Category Archives: Government
Run For It
Rather than Winning the Future, Obama refuses to Lose the Past. At least that’s the way Rich Lowry sees it.
In a noisome bit of body-snatching, the Madison protesters associate themselves with the demonstrators in Egypt. If we must use Egypt analogies, this has it backward. Tapping into new technologies empowering individuals, the anti-Mubarak protesters overthrew a sclerotic political system that no longer fit the times. In their aims, the anti-Walker throngs are more like Egypt’s counterdemonstrators who rode in on camels to try to save a decrepit, 30-year-old political dispensation.
Teachers Union Goes Greek
States are broke and teachers think they want to break their unions. Wisconsin teachers took a sick-out from school to protest. A few took an additional sick-out from civility to compare Governor Scott Walker to Hitler.
High Speed Wail
Alan Simpson called the deficit a “stink bomb in the garden party”. The Obama budget went for the only thing more dear to liberals than bicycle paths – high speed rail. Robert Samuelson says this stink bomb would cost $500 billion over 25 years. I don’t know – less than a trillion sounds cheap these days.
Date Night on the Ship of State
Got the idea for this from Kevin O’Brien in the Plain Dealer.
“Cocktails on the Lido Deck at 7. Scuba gear is mandatory.”
