…and solve the social security problem. Thoughts from Jim Pinkerton.
We Could Do A Lot Worse
…and have, particularly in the last two years. Could Mitch Daniels become president? It would be nice to have a grownup in the Oval Office again. I think that competent governors like Daniels and Christie, with demonstrated track records, are going to be the mold for successful candidates in 2012, though Romney’s been tainted, as he should be, by MassCare. No more of this nonsense of putting blowhard Senators with no executive experience in the White House (While there are many much more qualified, I still think that Sarah Palin would have made the best president of the four on the ballot in 2008).
The End Of The Honeymoon?
Has the press finally given up on Obama?
The mainstream media, it seems, are cutting their losses. They invested enormous time, credibility, and emotion in bolstering their chosen candidate. But he hasn’t panned out, and new power players are headed to Washington. So it’s time to scramble back to some semblance of realistic coverage and concede that all those “accomplishments” in the past two years didn’t accomplish anything — not an economic recovery, not political ascendancy for Obama, not electoral success for Democrats, and not an era of bipartisan harmony. Just the opposite.
Via Instapundit, who notes:
Hey, they’ll go down for you, but they won’t go down with you…
I’ll be happy if, after three long years, they just stop going down on him.
Xenophobic Bitter Clinger
Apparently, the president has become one. Well, at least he’s not clinging to his god or guns.
It’s pretty rich to hear this man complain about untraceable foreign donations, after the games he played with credit cards in the 2008 campaign.
More from Michelle (no, not that one — the one who has always been proud of her country).
[Update a few minutes later]
Back to the future! The White House has an “enemies list.” At least Nixon understood something about our enemies overseas.
I don’t recall, and can’t imagine, George Bush (either of them) ever calling out Democrat political operatives by name. He had a little respect for the office he held.
[Update a while later]
The Latest Government-Caused Crisis
The Obama administration knew about the foreclosure irregularities?
it appears that the Obama administration chose to tolerate the irregularities that now threaten the housing market and the financial industry because it preferred that banks use their limited resources to focus on giving breaks to folks who couldn’t pay their mortgages, rather than on handling foreclosures properly.
I don’t know whether the irregularities in question justify an extended moratorium on foreclosures. But if they do — or even if they don’t, and we still end up with such a moratorium — then it looks like the Obama administration will bear considerable blame for the consequences.
This is the same economically ignorant mentality that was displayed yesterday on Fox News Sunday by Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, when she said that the highest priority was to “keep people in their homes.”
So the government creates the crisis by encouraging people to buy homes they couldn’t afford, and now it’s perpetuating it by insisting on keeping them in them, instead of allowing the market to finally clear. The country’s in the very best of hands.
That Wouldn’t Fit The Narrative
Advice for network news: Tell the truth.
It could work, I suppose. They’ve tried everything else.
Academics Seduced
I’m not sure that “seduced” is quite the right word. I agree with Instapundit:
Bending over for tyrants is a major aspect of today’s academic culture, even as the benders-over proclaim their own courage and independence, and demonstrate those by attacking those whom they need not fear, while fearing those whom they do not criticize.
Islamaphobes.
The Lions Roar
44-6 over the Rams. Just shows what can happen when your team is healthy.
[Update a couple minutes later]
I see that Michigan dropped out of the rankings. I’m less surprised by that than that they were ranked in the first place. It never made sense to me to rank a team with one of the worst defenses in the country, no matter how good their quarterback is.
Che
Remembered. It’s a shame that it was only forty-three years ago that he met his well-deserved fate — it should have happened sooner. And it’s appalling that it’s still socially acceptable to wear clothing with his image. It’s a fundamental symptom of the failure of our educational system and academia.
To Boldenly Go To China
A discussion over at Slashdot. As a commenter notes, it’s not very smart politics to go against the wishes of the incoming chairman of the appropriations subcommittee. I’d really like to know what the White House thinks. I think that it’s time for Charlie Bolden to go, though, as I’ve said, it will be tough to replace him, particularly in the current heated political environment.