Ratings at Jeff Zucker's cable network have soared during the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, thanks to its "creative ways" of covering the story all day every day despite a lack of veri…
Still, the real question for those who prefer their Bush presidencies in one-term doses is not whether today's attacks are fair, but whether they are smart. My instinct is no. At some point - three months or six months or 12 months from now - indisputable proof of Saddam's weapons will emerge. When that happens, what will shrill, wrongheaded liberals who weirdly sound as if they're staking everything on Saddam Hussein's honesty seem to be but ... a bunch of shrill, wrongheaded liberals! The boomerang will hit hard - and it will hit the whole Democratic Party.
That mass unemployment is coming soon isn't the wild fancy of futurists. It's real. There are only two ways to deal with that. One is the Gates way. It's the way that most world leaders are quietly putting into place, not only because of corruption, but because they they feel they must. It's the international race to the bottom, in which the capital mobility of the jet set crowd trumps and overwhelms the power of sovereign states. The other way is completely opposite--a hard turn toward social democracy, universal basic incomes, universal jobs programs, and international treaties that limit the power of mobile global capital while giving power back to real people and severing the assumed link between doing a billionaire's bidding and human dignity. There isn't a middle ground. Either billionaires and the Tea Partiers win, or the progressives do. There's no third way.
And no eye contact!The billionaire founder of Home Depot just pulled a Tom Perkins.Ken Langone, a major GOP donor, was among "the denizens of Wall Street and wealthy precincts around the nation" who spoke to Politico for a piece published Tuesday and titled "The rich strike back."“I hope it’s not working,” Langone told Politico, referring to populist political appeals. “Because if you go back to 1933, with different words, this is what Hitler was saying in Germany. You don’t survive as a society if you encourage and thrive on envy or jealousy.”
Gov. Chris Christie's 2013 campaign manager was sent information about lane closures leading to the George Washington Bridge while they were causing traffic backups in Fort Lee, N.J., records released Monday show.Have I mentioned before that Chris Christie will never be president? For that matter, now that he's been sniffing the air in New Hampshire, neither will Morning Joke.
"A great debate raged in London: Would it be wrong to feed the starving Irish with free food, thereby setting up a "culture of dependency"? Certainly England's man in charge of easing the famine, Sir Charles Trevelyan, thought so. "Dependence on charity," he declared, "is not to be made an agreeable mode of life." And there I ran into Paul Ryan. His great-great-grandfather had fled to America. But the Republican congressman was very much in evidence, wagging his finger at the famished. His oft-stated "culture of dependency" is a safety net that becomes a lazy-day hammock. But it was also England's excuse for lethal negligence…"
