I saw this on Friday, and it’s a good primer for young (and perhaps even old) leftists (or people who think they’re leftists) unfamiliar with their own intellectual history (not to mention why it’s odious to wear a Che teeshirt).
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Sane, Affordable And Sustainable
“Ray” over at Vision Restoration has a development approach to expanding human spaceflight beyond LEO that would actually work, and work within NASA’s constrained budget. Paul Spudis likes it, and has further comments.
Of course, it makes far too much sense to be adopted in Washington. But this is the approach that will be taken privately, regardless of what NASA does.
The Folks At Hillbuzz
…aren’t going to be intimidated by the Chicago thugs.
Delusion
Idiot not-so-savant Robert Gibbs:
WALLACE: You don’t think when they voted for Brown they were voting against Obama policies?
GIBBS: That’s not what they told pollsters, no. People are angry in the country and angry in Massachusetts we haven’t made more question on the economy. Talk about health care — this is something you said is stopping about health-care reform.
WALLACE: He said he was the 41st vote.
GIBBS: 70% of the voters in Massachusetts want him to work with the Democrats on health-care reform.
So, because they want their new Senator to work with the Democrats on health-care reform, they elected a Republican who said he opposed it and would vote against it. Got it.
Who the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Apparently the gods aren’t done with these people.
Losing The WaPo
Even the editorial board is appalled at the fecklessness of the administration on terrorism:
The Obama administration had three options: It could charge him in federal court. It could detain him as an enemy belligerent. Or it could hold him for prolonged questioning and later indict him, ensuring that nothing Mr. Abdulmutallab said during questioning was used against him in court.
It is now clear that the administration did not give serious thought to anything but Door No. 1. This was myopic, irresponsible and potentially dangerous.
Whether to charge terrorism suspects or hold and interrogate them is a judgment call. We originally supported the administration’s decision in the Abdulmutallab case, assuming that it had been made after due consideration. But the decision to try Mr. Abdulmutallab turns out to have resulted not from a deliberative process but as a knee-jerk default to a crime-and-punishment model.
And they’re shocked, shocked.
The Lightworker
..has created…light. Ellie Light.
“Conan Obama”
I suspect that a lot on the left are feeling this way:
…he doesn’t really “charge” at anything. He just talks about things, thinks about things a real long time, defers to others on things, and waits around for things to maybe happen.
…I have never seen a president so utterly lacking in passion. This man literally doesn’t even seem to care about himself, let alone this or that policy issue. He doesn’t seem to have any strong opinions on anything, a sure prescription for presidential failure.
He has therefore let Congress ‘lead’ on nearly every issue, another surefire mistake. Instead of demanding that they pass real stimulus legislation – which would have really stimulated the economy, big-time, and right now – he let those dickheads on the Hill just load up a big pork party blivet of a bill with all the pet projects they could find, designed purely to benefit their personal standing with the voters at home, rather than to actually produce jobs for Americans. And on health care, his signature issue, he did the same thing. “You guys write it, and I’ll sign the check.” Could there possibly be a greater prescription for failure than allowing a bunch of the most venal people on the planet to cobble together a 2,000 page monstrosity that entirely serves their interests and those of the people whose campaign bribes put them in office?
Now perhaps they know how I feel when I’m told how “conservative” George Bush was.
“Mr. Right”
…has left the building.
The Blog War
Here’s an interesting and reasonably balanced article about the history of Little Green Footballs and the evolution of Charles Johnson.
[Sunday morning update]
More from Patterico. And Tim Blair points out some additional (and certainly unintentional) irony.
I have to say that Charles has never banned me. Of course, it would be hard to do so, since I’ve never commented there since he began requiring registration…
The Half-Wit
I don’t normally pass along emailed jokes, but I thought this one too good to pass up:
A man owned a small ranch in Montana. The Montana Work Force Department claimed he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to interview him.
“I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,” demanded the agent.
“Well,” replied he said, “there’s my ranch hand who’s been with me for 3 years.. I pay him $200 a week plus free room and board.
“The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $150 per week plus free room and board.
“Then there’s the half-wit. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night. He also sleeps with my wife occasionally.”
“That’s the guy I want to talk to … the half-wit,” says the agent.
“That would be me,” replied the rancher.
I think that Tuesday’s results show that the half-wits are coming to their senses.