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Archive for 2010
March 10, 2010
HOT AIR: Here we go: Pelosi’s staff knew of Massa allegations sooner than claimed.
UPDATE: More here. “They had five days to determine if it was a valid complaint, rule 16, p24 – and five days to notify Massa – Rule 17 p 26. Of course, like everything in Nancy’s House, all rules are subject to ad hoc changes.”
UH OH: Some Democrats shun Obama event in St. Louis. “The Show Me State briefly became the No Show State on Wednesday as some prominent Missouri Democrats decided they’d rather be somewhere else when President Obama came to St. Louis to push his massive health care overhaul plan.” Probably just scared of the St. Louis Tea Party juggernaut.
LOOKING AHEAD TO THE FUTURE from back in the past.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, indeed.
SO IS THIS THE HOPE, OR THE CHANGE? Monthly deficit hits $220 billion, highest in U.S. history. “According to CBO, based on an analysis of the deeply deceitful numbers presented to it by Reid and Obama, the national panacea of health-care reform will save us $132 billion over the next 10 years. Which means the feds blew through our big decade-long ObamaCare refund in about … 17 days last month.”
SALESMANSHIP: A new healthcare approach — “the Slaughter solution.” If they actually pass it without a House vote, opponents will deem the bill illegitimate, and Congress along with it. Imagine if Bush had tried to pass the war resolution this way, or the Patriot Act. . . .
UPDATE: Not going over very well.
MARKDOWNS on fitness products.
BETTER LIVING THROUGH LOOTING: Six of the ten richest counties in America are in the D.C area.
Obviously, we should move Congress to Detroit.
MAYBE IF THEY JUST BROUGHT BACK PADDLING INSTEAD: Department of Education buying shotguns.
BIG JOURNALISM: Memo To Chuck Todd and NBC: Your Science Coverage Is Awful, Too.
WOMEN WHO WANT TO have it all. Do we need a Dirty Mary to say “A woman’s gotta know her limitations?”
SHOP-VLOGGING: Recession be damned!
DANIEL SAREWITZ: “Has anyone noticed that after 20 years and $25 billion in government-sponsored research on climate change, the political controversy over global warming is actually more intractable and bitter today than it has ever been in the past? Of course there are good reasons, such as the failure of the recent U.N.-sponsored Copenhagen climate conference, stubborn partisanship in the U.S. Congress, and recently discovered mistakes and distortions in the supposedly authoritative 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But these, like the tumors in a cancer patient, are symptoms of a mortal pathology, not its cause.”
KILLING BRAIN PARASITES with gold nanoparticles and lasers.
REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.
NICK GILLESPIE: “Green job” holder! “In fact, I think now that I no longer edit the tree-killing version of Reason, I’m a green jobber too, out here in the new media landscape where the cyber-birds and bees are buzzing and humming with nary an emission of greenhouse gases.”
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: How ObamaCare Is Killing Free Trade.
JOURNALISM: Class, and the lack thereof.
CHANGE: Sales Taxes Now Top Property Taxes and Personal Income Taxes as State Revenue Source.
Back during the fight over the — defeated — Tennessee state income tax proposal, income tax proponents argued that sales tax revenues were more likely to drop in economic hard times. This seems not to be the case.
TRAFFIC-TICKET vultures? As I’ve noted here before, cities and counties in financial trouble seem to go for increased traffic enforcement as a source of revenue. In Knoxville, they’re all over the Interstates, nailing people for money. It makes about as much sense as sending cops into shopping malls to seize the wallets of random customers, but hey, they can do it, so they do do it . . . .
Of course, maybe they’d have better than a thirteen-minute response time if they focused more on real crime and less on traffic-revenue maximization.
But KPD doesn’t respond to blog postings. Too busy. . . .
PEOPLE AREN’T ALWAYS NICE.
A CRACK SUICIDE SQUAD FROM THE JUDEAN PEOPLE’S FRONT: Obama approval rating at 43%. “Barack Obama hits the campaign trail again this month in support of a tremendously unpopular ObamaCare bill — and his numbers have started nose-diving again. Rasmussen’s latest daily poll shows Obama now at 43% approval, with 56% disapproving, the lowest figures of his presidency. His “passion index” has once again hit its lowest level at -21, as less than a quarter of registered voters now strongly approve of his performance. . . . It took George Bush almost six years to get to this level of job approval. Obama’s managed it in 14 months.”
Related: Poll Suggests Obama’s Arrogance Is The Problem.
And, also sort of related, another chart.
