Timothy Noah is cheering what he hopes is the upcoming demise of the nuclear power industry, in the wake of Obama’s closing off the Yucca Mountain option. I was never a big fan of Yucca Mountain — I think it a ridiculously overpriced solution to an hysterical non-problem. But for the money that they planned to spend on it, we could have come up with a safe and reliable launch industry, by using it as a market for storage on the moon.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Health-Status Insurance
A free-market solution to health care. Of course, it doesn’t pass the litmus test of socializing medicine, so it will be a non-starter with this administration.
Is Rush Limbaugh…
There are many things that bug me about Barack Obama — the insane laundry list speeches, the silly rhetoric, the hostility to the free market — but these are all talked about. He has another habit that hasn’t been talked about so much and, of all the things he does, it makes me the most queasy.
It’s pretty subtle, but I think it’s worth keeping an eye on because, if it were to become full-blown, it has the potential to be the most socially damaging element of his presidency.
I’m talking about what I’m going to call his Goldstein-ism, his tendency to make veiled, dark allusions to a recently vanquished “other”, an evil being (he is never specific) who is, he always implies, the real cause of all our problems.
George Orwell wouldn’t have been one of the rubes.
[Mid-morning update]
Obama’s sledging tactics of intimidation.
Why does this administration keep reminding me of my trip to the museum?
[Update late afternoon]
Rush makes the president an offer he can’t accept.
They want to have it both ways. If the White House really wants to portray Rush as the leader of the Republicans, then why not have the leader of the Democrats debate him? Harry Reid already found out what happens when you pull on Rush’s tail.
A Question For Obama ApologizerSupporters
Is there anything that he’s done for which you would criticize him?
[Wednesday morning update]
Victor Davis Hanson has some advice for the Messiah, that he won’t take.
You see, as in the case of any other politician, one must look to what he does—and has done—not what he says for election advantage.
And in the case of Sen. Obama, in his nascent career in the Senate, he had already compiled the most partisan record of any Democratic Senator. He had attended religiously one of the most racially divisive and extremist churches in the country. His Chicago friends were not moderates. His campaigns for state legislature, the House and the Senate were hard-ball, no-prisoner affairs of personal destruction, even by Chicago standards. Campaign references to reparations, gun- and bible-clingers, and Rev. Wright’s wisdom were not words of healing.
But the rubes bought it, anyway.
Making War On Prosperity
A lot of discussion of the impact of the president’s plan to punish anyone making over a quarter of a million bucks. What is particularly disgusting is all of his lies and rhetoric about the free market providing jobs, and the importance of small business and entrepreneurs. Watch what he does, not what he says.
[Update in the evening]
Carl Pham in comments suggests a variation on Martin Niemuller’s famous quote: “First they came for those making $250,000, and I said nothing, because I didn’t make that much…”
[Update a little while later]
If you work less to avoid taxes, are you a tax dodger?
I think it’s worse (or will be worse) than that. You’re an enemy of the state.
[Update a few minutes later]
It’s certainly a theory that fits the facts.
[Update at 7 PM Eastern]
Going John Galt.
They’re Sorry
But is there a head tilt of compassion, along with the regret? When will we see the pictures of Chris Buckley and David Brooks? Brooks must be really shocked. That’s not the Barack Obama he knew. Why, that Barack Obama read Reinhold Niebuhr!
Racial Cowards
I guess, as Jim Geraghty points out, that Dick Durbin was one of the people who Eric Holder was talking about, because he let Bobby Rush mau mau him into seating Roland Burris.
Is It Ayn’s Tea Party?
Paul Hsieh thinks that it should be. I have to agree with the commenter, though, who thinks that Hayek is a better bet.
At Last, An Honest Leftist
Lee Stranahan admits that he wanted the Iraq war to fail.
Actually, it went beyond a desire, into fantasy and wishful thinking, as when Harry Reid moronically declared it a failure, and a war that was already lost.
[Update a few minutes later]
John Hawkins, on what Rush Limbaugh got wrong.
Back On His Own
Will Collier, formerly of Vodka Pundit, has set up his own blog.