It looks like the Obama’s weekly rental at Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark, Martha’s Vineyard cost somewhere between $35-50K.
Meanwhile back in the real world, the New Republic asks: Is There Anything That Can Be Done?
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
What Can be Done - On Vacation?
It looks like the Obama’s weekly rental at Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark, Martha’s Vineyard cost somewhere between $35-50K.
http://www.plumtv.com/blogs/vineyard-insider/the-obamas-to-vacation-on-the-vineyard/index.html
Meanwhile back in the real world, the New Republic asks: Is There Anything That Can Be Done?
http://www.tnr.com/article/economy/93966/tnr-symposium-economy
http://www.plumtv.com/blogs/vineyard-insider/the-obamas-to-vacation-on-the-vineyard/index.html
Meanwhile back in the real world, the New Republic asks: Is There Anything That Can Be Done?
http://www.tnr.com/article/economy/93966/tnr-symposium-economy
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
EJ Dionne's Distorted View of Reality
Perhaps it's projection. Maybe it's partisan rhetoric. Maybe from the hole Dionne views the world from, reality really is distorted and he is only calling things as he (mistakenly) sees them.
Can America still lead?
By E.J. Dionne Jr., Published: August 7
The first week of August 2011 will be remembered as a singularly irrational, wasteful and shameful moment in the political and economic history of the United States. It reflected much of what is wrong with the priorities of our political elites and the obsessions of those who now hold effective veto power over our government.
Does anyone else find it curious that Dionne believes that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and 60 Members of the House of Representatives are NOT part of "our government". Sort of makes me wonder who "our" refers to.
It began with the world hanging on to every development in the debt-ceiling negotiations as it fretted over whether Washington’s dysfunction would lead to American default and global calamity. Even robustly pro-American commentators and politicians wondered aloud if the United States could still govern itself.
Sentient Americans have long wondered if the United States had ceased governing themselves. Clearly, Dionne mistakes the malfeasance of the tools currently mucking up the works as the United States. He fails to realize that DC is NOT a state itself and that its denizens don't constitute the United States. Likewise, he confused a default of the central government's debt to be identical with "American default".
And it goes on from there. I haven't the time to correct every disconnected line - which is almost every line in the piece.
Can America still lead?
By E.J. Dionne Jr., Published: August 7
The first week of August 2011 will be remembered as a singularly irrational, wasteful and shameful moment in the political and economic history of the United States. It reflected much of what is wrong with the priorities of our political elites and the obsessions of those who now hold effective veto power over our government.
Does anyone else find it curious that Dionne believes that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and 60 Members of the House of Representatives are NOT part of "our government". Sort of makes me wonder who "our" refers to.
It began with the world hanging on to every development in the debt-ceiling negotiations as it fretted over whether Washington’s dysfunction would lead to American default and global calamity. Even robustly pro-American commentators and politicians wondered aloud if the United States could still govern itself.
Sentient Americans have long wondered if the United States had ceased governing themselves. Clearly, Dionne mistakes the malfeasance of the tools currently mucking up the works as the United States. He fails to realize that DC is NOT a state itself and that its denizens don't constitute the United States. Likewise, he confused a default of the central government's debt to be identical with "American default".
And it goes on from there. I haven't the time to correct every disconnected line - which is almost every line in the piece.
Monday, August 8, 2011
What China thinks about the debt ceiling debate
Niall Ferguson is maybe the smartest guy at Harvard: "China has its own economic problems, to be sure. But they are the problems of a rising power. From Beijing’s standpoint, America’s problems are plainly those of a power in decline. We didn’t just raise a ceiling last week. In Chinese eyes, we also fell through a floor."
Read the whole article.
Then read what Janet Daley thinks in the Daily Telegraph
"Contrary to what the Obama Democrats claimed, the face-off in Congress did not mean that the nation’s politics were “dysfunctional”. The politics of the US were functioning precisely as the Founding Fathers intended: the legislature was acting as a check on the power of the executive."
The orderly chaos within the Rule of Law of American politics is far better - morally, economically and in every other way - than the chaotic order under the Rule of Men operative in Communist China. The opinions of the president, Tom Friedman and Van Johnson notwithstanding.
Read the whole article.
Then read what Janet Daley thinks in the Daily Telegraph
"Contrary to what the Obama Democrats claimed, the face-off in Congress did not mean that the nation’s politics were “dysfunctional”. The politics of the US were functioning precisely as the Founding Fathers intended: the legislature was acting as a check on the power of the executive."
The orderly chaos within the Rule of Law of American politics is far better - morally, economically and in every other way - than the chaotic order under the Rule of Men operative in Communist China. The opinions of the president, Tom Friedman and Van Johnson notwithstanding.
How is defending a 100 year-old bad idea "Progressive"?
Michael Barone says: "
"The progressive ideal of administrative cadres leading the masses toward the light has its roots in a time when many Americans had an eighth-grade education or less," Mead writes. That is still the mindset of the Obama Democrats. Ordinary people are treated as victims who need government programs like Obamacare to help them out.
But Americans prefer to see themselves as doers rather than victims. They do not see themselves, as the masses in the Progressive Era a century ago may have done, as helpless victims of large corporations and financial interests.
They want public policies that enable them to earn success, and they resent policies that channel money to the politically well positioned or to those who have not made decisions and taken actions necessary for earned success. They want to be empowered, not patronized.
That's why voters here and, as Greenberg notes, in other advanced countries are rejecting policies that give more power to the mandarins who run government and provide less leeway for ordinary people to work for earn success."
"The progressive ideal of administrative cadres leading the masses toward the light has its roots in a time when many Americans had an eighth-grade education or less," Mead writes. That is still the mindset of the Obama Democrats. Ordinary people are treated as victims who need government programs like Obamacare to help them out.
But Americans prefer to see themselves as doers rather than victims. They do not see themselves, as the masses in the Progressive Era a century ago may have done, as helpless victims of large corporations and financial interests.
They want public policies that enable them to earn success, and they resent policies that channel money to the politically well positioned or to those who have not made decisions and taken actions necessary for earned success. They want to be empowered, not patronized.
That's why voters here and, as Greenberg notes, in other advanced countries are rejecting policies that give more power to the mandarins who run government and provide less leeway for ordinary people to work for earn success."
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Truly Carteresque
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
"The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19 "
There remains the 25% who don't know enough to disapprove of his performance.
"The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19 "
There remains the 25% who don't know enough to disapprove of his performance.
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