The only reasonable interpretation of this Congressional Budget Office graph of the projected budget deficit is that Obama inherited the deficit from Bush.
Posted on March 25th, 2009 by pwyll
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President Obama has been listening to his critics. The LA Times, on the President’s 3/24 speech:
Gone from the presidential podium were the ubiquitous, much-noted teleprompters that gave rise to embarrassing suggestions that Obama needs to be fed his words to avoid Special Olympics or Nancy Reagan gaffes. In the twin teleprompters’ place? A larger teleprompter in the back of the room where no one watching on TV could see it.
Posted on March 25th, 2009 by pwyll
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During my senior year in college I needed a social sciences course to meet graduation requirements. I decided to make the best of a bad thing, and signed up for introductory women’s studies, on the theory that it might be a good way to meet chicks. The class was a mass lecture, maybe 90 women, exactly two men. The other guy dropped out. The class was an eye opener.
At one point it was seriously proposed that women should not be bound by financial contracts. The argument as I recall it was that women’s bodies are subject to hormonal changes which lead to emotional changes. This somehow makes it unfair to bind a woman via contract. I am sure I must have missed something, but that is what I recall.
I pointed out that if women were not bound by financial contracts, no one would willingly enter into contractual arrangement with a woman. This would make it impossible for most women to buy houses, cars, etc.
I am reminded of this by Nancy Pelosi’s recent bill of attainder directed at AIG employee bonuses. Speaker Pelosi has announced to the world that Congress will violate the Constitution to break contracts whenever it suffers a fit of pique. Pelosi’s timing was perfect, as mere days later Treasury Secretary Geithner invited investors to go into business with the federal government. Sign me up.
Here’s the road to serfdom as practiced in Cuba and Venezuela, coming soon to a country near you.
Posted on March 24th, 2009 by pwyll
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All hail Iowahawk.
The Anchoress nails it:
In an email exchange, the point was made that Obama seems to be everything the left projected about Bush. The stumblebum suit being operated from behind. All those projections. You know about projection, right? It is when you take the thing that is inside you; hate, fear, insecurity, malicious motives, etc - and you project it on to someone else. For instance, during the election, I kept getting emails from folks on the left insisting that Bush - the powermongering fascist - would never allow another election to happen.That’s maybe the projection I worry about, sometimes.
And now, I guess I understand what all the folks on the left used to feel when they claimed the president “embarrassed” them.
If you’re wondering the Anchoress found embarrassing, google “Obama special olympics”.
Posted on March 19th, 2009 by pwyll
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Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3 of the Constitution of the United States: “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law will be passed“. Unless, of course, it suits the whim of Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker Pelosi’s wants to craft legislation specifically to punish AIG executives. She states
Because they could not use sound judgment in the use of taxpayer funds, these AIG executives will pay the Treasury in the form of this tax. I urge all my colleagues to vote in favor of this legislation and in favor of recovering taxpayer dollars and protecting Americans from the continued poor judgment of some of America’s largest companies
Who will protect us from the continued poor judgement of the insane clown posse masquerading as Congress?
Posted on March 18th, 2009 by pwyll
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Posted on March 18th, 2009 by pwyll
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