…gets noticed by the “progressives.” The amount of idiocy and ignorance in the comments is gobsmacking.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Britain’s Failure
There is no longer a rule of law.
Limited Government, Federalism…
…and the Affordable Care Act.
I think that historians will note that the passage of that bill was a catalyzing event in history, in that it made crystal clear the antipathy to which the statists held the Founders vision of limited government, particularly with their breezy dismissal of Constitutional concerns, and in fact their complete indifference to them.
Unions Lose Again
Despite all their millions, they came up short:
…almost 350,000 people voted in Tuesday’s recall elections — and Republicans won 53 percent of the total vote. After blowtorching the state with negative ads and benefiting from a favorable timetable, the unions could still only get 47 percent of Wisconsinites to support their effort.
This should make the unions think long and hard about whether they want to embark on a mission to recall Gov. Scott Walker next year. Doing so successfully would easily cost them five times as much as they just spent — and even with their recent deluge of cash, most of the public still didn’t support them at the polls. Additionally, the extra time will also give Walker’s reforms more time to work — and once the public sees that schools can manage their affairs effectively without being hamstrung by union regulations, organized labor’s argument gets even weaker.
That’s a) in an off-year election where union turnout usually makes the difference b) in famously progressive Wisconsin c) after spending many millions d) with a nationwide media and organizing push e) when labor had a galvanizing issue in Gov. Scott Walker’s direct assault on the institutional collective bargaining power of public employees, which led to a dramatic walkout by Democrats.
They’re slow learners. Though when it comes to one of the unions, they’re slow teachers as well.
An Ad Campaign
…by and for stupid people.
Hey, maybe the Obama campaign can hire them. It would be at least as smart as keeping Plouffe and Axelrod.
I Love The Smell Of Fear In The Morning
The Dems are starting to get worried about their presidential prospects next year. They should be. But here’s the myth that will apparently never die:
Some Democrats are even feeling “snookered” that Obama fooled them with his brilliant 2008 campaign…
There was no “brilliant 2008 campaign.” They ran the only campaign they knew how to run, because they had a cipher on which everyone could project their fantasies. Given the level of Bush fatigue, how awful the McCain campaign was, and his response to the midst of the bank meltdown, any Democrat would have likely won. I hope that they continue to nurture this myth, though, because it will result in many mistakes in the campaign next year from hubris (including keeping people like Plouffe and Axelrod, who mistook their own luck for brilliance).
A Disarmed Society
…is a violent society.
The Jokes Write Themselves
This really is a potentially big breakthrough for people with continence problems, but the commentary on it is entirely predictable:
OMG they’re cloning Barney Frank.
See?
Music To My Ears
Al Gore is ranting in frustration that no one buys his climate BS any more.
[Mid-morning update]
Climate skepticism isn’t a fringe phenomenon:
CC. To what extent did you feel like you were standing alone in resisting the man-made climate change theory back in the 1990s?
“It was difficult. I knew that many of my colleagues at the Association of State Climatologists agreed with me. But many of them wouldn’t say anything because they were worried about losing their jobs or just plain having their professional lives made difficult. Frankly there’s a lot more money supporting the other side. Things would be easier if you just go along with them.”
CC. “You’d say that now there’s a lot more money supporting the man-made climate change side of the issue than there is on the side of the skeptics?
“Oh yes, it’s been that way for a long time.”
Yes, though you’d never hear it above the din of the screams about oil money.
[Update late morning]
Climate Depot responds to Gore’s rant.
[Bumped]
Interesting Space Tweets
Ed Ellegood is covering a Space Club speech by Bill Posey:
Rep. Posey said commercial space providers are our best hope for getting U.S. astronauts back into orbit.
Rep. Posey again spoke of space as a military “high ground” that the U.S. seems to be giving up to adversaries in China and Russia.
Overheard: Sen. Mikulski (D-MD) wants to cut NASA’s commercial spaceflight investments in order to save the Webb Telescope.
Overheard: Sen. Mikulski, meanwhile, is supporting an earmark to develop a processing facility at Wallops for use by Orbital’s Taurus-2.
There’s going to be an ugly battle over NASA appropriations in the Senate this fall.