Couldn’t Help But Notice (112807)
This is one of the furthest stretches to defend the indefensible I have seen in quite some time.
Well, since Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann won’t apologize for his “Jesus had a better Good Friday” e-mail (near end of article; note the non-apology that follows), and Governor/”Minister Ted” Strickland doesn’t think it’s worth trifling over, their potential primary and general election opponents in 2010 will just have to ask Ohio’s “Christianist” voters how they feel about it. Also see posts at King’s place and at RAB.
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No wonder they think there’s a middle-class squeeze (HT Tax Prof) – earning $97,000 a years makes you “rich.” But, building on a point made by a Tax Prof commenter, if you are earning up to $80,000 a year or more, your children, and maybe even you, could still be eligible for the nearly-free health care of SCHIP, which was designed originally to be for the “working poor.” Yeah, I know that the second figure would often be for a two-income couple, but there’s still not a lot of “middle” left, is there?
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Michael Totten from Fallujah (bold is mine; HT Instapundit):
Baghdad is supposedly only half as violent as it was when I spent my quiet week inside the city, but it is still very dangerous. The trend lines are going in the right direction, but anything can still happen anywhere at any time. It remains a city at war.
Fallujah is different.
None of the Marines I’ve spoken to are nervous while walking the streets. “Complacency kills†is the new catchphrase in Fallujah, and it’s drummed into the heads of the Americans here every day. The Marines may not have yet won the war in this city, but it sure is starting to look like it. The insurgency in Fallujah is over.
Read the whole thing for news you won’t see anywhere in Old Media.
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This is making “Heaven’s Gate” ($3.5 million box office, $44 million production budget) and “Ishtar” ($14.4 million box office, $55 million production budget) look like all-time blockbusters:
Forgive me for waxing “poetic”:
I think that we will never see,
The production costs of this movie.
Tom: What makes Marc Dann’s comments even worse is the fact that he’s Jewish. From an inside connection of the Ohio Democratic Party, if they thought that Betty Montgomery was as beatable as she turned out to be, they would have ran a credible candidate. They are almost apologetic for foisting Dann upon the state. Of course, that doesn’t say much for the voting public.
As for “Minister Ted”, the next election is nearly three years away. This will be forgotten by then. Of course, Dann’s own party doesn’t take him seriously, so Ted probably thinks it’s not worth commenting on and keeping it in the media.
Comment by Gary — November 28, 2007 @ 8:07 pm
#1, you said:
This will be forgotten by then.
This is less likely than even 5-10 years ago. Look at how Bill Clinton is being savaged over his contradictory statements on Iraq that go back 3-9 years.
Dann’s quote won’t be forgotten. The only question is whether or not it will be considered important. I suspect that the statement is not a one-off, and there will be other “gems.”
Comment by TBlumer — November 28, 2007 @ 10:04 pm