Has Tea Party Gone Overboard?
Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell upset Republican establishment fave Mike Castle in the Delaware U.S. Senate primary. The Tea Party says it’s about more than winning elections. Establishment GOP bigwig, Karl Rove, says that’s a good thing because they just blew their chance of taking the Senate in November. Here’s Karen Tumulty’s story in the Washington Post.
Here’s Rich Lowry calling the Tea Party as much a revolt against the GOP establishment, that blew it last time they had power, as it is against Dem policy.
And here’s Krauthammer channeling William F. Buckley on behalf of the establishment.
Scrap Stimulus
Demand is up for used cars because people are poorer. Supply is down because last year’s Cash for Clunkers program turned used cars into scrap. The scrapped used car market was, according to George Will, “an important mechanism for redistributing wealth to low income persons”. In the Boston Globe, Jeff Jacoby sums up the program as, “a deplorable exercise in budgetary wastefulness, asset destruction, environmental irrelevance, and economic idiocy”.
Never Mind
Fidel Castro on 50 years of the Cuban Collective – Never Mind! It may work for Michael Moore, but Castro offhandedly commented, “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore”. Here’s Jeffry Goldberg’s Lunch with Fidel in “The Atlantic”.
Oops. Here’s an update. Fidel now says, “when I say the Cuban model doesn’t work for us anymore I mean that the capitalist model doesn’t work for the U.S. anymore”. Never Mind.
Higher Office
Now that Mayor Daley has announced his retirement Rahm Emanual may be the first to abandon ship. Here’s a June 20 Telegraph story anticipating his desire to depart Obama’s “idealistic inner circle”. Or as Rahm would say, “f-ing retards“.
Burning Issue
Pyro Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fl wants to flaunt his religious freedom by firing up a few Korans on September 11. Mayor Bloomberg, in the New York Post, defends the Rev’s right to do it on the same grounds he insists the Ground Zero Mosque must be built. Maybe Bloomberg was motivated by this Ann Coulter piece singing him for hipocrisy – or maybe Ann missed the Post story.
