ObamaCare is tanking at Intrade. What do the traders know?
All I know is that, if her Highness had the votes, she’d call a vote.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Health-Care Talking Points
…versus reality. A lot of those talking points are familiar, because the supporters attempt to deploy them here, in comments.
The New Republic
As a commenter there notes, in its early days, it was a cheerleader for Mussolini and other fascists. So nothing has changed.
The Science Is Settled
Environmentalists are sanctimonious moral midgets. Like Treacher, I am unsurprised.
How Ignorant Are Journalists?
This ignorant.
As is pointed out in comments, it’s probably partly a generational thing. The generation that fought that war is dying and almost gone. But it’s also a consequence of how awful the teaching of history is in the public school system and universities.
And these are the people who are supposed to be informing the rest of us? No wonder Obama was elected.
Destroying A Brand
If this rumor is true, ABC will have completed the destruction of a respected Sunday-morning news show that started with the late great David Brinkley:
If Amanpour does accept, the long-running Sunday show could he shaken up, according to the report.
Amanpour said she wants to make “This Week” more about foreign affairs and less focused on domestic American politics. If she takes the job, her desire is to do a number of shows each year outside the country. If she takes the post, sources say this would be a complete remaking on the show, a program much more focused on international affairs. What’s more, Amanpour is telling colleagues that she does not wish to move to Washington, D.C., that she’d prefer to remain in New York and travel for the job should she decide to take it.
Given that Amanpour’s career has focused more on international news than Beltway politics, it makes sense that there could be format changes that play upon her strengths.
Since Brinkley’s retirement, it’s been all downhill, starting with Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson, then Stephanopolous. They’ve been trying out a few others since the latter left, including Jake Tapper, who (in my opinion) would have reelevated it significantly. If Amanpour takes over, I know I’ll never watch it again.
An Alternate Reality
Clark Lindsey has some thoughts on NASA (and particularly Constellation) supporters’ apparent complete indifference to cost. I find this staggering as well, and a cause of much of the program’s political woes. But hey, it’s not their money, right?
Dispatch From Some Alternate Universe
John Judis has some advice for Barack Obama, including the following paragraph, which makes it difficult to take the rest seriously:
Reagan and the Republicans ran against Carter and the Democrats in the same way as Roosevelt ran against Hoover. Baker and Atwater had studied Roosevelt’s and the Democrats’ 1934 campaign. (They even swiped “stay the course” from FDR.) But Obama and his advisors have been reluctant to stigmatize George W. Bush and the Republicans–perhaps out of a spirit of bipartisanship.That’s a mistake, as Obama seems finally to have realized.
Emphasis mine. Is this man insane? Or is this some new meaning of the word “reluctant” with which I was previously unfamiliar? Perhaps he means they’ve been doing it 24/7/365 “reluctantly”?
Schoolhouse
Barak. The old civics course updated for the modern era. Who cares about that musty old constitution, anyway?
Is The “Slaughter Rule” Constitutional?
I don’t think so. A lot of discussion over at Volokh’s place. I’m pretty sure that if they do this, the courts will get involved.