The thing that makes a good sulk so enjoyable is you get to ignore everything that contradicts it. Like, you know, this:

American "decline" is the foreign-policy equivalent of homelessness: The media only take note of it when a Republican is in the White House.

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Now take military expenditures. Yesterday, the administration released its budget proposal for 2009, which includes $515.4 billion for the regular defense budget. In inflation-adjusted dollars, this would be the largest defense appropriation since World War II. Yet it amounts to about 4% of GDP, as compared to 14% during the Korean War, 9.5% during the Vietnam War and 6% in the Reagan administration. Throw in the Iraq and Afghanistan supplementals, and total projected defense spending is still only 4.5% of GDP -- an easily afforded sum...

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The key to real prosperity for everyone is economic growth. Whichever party most consistently supports policies which enable growth will always have my vote. Any party that chooses to emphasize an agenda that impedes growth (pushing agendas like "fairness" or "living wages" or "progressivism") won't.

Which should make my party choice, well, rather obvious.

Via Instapundit.