The dishonesty and/or stupidity of all this is really quite breathtaking — and obvious. First of all, you could cut government funding down to 1950 levels and still have money for food safety. But this is what liberals do. They metaphorically lash children to the fenders of government so that the budget cutting blade must slice through them first. Then, after insanely putting them in harm’s way, they proclaim it is the sane budget cutters who seek to harm children. In fairness, sometimes liberals hold the young human shields in reserve and put firehouses, historic monuments, and old-age homes outside the budgetary walls of the fiscal keep. And, again, they declare that the fiscally sane want to get rid of fire fighters and the Washington memorial — and not, say, the Export-Import Bank or agricultural subsidies.
I’ve noticed that most/all of the new cars have shifters on the automatic (some are with thumb paddles on the steering wheel). But unlike a pattern of a stick, they work like a motorcycle, with an upshift or downshift, but you can’t skip gears. In general, absent a clutch, I don’t really see the point, except perhaps for stump pulling or climbing steep hills, and for the latter it still seem like the transmission will know best. As a stick driver, I have trouble knowing what to do with the throttle when I shift them. Supposedly, you’re supposed to just keep the gas on for the shift, which seems very unnatural to me.
I always thought that the notion that George W. Bush went into Iraq to please his father was an idiotic theory, but Moe Lane has a much more plausible one with regard to the current president. He did, after all, have a whole book ghost written for him on the subject.
I also think that Romney will take advantage of the president’s visceral dislike for him repeatedly in the next three months, by getting under his skin and goading him into some very ugly stuff that will finally dispose of his supposed “likability.”