THIS ARTICLE FROM PRAVDA IS GLOOMY ABOUT THE ECONOMY, but I really enjoyed the dissing of the “British police state.” Not really fair given Putin’s targeting of critical journalists, but funny.
Archive for 2009
November 2, 2009
“He’s Immature, He’s Inexperienced — In Over His Head.” Really, a mistake to pick this fight. More here. “Let’s face it: what’s most threatening to the Obamists isn’t merely what Rush says, it’s his lack of fear in doing so.”
But as Frank Luntz noted, people aren’t afraid of Obama anymore. Which will force him to fall back on . . . substance.
UPDATE: A reader suggests I was too pithy. I meant it was a mistake for the Obama people to pick a fight with Rush Limbaugh — especially in making it personal with the NFL thing. He’s going after them hammer-and-tongs, and this phrase was carefully chosen to be repeated a lot, and to stick.
TEXAS VS. CALIFORNIA: “Texas, increasingly, is the economic and intellectual leader of the U.S. During the last 18 months before the current recession took hold, while the country as a whole was still creating jobs, more than half of those jobs were created in a single state: Texas. Texas has usurped the leadership position that, decades ago, belonged to California. Today California is in decline, likely irreversibly so.” Which is why all right-thinking people hate Texas! It shows ’em up.
ORGANIZING FOR AMERICA’S last-ditch NY-23 campaign.
POLL: Christie 47, Corzine 41. If true, that’s probably outside the “margin of fraud,” even in New Jersey. . . .
UPDATE: Various readers tell me that there’s no such thing as outside the margin of fraud in New Jersey. . . .
ANDY KESSLER: Galleon And The Trouble With Insider Trading.
SO WILL OTHER JOURNALISTS “KEEP IT ALL QUIET” FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES even now?
ALARMING LEVELS OF virginity in the United States?
JOE LIEBERMAN: Public Option Is A Mistake That I’ll Filibuster.
THOUGHTS ON JOHN KERRY, HONDURAS, AND THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS:
According to this report, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Representative Howard Berman (D-CA) asked the Library of Congress to retract the report because it ““contains factual errors and is based on a flawed legal analysis that has been refuted by experts from the United States, the Organization of American States and Honduras” and “has contributed to the political crisis” in Honduras. The Library of Congress stands by the report, however, and is preparing a response to Senator Kerry and Representative Berman.
If the two lawmakers belive the Law Library of Congress report is flawed, there are better responses than seeking a retraction. For one, they could demonstrate the report’s failings, perhaps by pointing to alternative analyses that are more persuasive. Perhaps, they could even encourage the State Department to release the memorandum written by Harold Koh supporting the U.S. government’s position that the removal of President Zelaya constituted an illegal coup.
Koh has been less willing to stand behind his analysis than the Library of Congress has been willing to stand behind its. . . .
MARK STEYN LOOKS AT the heavy-handed symbolism of real life.
PAUL HSIEH: ObamaCare, A National Version Of RomneyCare. “Congress is essentially proposing a national version of the failing Massachusetts system.”
ANN ALTHOUSE HAS THOUGHTS ON the constitutionality of a health-care mandate. That Erwin Chemerinsky thinks it’s a no-brainer leaves me unconvinced. . . .