DIGGING DEEP: Very Important Rasmussen poll about the Political Class
There’s the political class, then there’s everyone else.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/may_2010/72_are_not_confident_congress_knows_what_it_s_doing_when_it_comes_to_the_economy
...An overwhelming majority (88%) of the Political Class are confident in members of Congress to handle current economic problems. Nine-two percent (92%) of Mainstream voters don’t share that confidence...
THE ANCHORESS ON TOM FRIEDMAN:
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2010/05/24/the-privileged-call-for-limited-dictatorships
“Every murderous totalitarian government of the 20th century began with some insulated group of faux-intellectuals congratulating each other on how smart they are, and fantasizing about how, if they could just install a dictatorship-for-a-day, they could right all the wrongs in the world.” [snip]
Thomas Sowell: Today’s ubiquitous scapegoating
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=158157
Pat Buchanan: The war over America’s past
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=158209
Obama-nomics & a Gas Tax [for Obama’s Oil Spill failure]
Dem Congress Jumps Into Action… Will Quadruple Gas Tax After Gulf Oil Spill
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/dem-congress-jumps-into-action-will-quadruple-gas-tax-to-pay-for-oil-spills
House to vote on raising the oil tax
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2520745/posts
Dow plunges 200+ points in first 2 minutes; Falls below 10,000...
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/100525/us_wall_street.html
World stocks plummet on renewed Europe fears...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100525/D9FTON500.html
Gold Rising; Speculators buying faster than producers can mine...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a6f.XxAJB0Rc
Sen. Gregg: Financial Reform Bill Is ‘Disaster’...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/37314297
California Dems Unveil Tax-Increase Package...
http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USN2427330520100524
“But then the equally mediocre Tom born-wealthy-high-carbon-footprint-lover-of-Chinese-Communist-Capitalism-I’ve-got-mine-you-should-not-have-yours Friedman let fly with this on Meet the Press:
I have fantasized–don’t get me wrong–but that what if we could just be China for a day? I mean, just, just, just one day. You know, I mean, where we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions, and I do think there is a sense of that, on, on everything from the economy to environment. I don’t want to be China for a second, OK, I want my democracy to work with the same authority, focus and stick-to-itiveness. But right now we have a system that can only produce suboptimal solutions.
To which Andrea even-more-privileged-than-you-Tom Mitchell chimed in: “
I’m sure that the Chi-Coms got them a suite at the Hotel Beijing, and fed them the finest food.
Now, put them in a factory or a sweatshop for 5 dollars a day, and see how these pampered fools like it.