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- Clearing the Browser Tabs – End of a Vision Thursday Edition
- The Scary Economic Chart of the Day and Tom Coburn’s Puzzling Plans
- I’d Say the Biggest Cause of Bachmann Migraines is Hack Reporting by The Daily Caller
- Oh, Mr. Summers, I’m Sure You’ve Encountered that Swagger Plenty
| Clearing the Browser Tabs – End of a Vision Thursday Edition Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:10 AM PDT Forty-two years ago Tuesday, a brave American named Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Today, most likely by the time you read this, we will no longer have a manned spaceflight program once the Shuttle Atlantis lands after a mundane delivery and trash-hauling run to low Earth orbit. Perhaps our elected officials will listen to Rand Simberg and put aside costly and underachieving government programs and let the visionaries and entrepreneurs get us to the Moon, Mars, and points beyond. In other news, the recall elections in Wisconsin are heating up and, thus far, the same groups that poured money and people into the state during the budget battle have largely been AWOL. The left’s groups, however, have shown up with truckloads of cash. Whether we like it or not, money and boots on the ground win elections and the left is winning right now. There is still time, though, if some folks turn their focus away from an election that’s more than a year away to one that’s going to happen very soon. And now, links!
UPDATE: Edited to fix a mistake in the opening paragraph. Apologies for the error.  |
| The Scary Economic Chart of the Day and Tom Coburn’s Puzzling Plans Posted: 20 Jul 2011 06:00 PM PDT When we conservatives said that the President’s big government madness were sucking job-producing dollars out of the economy, even before we feel the full effects of programs like Obamacare next year and the year after and the year after, we really weren’t kidding.
Note that the much-ballyhooed Gang of 9 super-compromise plan does nothing at all to address the obvious Obamacare problem. In fact, it does nothing much to address any of the problems that currently sit squarely in front small business owners. Senator Tom Coburn, one of the gang members, has gone through what would be a budget if the Senate Democrats ever felt like doing their jobs and found $9 trillion worth of cuts we could put into place immediately. These cuts would do a good sight more for job creation than anything in the Gang of Six plan to which he’s very publicly hitched his wagon. Why he decided to tie himself to that instead of a far more defensible plan is well beyond me.  |
| I’d Say the Biggest Cause of Bachmann Migraines is Hack Reporting by The Daily Caller Posted: 20 Jul 2011 03:52 PM PDT
In other words, she deals with her migraines just like millions of other Americans do –she reduces exposure to known triggers as much as possible and takes medication under the supervision of a competent physician to control the outbreaks she occasionally does have. How, exactly, is this a story? I mean, besides the the obvious link-whoring in which The Daily Caller engaged when they inflated a mundane malady into a backhanded accusation that her headaches would make her less than a competent President. Let me turn the mic over to Stacy McCain, who has a few questions.
Well, sure they could investigate some Democrats. It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of stories out there waiting to be uncovered. Operation Fast and Furious would be a great place for Tucker Carlson’s crack journalistic team to start digging, but he doesn’t seem very interested. Likewise, I’m sure there are some dark corners of the White House into which they should shine some bright light, but aside from the odd lower-level bureaucrat, the Daily Caller seems entirely uninterested in the corruption of the current administration. On the other hand, Carlson will publish a long article, complete with screamer headline, about right-wing bloggers who get a stray few hundred bucks from right-wing interest groups. But when was the last time The Daily Caller wrote anything nearly as in-depth about the ties between the Democratic Party and the Center for American Progress or Media Matters or the Daily Kos? Beyond the little flurry occasioned by the JournoList story that fell into its lap, the web site has been virtually silent about an area that could easily supply it a solid story every single week. I’ve talked about The Daily Caller before on The Delivery. Even though it had brought in the occasional conservative such as S.E. Cupp or Jim Treacher, its news coverage is every bit as slanted as that of any other garden-variety media outlet. Tucker Carlson raised $3 million on the promise that he’d build the right-wing Huffington Post. Turned out well, has that? Well, I guess that’s what you get when you trust a guy who knew as much about new media as a cow knows about orbital mechanics.  |
| Oh, Mr. Summers, I’m Sure You’ve Encountered that Swagger Plenty Posted: 20 Jul 2011 02:06 PM PDT This struck me as funny today.
Mind you, this guy was the director of President Obama’s National Economic Council. You may remember them as the team who have used long-discredited economic policies and the unshakable belief in their own superior intellects to mire us in a recession that still has no apparent end. When he talks about encountering swagger, he knows what’s he’s talking about. What baffles me is how the administration passed up the chance to add these two to the team. I’m sure the President could have found room for more privileged upper class twits whose arrogance is only surpassed by their ability to use the power of government to cover for their own professional failings. (via memeorandum)  |
It boggles my mind that Michele Bachmann was so pressed by the scurrilous Daily Caller story on her migraines that she felt the need to bring a note from her doctor. This is from a press-release I received today from her campaign.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Sundries Shack To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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