David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Obama’s Budget Plan Sweeps Away Reagan Ideas — The budget that President Obama proposed on Thursday is nothing less than an attempt to end a three-decade era of economic policy dominated by the ideas of Ronald Reagan and his supporters. — The Obama budget — a bold …
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Nothing controversial here. It’s too important to debate anyway.
I can’t wait to see the reaction of the fictitious “Blue Dog” democratics who, oddly enough, still vote with “Non-Blue Dog” democratics at every opportunity.
Michael Totten’s account of Christopher Hitchens’ encounter with pro-Syrian street fighters.
Chris Fusco / Chicago Sun Times:
BURRIS’ SON GOT STATE JOB FROM BLAGO — The son of embattled Sen. Roland Burris is a federal tax deadbeat who landed a $75,000-a-year state job under former Gov. Rod Blagojevich five months ago, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. — Blagojevich’s administration hired Roland W. Burris II …
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Obama tries to stave off debate on the costs of universal healthcare by telling a friendly Congress how much it will cost:
The White House contends by directly telling Congress how much universal coverage is projected to cost, it can devote more time to debating the methods of achieving coverage instead of getting bogged down in conflicting cost estimates.
See? No need to debate it. Can’t get bogged down in debate. It’s too important to debate.
None of this has anything to do with the current economic crisis. There used to be talk about tempering expectations due to the current outlook, but something’s changed. Are things really not that bad, or has the administration realized they need to act fast –not because of some kind of phony mandate for “change”–but because they fear being swept out of office remarkably fast? If it’s the latter, that some pile of arrogance.
How much longer is he gonna try to ride this horse? If bankers have been so disrespectful of the trust and money the public has bestowed them, then put every last one of them in jail. On what charges, you ask? Make something up–you’re already winging everything else.
Here we have a man (man-boy?) who within the same breath denounces his massive inherited deficit and proposes to quintuple it. He’s having it both ways and means. Does he feel his inheritance robs him of the ability for even grander plans?
Something is egregiously wrong here. He wasn’t supposed to be this bad. But he is. We must bankrupt America in order to save it? That’s whack, yo, and he’s setting himself up for a stunning reversal of fortune.
Stocks continue to fall as Obama fails to deliver details. I say that it’s actually the details, and not the lack thereof, that are scaring the markets.
Also, enough with the “Reagan-esque” bullshit.
A reader comment via Instapundit regarding sharing defense budget details:
“Obama must have learned from Bush’s experience with internal opposition cells at the CIA and State Department, with their damaging anonymous leaks of sensitive information. The military certainly includes some anti-budget-cut hawks, so Obama’s move makes political sense, but if Bush had even thought about something like this, details would have been leaked to and lambasted in the NY Times within hours.”
Well, that’s one advantage of controlling the commanding heights of the media.
What a difference a couple of weeks make.
The Politico:
Obama: ‘Day of reckoning has arrived’ — We have lived through an era where too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity; where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter, or the next election. A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth …
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A.W.R. Hawkins / Human Events:
Eleven States Declare Sovereignty Over Obama’s Action — State governors — looking down the gun barrel of long-term spending forced on them by the Obama “stimulus” plan — are saying they will refuse to take the money. This is a Constitutional confrontation between the federal government and the states unlike any in our time.
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
How Burris blew it — CHICAGO — The crisis now threatening Sen. Roland Burris’ political career started with revelations about his entanglements with disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. — But it was the way the situation was handled by Burris and his advisers …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith’s Blogs:
Shelby dabbles in citizenship rumor [UPDATED] — A dispatch from Cullman, Alabama: … I emailed Shelby’s spokesman, Jonathan Graffeo, to ask if Shelby believes there’s substance to this rumor, for which no supporting evidence has ever emerge, and which has been debunked repeatedly and in detail.
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Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Gov. Rendell skeptical about stimulus potential — Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) backed the $787 billion stimulus but said Saturday that he isn’t sure whether it will actually fix the economy. — Rendell, at the National Governors Association meeting in Washington …
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Senator Kerry indulges in his favorite pastime–open dialog with totalitarian megalomaniacs. You just never know when you need to call in a favor from one of your comrades, eh John John?
Agence France Presse:
Activists ‘shocked’ at Clinton stance on China rights — Featured Topics: – Barack Obama – Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON (AFP) – Amnesty International and a pro-Tibet group voiced shock Friday after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed not to let human rights concerns hinder cooperation with China.
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The bait and switch parade keeps getting better. It’s as if these people think nobody will remember what they said last year. It’s all, um, relative.
johnny dollar’s place:
Huffington Post Smear of Gibson Uses Doctored Video! — A headline at Huffington Post blares: John Gibson Compares Eric Holder To Monkey With Bright Blue Scrotum (VIDEO). Writer Alex Leo lays it all out: … Here’s the HuffPo video: — Hundreds of HuffPo commenters erupted in predictable outrage:
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It’s one Weatherman’s word against another– Machtinger criticizes Ayers.
Ace gives his side of the tale. It could have been a LOT worse.
Plus: Innocent fraudsters don’t try to flee.
Financial Times:
Bank nationalisation gains ground with Republicans — Long regarded in the US as a folly of Europeans, nationalisation is gaining rapid acceptance among Washington opinion-formers – and not just with Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve chairman. Perhaps stranger still …
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Not sure, but Dan Riehl is probing linkages between that and today’s surprising story about alleged fraud at Stanford Financial Group.
An chances are he’ll say it’s a good start, but it’s not enough.
Here’s your time to shine, Mr. Big City Democrat–Yours is the voice of the common urbanite and, come to think of it, is the only voice we need to hear from.
It will be interesting to see how the Next New Deal settles electorally over the next few years.
