It is the fool who insists that he knows what all the rest did not, will win where all others failed, and is the bridge or the hope or the key or the one, when he himself has never run anything except his mouth. Continue reading
Newt Gingrich opposes the Ryan plan because it is supposedly too radical. Newt says that he is not in favor of left-wing social engineering, and therefore not in favor of right-wing social engineering either.
That’s a well-crafted sound bite, but it ignores the fact that there is currently a system spiralling out of control which threatens to swallow up our entire economy. This is no time for such dainty distinctions. Ryan’s plan saves the country. Newt’s plan?
Thought so.
Republicans who cannot see their way to support the Ryan plan can either submit a better one, or keep moving–they won’t find a seat at my table.
UPDATE: Tom Coburn says the same thing, via HotAir: If you can’t offer a MediCare plan better than … Continue reading
What a crock. Timmah might as well predict that the sun will set, plunging the world into a good 8-10 hours of darkness, if he doesn’t get his toes licked. Or is that Spitzer?
Because there *will* be a double-dip. Because we never got out of the first dip. This economy is not in any sort of recovery, but the Marxists in the White House have discovered that it doesn;t have to if they can manipulate the indicators directly. We are still sliding down a big ol’ hole with the Marxists furiously digging away ahead of us.
The debt ceiling is one of the least tangible of possible causes for … Continue reading
Ignoring primary nastiness and so forth, the real problems are things like chairmanships and votes. 14-term representative Hal “Prince of Pork” Rogers is the chair of the House Committee on Appropriations. Before he was even selected for the job, he mocked the Tea Party and took them to task for not winning 100% of the elections for the Republican party. I guess that 80% of what was in play just isn’t good enough.
Cross between a skewering of Pelosi’s evasions and Gore’s book etc to show that they will kill us all “for the children”. This should be in a somewhat confusing tone, a little Modest Proposal but not full-on. I’m looking for a sort of vicious mocking by an inappropriate gentleness.
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Open Letter to McConnell and Boehner:
I listened to speeches made by both of you immediately after the election. I was greatly impressed by both speeches–I played the m for friends and introduced them to podcasts and talk radio wherever possible. while unfortunately wondering how long it would last. I have read several accounts of conflict between Tea PArty and GOP chars b4 election, and some immed after. Fair enough. The first serious trbl I saw … Continue reading
I almost titled this post “Glengarry Glenn Beck”, but just didn’t have the heart. And it’s really the opposite of the point.
I adore the movie adaptation of Mamet’s play Glengarry Glen Ross. I’m afraid it’s the only Mamet that I am familiar with, although I retain a quite favorable impressionof him from an interview by Dennis Prager. That interview is not available online, at least through a cursory search, but I recall that Mamet was still, as the Weekly Standard refers to him in the last decade, in “mid-conversion”. That’s a great time to talk to people, by the way, as they are charged with new ideas, and in no small degree of inner turmoil, which makes for great conversation.
Here’s an embarrassingly long quote from … Continue reading
Look who has decided not to run, but cannot announce it yet due to his TV show obligations.
Huck: I’ve made ’12 decision – Maggie Haberman – POLITICO.com.
This man turned my stomach as a credible candidate, turned my bile as a spoiler for McCain, and now turns my apathy to amnesia as he fades from view, a small man disappearing quickly.
Let me just throw down a marker here: his show will not last the next year.
Former president Bill Clinton is agitating once again for what amounts to a Ministry of Truth from Orwell’s 1984.
If Bill Clinton had his way, there would be an Internet agency created by the U.S. government or United Nations to debunk malicious rumors that originate and spread online.
–Fox News, clinton muses creating internet agency, FoxNews.com, May 2011
[pullquote]How dare an American president, current or former, propose to arbitrate truth?[/pullquote]
This is remarkable for a number of reasons. First of course is the horrifying vision of a totalitarian state which finds this sort of thing necessary, as opposed to free nations, which do not. I think that is the obvious part, which I will not belabor. I’ll belabor the second reason a little though, … Continue reading
[Update 25AUG2011: I wrote this on 14May, after the first debate. I’ve corrected some spelling and phrasing, but nothing substantial. Rick Perry has just passed Mitt Romney in at least one, perhaps two significant polls. This post has stood up rather well.]
Mitt Romney had a golden opportunity to seize the nomination and skewer the president. In my opinion, all he needed to do was cast off his illegitimate offspring, RomneyCare. He should have said that he used the laboratory of democracy called Massachusetts, with its rich history of political innovation, to see once and for all if a large role for government can improve critical services in health care. He would have been in a unique position to assail the president on ObamaCare. “I have already implemented … Continue reading
Look, this has some sauce on it, so allow me to start by expressing my admiration for the resolve of the Japanese people, my aghast sorrow at what many here have had to endure, and especially my agnostic little prayers for those who spend (as in quickly) their lives working on the dying reactors to keep the rest of us as safe as possible.
From an article in the Japan Times on the ordered evacuation of Iitate village; downwind of Fukushima:
“We’ve been told to quit our jobs and move out by the end of the month,” said Miyoko Nakamura, 59, a clerk in the village office. She is near retirement and says she’ll manage. “A lot of people have no idea what to do. They’re just … Continue reading
