Most Worthwhile Pundits

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Let the mutherfuker burn!

I always enjoy reading “Top 10” type lists even when they piss me off with their choices. This list of top political pundits is no different. I like that it includes Allahpundit and Jim Pethokoukis, but am stupefied by the inclusion of Andrew “Sarah Palin’s uterus is hiding something” Sullivan or Glenn “I’ve never written anything not at least 20 thousand words long including my grocery list” Greenwald. Morning Joe’s also a strange choice.

I also admit to a bit of Schadenboner over Greg Sargent not being included. I guess “AquaBudda” just wasn’t the scoop we thought it would be.

Who got left out or shouldn’t have been included in your opinion?

–Troll

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ClimateGate 2.0, But I’m Sure it’s All Taken Out of Context.

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Let the mutherfuker burn!
Looks like we’re in for another round of hide the decline, as a new batch of hacked emails from our favorite climate scientists are released.
I predict that the same institution that thoroughly investigated the molestation charges around Sandusky and the football program will do an equally thorough job in investigating Michael “hockey stick” Mann. Look for the the discussion to be focused on who hacked the emails versus what the emails actually say. I also suspect we’ll hear about “context” and nuance. Finally, “The Cause” will, of course, be defined as the cause of science. I, like Ace, don’t beleive it of course, but it’ll be shouted from the rooftops.
Should be a fun IPCC meeting this year.
–Troll

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Is a Rise in Income Inequality a Myth?

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Let the mutherfuker burn!
Here’s an interesting article by Jim Pethokoukis (formerly of Reuters, now with AEI) in which he states that there really is no increase in income inequality.
I’ve clipped this portion in honor of Kevin,
“4. A 2010 study by the University of Chicago’s Bruce Meyer and Notre Dame’s James Sullivan notes that official income inequality statistics indicate a sharp rise in inequality over the past four decades: “The ratio of the 90th to the 10th percentile of income, for example, grew by 23 percent between 1970 and 2008.” But Meyer and Sullivan point out that income statistics miss a lot, such as the value of government programs and the impact of taxes. The latter, especially, is a biggie. The researchers find that “accounting for taxes considerably reduces the rise in income inequality” over the past 45 years. In addition, “consumption inequality is less pronounced than income inequality.””
Food for thought in the current OWS environment.
—Troll

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Operation Fast and Furious

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Let the mutherfuker burn!
An update on Operation Fast and Furious. Attorney General Holder testified in front of Issa’s House committee on May 3rd where he testified that he’d only heard of the operation in the “last few weeks.”
It turns out he was briefed on the operation at least 7 months prior. When asked about the discrepancy, the Justice Department said:
” And tonight they tell CBS News, Holder misunderstood that question from the committee – he did know about Fast and Furious – just not the details.”
Another excuse, cited at the link, is that Holder doesn’t always read his briefings.
Hoooooookkkkaaaaaaay. So, either the AG doesn’t understand that letting guns, purchased with your tax dollars, walk to Mexican drug cartels is a bad thing to do. Or, he’s a lousy AG who’s in over his head.
Meanwhile, at least one American Border Patrol agent is dead and, according to Mexican investigators, at least 200 Mexicans are dead as a result of this operation.

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"E.J." Dionne Keeps knocking Them Out of the Park

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Let the mutherfuker burn!

My first question for “E.J.” is, are you asking the left to finance a bogus “astroturfed” TeaBagger movement, since the leftist meme from the get-go is that it is all fake? If so, what’s the value in that? Or, are you arguing for a real, populist lefty TeaBagger movement? If so, how is one created? Our only example out there is the fake kind. Unless you think it was real?

These paragraphs are interesting in that he doesn’t say what prompted the right’s “ferocious backlash.” What motivated the rights ferocious backlash against Clinton in ’94? Or Against Truman in ’46? Or FDR in ’38?

“The administration was complicit in this, viewing the left’s primary role as supporting whatever the president believed needed to be done. Dissent was discouraged as counterproductive.

This was not entirely foolish. Facing ferocious resistance from the right, Obama needed all the friends he could get. He feared that left-wing criticism would meld in the public mind with right-wing criticism and weaken him overall.”

I love “E.J.’s” framing of LBJ’s civil rights victories Of using outside groups to help him. Yes, they did help him, it’s just that “E.J.” can’t quite bring himself to mentioned which party was causing him the problems in regards to civil rights. Anybody remember? Paging Al Gore Sr., please pick up the whites-only courtesy phone.

“What’s been missing in the Obama presidency is the productive interaction with outside groups that Franklin Roosevelt enjoyed with the labor movement and Lyndon B. Johnson with the civil rights movement. Both pushed FDR and LBJ in more progressive directions while also lending them support against their conservative adversaries.”

Anyway, I normally think “E.J.” is silly, this proves he can be funny as well.

E.J. In Full Bloom.

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Operation Fast and Furious

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Let the mutherfuker burn!

This House investigation gets a lot of play on the right because of an innate rightwing view that all Democrats would ban and/or confiscate ALL firearms If possible. There is a belief by some righties that Holder set this up purposefully to demonstrate that U.S. Sold guns are killing people as a way then to introduce (more) gun control. I disagree with that. To me, this just smacks of typical government incompetence. Napoleon said, “Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.”

If you don’t know the backstory, check it out. It’s awful and stupifying.

This is Really Nasty Stuff

–Troll

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Is This Premise Valid?

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Let the mutherfuker burn!

This article is making the rounds in the rightwing blogosphere. Short version, “White liberals are abandoning Obama because of racism.”

This speaks more about the victim politics of the author than of reality.

What do those on the left think?

http://www.thenation.com/article/163544/black-president-double-standard-why-white-liberals-are-abandoning-obama

–Troll

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Media Bias? I Report, You Decide

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Let the mutherfuker burn!

Byron York’s interesting comparison of Today Show interview of Suskind over his book critical of the Obama Administration versus their interview of him over his book critical of the Bush administration.

Troll-

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