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The DoD Sham Budget Dog And Pony Show
The Obama Administration’s apparent agreement to shield current DoD bloat at essentially a 1% annual level while proclaiming dramatic cuts is chutzpah even for them. Given our general fiscal collapse, Obama’s proposed budget is actually just a pre-emptive token for political optics. This budget preserves intact the perpetual militarization launched by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. [...]
If It’s Sunday, It’s Meet The Shoe
If it’s Sunday in Baghdad, it’s Meet The Shoe. Take notes Gregory. After your listless, soporific debut, you may want to stash some Reeboks under the desk. Whether for you to toss or more mercifully for your guests to pummel you and inject some kinetic energy. And Cheney tells ABC that the Administration would have [...]
Not With A Bang But A Boomer Marketing Pitch
Oh fool to hold out hope. Sat down eagerly for “The Company” tonite. Previous installments promised a loose grasp of history and a firm grip on pacing and aesthetics. (The Stiftung adored the T-54, T-55 and T-34s). Yet who spiked the Evian on the set? One almost expected Pauley Shore and Adam Sandler [...]
What Obama Said At West Point Worth Noting
Obama’s address to the Army cadets offered the usual laudatory references to American military’s greatness and history. Including the ‘I’m your commander-in-chief but really ok guy’ jokes. Naturally, Obama’s omission of Wolfowitzian unilateral, unchallenged American power gets pundits’ tongues wagging. His embrace of diplomacy as a much needed option for exhausted recourse to military action [...]
Hey – we see some pushback against Colin Powell on some liberal blogs like Digby and Somerby.
Powell’s brand scrubbers have been working overtime lately – Powell’s commodity value is still very high – His endorsement of Obama – perfectly timed – was delivered when it was all but certain Obama would win, but distant enough to make it seem to have an effect.
We have little doubt that Powell would have (somewhat reluctantly) endorse McCain if McCain was a shoo-in or Obama was tanking.
Hey – that’s politics – We have little doubt that Obama knows what Powell is all about, and he grown-up about it. Obama, from what we heard a while back – probably knows about Powell’s links to all sorts of unsavory things like Mi Lai and Iran Contra etc.
That they admire each other – Powell and Obama – is pretty obvious – But it’s not very deep.
Powell must be worth 100 million by now.
Steel might have to apologize to Rush for the clapping:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/09/white-house-correspondent_n_201248.html
Goldberg actually loves identity politics – Notice he had to begin with a ridiculous lie (lying to himself?) and say he hated identity politics?
He is obsessed with identity politics – And image etc – He thinks he can say “I don’t like Cornel West” and that’s sort of some brave out-of-the-box rejection
of identity politics – But not know West or caring wtf West says is how most Americans think who are not obsessed with identity politics.
In right wing circles – there is this constant game going on to see how close they get to having Buchanan/Steve Sailer views without the social opprobrium of being bracketed as racist by their media friends..
Ha – we just posted some sensible suggestions for winning minority votes for Republicans – not majorities, but enough to havock Dem coalition – All of our suggestions were ultimately color blind in the sense the point was putting money in peoples pockect and treating people with respect and not being nasty. But too much of the GOP is like Jonah Goldberg (we have a funny story about him) – filled with racial anxieties
Anyway – check out Goldberg’s comically bad suggestions about how to trick Brown people into liking his party:
http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2009/05/great-brown-hope.html