….. But I Don’t Have Any Time For:
- Irwin Stelzer at the UK Times Online — “Big spender Obama sets the red ink flowing” (HT Instapundit). Money quote: “Even more important, the underlying assumption of this budget is that the world will be willing to buy a flood of Treasury IOUs.” Gulp.
- “Totally unrelated” (we wish) — “Clinton wraps Asia trip by asking China to buy US debt.” If they say no now, or a few months from now, then what? (Fearful prediction: China will threaten not to buy US debt if the US electorate appears likely to defeat Obama and/or the current congressional majority.)
- An important leftover from Feb. 18 is John Kass’s “Blame for Burris mess isn’t Blagojevich’s alone” at the Chicago Tribune. The last eight paragraphs make you wonder if President Obama knew that Roland Burris was compromised and corrupt, but prevailed on Harry Reid to rush Burris’s Senate appointment to ensure a filibuster-proof majority for the mislabeled “stimulus” bill. At the time it wasn’t known how many Republican senators could be turned. If Kass is right, and if George Bush had done something similar, Washington would be abuzz with impeachment talk right now.
- “Rick Santorum attacks Republican leaders” — That would be the Rick Santorum who supported incumbent Senator Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in the 2004 Pennsylvania GOP Primary. Specter was one of three GOP senators who supported the mislabeled “stimulus.” How’s that workin’ out, Rick?
- From the WSJ’s Joseph B. White — “Tax the Streets; New Funding Ideas Are Needed for U.S. Roads and Highways.” Horse manure. Getting rid of misguided red tape and bureaucratic rules would easily provide the savings needed to keep the gas tax right where it is, without a privacy-invading, more expensive road use tax (the Journal pegs the current proposal as the equivalent of at 48-cent gas tax vs. the current 18 cents). Example: The rebuilding of the Santa Monica Freeway after the 1994 California earthquake. There is no reason this feat can’t be replicated consistently elsewhere — except political will.
- From a Christian Medical & Dental Associations news release — “The move to rescind the healthcare provider conscience regulation imperils women’s healthcare access, threatens healthcare professionals’ freedom to practice medicine according to ethical standards, and exposes the myth of moderation in Obama’s abortion policy.” The CMDA’s reaction is to this: “White House set to reverse health care conscience clause.”