At his “jobs summit,” Obama discovered: “Ultimately, true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector.” Mon dieu! You mean lambasting business, hiking taxes, imposing a flurry of mandates, and regulating carbon emissions aren’t the way to go? No, no. The Obami still want to do all that. They just expect the private sector to grow and hire workers in spite of all that. I guess.
One senses the cloud of incoherence descending daily, now on the verge of enveloping the White House in a blanket of contradictions and policy dead ends. The summit produced “a to-do list for the private sector that sounded rather familiar: weatherization, small-business incentives, regulatory and other help for exporters, and tax credits for employers who hire new workers.” But there was no recognition that the big stuff — ObamaCare and cap-and-trade — will drown out whatever small benefit might be obtained from this “familiar” list of shopworn ideas.
Clinton economic guru Roger C. Altman, writing in the Wall Street Journal, warns that the Democrats are heading for an electoral wipeout and suggests:
By providing new incentives for job creation and bank lending, offering more detailed and forceful commitment to deficit reduction, improving relations with industry, and taking a more forceful stance towards Wall Street, the Obama administration can reduce next year’s election risk.
Sounds like a good idea. They could have a summit. Perhaps they could call it the “Undo the Damage Summit.” Well, I’ll leave the marketing to others, but you get the idea. If you want the private sector to create jobs, you first have to stop bludgeoning employers.
except that hamas aren’t dictators. they were elected, unlike Hu Jintao, the saudi royals, perves musharaff, and the many other actual dictators bush kisses up to on a weekly basis.
and “defender of freedom” is not one of the president of the US’s jobs in the constitution.
“President Carter is among Israel’s most irresponsible critics.”
who are some of the responsible ones? in your estimation.
Jimmy makes Buchanan look good.
Bush acted to promote human rights? Like, in Guantanamo, Abu Graib, or the “black sites” overseas? Jimma is lame, but Bush makes him look like FDR.
Yeah, “profound repugnance for dictators” is going too far – Putin and Musharraf are the best counter-examples.
buchanan aleady looks good. I’m watching him right now on MSNBC, where these guys wish they could get a job
“except that hamas aren’t dictators. they were elected, unlike Hu Jintao, the saudi royals, perves musharaff, and the many other actual dictators ”
(1) Pervez Musharraf was elected (October 6 2007).
(2) Hamas seized control over Gaza by military force, not through elections.
(3) Some dictators _did_ come to power through elections – Hitler, for example:
“our domestic foes never saw where we were going or that our oath of legality was just a trick. We wanted to come to power legally, but we did not want to use power legally. They could have suppressed us. They could have arrested a couple of us in 1925 and that would have been that, the end. No, they let us through the danger zone. That’s exactly how it was in foreign policy, too… “(Josef Goebbels, 1940)
Well, we’ve discovered one of the five people that comprise MSNBC’s audience.
MR thinks that Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are examples of how terrible George Bush is. Why? The media found out about Abu Ghraib because the Army was prosecuting those involved – do we hold police responsible for crimes they are investigating? In any case, what happened at Aby Ghraib was silliness, not injurious. As for Guantanamo, the prisoners there are being treated very well and far beyond their deserts – they are positively not protected under the Geneva Conventions, and therefore have no rights. Such prisoners were executed outright during World War II.
Does MR have any concern about those captured by the Saddam Hussein supporters and the Taliban?
Jimmy Carter helped to topple the Shah of Iran and to bring the Ayatollah Khomeini to power.
ian- hamas was elected, fatah was rejected. them taking over gaza was long after that election and even then they had popular support.
your list of little points doesn’t make china or saudi arabia any more democratic does it
And to think the U.S. electorate turned out Gerald Ford so we could live with this crap.
MR-
FDR interned thousands of innocent Japanese during World War 2.
MR doesn’t stand for MoRon, does it?