Every time the American public is volunteered to bailout industries that it has stopped buying voluntarily.
Next up – the leftist newspapers who’ve failed with lobbyists, corporations and us.
‘Washington Post Scraps Plans For Salons After Uproar’
By Peter Nicholas for The Los Angeles Times.
Ever since a 2005 ban on Congressional Junkets funded by lobbyists – the cost of Congressional travel has increased 70% - only now it’s funded by taxpayers.
Don’t CEO’s at least pay their own bills Nancy?
‘Congress’s Travel Tab Swells’
By Brody Mullins and T. W. Farnam for The Wall Street Journal.
Thank You HopelessRomantic27
The whisper/lecture/media campaign by Obama Administration fellow-travelers to get elected President Asif Ali Zardari ousted in favor of unelected but preferred diplomatic cocktail party favorite Nawaz Sharif has hit a new low.
Painting President Zardari as an ineffective playboy while he led 135,000 troops into the Swat Valley in a full frontal assault on the Taliban proved ineffective for real so America’s doltish intelligentsia is now criticizing President Zardari for “biting off more than he can chew” as his nation’s army prepares to move on Ayman al Zawahiri and his Taliban hosts in Waziristan.
So now the party line has been changed to ‘Zardari is going to be a failure because he’s doing everything he promised to do.’
(Funny how that similarity to President George Walker Bush sticks in the craw of our domestic intellectual betters.)
Rather than argue with success (oh wait … that’s the sum of his political ideology) why doesn’t President Obama cut his losses already and take credit for the success of President Zardari.
Like he’s done with every single other foreign policy success of President George Walker Bush –
Is President Zardari’s real charisma that big a threat to our insecure President that he can’t?
‘Pakistan’s Assault On Taliban May Not Meet U.S. Goals’
By James Rupert for Bloomberg.
Just one more person tasked with keeping Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s hands free so she can hold people’s coats?
‘McKinney Held In Israel To Be Returned To U.S.’
In CNN.
Chip Reid of CBS News and Helen Thomas.
(Although at this late a date it can less be described as the White House Press Corp going through puberty and more akin to it undergoing a sex change operation …)
To Robert Gibbs on President Obama’s … ah, Potemkin Village proclivities.
Chip Reid of CBS: “… The concept of a Town Hall is, I think, to have an open public forum and this sounds like a tightly controlled audience and list of questions. Why do it that way? … This is an open public forum for the general public but its not really open.”
Helen Thomas: “I’m amazed at you people who called for openness and transparency and have controlled …”
Chip Reid: “Even if you get a tough question it’s a tough question from someone who was invited or was screened.”
Robert Gibbs: “We’ve had this discussion ad naseum.”
Helen Thomas: “Of course you have because you don’t have any answers.”
Thank You NewsPoliticsNews
Who has placed himself in the Senate.
Thank You Veracifier
‘Franken Says I’m Not Going To Waste This Chance’
By Brian Bakst for The Associated Press.
From now on the Obama Administration will refer to the U.S. Troops still in Iraq as ‘Military Advisors’. So we can all relax now!
‘Iraq: 35 Dead After Kirkuk Car Bombing’
In CNN.
Thank You Associated Press
Hey Republicans – Would Al Franken have conceded this easily if the situation had been reversed?
On the bright side we’ll all get to blame Al Frankin too for the hideous mess the Democrats are in the process of reaping on the country.