May 26th 2009
February 4th 2009
Pelosi Math
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ancy Pelosi has her own favorite mathematical formula that, if not quite Einsteinian in its validity, has served her well in her political career. It is: Really big number (of dollars) + really big number (of listeners) = really big number (of votes). Here it is in action:
Yes, you heard it right:
If we don’t have an economic recovery package, 500 million Americans will lose their jobs. I don’t think we can go fast enough.
So by gumbos, get out there and vote for that package today, Senators! We can’t have 250 million as yet unborn Americans losing their jobs!
OK, OK, sure – she meant to say 500,000, not 500 million. But even that rash overstatement meets the Pelosi Math test. In December, 1.1 million Americans were unemployed, so Pelosi is saying that without the precious-little-stimulus plan, that number will grow by nearly 50 percent. She offers no proof of course, and economic trends, while generally downward, don’t point to such an explosion in unemployment.
So she’s hysterical. Again. If there’s one thing we know about the economy, it’s that it responds hysterically to bad news. If Pelosi cared more about the economy and less about cheerleading shriekleading her porkstrosity through Congress, she’d start cooing reassuring thoughts and stop her unsubstantiated hyperbole.
hat-tip: Jim
January 18th 2009
Sunday Scan – Pre-Inauguration Edition
The Greens Go Very, Very Red
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just logged onto Terra Daily, a Greenie/Warmie hysteria site that books itself as “Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News.” I often look at Terra while writing Sunday Scan because it’s so amazingly gloomy – all about environmental disasters and (related, they claim) higher CO2. But today it reads like the People’s Daily. Have the Chinese bought the environmental movement lock, stock and barrel?
The lead story, China says Somali mission signals no change in military policy, is a statement from the Chinese military saying, in effect, “Don’t worry just because we have ships engaged off the coast of Somalia. We’re still just a passive little defensive navy.” And this has what, exactly, to do with the environment?
The second lead is China pledges more support for impoverished Malawi, noting that last year Malawi switched its backing from Taipei to Beijing. The green connection seems to be missing here. That’s followed by, under the heading “Farm News,” China couple first to take milk pay-out: State media, and under “Sino Daily,” China awash with fake 100 yuan notes. Again, does anyone see green here instead of red?
There are two more stories out of China before we finally get to the typical Terra Daily fare of surging CO2 levels and death tolls from floods (nothing to be seen about the various deep cold snaps, though). Nothing on the site explains this transformation since I last looked at it last Sunday. It’s all presented totally matter of factly, as this news is the news that appeals to the Gaian deep greeners.
Maybe it does. Maybe they’re finally letting their true colors show. Or possibly, Terra Daily was flailing, unable to find enough readers to keep the owners in their metro-yuppie-hipness, so they sold out to the Chinese. If so, it’s very heavy-handed, which is what we’d expect. And if so, it won’t stop with little ol’ Terra Daily. From sea to shining sea, major newspapers are looking for buyers.
August 24th 2008
Sunday Scan
Super Nan Readies For Denver Showdown
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est you think this week’s Democratic convention in Denver will be just a showcase for the pontificating and grandstanding leaders of the party that knows what’s good for us even if we don’t, Nancy Pelosi stands ready to set you straight. This is no small deal.
“We’ve got a planet to save. Nothing less is at stake other than civilization as we know it today.” (source)
Thank God we’ve got a proven, capable Dem savior like Barack Obama to get us through the fight with the super-nemesis, Maverick Man.
And Joe Biden? The perfect sidekick for The Mighty O and Super Nan, sez Madam Speaker:
“Joe Biden is the all-American boy.”
I’m sure he looks great in tights, too.
hat-tip: Urgent Agenda Continue Reading »
August 10th 2008
Sunday Scan
Hey Greenies, Stop The War On The Poor!
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t was a small demonstration by DC standards – a dozen speakers and a few dozen marchers perhaps – but the demonstrators represented the working poor and minority communities dear to the Dems’ political patter, and they were mad about Dem stalling on energy solutions.
Leaders from the civil rights, African American, evangelical, agriculture and consumer advocacy communities have launched a national campaign to publicly unmask more than 100 politicians and 50 environmental extremist groups that are waging an immoral “war on the poor” by pushing policies that limit America’s ability to produce more America energy and drive energy prices skyward. …
“Environmental extremists, and the politicians who do their bidding, are strangling consumers, minorities and the working poor by restricting our ability to produce enough American energy and forcing energy prices to go through the roof,” said Niger Innis, National Spokesman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a key organizer of the Capitol Hill protest and co-chairman of the national “Stop The War On The Poor” campaign.
Will the politicians listen? Let’s see … environmental groups represent an affluent constituency and therefore have a lot of money to throw around. The poor, well, let’s all feel sorry for the poor, but really, they can’t contribute much to campaigns, can they, Nancy? Continue Reading »
