Category Archives: Government
Newt Loot
As surprise front-runner Newt Gingrich begins unpacking his baggage in Iowa the first item up for inspection is his $1.8 million dollar punched ticket on the Freddie Mac gravy train.
The figures in the chart for Franklin Raines and James Johnson are from IBD. Gorelick’s $26 mil came from CNSnews.
We Are Not Worthy
Obama thinks you’re soft and lazy. Once again you have let him down. Or, as Rich Lowry puts it, “The president’s “lazy” comment is one of a series of remarks carrying an undercurrent of disapproval of the country he is so luckless to govern.”
Back in September Shelby Steele looked at the bigger picture by examining Obama’s distaste for American exceptionalism. Steele defines exceptionalism as the result of a “difficult rigor” based on individual initiative and responsibility.
“Anti-exceptionalism has clearly shaped his “leading from behind” profile abroad—an offer of self-effacement to offset the presumed American evil of swaggering cowboyism”
“At home the values that made us exceptional have been smeared with derision.”
“As a president, Barack Obama has been a force for mediocrity. He has banked more on the hopeless interventions of government than on the exceptionalism of the people. His greatest weakness as a president is a limp confidence in his countrymen. He is afraid to ask difficult things of them.”
In other words he’s just not that into you.
Super Savers
Issue 2 Dead in Ohio
Voters in Ohio supported public employee unions by voting “no” on issue 2 (a referendum on anti-union senate bill 5) by a 2 to 1 margin. It was a ringing endorsement of cops and firefighters. Teachers, not so much. More than half the school levies in the state failed.
