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It may now be illegal to kill your enemies! Report at 11!  Innocent until he pulls the trigger.
via News Analysis – Behind the Florida Primary Surprises, Turnout Tells a Tale – NYTimes.com.
via WH: No further comment from Obama on NYC mosque. Translated: “he has already succeeded in turning a local flap into a national issue that is a no-win for Democrat candidates. Our work here is done.”
via Rangel Faces Rivals at Candidates’ Night in Harlem – NYTimes.com. President Feet-On-the-Resolute-Desk gets an earful from Congressman Wrong-Stationery.
via Political Times – Obama Is Boxed In by a Big Legislative Agenda – NYTimes.com. Mr. Podesta, a prominent Democrat, bends over backwards to support President Obama, but the underpinnings of his argument are negative. And column writer Matt Bai has to fudge the facts to try and wring a little bit of good news out of the situation.
No. Actually Mr. Obama spent most of his career as a political activist, with brief stints in legislative “posts” between campaigns, writing books and angling for the next chance. But the point Bai makes – that he had zero executive experience prior to becoming the Chief Executive – is in fact part of the problem. The US is unique among the Western democracies in that it combines the job of Head of Government with that of Head of State. The others have two separate people in those positions. The challenge in this country is to do both. President Obama, with his jacket off, his feet up on the Resolution desk and a wife who parades around in eccentric and inappropriate clothing, has already abandoned the Head of State job. The question posed by the column is: are his lousy approval ratings because he has spent too much time as Legislator-in-Chief, or because that legislation is a disaster for the country and people are finally catching on? Mr. Podesta dodges the question by making high unemployment and lack of economic recovery seem like the weather: unpredictable and beyond our control. What he doesn’t seem to realize is that the American people don’t see it that way. They are, correctly, holding the President accountable.  John Podesta President Obama must have thrilled his guests at a White House Ramadan dinner when he came out in support of the proposed mosque near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, but he handed the GOP yet another campaign issue. Now Dems must choose whether or not to support the President or mollify their constituents and run up against the First Amendment. One of his biggest cohorts supporters, Harry Reid, has come out in opposition. His opponent in the Senate race, Sharron Angle, remains mum about it (at least on her website).
via Spending Posts Now a Liability for Lawmakers – NYTimes.com. Via The Terminator. At the Federal level the Obama administration is looking for the government to take over more and more services and thus more and more of the workforce. Bad idea for any number of reasons, but here’s a good one. Despite all the talk about new efficiencies in, say, health insurance, government is intrinsically more expensive.
As indicated, Federal employees make a lot more money on average than their private counterparts, or even the people working at the state level. This is a dilemma currently facing state governments, especially here in New Jersey, where years of Democrat government (or Republican government with no guts to take on the unions) have left us with a $45 billion pension obligation that we can’t pay. This was made worse by the fact that those same politicians would defer payments into the pension fund every time they ran out of other money. Governor Christie has pledged to take on the problem, which will mean facing down the state employees union, the CWA. Since he doesn’t have an ex-girlfriend who was a CWA local president and since he has a spine and a pair of testicles, we can expect a different result then when former-Governor Corzine was handling the negotiations. If NJ manages to dig its way out of the mess it is in, expect other governors to follow suit. The Federal government is another matter. The first step towards recovery begins this November, the next step in 2012.
via Dana Milbank – Rangel’s rambling floor speech has House Dems wishing they didn’t recognize him. The feared Charlie Rangel pyrrhic firestorm has begun. Keep howling, Charlie, all the way to November.
via 44 – Gibbs condemns criticism from ‘professional left’. True, but they are also the people who got Obama elected and they want their juice. |
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