Wednesday, October 28, 2009
So, there I was, wondering why it was so important for the Democrat party to push through a health-care reform plan fewer and fewer people want, a plan that may cost some Democrats their offices, a plan that may in fact cause Democrats the next election.
Then it hit me. If they can get this, they're on the way to being the permanent majority.
Think about it: they get a government plan that includes 100% of Americans. Then, at every election, they can scream about Republicans, and their plans to cut health care spending, and be talking about a program that affects 100% of the electorate, and a program nobody will want to see cut.
It's perfect! It's brilliant!
Of course, as spending on health care balloons, and balloon it will, there'll be less money for non-essentials like, oh, Defense, and certainly requirements for higher taxes on those who can't buy a Congressperson or two to slip in a few handy tax advantages.
In other words, we'll become Europeans. But the Democrats will be permanently in charge so, you know, mission accomplished.
UPDATE: Mark Steyn makes the same point, some days later.
Then it hit me. If they can get this, they're on the way to being the permanent majority.
Think about it: they get a government plan that includes 100% of Americans. Then, at every election, they can scream about Republicans, and their plans to cut health care spending, and be talking about a program that affects 100% of the electorate, and a program nobody will want to see cut.
It's perfect! It's brilliant!
Of course, as spending on health care balloons, and balloon it will, there'll be less money for non-essentials like, oh, Defense, and certainly requirements for higher taxes on those who can't buy a Congressperson or two to slip in a few handy tax advantages.
In other words, we'll become Europeans. But the Democrats will be permanently in charge so, you know, mission accomplished.
UPDATE: Mark Steyn makes the same point, some days later.
It looks likely the Democrats will continue to take money from you at gunpoint in order to continue funding to an organization that provides advice on tax-evasion to pimps and hoes.
One supposes the Democrats recognizes a core constituency.
One supposes the Democrats recognizes a core constituency.
So, The Won will not be going to Berlin to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Olympics for Chicago? Quick hop to Denmark.
Nobel Award? Quick hop to Norway.
Forty one years of Hot and Cold War after the Russians inspired the Berlin airlift, WE prevailed, and THEY lost. And The Won cannot be bothered to celebrate.
What a complete dick.
This probably means he's got some secret diplomacy going on that needs Russian acquiescence. He appears to have forgotten he's dealing with the land of Ivan the Terrible, Stalin, and the knout. You don't impress the Russians by poncing along the Tiergarten, giving airy-fairy speeches you repudiate in less than a year. You impress the Russians by kicking them out of Afghanistan, Central America, and Grenada. Acquiescence gets you nothing with the Russians.
Mark it: within six months we'll hear of some failed no-longer-secret diplomatic gambit whose success depended, on other things, on The Won being absent from celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Won: Hooked; fished in.
Olympics for Chicago? Quick hop to Denmark.
Nobel Award? Quick hop to Norway.
Forty one years of Hot and Cold War after the Russians inspired the Berlin airlift, WE prevailed, and THEY lost. And The Won cannot be bothered to celebrate.
What a complete dick.
This probably means he's got some secret diplomacy going on that needs Russian acquiescence. He appears to have forgotten he's dealing with the land of Ivan the Terrible, Stalin, and the knout. You don't impress the Russians by poncing along the Tiergarten, giving airy-fairy speeches you repudiate in less than a year. You impress the Russians by kicking them out of Afghanistan, Central America, and Grenada. Acquiescence gets you nothing with the Russians.
Mark it: within six months we'll hear of some failed no-longer-secret diplomatic gambit whose success depended, on other things, on The Won being absent from celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Won: Hooked; fished in.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Can it be possible that the White House staff worships Mao?
You know, the guy who had between 40 and 70 million Chinese people murdered, thereby putting himself ahead of Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot in the mass murder stakes?
Apparently it is so. But with Mother Theresa as a, oh, fig-leaf, poor little thing.
Damn, baby! This Presidency is the total mass stupidity!
Mind you, while it's a joke yet to play out in the US, it's current blood under the tank treads in Tehran.
Obama sucks.
You know, the guy who had between 40 and 70 million Chinese people murdered, thereby putting himself ahead of Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot in the mass murder stakes?
Apparently it is so. But with Mother Theresa as a, oh, fig-leaf, poor little thing.
Damn, baby! This Presidency is the total mass stupidity!
Mind you, while it's a joke yet to play out in the US, it's current blood under the tank treads in Tehran.
Obama sucks.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
BTW folks, keep in mind that Barack Hussein Obama, The Won, the sticky sack of failure, wants to control the oxygen you get in your dotage.
Just keep that in mind as you consider:
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Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
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In ObamaWorld, there will be bits of F-15s, and remnants of their dead pilots, to add, umm, atmosphere. Yeah. Atmosphere.
Just keep that in mind as you consider:
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Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
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In ObamaWorld, there will be bits of F-15s, and remnants of their dead pilots, to add, umm, atmosphere. Yeah. Atmosphere.
Advice to Muslim widows who own property in Muslim areas: sell out as quickly as possible, and get as far away as possible.
Americans were like this once, 400 years ago in Salem.
Despite what The Won preaches, we got better.
Muslims: What a complete bunch of savages.
Thought experiment: The world, run by Muslims.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
Americans were like this once, 400 years ago in Salem.
Despite what The Won preaches, we got better.
Muslims: What a complete bunch of savages.
Thought experiment: The world, run by Muslims.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
So, if the Republican gets elected Governor by a margin of 60% to 40%, that means Virginians are all racists, right?
Well of course not: Nixon was a Republican !
Really, The Won is all about controlling the message. Then he can go about perfecting us without interference. Everyone but Fox is on bended knee before him, so Fox must be destroyed.
Still, the only thing more stupid than taking on someone who buys ink by the barrel is taking on someone who doesn't even have to buy ink. And to use an incompetent like Gibbs to sling your mud? Oy!
Really, The Won is all about controlling the message. Then he can go about perfecting us without interference. Everyone but Fox is on bended knee before him, so Fox must be destroyed.
Still, the only thing more stupid than taking on someone who buys ink by the barrel is taking on someone who doesn't even have to buy ink. And to use an incompetent like Gibbs to sling your mud? Oy!
The Obama Administraton: $1.4 trillion deficit this year, $1.4 trillion next year. Soon we'll be talking about real money.
I don't know what the next major increment is after "trillion" (squintillion?), but nobody tell this lot.
I suppose bequeathing a credit card bill on generations to come is a *sort* of change. And since it's actual reality, no "belief" required.
Mind you, I'm now out of hope. All that's left is to boot this lot, and as soon as possible.
UPDATE: Did you hear the news about how the mullahs played Baracky last June? Apparently, while they were mowing down their subjects, they offered The Won a deal about exporting their enriched uranium to France, or Russia, or Kazakhstan. Somewhere. While The Won was focused on this deal, they snuffed out all protest over their elections, and The Won, that bag of sticky incompetence, kept quiet, for fear of nixing the uranium deal. The mullahs, up to their knees in blood, but a democracy movement nicely repressed, are now backing off on the uranium deal.
So, how's that missile shield going in Poland and Czechoslovakia?
Really, The Won was never ready for prime time.
What a complete Carter.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Obama's foreign policy: (A)mateurishness, wrapped in naivete, inside credulity.
For the children. Or the polar bears. Either way it's bad, I don't know animals.
For the children. Or the polar bears. Either way it's bad, I don't know animals.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Right on schedule, global warming is out and global cooling is in.
These panics really do run in about 30 year cycles. Back in the 1970's we were going to run out of oil and freeze. Yesterday, all the oil we were burning was going to cause us to boil. Today, we're tipping back to freezing.
What will the eco-left do? Well, they're already talking about "climate stability." I think thie means "nobody do anything, for fear things might change." There's a lot of ossification in that there idea.
These panics really do run in about 30 year cycles. Back in the 1970's we were going to run out of oil and freeze. Yesterday, all the oil we were burning was going to cause us to boil. Today, we're tipping back to freezing.
What will the eco-left do? Well, they're already talking about "climate stability." I think thie means "nobody do anything, for fear things might change." There's a lot of ossification in that there idea.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
America's school systems are controlled by pussies.
But I suppose a post about Border's Books, some moments ago, has already made that obvious.
But I suppose a post about Border's Books, some moments ago, has already made that obvious.
If gold hits $1100/oz, I'm selling and buying beer.
And guns. And ammo.
Yes, I am a bitter clinger. Nine months of slippery-slidiness towards full socialism will do that to you.
And guns. And ammo.
Yes, I am a bitter clinger. Nine months of slippery-slidiness towards full socialism will do that to you.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Ah, the benefits of a liberal arts education:
The Presidency on Obama: A giant's robe upon a dwarfish thief.
So, a typical Democrat.
ANGUS:
Now does he feel
His secret murders sticking on his hands;
Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach;
Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love: now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.
The Presidency on Obama: A giant's robe upon a dwarfish thief.
So, a typical Democrat.
"Next."
"A Wicked and Ignorant Award".
She doesn't quite say it, but Peggy Noonan does inch up to indicating that Obama's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize is pretty close to the Nobel committee jumping him over the shark.
MORE COWBELL!!!!!
She doesn't quite say it, but Peggy Noonan does inch up to indicating that Obama's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize is pretty close to the Nobel committee jumping him over the shark.
MORE COWBELL!!!!!
What happened to global warming?
When you've lost the Beeb, well, you've pretty much lost.
Ah well. So it must mostly be with new religions.
When you've lost the Beeb, well, you've pretty much lost.
Ah well. So it must mostly be with new religions.
Friday, October 09, 2009
"Absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize."
Well, they passed absurdity when they gave it to Algore. Still, point well taken.
Man, $1.4 million to a guy who's basically been standing there like Bambi in the headlights of history. I think they gave him the award principally for decrying and denying American exceptionalism.
Well, they passed absurdity when they gave it to Algore. Still, point well taken.
Man, $1.4 million to a guy who's basically been standing there like Bambi in the headlights of history. I think they gave him the award principally for decrying and denying American exceptionalism.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
This image (well, a much larger version thereof) is currently hanging in the White House.
One hates to imagine we elected Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, to be President, but, well, there was that whole Copenhagen disgrace, and let's not forget all the shilly-shallying over Afghanistan.
Don't Blame Me. I Voted for McCain.
Oh my.
Has The Won done anything, *anything* with his life?
UPDATE: Olympian declares "He’s done nothing. He’s done absolutely nothing."
Has The Won done anything, *anything* with his life?
UPDATE: Olympian declares "He’s done nothing. He’s done absolutely nothing."
Islamophobes beat up on Homophobes.
Or some such.
Amusing, in any event. It's like watcing an environmentalist discover the Northern Spotted Owl's favorite food is the Tennessee Lesser Striped Stickleback.
Or some such.
Amusing, in any event. It's like watcing an environmentalist discover the Northern Spotted Owl's favorite food is the Tennessee Lesser Striped Stickleback.
Here in Atlanta, the other side of this coupon (I couldn't find an image on the Border's web site) is in Spanish, and depicts a rather effete-looking metrosexual (but I repeat myself) Hispanic male.
I, for one, am glad that the white male patriarchy is a thing of the past in our school systems.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
The Won has cut off funding to the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center. It's part of his policy of cozying up to degenerates.
Well of course.
This is one more sign to the world's thugs that he's weak, and will do nothing to harm them as they pile on, hell for leather, to acquire nukes.
The result? The world is inching towards 100% certainty of war in the gulf next year. Israel will not let Iran get a nuke. One way or another, it will attack.
The mullahs will respond, most likely via Hezbollah, Hamas, and/or Boy Assad. Hence fighting in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and with Syria.
Would the mullahs hit at an American target? Maybe a capital ship? Might they hit at a target in the CONUS? Who can tell.
I am certain of these things:
1. Iran is working as hard as possible to get nuclear weapons.
2. Iran now has the ability to deliver nukes all the way into Europe.
3. Iranian nuclear-armed IRBMs are an existential threat to Israel, which Israel will not tolerate.
4. Iran has proxies all around Israel.
5. Rather than allow Iran to pose an existential threat, Israel will attack.
6. When Israel attacks Iran's nuclear weapons capability, it will also hit with overwhelming force at Southern Lebanon, Gaza, and Damascus.
Will the war spread? Who can say? What I will say is that right now, The Won's administration, with its temporizing and appeasement, is backing Israel into a corner.
The best case is Israel takes out Iran's nuclear weapons sites, along with its oil export/gasoline import facilities, while also pounding Boy Assad, Nasrallah, and whatever thug happens to be in charge in Gaza.
The worst case scenario is Israel breaks out the nukes and starts hitting large population centers in Iran, and from Tripoli through Amman to Damascus. Oh, and takes out the Aswan High Dam into the bargain.
Well of course.
This is one more sign to the world's thugs that he's weak, and will do nothing to harm them as they pile on, hell for leather, to acquire nukes.
The result? The world is inching towards 100% certainty of war in the gulf next year. Israel will not let Iran get a nuke. One way or another, it will attack.
The mullahs will respond, most likely via Hezbollah, Hamas, and/or Boy Assad. Hence fighting in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and with Syria.
Would the mullahs hit at an American target? Maybe a capital ship? Might they hit at a target in the CONUS? Who can tell.
I am certain of these things:
1. Iran is working as hard as possible to get nuclear weapons.
2. Iran now has the ability to deliver nukes all the way into Europe.
3. Iranian nuclear-armed IRBMs are an existential threat to Israel, which Israel will not tolerate.
4. Iran has proxies all around Israel.
5. Rather than allow Iran to pose an existential threat, Israel will attack.
6. When Israel attacks Iran's nuclear weapons capability, it will also hit with overwhelming force at Southern Lebanon, Gaza, and Damascus.
Will the war spread? Who can say? What I will say is that right now, The Won's administration, with its temporizing and appeasement, is backing Israel into a corner.
The best case is Israel takes out Iran's nuclear weapons sites, along with its oil export/gasoline import facilities, while also pounding Boy Assad, Nasrallah, and whatever thug happens to be in charge in Gaza.
The worst case scenario is Israel breaks out the nukes and starts hitting large population centers in Iran, and from Tripoli through Amman to Damascus. Oh, and takes out the Aswan High Dam into the bargain.
Dedicated to The Won, President Barack Hussein Obama.
UPDATE: COWBELL!!!
The Won trotted out a bunch of captive doctorspeople wearing lab coats today, in a Rose Garden attempt to grab more of the US Economy.
He already has 600 banks and two auto makers, but won't be satisfied until he has energy and medicine as well. Because, you know, socialism only works if we're all in the pot. It's a Milo Minderbinder, individual mandate thing.
Meanwhile, the Arabs, unsatisfied by 9/11, are making moves to replace the US dollar as the currency used for pricing oil. Which is fine with The Won: America must atone for its many sins.
Meanwhile, as Afghanistan goes down the toilet, The Won is prancing around the world, notably making bootless pleas in the streets of Denmark. McChrystal, unwilling to go down without a fight, makes public statements and the yammering left, having howled at Bush about ignoring his generals, descends like a pack of hyenas on a General who has spoken up. Oh yes, it's the age of The Won, The Dear Leader, He Who Must Be Obeyed. No dissent is allowed.
The American public, memoriless, laps this all up.
In related news, the National Intelligence Estimate of 2007 turns out to have been complete fabricated nonsense, designed only to keep us paralyzed while The One swept to victory. The last laugh was The Won making a speech about nuclear disarmament, even while knowing about a new Iranian enrichment plant. Mind you, this joke already savors of hollow wit, as more do now cry than ever will laugh at it.
$2 trillion in pork-laden debt spending has given us 10% unemployment, officially, while actual employment heads towards 20%. Political correctness ensures men are laid off first, while women (who, as we are oft reminded make $0.72 for every dollar a man makes) are kept on. Don't want NOW at the door! Nothing like a little emasculation for the population in general, even as The Won emasculates the country completely.
Mind you, the first child has begun to mutter that the The Won Has No Clothes, as SNL does a skit about The Won of Soaring Rhetoric, Who Gets Nothing Done.
Within the next year or two, they'll be calling The Won the worst American ruler since Montezuma, and deservedly so.
Of course, they'll have long forgotten who they howled for in the last Presidential election. And the American public, memoriless, will keep lapping it up.
Democrats. Words fail me.
Well, not quite: "Don't Blame Me. I Voted for McCain!"
He already has 600 banks and two auto makers, but won't be satisfied until he has energy and medicine as well. Because, you know, socialism only works if we're all in the pot. It's a Milo Minderbinder, individual mandate thing.
Meanwhile, the Arabs, unsatisfied by 9/11, are making moves to replace the US dollar as the currency used for pricing oil. Which is fine with The Won: America must atone for its many sins.
Meanwhile, as Afghanistan goes down the toilet, The Won is prancing around the world, notably making bootless pleas in the streets of Denmark. McChrystal, unwilling to go down without a fight, makes public statements and the yammering left, having howled at Bush about ignoring his generals, descends like a pack of hyenas on a General who has spoken up. Oh yes, it's the age of The Won, The Dear Leader, He Who Must Be Obeyed. No dissent is allowed.
The American public, memoriless, laps this all up.
In related news, the National Intelligence Estimate of 2007 turns out to have been complete fabricated nonsense, designed only to keep us paralyzed while The One swept to victory. The last laugh was The Won making a speech about nuclear disarmament, even while knowing about a new Iranian enrichment plant. Mind you, this joke already savors of hollow wit, as more do now cry than ever will laugh at it.
$2 trillion in pork-laden debt spending has given us 10% unemployment, officially, while actual employment heads towards 20%. Political correctness ensures men are laid off first, while women (who, as we are oft reminded make $0.72 for every dollar a man makes) are kept on. Don't want NOW at the door! Nothing like a little emasculation for the population in general, even as The Won emasculates the country completely.
Mind you, the first child has begun to mutter that the The Won Has No Clothes, as SNL does a skit about The Won of Soaring Rhetoric, Who Gets Nothing Done.
Within the next year or two, they'll be calling The Won the worst American ruler since Montezuma, and deservedly so.
Of course, they'll have long forgotten who they howled for in the last Presidential election. And the American public, memoriless, will keep lapping it up.
Democrats. Words fail me.
Well, not quite: "Don't Blame Me. I Voted for McCain!"
Friday, October 02, 2009
Chicago is OUT?!?!??!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The man's disbelief is sooooooooo funny. Nominally a reporter, he's actually a shill for an emperor with no clothes.
"Madrid is still in?!?!??!?!?!!!!!"
"Tokyo is still in?!?!?!??!!!!!!!"
"No-one expected this development"
UPDATE: DO YOU MEAN TO SAY THE WON HAS FEET OF CLAY?
UPDATE: They don't like us. They really, really don't like us.
UPDATE: Rio, where exotic people come to exchange exotic diseases. NTTAWWT.
UPDATE: I think that middle finger to Sarko at the UN didn't help. You know, that picture where The Won was holding his middle finger to his pursed lips as he listened to Sarko's speech. That shit may fly in Chicago, when you have your boot on someone's throat, but it won't fly with other sovreign nations, some of whom have nukes of their own.
Of course, The Won has never governed, so all he knows is the permanent campaign. He's half a President, I'm afraid.
The man's disbelief is sooooooooo funny. Nominally a reporter, he's actually a shill for an emperor with no clothes.
"Madrid is still in?!?!??!?!?!!!!!"
"Tokyo is still in?!?!?!??!!!!!!!"
"No-one expected this development"
UPDATE: DO YOU MEAN TO SAY THE WON HAS FEET OF CLAY?
UPDATE: They don't like us. They really, really don't like us.
UPDATE: Rio, where exotic people come to exchange exotic diseases. NTTAWWT.
UPDATE: I think that middle finger to Sarko at the UN didn't help. You know, that picture where The Won was holding his middle finger to his pursed lips as he listened to Sarko's speech. That shit may fly in Chicago, when you have your boot on someone's throat, but it won't fly with other sovreign nations, some of whom have nukes of their own.
Of course, The Won has never governed, so all he knows is the permanent campaign. He's half a President, I'm afraid.
And Rio gets the 2016 Olympic Games. I'm guessing they'll be happeing in and around Maracanã Stadium.
I think what threw Chicago was The Won's remark about "Nice committee you got here. It'd be a pity if anything happened to it."
UPDATE: When you're spent the entire short time of your doomed Presidency traveling the world and apologizing for America's sins, well what's an IOC to do? Right, make you suffer. Ask that Wright guy, if you can find him in all that's packed under the bus so far.
UPDATE: Look for boatloads of Federal cash to make its way to Chicago, in order to pay of Daley and Co.'s real estate loans.
I think what threw Chicago was The Won's remark about "Nice committee you got here. It'd be a pity if anything happened to it."
UPDATE: When you're spent the entire short time of your doomed Presidency traveling the world and apologizing for America's sins, well what's an IOC to do? Right, make you suffer. Ask that Wright guy, if you can find him in all that's packed under the bus so far.
UPDATE: Look for boatloads of Federal cash to make its way to Chicago, in order to pay of Daley and Co.'s real estate loans.
Tony Rezko is doubtless unloading some newly-worthless Chicago property.
I'm waiting for Jimmy Carter and The Won to declare the IOC a collection of racists.
I'm rooting for Rio. What a great city!
UPDATE: I wonder what this means for Health Care "Reform".
I'm waiting for Jimmy Carter and The Won to declare the IOC a collection of racists.
I'm rooting for Rio. What a great city!
UPDATE: I wonder what this means for Health Care "Reform".
So, that $787 billion got us what?
Doubtless, NPR will spin this to make The Won look like Rescuer of the Nation. Or that it's all Bush's fault. Or Reagan's.
Man, and this bunch of Keystone Kops wants to run another 17% of the economy?!?!?!!!!! Remember, it already has about 18%, via banks and autos. Speaking of which, just how is Government Motors doing? Not that well, as it turns out.
So, that 18%, well, they've probably managed to turn it into more like 12% by now. Keep that up, and soon the government won't be running any businesses. Well, any businesses that are worth anything.
GM got billions, taken at gunpoint from people like me, and nobody at GM, not management, not union thugs took a pay cut. Cash-for-clunkers sent money directly to Tokyo.
GM is a giant health care provider, with a money-losing car division. It got there because of spineless management and union thuggery. Let it burn, and good riddance.
I guarantee The Won is sweating bullets trying to figure out how to keep GM alive, but not be seen to have received *another* bailout, until after the 2010 elections. He doesn't want to turn an oncoming defeat into an utter rout.
Doubtless, NPR will spin this to make The Won look like Rescuer of the Nation. Or that it's all Bush's fault. Or Reagan's.
Man, and this bunch of Keystone Kops wants to run another 17% of the economy?!?!?!!!!! Remember, it already has about 18%, via banks and autos. Speaking of which, just how is Government Motors doing? Not that well, as it turns out.
So, that 18%, well, they've probably managed to turn it into more like 12% by now. Keep that up, and soon the government won't be running any businesses. Well, any businesses that are worth anything.
GM got billions, taken at gunpoint from people like me, and nobody at GM, not management, not union thugs took a pay cut. Cash-for-clunkers sent money directly to Tokyo.
GM is a giant health care provider, with a money-losing car division. It got there because of spineless management and union thuggery. Let it burn, and good riddance.
I guarantee The Won is sweating bullets trying to figure out how to keep GM alive, but not be seen to have received *another* bailout, until after the 2010 elections. He doesn't want to turn an oncoming defeat into an utter rout.
