Politics Roundtable

I promised earlier today to do a post on Paul Krugman’s latest article defending the stimulus, but I see Jon already covered most of it at The Next Right.

I would add a few more points:

The true cost per job of the Obama plan will ...

The one thing Bill Ayers has accomplished in his life - besides fooling at least some into believing he’s just an everyday education professor - is to prove Andy Warhol wrong about everyone getting just 15 minutes of fame.

Ayers is working on his second 15 minutes and ...

Could there be some toxic spillover to the Obama Administration from the Blagojevich scandal? Even as Bob Woodward hints that the First Family may have some nanny/tax issues waiting in the tall grass, there may be another more dangerous figure looming in the bushes. His ...

As discussed in my post yesterday, there was a bit of a dust-up over a preliminary CBO report on the stimulus, with some questions in particular about how quickly the money would be spent. Bloggers on the Left insisted that the money would be spent quickly, and ...

For those of you who have wondered how the skills an infantryman learns can translate into civilian skills, I give you this answer:



Heh ... humor aside, this also demonstrates very well ...

And no, it isn’t Bill Ayers this time, but someone much like him.

Yes, our old buddy Ernesto "Che" Guevara has been resurrected (again) in the newest adaptation of his life in Steven Soderbergh’s "Che." And yes, I use the term "adaptation" quite purposely.

A couple of points about this article in yesterday’s NYT. First, the directive by Obama to EPA telling it to again review the California (and others) emission and fuel efficiency standards with an eye toward approving them:

President Obama will direct federal regulators on Monday to move swiftly on ...

The more I hear SecDef Robert Gates, the better I like him. But the following came as a bit of a humorous surprise today.

Gates was on the hill answering questions from Congress when he was asked about the recent visits to Venezuela by the Russian navy. ...

I’ve been doing a lot of reading in the MSM and among pundits concerning this seemingly counter-intuitive "stimulus" package being rushed through Congress.

Thomas Oliver best sums up why I see it as "counter-intuitive":

You read that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says about half the new ...

Ah, the good ol’ days of BDS. Remember that Thanksgiving when Pres. Bush made a surprise visit to the troops in Iraq? The one immortalized forever by the picture of him seeming to offer a turkey platter to some soldiers standing in the chow line?