In This Dimension

Best Headline of 2010 so far

Rarely - too rarely - a headline is created that concisely and accurately summarizes the millions of words being written and spoken by thousands of others regarding a topic of widespread interest.

This is that headline. I laughed as hard as I have in weeks, if not months…. It is absolutely perfect.

The One, SOTU, Healthcare….

Many many articles and columns have been written on The Failure of the Messiah to understand what is going on, and the consequences of his seemingly demented demand for something America doesn’t want, and his complete inability to change course. (Leopard, spots, etc.)

Here is one of the best on the real meaning of what’s happened and the toll on his next three years.

Random Thoughts, 25 Jan 2010

So in the WSJ today a column that Barry, having been resoundingly told we DON’T LIKE HIS AGENDA, now will toughen his tone, not do a “reset” and keep on pushing his radical agenda.

Obama is your standard leftist adolescent. You don’t like what I just did? Watch while I do it ten times more! Nyah Nyah Nyah.

Never had to get a job. Pampered through years of schooling he probably didn’t qualify for (don’t argue, show me the transcripts and LSATs)

I can’t seriously believe we have to have 3 more years of this pre-adolescent irresponsible naif as president.

And we have Democrats,[…]

Economic Idea and Suggestion

We have a problem in earnings disparity that, it seems, the market is not able to resolve on its own, but that nonetheless is bad for the country.

I believe strongly in the private sector, but just as regulation would have prevented the current financial meltdown, this kind of regulation - which is not capping pay, just forcing the private sector to be reasonable when we ALL know it’s gone ‘way past reasonable in the past few decades ($500,000,000 to Michael Milliken for ONE year?) - would help to ameliorate seriously ridiculous earnings disparity. This would be good for our Republic.

This[…]

Our Car Industry - a Brit POV

You know how sometimes one short, well-written sentence can encapsulate an entire issue?

Here’s a phrase - just a part of a sentence - from the Telegraph (UK) today that does just that.

“… while Mr Obama seems far more interested in squandering taxpayers’ money on America’s largely pointless and sick car industry.”

Can’t improve on that.

Anatomy Of a Failing Presidency

This is the most comprehensive, yet concise, column on Obama that I have seen.

Anatomy of a Failing Presidency

By Gazette Staff Writer — Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt

Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we’ve seen several failed presidencies–led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait– they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in[…]

Public Sector Unions: Compatible with our Constitution?

Daniel Henninger has an excellent column in today’s WSJ. The net is that Public Sector unions, signed into being by JFK via Executive Order, are bankrupting the country and are nothing more than dues machines for the Democrat party. (You may need a subscription to read the column.)

People need to think about the rationale for unions, the purpose of American government, and decide what they think is right, because these unions basically are unaccountable to the Public they purport to serve, and are a penalty on Americans that is bankrupting the States one-at-a-time.

The purpose of a union is to represent labor[…]

Yet Another (unneeded) Example of the Totalitarianism of the Left

Yep - one ALWAYS can count on the Left to ignore the will of the people in their quest for totalitarian rule.

Here’s a column on TNR suggesting what “should” be done if (when) Coakley loses.

Summary? Ignore the voters and do it anyway. Use some gimmicks to do an end-run around the just-expressed will of the people Congress is SUPPOSED to represent.

Any more questions about the totalitarianism of the Left?

Update on Brown v Coakley in MA

BTW - IF you haven’t yet donated to Brown, please do here. Thanks.

And there are reports coming from MA that, if Brown wins, the State and/or the Senate will delay his swearing-in until after the vote on Obamacare:

BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts’s top election official says it could take weeks to certify the results of the upcoming U.S. Senate special election. That delay could let President Barack Obama preserve a key 60th vote

This would be hard to believe except for the fact that it is the MA Secretary of State saying it, and the MA Dems did an end-run around the same rules in 2007 in[…]

Steele & the GOP: A Suggestion

The GOP base is angry at the GOP National Chairman, Michael Steele. There are many good reasons for this, but it’s hard to see how this shouting match can help the GOP right now.

Steele, angrily defending himself (if not his actions), has told the GOP that , if they don’t like what he’s doing, fire him.

This comment sounds eminently reasonable. If you think something’s bad – do something about it – or not. But if you aren’t going to do something about it, whining makes no sense and should be left to Liberals.

There is a third choice here: Help the[…]