewhere was laying some kind of gi-normous golden egg! They looked around for someone to credit--for surely it had to be a government official who was responsible--and settled on the owlish fellow in the Poindexter glasses, who spent his days doing God-knows-what in a sealed-up marble sarcophagus on Constitution Avenue. "In Greenspan We Trust," said the headline on newsmagazine covers.

It would be nice if, in defense, every single Republican read the City Journal article "What Really Buys Happiness?" by Arthur Brooks. Brooks argues that income inequality by itself doesn't drive resentment among most Americans that populists hope for:

What I found was that economic inequality doesn't rustrate Americans at all. It is, rather, the perceived lack of economic opportunity that makes us unhappy. To focus our policies on inequality, instead of opportunity, is to make a grave error—one that will worsen the very problem we seek to solve and make us generally unhappier to boot.

Of course, that course would require Republicans to have both brains and courage. So prospects are iffy.