Only 43% of Jews will vote to reelect Obama?
[Update a while later]
Ed Koch: Vote for the GOP in the Weiner race.
I’m guessing he’ll be saying that in next year’s presidential race, too.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
A Sick, Sick Man
“I like Obama’s voice. I like his narrative voice as well as his speaking voice. It’s pleasant to listen to for hours at a time.”
To each his own.
TSA’s Forced Indignities
Unfortunately, it’s old news.
Hama Doesn’t Forget
…or forgive. Things are not going to end well in Syria.
[Update a few minutes later]
Are we going to do anything to people who kill Americans? Apparently not. The Bush administration never did — it would be pretty foolish to expect this gang to. We’ll bomb Daffy, but not do anything about people who are actually committing acts of war against us.
[Update a few more minutes later]
Iran is at war with us. Are we at war with Iran? In fact, they’ve been at war with us for over three decades, but we continue, administration in, administration out, to pretend otherwise.
[Update a while later]
Well, at least we’re flaming Syria on Facebook. That’ll learn ’em.
“Our Biggest Bridge To Nowhere”
Gene Healy doesn’t think much of the manned space program.
What In The Hell…?
Thompson, along with former Illinois governor Jim Edgar (R) and former Iowa governor Chet Culver (D) are part of a bipartisan coalition that has endorsed the National Popular Vote that would go into effect if states representing 270 electoral votes pass legislation.
The National Popular Vote bill has been signed into law in seven states — Maryland, Hawaii, Washington, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont and the District of Columbia — representing 29 percent of the necessary votes for the compact to go into effect.
I’m very disappointed that he seems so unaware of the purpose of the Electoral College, and is so willing to subvert the Constitution.
But he still would have been a better president than Barack Obama.
Thirty Years Of Innovation
[Via the Von Mises Institute]
Caylee’s Law
Why it’s a really bad idea.
As the old saying goes, hard cases make bad law.
Lies From The AP
The news service is attempting to rewrite history (again):
The administration of former US President George W. Bush had hastily linked Saddam Hussein, the ousted Iraqi dictator, to the 9/11 attacks.
That was one of the justifications for the 2003 US-led invasion, but the argument has since been widely dismissed.
No one in the administration claimed that Saddam was involved in 911, despite ongoing leftist lies to the contrary at the time, for which AP and others were happy to (and apparently remain happy to) be stenographers. The administration claimed operational links between Saddam and Al Qaeda, which did in fact exist.
The irony, of course, is that the reporter perpetuates this historical lie in the service of accusing Leon Panetta of a “gaffe.”
Calling My Representative
I’d like to call my representative and tell her to help fix the NASA appropriation disaster, but I don’t have one, because she resigned a few months ago.
There’s a special election to replace her tomorrow, though, and I want to encourage everyone to vote for Craig Hughey, a libertarian/Tea-Party type who managed to come in second in the free-for-all primary a few weeks ago, which pits him against the long-time LA County political hack (from a long-time family of political hacks), Janice Hahn. It should be a walk-in for her, given the way the district is carved to favor Democrats, but it’s actually a close race, partly because of internecine bitterness from the Democrats who supported Debra Bowen, but who came in third due to nasty attacks by the Hahn campaign. It’s entirely conceivable that Bowen supporters will either sit out the election, or actually vote for Hughey, in the hope that Bowen will get another shot at the seat next year (it’s unclear what redistricting will do, particularly in light of the new, supposedly less partisan plan to do so). Zombie has a lot more detail on the race, and Jim Geraghty has the rundown on the Hahn corruption, including her aiding and abetting LA gang members. On the other hand, she and her supporters may have turned off the black community in LA as well.
It will be very interesting to see the outcome, but as Geraghty notes, the weird circumstances won’t really tell us anything about general Republican prospects next year, even if Hughey pulls it off.
[Update a while later]
Taking a vet’s name in vain?