Let’s review the bidding: An ill-considered statement from the Treasury Secretary tax delinquent nominee concerning Chinese currency re-evaluation may very well start off a trade war between the United States and China. If that’s not enough, there has been little to no movement whatsoever on the part of Team Obama–stretching from the campaign to the present day–to indicate that there will be any serious effort to revive trade talks like the dormant Doha Round. This, naturally, leads people to think that instead of encouraging trade liberalization, the Obama Administration will seek to put the kibosh on it both through inaction on the trade diplomacy front and through the imposition of tariffs.
Gosh. Good thing that the nation’s economy–not to mention the world’s–is doing so well. Otherwise, stories like this one might cause a lot of concern.
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
No comparison.
I only care about black people when I can use them to attack Republicans. Sunday, January 25th at 12:37PM EST (link)So, you’re equating an off-hand remark by an Obama nominee to Bush ignoring the plight of millions in the wake of Hurricane Katrina?
Petty, small-minded stuff.
Actually, if we comparing to Katrina, we'd be comparing
mbecker908 (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 12:54PM EST (link)to Democratic Mayor Ray Nagin allowing school buses to sit and be flooded instead of being used to evacuate people. Or we’d be comparing to the former Democratic Governor who dithered when she should have been declaring a state of emergency and requiring people to evacuate.
You are a mindless jerk davey and your days here are numbered.
Were you in New Orleans during Katrina?
izoneguy (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 12:57PM EST (link)I have many friends in the media who were.
Americans don’t know the real story:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/05/katrina_what_the_media_missed.html
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Read some books
SteveLA (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 1:09PM EST (link)Read a few books on what happened in New Orleans during Katrina, then you can begin to understand the failures of local, state and yes Federal authorities. There is plenty of blame to go around, but most of it seems to have stuck to President Bush.
I suggest you start with “The Great Deluge” by Douglas Brinkley. While not without bias, against President Bush, it also paints NaGun and Blanko pretty poorly and depicts the break down of society in New Orleans that has not been openly talked about.
In my view Katrina was a terrible confluence of incompetency at many levels, a terrible storm and the tin ear of President Bush when it came to public relations during his term in office.
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
not many noticed thaty the National response was delayed
gekster (Diary) Tuesday, January 27th at 1:43PM EST (link)because the Governor, when told that the Federal Government couldn’t just come in and do what it wants, but would have to be asked to come in by the State Governor, she sreplied;
I don’t know if I want to give up that much power, I’ll let you know in 24 hours.
It was something to that effect.
Allthough in one day the Feds got 30,000 people off roofs when let in.
And yup.
Bush got the blame for not responding fast enough.
And for blowing up the levies.
And for his part on global warming that steared the hurricane to Luisiana to
make all the Democrats Leave and get a Republican Govenor elected.
Hey, Didn’t that one work?
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved
Thanks for sharing.
Moe Lane (Diary) Sunday, January 25th at 1:24PM EST (link)And by “thanks for sharing” I mean “peddle your racial projection somewhere else, Sparky.”
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