2006 -- "Subprime is a tiny blip."
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Eleanor Clift Losing Faith in Obama
Quick Thoughts on President Obama’s Press Conference
"Here’s hoping for more from President Obama and his administration. Where is the change that America voted for?"
Opinion Line
"Obama has been overexposing himself like a cheap stripper."
"You voted for change. Are you sorry now? We got another Jimmy Carter. I voted for a hero. But Democrats don't want heroes, only change."
"The countries of the Middle East hate us. We give them money, and they still hate us. Wouldn't it be better if they hated us and we kept our money? What am I missing here?"
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Obama's educational hypocrisy
"Of the 1,700 students, starting in kindergarten, in this private-school voucher program, 90 percent are black and 9 percent are Hispanic. First the House and then the Senate inserted into the $410 billion omnibus spending bill language that will eliminate the $7,500 annual scholarships for these poor children after the next school year. It could only be reauthorized by the same Democrat-controlled Congress and the anti-voucher District of Columbia Council.
"Fat chance!
"A key executioner in the Senate of the OSP was Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois. I have written admiringly of Durbin's concern for human rights abroad and his trenchant criticism of the CIA's rendition-to-torture history. How about education rights in the nation's capital?
"Andre J. Coulson, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom, supplies the answer. (I am a senior fellow, specializing in civil liberties and education at Cato.) Wrote Coulson in the Feb. 26 New York Post:
"'Because they saw it as a threat to their political power, Democrats in Washington appear willing to extinguish the dreams of a few thousand poor kids to protect their political base.' Teachers' unions are a vital part of that base, many of whose members fear competition. Not all of them. Randi Weingarten, who is also head of New York's United Federation of Teachers, has started UFT charter schools in that state. But, like Obama, she is silent about stripping these OSP kids of their alternatives. And the largest teachers union, the National Education Association, urged Congress to kill the D.C. program.
"Two of these children, Sarah and James Parker, attend Washington's prestigious Sidwell Friends School. At the end of the next school year and the end of their scholarships, among the classmates they'll be leaving are Sasha and Malia Obama – who, of course, do not need voucher money."
Global warming is running out of hot air
"President Obama is being pressured by James McCarthy, head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to rush his carbon tax through Congress before the American people discover the lie in Obama's promise that '95 percent of working families' will not see their taxes rise by 'a single dime.' In fact, his own budget shows that taxes will rise for 100 percent of Americans for the sake of global warming.
"The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change plans to use a treaty to reduce America's use of energy and therefore our standard of living, while forcing us to subsidize energy production in other countries and close our eyes to the omission of China and India from any obligation.
"There has been virtually no overall global warming since 2001. Christopher Monckton, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, reminded the conference that temperatures 'have been plummeting at a rate equivalent to 11 Fahrenheit degrees per century throughout the four years since Gore launched his mawkish, sci-fi comedy horror B-movie.'"
GLOBAL WARMING DENIER HERE. I DARE YOU TO ARREST AND PROSECUTE ME FOR THE CRIME OF GLOBAL-WARMING DENIAL.
