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Reasons for Republicans to be Thankful
Jennifer Rubin offers some Thanksgiving cheer at Pajamas Media. I don’t agree with every word of her post, but I love these parts: First, President-elect Barack Obama won by assuring voters he would pursue tax…
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Mr. Obama: Declare War on Rube Goldberg
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins identifies the key culprit in the current economic woes. It’s not Hank Paulson or Hank Greenberg or Stan O’Neal or even George Bush. The most formidable enemy of…
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The Perils of Blogging
Like many (most?) bloggers, I crave a bigger audience, and I thought I had found a gambit that might tempt James Taranto to link to me from his “Best of the Web Today.” Yesterday’s BotWT…
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A Not-So-Simple Question: How Many Countries Is Citigroup "In"?
Many, many people spent a busy weekend hammering out the details of the government rescue of Citigroup that was announced last night. The rescue clearly is a Portentous Event, so I went searching this morning…
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Quote of the Day
The internets are a-twitter with news that the Detroit automakers flew on private corporate jets to argue for bailouts in front of Congressional committees in Washington. “There’s a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets…
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A Disconnect in Romney’s Plan for Reviving the Auto Industry
Former presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has an op-ed in today’s New York Times titled “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.” His prescription for saving American automakers through Chapter 11 begins with these two steps: First, their huge…
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Bankruptcy is the Right Medicine for Automakers
Look at the bright side – GM stock only has $3 farther to fall. (From Yahoo Finance) The more I read and think about a potential further bailout of the auto industry, the nuttier the…
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Obama Cyber-Ironies: The YouTube President May Give Up Email
Yesterday, Barack Obama used YouTube to deliver the Democrats’ response to President Bush’s weekly radio address. Obama, who took full advantage of the power of the internet in his successful campaign, plans as President to…
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Bailouts: Further Down the Slippery Slope
David Brooks makes the case against an auto industry bailout more eloquently than I did: A Detroit bailout would set a precedent for every single politically connected corporation in America. There already is a long…
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It’s a Bad Idea to Ridicule Others (They May Be Right)
Via Andrew Sullivan, a video showing how Peter Schiff, a.k.a. “permabear” and “Dr. Doom,” was subjected to an extraordinary level of derision on cable business programs last year as he correctly forecast the coming economic…
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McCain Gets More Gay Votes Than Bush
I meant to follow up in a more timely way on an earlier post about the conservative gay vote. From that earlier post: Along the same lines, I also want to note estimates that nearly…
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The Slippery Slope of Government Bailouts
Stephen Bainbridge has done the best job I’ve seen of describing why bailing out the U.S. automobile industry — as proposed by Congressional Democratic leaders — would be a terrible mistake. Point by point he…
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Next Up: Obama Derangement Syndrome
As I was writing yesterday about Bush Derangement Syndrome, Pajamas Media was preparing to post an article by Neo-neocon entitled “Avoiding the Clutches of Obama Derangement Syndrome.” Sage advice, as usual: Yes, there are reasons…
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Bush Derangement Syndrome and the Surge
Peter Wehner, writing in Commentary, does the best job I have seen of chronicling the sordid history of liberal opposition to the surge. For paragraph after relentless paragraph he replays the mockery from the left,…
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Krauthammer Explains the Election
I’ve argued before that it is deeply ironic that the financial crisis benefited the Democrats this year, since the Democrats drove the reckless expansion of access to mortgages that led to the crisis, while Republicans…
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Evidence That Obama May Not Be a Socialist
Here’s hoping that whatever socialist tendencies President-elect Obama may have will be tempered by recognition of the success of his remarkably entrepreneurial, decentralized campaign. Bret Swanson floats this idea in today’s WSJ (free link), in…
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A McCain Voter Finds Silver Linings
Differences on policy issues should not, on this day, obscure the marvel that has occurred. A man who in his early childhood could not use certain public restrooms has just been elected to the most…
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My President… America’s President
Godspeed, Mr. Obama. From The Book of Common Prayer, p. 390: For the peace of the world, that a spirit of respect and forbearance may grow among nations and peoples, we pray to you, O…
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Impish Election Fantasy
(AP Photo) Am I the only person tempted to buy a home in Dixville Notch, NH, and then insist on my right to vote in the afternoon? Obama 15, McCain 6 — the first time…
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Purple Finger Majesties
The Web Goddess and I got up early this morning to perform our solemn civic duty of canceling each other out at the election booth. The polls in New Jersey nominally open at 6 a.m.,…
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Endorsement: Vote for McCain…
… and pray for his continued good health. I guess if I want to be a titan of the blogosphere I should take this more seriously, but I’m tired of the damned election. Even the…