Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Karl Rove has a few constructive pieces of criticism…constructive, in that in order to figure out if they’re useful or not, one needn’t bother with the question of whether or not they’re kind.
Because of Washington’s hyperpartisan atmosphere, President George W. Bush drew heated criticism from Democrats for his signing statements. Among his toughest critics was Barack Obama, who in a questionnaire for the Boston Globe in 2007 accused Mr. Bush of “clear abuse” in using signing statements “to avoid enforcing certain provisions…the President does not like.” He promised not to use signing statements to “nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law.”
Yet Mr. Obama started issuing signing statements shortly after taking office. Democratic Reps. Barney Frank and David Obey called him out on it in a letter to the White House complaining that they were “chagrined” that Mr. Obama was issuing signing statements.
Recently, the Obama administration admitted that after receiving the letter from Messrs. Frank and Obey, it stopped the practice. But the president still has aides examine each bill to identify provisions the administration will disregard. It’s just that Team Obama isn’t telling Congress which provisions it is ignoring.
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During his campaign, Mr. Obama pledged that any negotiations on health-care legislation would be broadcast on C-SPAN, “so the American people can see what the choices are,” and not conducted behind closed doors. “Such public negotiations,” he said, were “the antidote” to “overcoming the special interests and the lobbyists who…will resist anything that we try to do.”Internet publisher Andrew Breitbart collected videotape of Mr. Obama making the same promise eight different times in 2007 and 2008—evidence that this was not a hasty or ill-considered pledge. It was supposed to epitomize the “change” that was at the core of the Obama campaign.
Now, however, the final negotiations on health-care reform are being conducted behind closed doors and there’s no formal legislative conference between the House and Senate, which would guarantee Republicans at least a few seats at the table. This bill is not only being written in secrecy, it is being written by an anonymous group of Democrats.
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Mr. Obama is not the centrist or new-style bipartisan leader he presented himself to be. On many of the most basic issues raised in the campaign, and in describing the kind of leadership he would practice, Mr. Obama misled voters.
Is Rove on target with his closing uppercut?
Americans will overlook a lot of things when it comes to politicians — but being on the receiving end of a giant bait-and-switch game isn’t one of them.
Between President Obama’s final victory over Hillary Clinton, and His election triumph, the folks who are like me worried vocally about His lack of stated position on real issues. We said He was about to govern on a blank slate. Even when He did promise to do something, so many among the folks who voted for Him were voting for Him for entirely different reasons. These were the perils of personality politics at work. If He ever did anything unexpected, we said, it would be rather difficult to call Him out and say He even broke a campaign promise, since He really hasn’t had to make any.
And if ever He was criticized, we said, He and His loyalists would be able to just use His race to make it all go away.
Obama did make some promises…mostly about the way He’d be doing things, not so much about what exactly He’d do. You see from the above recap how much that means.
So you’ll notice none of us are recanting anything about what we said. Things are not better than we thought they would be. They’re much, much worse.
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Constructive criticism?
If such a purpose is meant to unravel the cover of liars, and other thinly veiled threats to an institution, wouldn’t that be deconstructive, or destructive criticism?
And wouldn’t that be a GOOD thing?
Feh, I suppose I practice discrimination too much.
- CaptDMO | 01/14/2010 @ 14:05The more I hear from Mr. Rove, the more respect I have for the man.
- philmon | 01/15/2010 @ 19:43