Losing Streisand?

NRO ^ | 07/07/2010 | Jonah Goldberg

[OldDeckHand]

Lloyd Grove at the DB writing from the Aspen Ideas thingamajig where Obama's economic policies are apparently being lambasted by Niall Ferguson and Mort Zuckerman:

“We are, without question, in a period of decline, particularly in the business world,” Zuckerman said. “The real problem we have…are some of the worst economic policies in place today that, in my judgment, go directly against the long-term interests of this country.”

Zuckerman added that he detects in the Obama White House “hostility to the very kinds of [business] culture that have made this the great country that it is and was. I think we have to find some way of dealing with that or else we will do great damage to this country with a public policy that could ruin everything.

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Ferguson called for what he called “radical” measures. “I can’t emphasize strongly enough the need for radical fiscal reform to restore the incentives for work and remove the incentives for idleness.” He praised “really radical reform of the sort that, for example, Paul Ryan [the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee] has outlined in his wonderful ‘Roadmap’ for radical, root-and-branch reform not only of the tax system but of the entitlement system” and “unleash entrepreneurial innovation.” Otherwise, Ferguson warned: “Do you want to be a kind of implicit part of the European Union? I’d advise you against it.”

This was greeted by hearty applause from a crowd that included Barbra Streisand and her husband James Brolin. “Depressing, but fantastic,” Streisand told me afterward, rendering her verdict on the session. “So exciting. Wonderful!”

Brolin’s assessment: “Mind-blowing.”

[DoughtyOne]

I agree...

So have I.

[soozer47]

I figured Babs got a good look at her stock portfolio and county tax bill.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

This was greeted by hearty applause from a crowd that included Barbra Streisand and her husband James Brolin. “Depressing, but fantastic,” Streisand told me afterward, rendering her verdict on the session. “So exciting. Wonderful!”

Brolin’s assessment: “Mind-blowing.”

This would be interesting and funny if we could assume Streisand and Brolin actually understood what they were hearing. Instead it's just kind of sad. I'd guess their view of Ferguson's speech would have been far more negative if it hadn't been delivered via an American accent rather than Ferguson's Scottish accent.

[MNnice]

Babs is such a racist!

[libs_kma]

"Maybe she is just too dumb to know that the hell the speaker was really talking about."

The absolutely most logical explanation....I don't for one minute believe that lefty loons like Streisand and Brolin think that any conservative thinking is good for the Country.