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There has been much justified lamentation about the taxpayers funding Hank and Ben’s Excellent Adventure. But seeing as we’re now a debtor nation (soon, perhaps, to finally realize the consequences of that) the question who pays for it–as in who’s willing to pay for it–hasn’t really been asked amid all the grim and serious grandstanding. [...]
Filed under: Economics
McCain’s “bold” attempt to change the playing field by “postponing” his campaign so he can help negotiate a “bipartisan” bail-out plan (his statement announcing this selfless entreaty managed to invoke 9/11 and patriotism in one breath; Rudy would be proud) has been called out by pundits as a naked attempt to reverse his sliding poll [...]
Filed under: Election
You may have noticed that there have been no posts @TAC today. This is because, out of respect for the economic crisis, we have decided to suspend all blogging. This is no time for politics.
P.S. Not really.
Filed under: Announcements
Regarding George Will’s welcome broadside on the Straight-Jacket Express that Leon Hadar brought up, even when Will’s right, he’s wrong:
It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency.
Some of us believe McCain is clearly unsuited for the presidency and no more due to “moralism”, boiling or tepid, [...]
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal has Alan Pell Crawford’s a review of Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet by Bill Kauffman:
In “Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet,” a short and engaging biography of Luther Martin (1748-1826), Bill Kauffman shows us a sot, a quarrelsome bore, a butcher of the English language, an outspoken abolitionist who himself owned slaves — and [...]
Filed under: Books
In his column today, “McCain Loses His Head,” Will writes that McCain is “behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high,” that he makes comments “furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts,” that his “childish reflex” demonstrates that he is “disconnected from knowledge and principle,” that “an old antagonism” is [...]
Filed under: Election
Glad to read that even members of the corporate press have limits. Earlier today, according to ABC News, the networks revolted over the McCain campaign’s attempt to waltz Sarah Palin in and out of grip-and-grins with world leaders without having to face any fall-out from what she might say. The situation was resolved, but not [...]
Filed under: Election
Michael Brendan Dougherty brings to my attention this George Will column, and particularly this striking passage:
The political left always aims to expand the permeation of economic life by politics. Today, the efficient means to that end is government control of capital. So, is not McCain’s party now conducting the most leftist administration in American history? [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
In an interview with Michael Krasny on KQED in San Francisco, Christopher Buckley reveals why he will probably be voting for Obama in November (h/t United Liberty):
I’ve read Obama’s books, and I have been struck by how good a writer he is. I would be tempted to vote for him on those grounds alone, because [...]
I’ve been reading several commentaries drawing parallels between Bush’s old request from Congress to provide his first Alpha Male (“Rummy”) with an authority to attack Iraq and his new request that Congress allow his new Alpha Male (“Hank”) to spend US 700 billion — probably US 1 trillion — for bailing-out Wall Street.
The parallels between 9/11 and 9/15 (the day [...]
Filed under: Economics, Foreign policy