If Rahmbo is leaving the Obama White House later this year because he's tired of the idealism of other staffers, I say, "Good riddance and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."
I then say, since you've chased away so many people, and your boss isn't that idealistic, WTF are you talking about?
As for the White House tired of h is failure to deliver on legislation, blame both him and his boss for too m any compromises in advance, and in public, starting with the stimulus bill. Any idiot who works like that should leave. That goes for his boss, too, actually.
June 21, 2010
Douthat thinks Obama is a liberal
Ross Douthat wonders why so many liberals are aggrieved at Obama as a president who seems adrift, etc.
Maybe we're aggrieved at just how illiberal he is. He's just like Bush in the "War on Terror" and civil liberties, if not worse, for example. Maybe we loathe the soon-to-depart chief of staff, Rahmbo, as a man of even fewer ideals than his boss.
Oh, and Ruos? The health care bill isn't universal, has holes in it, is subject to revision, and involved massive bribery to Big Pharma and other folks.
There's idiocy by saying dumb things, or there's idiocy of not thinking in the first place. Ross, that's you, this time.
Maybe we're aggrieved at just how illiberal he is. He's just like Bush in the "War on Terror" and civil liberties, if not worse, for example. Maybe we loathe the soon-to-depart chief of staff, Rahmbo, as a man of even fewer ideals than his boss.
Oh, and Ruos? The health care bill isn't universal, has holes in it, is subject to revision, and involved massive bribery to Big Pharma and other folks.
There's idiocy by saying dumb things, or there's idiocy of not thinking in the first place. Ross, that's you, this time.
June 20, 2010
Louisiana asks God to end BP spill
Dear nutbars suggesting prayer in the Louisiana Legislature to stop Deepwater Horizon: If God is so omnipotent, why didn't he prevent the spill/gush in the first place?
When Friedman is good, he's good
Every once in a while, Tom Friedman can write a real, in-depth, analysis type of column that is informative. Part 2 of his Letter from Istanbul set of columns is exactly that.
Two items of note.
1. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a bit of a conspiracy theorist and otherwise, a bit troubling.
2. His party is trailing in most recent polls to more secular opponents. Not sure when the next election is, but, while it's nice to have Turkey increasing its influence at this crossroads of the world, let's hope the second wave of that growth is under more secular leadership.
Two items of note.
1. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a bit of a conspiracy theorist and otherwise, a bit troubling.
2. His party is trailing in most recent polls to more secular opponents. Not sure when the next election is, but, while it's nice to have Turkey increasing its influence at this crossroads of the world, let's hope the second wave of that growth is under more secular leadership.
Rich takes Obama to the BP cleaners
Again, Obamiacs will surely defend "their man." But, more and more mainstream liberal opinionators, like Frank Rich today, are saying that Obama, instead of just pointing fingers at BP, DOES have his share of blame for not really cleaning house at Interior in general and Minerals Management Service in particular.
That said, hiring Kenny Boy Salazar to run Interior made it clear that Obama, despite his climate change rhetoric, really wasn't that much of an environmentalist, wasn't that interested in environmentalism, and didn't really want to clean house.
Sidebar: Not a single Gang Green group has yet to even think about calling for Kenny Boy's head.
That said, hiring Kenny Boy Salazar to run Interior made it clear that Obama, despite his climate change rhetoric, really wasn't that much of an environmentalist, wasn't that interested in environmentalism, and didn't really want to clean house.
Sidebar: Not a single Gang Green group has yet to even think about calling for Kenny Boy's head.
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