Lucid Links (030509)
Noteworthy Net-Worthies:
The latest three Carnivals of Ohio Politics are here (#157, compiled by The Boring Made Dull), here (#156, compiled by Ben Keeler of Keeler Political Report), and here (#155, compiled by Jill at Writes Like She Talks).
Jay Cost’s version of your truly’s “The Punk Presidency” — “The Immature White House.”
Proof of validity of previous item — Step 1, the overture: Obama ‘ready to drop shield plans for Russian help on Iran’ (also here in the New York Times); Step 2, the dismissal: “Medvedev rejects Obama missile defence deal”; Step 3 (HT Instapundit), the blowback, via Charles Krauthammer: “The Russians have dismissed it. We end up being humiliated. We look weak in front of the Iranians, and we have left the Poles and Czechs out to dry in return for nothing.” Looks like this Obama attempt at what his crew (incorrectly) accused George Bush of, namely shoot-from-the-hip diplomacy, is an epic fail.
A Detroit News editorial (HT Hot Air Headlines) — “Cap-and-trade plan will sink Michigan.” Ohioans should only want their football teams to lose, not their entire economy.
From Discovery News — “Global Warming on Hold?” It’s been globaloney all along.
From AP’s excuse-making machine: “Understaffed Geithner can’t keep up, critics say.” Michelle Malkin translates: “Wonderboy Treasury Secretary is in over his head.” My questions: Why aren’t the people who worked with Paulson in Treasury available? Do potentially qualified people not want to work with this guy? If not, why not?
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air — “If the first six weeks of the Barack Obama administration can be summed up in one sentence, it would be this: Obama fiddled with Rush Limbaugh while Wall Street burned.” Here’s the underlying Politico story about the administration’s six-month obsession with applying Rule #12 from Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” to Limbaugh (good job on putting up the list by Orange County CA’s Orange Juice Blog, which has been blogrolled).
From Mickey Kaus post on the “Kings of L.A.” — “L.A.’s fifteen City Council members make $178,000 per year, way more than in New York ($112K) or Chicago ($110K).” That’s also more than Congressmen (”the average lawmaker makes $169,300 a year”).
Kaus also gets a HT on this very, very quiet story about the Democratic primary results in the race to win Rahm Emanuel’s former IL-05 congressional seat in Northern Chicago and suburbs. But he missed the big point: Mike Quigley, the out-of-nowhere winner, who is almost assured of a general-election triumph, not only defeated union-favored candidates, he is also a de facto Tea Party sympathizer. He “fought the Old Guard on the (Cook) County Board and built an opposition bloc that voted down tax increases.” He is also not in good graces with Mayor Dictator for Life Daley. Apparently voters saw that as a good thing. Update, March 6: A noteworthy Quigley quote — ““After all we’ve been though in Illinois in the last six months, this is the first time voters had the chance to say: Enough is enough. We vote for change.”
