Ramble for 5-17-11

Bronx, NY– As this is posted, I’m in The Bronx, waiting to be unloaded. I ran back to Mountaintop,PA overnight (Through heavy fog) to get this load headed for the Bronx. I’m certainly getting to see lots of the big

It snowed yesterday, and none dared call it global warming.

Dumbo’s Plan, from Doug MacEachern, Arizona Republic:

I thought about that on Wednesday as President Barack Obama delivered his speech about the country’s precarious finances.

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Dope from Hope Ropes Hill, now I Am not a fan of the Dope from Hope, Mike Huckabee, but the Dope has roped in the Hill, from Michael O’Brien, Hill-

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) incorrectly suggested

Dumbo’s green economics, from Debra Saunders,RCP:

The problem is that Obama thinks that green jobs are the answer to the anemic economy recovery. And he clings to that belief in the face of contrary evidence.

I would

The coming battle, from Melissa Maynard, Stateline:

Public sector unions have escaped a comparable decline in their ranks, with 36.2 percent of state and local employees still in unions. But an increasingly loud chorus of governors and state

Bruce McQuain asks the question:
So are Obama and the Democrats focused like a laser on jobs and the economy?

Then, Bruce answers his own question with the rather obvious, “Uh… No.”

The point is taken, Bruce.  That said, consider

Unfortunately, watching the gubernatorial race here in New York, is I think indicative of what’s going to be happening in the whole of the country.

As of this writing Cuomo is something like twenty points ahead in the polls.  Of

Obama administration clueless on jobs, from Fox News Sunday interview by Chris Wallace of Bbama brand spanking new economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, Fox News:

GOOLSBEE: But I don’t think the unemployment rate will be coming down significantly anytime

Health care is Obama’s Stalingrad, William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

Waterloo was a short but decisive battle. The health care fight has turned out to be more like the battle of Stalingrad.

The battle of Stalingrad was a

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• POPULISM? Frankly, I have always had my difficulties with political populism.  But it strikes me is nothing shy of hilarious that

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• STATE OF THE ONE: If you’re interested in reading the speech, it’s here. Frankly, I had thought to do a running commentary

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• SO PEOPLE TALKING UP OBAMACARE TOOK MONEY FROM ADMINISTRATION? So reports Megan McArdle, though frankly it should shock nobody:
  

  MIT economist

Look in the mirror, Mr. President, for why jobs aren’t rebounding

Betsy Newmark, Betsy’s Page.

Mrs. Newmark may not be an economist, but she is married to one.     I felt some commnet the president’s ecomonic summi dog and pony

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We’re in November already. The kids around here spent evening before last one drink from door to door demanding candy or what