…and other breakthroughs. Katherine Mangu-Ward reports on last week’s SpaceX success. Yours truly is cited. FWIW.
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Category Archives: Political Commentary
A California Bankruptcy
Some legal thoughts. I don’t know if it would be constitutional, but I would condition a federal bailout on reversion of the state to territory status, with an opportunity to reenter the union after it gets its fiscal act together, possibly as multiple states. For instance, if some of the eastern and/or northern counties wanted to band together to form a new government independent of Sacramento (or even including Sacramento, but independent of the coastal megalopolises) they could do so and apply for readmission. Alternatively, they might want to apply to be annexed to (say) Nevada, or Oregon.
Same thing for Illinois and New York, though the impetus to break them up would be much less in those cases.
More Commie/Nazi Thoughts
Over at Instapundit.
Earlier thread here.
On The Anniversary Of The First Tea Party
The Tea Partiers have won a great victory:
Speaking now on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) says he is “sorry and disappointed” to announce that he does not have the votes for the omnibus spending package. Instead, he will work with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) to draft a temporary continuing resolution to fund the government into early next year.
Reid says nine Republican senators approached him today to tell him that while they would like to see the bill passed, they could not vote for it. He did not reveal the names of the nine. A top Senate source tells National Review Online that “it looks like Harry Reid buckled under the threat of Republicans reading [the bill] aloud.”
Mr. Smith has come to Washington, again.
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More links from Instapundit. “Brave Sir Harry Ran Away.”
Heh.
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I should note that I haven’t had much to say about the horrible NASA appropriations in this bill (three billion dollars for SLS and MPCV — how in the world would they have sensibly spent $1.8B on a heavy lifter in 2011, with only nine months left in the fiscal year?), because I wanted to wait and see if it was actually going to pass.
I think that we will be on continuing resolutions as far as the eye can see, at this point, or at least until 2013, and the big battles over the NASA budget will be what goes into rescission bills, starting early next year. The job of people who really want to see progress in space is to make sure that the SLS is on the top of the chopping block, at least restricting it to studies in the next couple years instead of pouring hundreds of millions into obsolete technologies.
You heard it here first.
I Don’t Think It Can Last That Long
“It can’t last another decade.”
Even if Washington bails out Sacramento. Because if it does crazy things like that, Washington can’t last another decade.
Party Like It’s 1773
It’s been 237 years since they dumped the tea into Boston Harbor. And this year’s elections shows that the spirit of 1773 remains alive.
That Pesky Constitution
It just keeps getting in the way of the agenda and “progress.”
The Dishonest “Tax Cut” Debate
My thoughts, over at PJM.
Evil Versus Evil
Thoughts on the continuing academic cover up of the evil of communism. We should have the goal of making Marxists as much of a social pariah as Nazis, both on and off campus. Including the idiot Che admirers.
Am I Crazy?
Repeal DADT for non-combat roles, but keep it in place for combat troops. What’s wrong with that? OK, I know what’s wrong with that — it is politically incorrect. But it conforms to military polling. Unless you think that’s irrelevant.