….. But I Don’t Have Any Time For:
- Obama’s transportation secretary certainly has a last name that fits at least one area of his philosophy, that of fleecing motorists — “Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he wants to consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive rather than how much gasoline they burn.” If it ever comes to pass, it won’t be a replacement tax. It will be an additional tax.
- Per Quinnipiac, in the Cleveland Examiner — “58% of Ohioans also approve the way that Obama is handling the economy – better than Governor Ted Strickland, who only received a 44% approval.” Those seem lower than you’d expect one month into a presidential administration and halfway through a gubernatorial term, respectively.
- In her video declaring her US Senate candidacy, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner referred to “Ohio’s election problems of 2004.” Hey Jen, the only “problem” is that your side lost. The late Paul Weyrich summed it up nicely in 2005: “We can thank Ken Blackwell for the fact that we are not still in court over the 2004 election. When a Clinton appointee to the Federal Judiciary in Toledo, two weeks before the general election, ruled that voters did not have to vote in their own precinct but could show up anywhere they pleased, Blackwell went to the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit and won the case, which upheld Ohio law.” Imagine that: a Secretary of State going to court to uphold Ohio law. It’s amazing, but sadly not surprising, that Jen Brunner considers that among 2004′s “problems.”
- Oh please, let it be so — “Netanyahu to Be Asked to Form Israel’s Next Government.” Forgotten nugget: Surely with the Clinton administration’s blessing, James Carville worked to defeat Netanyahu in 1999. If Bibi ends up in charge, his first meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ought to be quite interesting.
- The New York Times Company, which closed at yet another all-time low of $3.51 yesterday after a 5% drop, has suspended dividend payments to shareholders to preserve cash. The Sulzberger family and its affiliated trusts will lose out on about $25 million a year. It’s hard to imagine that the family would just sit there and take it without somehow reining in or ousting “Pinch” Sulzberger. His nearly seven-year bout with Bush Derangement Syndrome, followed by his romance with Obamamania, has virtually destroyed the paper’s credibility, and is on the verge of wrecking its financial viability. Anyone should have seen this coming years ago; your truly did. It’s time to acknowledge that though it pretends otherwise, the Times may no longer be the newspaper of record. For better or worse (tough call, but probably worse, though the pre-BDS Times was better), the Associated Press is probably the news source of record in the Internet era. Sadly, the AP’s structure makes it less accountable to the market’s and readers’ wishes than the Times, while its BDS and ObamaLove problems are equally as serious. Update: More is at a related NewsBusters post.