What’s the present value of a future marshmallow? Even five minutes into the future?
It’s made all the harder of course, not just by the fact that kids have lower impulse control, but by the fact that a minute lasts forever when you’re a kid.
I also think that this is a parable for our current economic straits.
…see any limits to government power? Nope. Like Elena Kagan, they’re totalitarians. But with smiley faces. Because, you know, it’s for our own good.
Will the Senate do it?
I think there’s a good chance. There are a lot of Democrats up for reelection next year who aren’t going to be willing to fight it. The question is whether or not the president will be willing to risk a veto. Especially if it may get overridden.
I had been meaning to link to this entertaining and enlightening article on our fearless leaders, by Kevin Williamson, but had gotten busy, and one of my commenters beat me to it. Anyway, here it is, temporarily at the top of the page.
…and start over. I agree.
Mitch Daniels says that living next door to Illinois is like living next door to the Simpsons.
2011 edition. Pretty amusing. Malthusians never learn.
A bi-partisan bill to cap state employee pensions? Let’s hope.
That’s what ObamaCare is.
[Update a few minutes later]
The House has voted to repeal, with four Democrat votes. Now Harry Reid will be on the hot seat.
[Update a while later]
In 2010, the Democrats passed ObamaCare by a 7 vote margin. In 2011, the Republicans passed the bill to repeal ObamaCare with a 55 vote margin.
In each case, one side of the vote was bi-partisan. In both cases, the bi-partisan vote was against ObamaCare.
That’s because we had to pass the bill to find out what was in it. Though technically, I think that there was one Republican vote for ObamaCare (Cao).
Ex-Queen Nancy says that it’s Bush’s fault that she lost her job. May her delusions reign over the Dems forever.