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2008-08-07

  • Daniel Henninger is on target today, musing on the type of person who promises "nothing less than a complete transformation of our economy." Guess who has the arrogance to think that he has the ability to accomplish such a feat?
    Mr. Obama and his Democratic colleagues in Congress want a "complete transformation" of an already successful economy. Not partial. complete. Can any of them say what the odds are that all this economic activity, including the nation's electrical grid, will work as well with their new fuels? Assuredly, growth's odds aren't as good as the ones we have now.
    I've said this before, I know, but: any sensible American grownup must fervently hope that Obama is a total phony who does not take his own rhetoric seriously. That's actually the best-case scenario.

  • I've also said this before: The nicest thing you can say about McCain is that he's not quite as bad as Obama. Jeff Jacoby drives home that point quite well, outlining the looming fiscal crisis, and observing:
    But where is the presidential candidate who will talk honestly about this? McCain insists he will balance the budget and "provide the courageous leadership necessary to control spending." Yet his economic plan is devoid of details, offering little more than windy promises to "stop earmarks, pork-barrel spending, and waste" and freeze nondefense discretionary spending for a year while spending programs are reviewed.

    Obama won't even go that far. His campaign touts a "Plan for Restoring Fiscal Discipline" that is as vague as McCain's, but he rules out balancing the budget - "because," he told reporters last month, "I think it is important for us to make some critical investments right now in America's families." The National Taxpayers Union Foundation, tallying the promises made by the presidential candidates, calculates that Obama 's "investments" would cost taxpayers another $344 billion a year. McCain's add up to an extra $68.5 billion.

    We are awash in a sea of red ink, and the tide is coming in. Alfred E. Neuman isn't worried. Are Obama and McCain?

    Via Viking Pundit, who has additional comments.

  • They told me that if George W. Bush was re-elected, publishing houses would cravenly refrain from publishing books that might offend religious groups and they were right.

  • Dave Barry's in China, or as we prefer to call it: Red China. (Apparently they're having some sort of event there.) Check out his visit to the Great Wall and the Forbidden City.

    Dave notes that, although he can post to his blog, he can't read it: it is one of many that is blocked by the Red Chinese government.

    My weblogs tell me that Pun Salad is not blocked in Red China, so:

    Hey, Chinese people: your Commie government sucks!


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