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...
Great news for anybody in the Limbaugh camp, who is hoping The Anointed One fails. Starting to look like He probably will.
It is becoming clear that the economy is now the top issue. Mr. Obama’s presidency may well rise or fall on it. The economy will be his responsibility long before next year’s elections. Americans may give him a chance to turn things around, but voters can turn unforgiving very quickly if promised jobs don’t materialize.
That’s what happened in Louisiana, where voters accepted Democrat Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s missteps before Hurricane Katrina but brutally rejected her afterward because she failed to turn the state around.
Until now, the new president has benefited from public willingness to give him a honeymoon. He decided to use that grace period to push for the largest expansion of government in U.S. history and to reward political allies (see the sweetheart deals Big Labor received in the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies).
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead — higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.
The good news for the President is that in leveraging His wonderful charisma, or whatever it is, to keep His holy shoulders free of the burden of responsibility for the economy — He’s marshaling the most potent weapon in His arsenal. There can be little doubt at this point that Barack Obama is among the most charming, if not the most charming, politician the civilized world has seen in modern times. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Forget about selling refrigerators to the proverbial Eskimo, this guy could sell hairdryers to snowmen.
More good news for President Obama: If failure looks like an economy in recovery, taking way longer to recover than it should…that is negligible-to-nothing political fallout, right? Under Obama’s predecessor, the economy was in a remarkably sustained period of growth, but rather flaccid growth. A prolonged, sputtering recovery would be just more of the same. Mister “I Inherited This, Don’t Forget” could go on tossing out some cliches about how He inherited the whole mess. It’s worked up until now.
But then we get right back to that thorny problem…and I think it’ll just get thornier…
How effective of an agent of “Change” is this guy, if His most reliable fallback excuse is that His predecessor was doing the same stuff and producing the same effects?
Obama’s chosen tactic is going to work out great, if nothing changes. But things always do; that is the point. Obama, I’m afraid, has placed Himself in a position to sustain great potential damage if our nation’s landscape is as dynamic as His campaign rhetoric has suggested. He requires stasis in order to succeed, even just politically. Which means He has placed Himself into an antagonistic relationship with change itself…and He owes His presidency to that very catchphrase.
We’ve been down this road before. That means, simply put, we haven’t been delivered what we were promised.
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