Just a really quick glance at the headlines tonight:
- Egypt’s Mubarak refuses to quit (BBC) — So in other words, forget what I and the Egyptian military told you this morning. For now. He did cede some authority to his veep. Meanwhile, protesters chant “Leave! Leave!”
- U.S. Intel Officials On Edge As They Watch Egypt (NPR) — A look at how the spooks are assessing the situation.
- Ethics panel cites SC Lt. Gov. on 3 reports (thestate.com) — Which, of course, gave the local TV stations an excuse to show B-roll of ME.
- Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 web browser goes live (BBC) — And the question techies everywhere ask is, “Will it suck any less than previous versions.” This, by the way, is being typed on Google Chrome, while I’m reading the news and copying over headlines on Mozilla Firefox. ALT+TAB is such an essential feature.
- Verizon iPhone Goes On Sale, Still Has “Death Grip” (International Business Times) — So maybe I was right to procrastinate. We’ll see.
- Is DeMint running? Support is growing (McClatchy) — This is like watching a bad horror movie, in which the director is taking way too much time building up the suspense. I’m the guy in the audience yelling at the screen, “NO! Don’t open that door!”
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I’m yelling with you. Dang.
The more extremists that enter the race, whether DeMint, or Bachmann, etc., the more that slightly saner conservatives—Romney, Pawlenty, have to fall all over themselves to pander to the extreme and/or religious right. The more this happens, the more centrist Obama looks all of 2012. especially with no primary challenge (or not a serious one, anyway). DeMint cannot win the nomination, but he can drive a Romney rightward; all of this serves to help re-elect Obama. I say, run Jim run!
Who would you like to see run on the GOP side? Not any good choices that I can see. Sarah Palin? Newt Gingrich? Michelle Bachman? Mike Huckabee? Mitt Romney is just about the most patronizing human being who has ever run for the office but perhaps he’s the best of a sorry bunch. In the end, thankfully, it won’t matter if unemployment is under 8%.
Oh, yeah, well… right now, if you have to put money down? Obama wins. You need a factor that has not yet emerged to change that.
Here’s hoping what Phillip, bud, and Brad laid out above stays true. Methinks the Repub’s may have to recruit Jeb Bush to salvage their 2012 ticket.
I’d say Romney or Huckabee right now. There’s also former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson who appears to be in line to take Ron Paul’s slot should Paul decide not to run. He’d be a Republican even bud might be able to vote for:
“Johnson suggested raising the retirement age and raising the income threshold subject to social security tax.
“A reduction perhaps of some benefits, not big here, just a slight reduction if you will,” he said. “And perhaps a means testing for all of that.”
He said Medicaid and Medicare should be “block granted” — giving states a block grant without mandates from the federal government about how to issue it.
Johnson is perhaps best known for his outspoken advocacy for legalizing marijuana and ending the war on drugs.”
“A to Z, I’m opposed to the drug war, A through Z,” Johnson explained. “Taxes would be part of it, yeah, that’s the T. [And we could] redirect the resources to real crime, as opposed to an arguably victimless crime.”
Like Paul and the tea party crowd, Johnson advocates scrapping entire departments to save the federal government money, such as the Department of Education.
It’s clear Johnson believes if he ran he’d have a chance at success. He points to the fact he was elected, then re-elected in New Mexico, where it’s a two-to-one ratio Democrats to Republicans.”
From Mother Jones:
“In his new book, deftly titled Known and Unknown, former Defense Secreatry Donald Rumsfeld insists that he and the Bush-Cheney crew did not purposefully misrepresent the WMD case for the Iraq war: “The President did not lie. The Vice President did not lie. Tenet did not lie. Rice did not lie. I did not lie. The Congress did not lie. The far less dramatic truth is that we were wrong.” He does acknowledge that he made a “few misstatements,” referring specifically only to one: when he declared early in the war, “We know where they [the WMDs] are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.”
Seriously these people are beyond the pale. Didn’t lie? Of course that statement about “knowing where they are” was a lie. If he actually KNEW where they were then they would have actually been there. Since they weren’t he didn’t KNOW it and hence we have a classic lie. Whole sorry bunch belongs in jail.
1. Somehow when I hear the line “Egypt’s Mubarak refuses to quit”, I can’t help but imagine his Mubarak’s Bella Lugosi like image sitting at a desk, furiously stamping pages to ABBA’s Dancing Queen. He knows quittin’ time has started, but he just can’t stop.
4. Yes, it will, but it won’t be the IE team’s fault, just the fault of every other middle manager at MS who has to get his two cents of glory and credit. Same as always for MS. “Oooooh, why not just add XYZ for our failing product, ‘Windows OnLive Chex-Mix picker’ in?”
6. When I saw the Super Bowl ad that mentioned SC, I groaned a little. Not because of the ad, but if something shines a positive light on us, we need about 9 months of bad stuff to get the state’s image back on the negative end of the karma scale. Guess the Lords of Karma answer swiftly.
Doug, Johnson does sound intriguing. If he favors cutting the military budget sharply I’d have to give him a look. Not sure the moralists within the GOP will go along with pot legalization though.
Yeah… that’d be one toke over the line…