Which is it: 'Shining City on a Hill' or 'Nation In Crisis'? Pray for or praise her? -BO #PerrySC #notaseriouscandidate
You w/party~divides forever by calling op "unrighteous". But u cannot stand a _vote_ on whether top earners should pull more weight during hard times?! -BO #MittRomney #notaseriouscandidate
Friday, January 13, 2012
Obama Tweets For the Day
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Obama Tweets of the Day
Good managers and great nations put their people first. Health Care Act does that. #MittRomneyRepeal #notaseriouscandidate
Committed couples paying taxes, married in their state. No civic "destruction". #NewtFastTalk #notaseriouscandidate
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Obama Tweet of the Day
Can it be we have a Republican presumptive who has never shot a gun before? Strange days. -BO #notaseriouscandidate
Did they write it? No.
This White House is going to play it safe until they are forced later on to do something dramatic.
It's still not too late for them to start supporting the candidacy of Ron Paul. There are ways, for people who are clever, without appearing to do it directly.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Is Newt's Career Over, Finally?
To have pandered so boldly and lost is truly a costly proposition.
"Gingrich is a festering white-head of loathing. Which is why his smile looks so terrifying and false." -Andrew Sullivan
Obama Suddenly Looking a LIttle Bit, er, Executive
Has he broken out of his Senator-mode, his "let's have a debate" mode and taken up the whip handle, the true burden of being an Executive?
Who can say, because he does a lot of things behind the scenes, and like Eisenhower, a bit, maybe, he prefers not to appear as 'the heavy'.
Still, this move to recess appoint Richard Cordray suddenly has him looking, acting, feeling Presidential. (It was foreshadowed on this blog - gulp!)
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Platitudinous To Perfection
Clearly, he's ready to "preside over the decay" in Washington.
Look into the amber waves of grain and "vote values". Pay no attention to the things we'll do we're not talking about.
Catechized Deadhead Thanks Wife Before God
As long as Rick Santorum is being a display-faith candidate, can we question openly and honestly how it is that he put his sing-songy wife ahead of God in this thanks tonight?
Yes, of course we can, AND it is the right response to do it. I mean, we *know* you love your wife, but c'mon.
Oblation: Santorum Is Aroma that Attracts Evangelicals Away From Gingrich
We'll wait for the returns cross-section, but one has to hazard that Santorum was the knife that the GOP "establishment" used to cut Gringich's appeal to the heartland Christianists, backed by huge PAC spending on ads.
If true, that means that Santorum, who never had much polled support in Iowa until recent days, garnered nothing more than a rejection vote, a safe-harbor "value vote", a power-pastor oblation vote.
That's just fine with those pulling the GOP's purse strings, as they get to keep up the illusion of a Reagan coalition that "works", rather than one that is a dangerous trinity for any polity.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Not a single broker or executive goes to jail
$335 Million settlement across 200,000+ borrowers, for one company (of hundreds?).
Not a single mortgage broker or loan officer goes to jail. Not one, reportedly.
Ergo, nothing will or has changed.
One wonders just how much worse it will get when the Democrats keep adopting moves to shut Freddie and Fannie out of the credit markets, despite their salutatory affect on creating fair access to credit...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Do Nothing Congress Finds New Ways to Do Nothing
The latest from the GOP's do-nothingness? Stage a fight with yourself.
It's true. I didn't make it up.
[By the way, funding via pass-through fees on Fannie and Freddie is a bad idea.]
The Last March of the Women?
Isn't it an acute symbolism, that the women march to protest brutal treatment, as the Islamist Winter falls in Egypt, one that they no doubt voted for in large numbers?
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Tribalism
Remember, on the pages of the Wall Street Journal, in the early months of the invasion (or perhaps even before), the intellectual fight over how best Iraqis could organize their oil wealth?
Today, the come-down from such lofty heights, so many years later:
U.S. forces, which had ended combat missions in 2010, paid $100,000 a month to tribal sheikhs to secure stretches of the highways leading south to reduce the risk of roadside bombings and attacks on the last convoys.-link
Christopher Hitchens: A man worth naming a dog after
The Asia Times comes in with a solid.
I had forgotten the moving essay on Daily and the Galloway exchange.
('Drink-Soaked Trotskyite Popinjays for War' has had a link on this blog for a long while - for literary purposes only, but I see the website is defunked, now. Forgone maintenance.)
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Team USA was hacked
Now we know why self-destruct wasn't triggered or sent, possibly:
Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured drone's systems inside Iran.link
Friday, December 16, 2011
Reagan's Omertà
Perhaps the most fatuous question last night had to do with Reagan's 11th commandment, omertà.
A nation has lost something when the question is whether or not candidates for political office should level hard-hitting, legitimate criticisms of each other.
Reagan's Devolution, torched now by a media propaganda arm, rotten from the core, I guess.
(Does one need more evidence than this that Conservatism is tribal, not ideological? No. Yet, you will find many acolytes, still burning candles of that illusion.)
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