Tag: qotd

#rsrh QotD, He Said It, Not Me Edition.

Not that I disagree that the relationship between the Democrats (not just the President) and business (and not just business!) can be adequately mapped out using battered-wife syndrome as an analogy; but it’s usually not polite to use that analogy in public.  However, hedge-fund operators like Daniel Loeb (major Obama bundler in 2008) apparently feel less… constrained.

“I am sure, if we are really nice and stay quiet, everything will be alright and the president will become more centrist and that all his tough talk is just words,” Mr. Loeb wrote in an email about four months ago expressing frustration with the president’s posture toward Wall Street. “I mean, he really loves us and when he beats us, he doesn’t mean it.”

The hedge fund industry pumped a lot of money into Democratic coffers in ’08: I’m getting the impression that Obama’s going to miss it in ’12.  And their bundlers.  And their downticket support, particularly in New York (Gilibrand’s going to be up for re-election; hopefully, this time we’ll be taking the election more seriously this time).  And yes, you can tell that I am totally broken up about this.

#rsrh QotD, Charming Naivete Edition.

Jim Geraghty’s usually more clear-headed than this (background here and here: essentially, the Democrats are apparently recruiting retired General Ricardo Sanchez for TX-SEN, which is kind of awkward, given how they kept accusing him of war crimes and everything):

it seems unlikely that Republicans would try to use the Abu Ghraib issue against Sanchez in a Senate election.

Um.  It’s Texas.  The place that came up with the Pigf*cker Gambit*.  Bringing up the inconvenient fact that the same people boosting Sanchez now are the same people braying for his blood during the Bush administration is a trivial exercise in comparison…

Moe Lane

*Supposedly, LBJ in a Congressional race one told his campaign manager to spread around the rumor that his opponent was a known, well, pigf*cker.  His campaign manager protested that LBJ himself knew that this rumor was blatantly untrue.  LBJ happily acknowledged that – but he wanted it done anyway, simply to get his opponent to publicly deny the charge.

#rsrh QotD, Crazy Man Farrakhan is the Administration’s Problem edition.

The Chicago Sun-Times is far too polite to and about the doddering racist, though:

Farrakhan gave several reasons why the U.S. lacks the moral authority to intervene in the Libyan conflict, including the deaths of black people at the hands of law enforcement during the Rodney King protests in 1991 and the unhealthy food that the federal government allows into the marketplace.

…if for no other reason than the fact that ‘the Rodney King protests’ should be more accurately described as ‘the LA Riot.’ If you’re wondering about how people died there, Jim Crogan did a ten-year retrospective*; suffice it to say that Farrakhan is being considerably… ‘nuanced’ is nicer, but ‘mendacious’ is more accurate.  Either way, every so often you have to remind people that, yes, people like Farrakhan are out there and apparently welcome to speak at Left-events without fear of embarrassment for anybody.  But, hey!  Let the Obama administration worry about it now!

Moe Lane

PS: And, oh yes, Obama is our first Jewish President and was picked by shadowy Jewish leaders.  (sigh) The tertiary phase of conspiracy theorizing is never pretty.

*And if you’re wondering what happened to those two guys most well-known for rushing in and saving people from mob violence (thus making them much, much better people than Farrakhan)… well, Rev. Benny Newton tragically passed away a couple of years later, but Bobby Green got the hell out of LA.

QotD, Not Quite Safe For RedState Edition.

My bolding at the end: it’s from The American Interest’s (via Jim Geraghty) unhappy assessment of the mess in Libya that we seem to have stumbled into.

As I have said, a Qaddafi left armed and dangerous when the dust settles is an unacceptable outcome. Civilian planes will likely start failing out the sky, as did the one over Lockerbie; assassination attempts will multiply, like the attempted Libyan-backed murder of the Saudi king in 2003; al-Qaeda and affiliates might be aided and abetted to do Lord-knows-what to the Italians, the French, the British and, of course, to us. With nothing to lose, and way beyond the threshold of worrying about sanctions and such, Qaddafi could well become more dangerous than ever. If I were Silvio Berlusconi, in particular, I’d pick my future whorehouses with extreme care.

President Obama, by the way, should be thanking God every night that the Right is still largely willing to say “we seem to have stumbled into,” and not “he seems.”  But fair warning: we’re not the Activist Left.  If the Democrats try to use the belt on us in the same way that the Democrats routinely use the belt on them… well, they won’t try that trick twice.

Moe Lane

#RSRH QotD, A Heck Of A Thing To Hope For edition.

Glenn Reynolds, on whether the post-tsunami nuclear reactor problems in Japan will affect nuclear power development (such as it is) in the USA:

[T]his is a good argument for the several newer, inherently-safe nuclear designs. The good news: General Electric, which is joined at the hip to the Obama Administration, is big in the nuclear business. So corruption and interest may do the work that should be done by sound policy here…

Well, you go to establish energy independence with the President that you have, not the President that you want.

#RSRH Quote of the day, Wish I Had Written That edition.

Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt reader Matt F, on the sudden (and highly entertaining) end to the Democrats’ ongoing petulant whine in Wisconsin:

WI Senate Majority Leader Fitzgerald Unleashes the ‘Cee Lo Green’ Option in Standoff

That’s good.  Even if I don’t dare link to an unexpurgated version of that song.

Moe Lane

PS: The Corner has an entry on the nature of the CLG Option.  Short version: the Democrats told the Republicans that there would be no further negotiations; the Republicans said “Fine” and took the bill to the floor; and the Democrats were left looking stunned, stammering, and standing there with their naughty bits in their hands.

Oops?

#rsrh QotD, The Ref Should Have Stopped That Powerline/TP Fight edition.

Power Line (and Claremont fellow!*) contributor John Hinderaker, in the process of casually dismembering the latest attempt by Think Progress to justify its subsidizing by the Left** (hint: research groups should, you know, do research):

Here is the conclusion of Fang’s attack on me:

Asked about his failure to disclose his firm’s financial relationship with Koch, Hinderaker told ThinkProgress’ Scott Keyes today that he has no comment.

Sorry, kid, you better go listen to the tape. (Midway through the conversation I asked Keyes whether he was taping it. He said that he was. Keyes did not disclose that he was recording the conversation until I asked him point-blank.) What I actually said to Keyes was not “no comment.” I told him that I would be delighted to give him an interview, as long as I can also interview Lee Fang. Keyes seemed taken aback, and asked what I wanted to question Fang about. I told him that I wanted to ask Fang why he never mentions Wal-Mart, and whether it is because Wal-Mart donated $500,000 to the group that owns Think Progress. I said I had lots more questions, too. Curiously enough, Keyes wasn’t excited about the prospect of turning Lee Fang over to me for an interview. I told him that I would be happy to answer his questions, as soon as Think Progress makes Fang available to answer mine. The offer still stands.

Don’t wait up for them to take you up on it, John.

Moe Lane Continue reading #rsrh QotD, The Ref Should Have Stopped That Powerline/TP Fight edition.

QotD, KFTC*, John Dickerson edition.

It is an epic day when Teh Stoopid of a post is so encapsulated in a subtitle that you feel no further need to read further.  Take it away, John Dickerson:

Obama’s spending plan is so timid, he must be working on a smarter plan we don’t know about.

[pause]

I repeat: KFTC, John.  Meanwhile, here’s Megan McArdle, who was originally going to have the Quote of the Day until I read Dickerson’s stupidity:

I was a laconic hawk when the deficits shot up in 2008, 2009, 2010.  A few years of deficits in an unprecedented crisis weren’t going to kill us; we had time to get them under control.

But I’m starting to think that it’s time to panic.

Oh, boy.

Moe Lane

*The explanation for that acronym is not safe for work, but may be found here (also NSFW).

#rsrh QotD, …”DAVID FRUM?” edition.

Yup. David Frum. On the recent obnoxiousness where a Switzerland trip by former President Bush got canceled due to death/arrest threats:

…for those inclined to enjoy the mischief: Just wait until somebody serves an arrest warrant in Luxembourg on ex-President Obama for ordering all those drone strikes on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Again, yup. Because that will happen, folks. If you think that the international ‘peace’ movement likes the current American President – any American President – think again.

(Via Hot Air Headlines)

Moe Lane

PS: If this ever does happen, with any former American President, let me be blunt: whichever American President is in office at the time will be faced with a choice. He or she can either retrieve the former President in question by any means necessary, or he or she can be the involuntary field test subject for the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

And don’t think that the second option is not an option.