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Specious crap. This is simply a political document. The Tea Parties have no interest in gutting Social Security or Medicare or repealing food safety laws or letting Wall Street rob us blind. What they DO is point out that people like Senator Brown have spent like drunken sailors, and the bar tab is coming due. Social Security will go broke without reform. So will Medicare. It's just fact. We can walk away from the fact or deny it or try to accuse others of fudging the truth, but when the Boomers retire, both entitlements are seriously screwed, and no amount of conversation about what is populism and what isn't will change the facts what, like Greece, we will simply not have the money.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Who's Smarter Now?
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Link through Instapundit. Liberals love to see themselves as intellectual, as opposed to conservatives, who they see as dumb. This is, of course, a markedly stupid attitude, since the ideologically bewildered and intellectually inept occupy all sides of the political spectrum, and are most likely to be noticed when sporting an attitude of intellectual superiority (read Keith Olbermann).
Link through Instapundit. Liberals love to see themselves as intellectual, as opposed to conservatives, who they see as dumb. This is, of course, a markedly stupid attitude, since the ideologically bewildered and intellectually inept occupy all sides of the political spectrum, and are most likely to be noticed when sporting an attitude of intellectual superiority (read Keith Olbermann).
How to Save California: Outlaw Public Employee Unions - Ricochet.com
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I know a lot of people that would hate this, but I think the idea is a good one. Public employee unions that can use their dues to lobby for more benefits and higher wages are governmental Doomsday Machines. Time to unplug them.
I know a lot of people that would hate this, but I think the idea is a good one. Public employee unions that can use their dues to lobby for more benefits and higher wages are governmental Doomsday Machines. Time to unplug them.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Gibbs eyed for DNC chairman - Mike Allen and Josh Gerstein - POLITICO.com
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I love it. Take someone who is arrogant and combative at his present position and move him to another where part of his job will be to pacify people alienated by the sorts of things he has said in the past. Please. Do it. I need the lolz.
I love it. Take someone who is arrogant and combative at his present position and move him to another where part of his job will be to pacify people alienated by the sorts of things he has said in the past. Please. Do it. I need the lolz.
Chavez vows to radicalize after Venezuela election - Yahoo! News
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How does one radicalize what is already radical? Oh yeah. By openly and entirely cutting loose the mooring between reality and Chavez's brain. Having already largely destroyed the Venezuelan Constitution, taken away the autonomy of the judiciary and nationalized nearly everything that wasn't nailed down, he is proceeding with the looting of everything that remains, nailed down or not.
How does one radicalize what is already radical? Oh yeah. By openly and entirely cutting loose the mooring between reality and Chavez's brain. Having already largely destroyed the Venezuelan Constitution, taken away the autonomy of the judiciary and nationalized nearly everything that wasn't nailed down, he is proceeding with the looting of everything that remains, nailed down or not.
Syria's Assad rebuffs Washington by courting Iran | Reuters
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Most countries of the world understand balance of power politics far better than the US does, because they have to in order to survive and thrive. We pretend that international relations is about making friends and assuring people that we are honest and care about them. They find that incomprehensible. International relations is about interests, not personalities; about power and the willingness to use in, not good intentions. And this administration appears not to understand that.
Most countries of the world understand balance of power politics far better than the US does, because they have to in order to survive and thrive. We pretend that international relations is about making friends and assuring people that we are honest and care about them. They find that incomprehensible. International relations is about interests, not personalities; about power and the willingness to use in, not good intentions. And this administration appears not to understand that.
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