Political Ruminations

Quote of the Day

The very conservative Washington Post columnist, Charles Krauthammer, on Jon Huntsman:

“Huntsman is a liberal's idea of what a Republican ought to be.”

Well, okay. Is there something “liberal” about wanting any candidate for high office to have some common sense and a belief in science?

Morning Quote: Sarah Palin’s Latest Word Salad

During his interview of Sarah Palin on Wednesday night, Bill O'Reilly told Palin that Charles Krauthammer doesn't believe that her reality show is helping her politically, and he asked Palin if she felt that was true. Her response was, as per usual when she has no ghostwriter to speak for her, pathetically childish and word-salady. She also failed to answer O'Reilly's question.

Well, bless his heart. He’s probably used to those in the political beltway who perhaps aren’t out there working but they’re talking and they’re meeting people and they’re doing their ‘strategery’ [sic], whereas I’m workin’ and I’m havin' a great time doin’ it. It’s been a pleasure to bring Americans along for the ride to show them… America’s Fort Knox, this land that we call Alaska, has to offer and to film eight episodes to show Americans what it is that we do and have up here in terms of resources. [she then repeatedly cuts O'Reilly off to plug her latest book]

O'Reilly, evidently in an attempt to clarify, since Palin had not answered his question, asked her outright if she feels that the television show helps her in the "political arena". Palin again responded in a cringe worthy manner:

I told Alaskans that I was gonna do all that I could to promote Alaska. And I’ll tell ya that TLC’s debut show as the highest-rated show in that cable network’s history. I think it’s doin' a good job for Alaska… Promoting Alaska and even more importantly promoting domestic resources that we have in America that can be tapped into to allow us to be more secure, healthier, more prosperous. A lot of the show has to do with the resources that we have that need to be developed.

Good grief, gag me. This woman wants to be our PRESIDENT, arguably the single most powerful position on earth. The very idea of that is nothing less than completely ridiculous.

Quote of the Week: Krauthammer on the Firebaggers & Obama

On Bill O’Reilly’s show on Tuesday, an unlikely source, in the form of Charles Krauthammer, pushed back on the “professional left” [Firebaggers], and said that Obama won the tax cut deal, just like it was an historic achievement that he got Obamacare passed, in spite of the bitter disappointment voiced by the Firebagger crowd. He also said that the “professional left” misunderstands” both Obama, and the magnitude of his achievements. I agree.

I think that this “professional left” misunderstands the president and what he's achieved in the same way that they totally underestimated and misunderstood his achievement in passing Obamacare, which from the point of view of the left, I think is historic.

Look, in the deal with McConnell over the tax cuts, Obama won. He just got the Republicans to agree to a near trillion dollar, 900 billion dollar stimulus. A second stimulus, all of it paid by Chinese money we borrow. None of it will be paid for, blowing a huge hole in the debt. And he did this with out even calling it a stimulus. And he does this, this is gonna  be 900 billion, almost all in tax cuts, some of it in unemployment benefits, which will be dispensed over the next 2 years, which just happen to be the 2 years in the run-up to Obama's reelection.

You gonna call that a defeat?