If you work for Bailout Bank, Joe the Plumber may be saving you from your bad management, but you will need to contribute too. Now 100% of your income that exceeds Joe’s salary will be taxed. It’s only fair. No wait, if you contributed to Senator Maphia’s campaign, you can get twice Joe’s salary!
Of course, [...]
Failure is good. Most people learn from their mistakes. But there are still risks.
For instance, Obama’s public option has failed, at least for today. So what does he learn?
Does he realize this isn’t what people want, and move on to what they do want, working in the “post-partisan fashion on which he campaigned? Or does [...]
I never paid much attention to what Mr. Polanski did, but when I discovered the details last weekend, I was horrified. Althouse has written the best piece I have yet read.
However, I have not seen mentioned the one thought I keep having on the matter:
How has anyone been able to work with this guy? If [...]
and I did nothing. Then they came for the car companies, and I did nothing. Then they came for the insurance companies, and when I objected, I was abandoned by all the other insurance companies.
That’s what I’d think if I were a Humana executive, but I’m not. And I worry about how the rest of [...]
When I first read the transcript of Obama’s interview with Stephanopoulos, the criticisms from the blogosphere looked hyperbolic. I only saw Obama getting mired in details that wouldn’t make much sense to most people. This quibbling has been his MO for obscuring parts of the debate he doesn’t want to have illuminated.
But then I read [...]
The White House claims:
The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London, a scene that drew criticism on the right and praise from some Arab outlets.
“It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than King Abdullah,” said [...]
The most frightening thing I’ve seen in the Washington Post, today:
The populist anger at the executives who ran their firms into the ground is increasingly blowing back on Obama, whom aides yesterday described as having little recourse in the face of legal contracts that guaranteed those bonuses.
Horror of horrors! Little recourse? What don’t people get [...]
I think that not just the Chinese government, but every investor can have absolute confidence in the soundness of investments in the United States… -Obama
This makes me as nervous as hearing from someone, in almost any context: “trust me.”
From the International Herald Tribune:
On Foreign Policy magazine’s Web site, Freeman blamed pro-Israel groups for the controversy, saying the “tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth.”
Well, this measured [...]