Monday, October 5, 2009
Why There Was No Depression
By Robert J. Samuelson "But this improved confidence is not optimism. It is the absence of terror. The consumer sentiment index is still weak. Unemployment (9.8 percent) is abysmal, the recovery's strength unclear. Here, too, there is an echo from the 1930s. Despite bottoming in 1933, the Depression didn't really end until World War II. Government didn't ensure recovery. Some policies helped, some hurt. The good news today is simply that the bad news is not worse."
Credit to Obama here.
Biden Butts In
IBD# "As the commander in Afghanistan tries to get President Obama's attention on troops, it's political players like Vice President Biden who have his ear. Yet the military has a record of success. Biden has only blunders."
Saturn Couldn't Escape GM's Dysfunctional Orbit
WSJ Online "Union leaders hated the flexible work rules and eventually got rid of them." h/t to Neal Boortz
Why Obama's Boyish Utopia Endangers Us
By Kevin McCullough# "In President Obama's utopia, the socialists and the communists DO have it right, and this is perhaps the major reason he records in his own books his great delight in hanging with them in college. But man's depravity has always been and will always be the fatal flaw in this theory. " h/t Neal Boortz
Obama's Foreign Policy Suspends Disbelief
By George Will# "The other proposition is that Iran's regime seeks nuclear weapons merely to enhance the nation's security and not also for regional hegemony or the enjoyment of the enlarged status that comes from being a nuclear power. To believe that, draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."
Zinni: Don't Delay Decision on Afghan War
CBS News "The former U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Anthony Zinni, warned that the deliberations over whether to send additional troops to Afghanistan - as many as 40,000, as suggested by General Stanley McChrystal - should not go on too much longer, lest the debate be viewed as indecision or weakness."
Time to Deal with Black Racism
Lloyd Marcus# "Black liberal enablers cannot relieve black males of personal responsibility for their behavior, blaming everything on whitey, and expect the lives of these youths to change for the better. Like every other sin, a measure of racism will always exist. But we cannot continue allowing minority racism to go unchecked and expect us to ever truly become united as Americans. "
YOU WANT STIMULUS? HERE'S YOUR STIMULUS
By Neal Boortz "Because of America's punishing tax system there is a lot of money that is owned by Americans but invested overseas. How much? Well, before the economic downturn some people estimated that figure at around $13 trillion. That's with a "T" folks."
On Afghanistan, US military puts Obama on the spot
Yahoo News "As a result, if Obama chooses to change course in Afghanistan or decline a request for large numbers of troops, he will be rejecting the advice of the US military, raising the political stakes."
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Bill Kristol Says White House "Pathetic" for Thinking Decision to Send More Troops to Afghanistan "Excruciating"
Freedom's Lighthouse "Here is video of Bill Kristol on FOX News saying that it is "pathetic" that the White House thinks it is an "excruciating" decision whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. Kristol said "General McChrystal and General Petraeus think this is necessary, this should not be a difficult call." " h/t to Weasel Zippers
Barack Obama furious at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan
UK Telegraph# "According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last week.
The next day he was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on board Air Force One on the tarmac in Copenhagen, where the president had arrived to tout Chicago's unsuccessful Olympic bid."
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