The media should resign over President Obama’s failure.
Actually, they won’t have to resign. Given the continuing financial failure of newspapers, they seem to be getting fired. What will happen to Frank Rich when the New York Times finally goes under?
[Late morning update]
Whoops, there goes another one. After a hundred seventy four years, the Ann Arbor News is closing its doors this summer.
President Obama is looking forward to working with (corrupt, and no longer running France) Jacques Chirac for the next four years.
Apparently, Barack Obama’s difficulty in finding competent help continues from his campaign into his presidency.
I pointed out a few posts ago that the current style in Washington is the Chicago Way. Now John Kass, who has been covering Chicago politics for a long time, agrees:
“Stunned, stunned is the word,” said Obama.
Stunned?
It turns out that his Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner—who didn’t pay all of his federal taxes but was still deemed worthy by Obama of collecting yours—knew all about the AIG bonuses weeks ago.
That was long before Washington Democrats began shrieking in pretend outrage over the bonuses, as if they didn’t vote for them, sort of like Chicago aldermen shrieking about corruption from the 5th Floor.
It’s like Mayor Richard Daley saying, “Gee, I dunno” when news breaks that his nephews are in another multimillion-dollar government deal. Or that time that Daley gave $100 million in affirmative action contracts to men he knows well, yet was stunned to learn later that they were white guys, not black females.
These days, the Washington Way is looking just like the Chicago Way. Those of us from Illinois can see it, what with City Hall guys pulling White House strings.
And no, that’s not a good thing.
And anyone who is surprised is a fool.
Glenn Reynolds has extensive coverage of the tea parties, which the press seems to wish would just go away so they can focus on ACORN- and ANSWER-sponsored events.
It’s the shade of the great economist, in a knockout.
…but I wasn’t an AIG employee.
Let’s hear it for the ‘tards:
But for all I’ve given to the program, I’ve gotten much more in return; the beaming smiles of appreciation for a well-folded towel, the many times the team worked together to tug me out after I got my head stuck in the ball return. I’ve learned much from the experience, including the fact that these bowling tards really have some great policy ideas, like Jimmy’s brilliant “free Skittles for everybody.” That’s why I invited the team to join my Council of Economic Advisers, where they are hard at work on my next stimulus plan. I’ve also learned that tards are people too, and they don’t like to be condescended to or patronized. When Jimmy suggested spending cuts, for example, I sent him to the corner without a juice box — just as I would for any non-tard member of my cabinet.
That’s the kind of bold leadership many of us voted for last fall.
Fresh from his brutal but well deserved fisking by Lileks, old Amitai is at it again. This time, he wants NASA to forget about this space stuff and explore the oceans.
Leaving aside his historical ignorance (it was Copernicus, not Kepler who posited that the earth went around the sun), really, what part of National Aeronautics and Space Administration do these morons who want to repurpose the agency not understand?
We have an agency that studies the oceans — it’s called the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. We also have an agency that deals with energy issues. It’s called the Department of Energy. Can you say “Department of Energy,” boys and girls?
If we don’t want to have a federal space program, then disband the agency, and shift its funds to the things we do want to do. If there are NASA employees who know how to and want to study the ocean and energy, they can transfer to the places where those things are done. But enough with these stupid attempts to make NASA something that it is not.
Arlen Specter is going to cross the aisle, and run as an actual Republican.
The country’s in the very best of hands.