…and the easy slide into fascism.
To be fair to Rahm, he was already mostly there.
Category Archives: Business
“Bin Laden Is Dead And GM Is Alive”
But GM is on life support.
I think this has the makings of a good Romney campaign ad.
[Update a while later]
Obama touts GM success as its market share declines along with its stock price.
Clark Lindsey’s Final Post
Congratulations on the new home for Space Transport News.
The US Economy
…is not doing fine:
Earlier this year, the Obama White House predicted the economy would grow 3% in 2012. Today’s GDP report shows that ain’t going to happen. The Commerce Department said the economy grew at an anemic 1.5% annual rate from April through June, after a revised 2.0% in the first quarter. It now seems likely the economy will be lucky to grow at 2% for the entire year. And that’s after growing just 1.8% last year.
Check out the comparison between the Reagan recovery and the Obama “recovery.”
At this point, I think it’s fair to say that Obama built that.
Ken Salazar
Is he another Eric Holder?
I think that history will record that this administration had a lot of lying politicized hacks in the cabinet.
“You Didn’t Build That”
As Glenn says:
The key policy implication is that if he can convince enough people that you didn’t earn your success, he’ll face less opposition when he tries to take the fruits of your success for himself. And that’s what this whole “you didn’t build it” thing is about. I’m not taking your property away — it was really mine all along!
Yup.
Packed With Pork
The outrageous farm bill.
Time to clean up DC, on both sides of the aisle. Just a little over three months until our next opportunity.
Government Motors
The taxpayer loss on GM hits $35B.
Does Obama really want to run on this issue? Romney should make it clear that he didn’t save the auto industry — he saved the UAW. Temporarily.
[Update a while later]
“This isn’t investing. This is welfare.”
Academic Journals
More publishing and transparency could go a long way toward cleaning up the climate “science” mess.
The Context
…is worse than the quote.
It may be that when historians discuss this election, they’ll point to that untelepromptered gaffe as the moment that Obama lost the election.