Lucid Links (033109, Morning)
Noteworthy Net-Worthies:
From the New York Times’s David Sanger — “In essentially taking command of General Motors and telling Chrysler to merge with a foreign competitor or cease to exist, Mr. Obama was saying that economic conditions were sufficiently dire to justify a new level of government involvement in the management of corporate America.” That sort of echoes Rahm Emanuel’s (paraphrasing) “Never let a good crisis go to waste” meme, doesn’t it? Translation: Nobody’s safe.
At Mark Levin’s site, probably for the rest of the business day: “What part of the Constitution allows Obama to fire or force out a CEO, as in the case of General Motors? Would the Founding Fathers have endorsed this do you think? If there are no legal limits placed on people, then they have no reason to act right. We have a President and Congress that abuses its power, and it’s anything can go. Finally, when Obama goes to people for advice that have no idea or experience in what they’re supposed to fix, what kind of solution is that?” Somebody tell me why what Obama did is not an objective violation of his oath of office.
This from CNBC’s Jeff Pisani — “And for everybody who says why haven’t they fired any more bank CEOs yet – why hasn’t the government done it, wait – they’re going to.” Because the government is so good at running financial schemes …. like Social Security, which in case you haven’t heard, is going to start generating annual deficits in two years or less.
Small victory — Terry Trippany at NewsBusters reports that a well-known domestic terrorist and friend of President ‘Prompter, one who, according to their police union, was allegedly involved in killing a San Francisco cop in 1970, will not be speaking at the Naperville, Illinois public high school where he was originally scheduled to appear. Nor will his domestic terrorist wife.
“New York Times Spiked Obama Story” — because it would have been a presidential election “game-changer.” The Obama campaign provided ACORN its maximum donor list, a clearly illegal act, and certainly ironclad proof that the alleged separation between the two was non-existent. Much more background is here.
Kevin at Pundit Review — “Speak for Yourself, MSM, We Weren’t Fooled.”
“(Actress) Angie Harmon is not afraid to come out and say she doesn’t like how President Obama is handling the job — but she’s sick of having to defend herself from being deemed a racist.” It’s only just begun, babe. The worse he does, the worse it will become. This AP piece, noted by Warner Todd Huston at NewsBusters, is an early example of a piece that equates many clearly policy-based criticisms with racism.
At a new web site from our all-caring government — “Economic turmoil (e.g., increased unemployment, foreclosures, loss of investments and other financial distress) can result in a whole host of negative health effects – both physical and mental. It can be particularly devastating to your emotional and mental well-being. Although each of us is affected differently by economic troubles, these problems can add tremendous stress, which in turn can substantially increase the risk for developing such problems as Depression, Anxiety, Compulsive Behaviors (over-eating, excessive gambling, spending, etc.), Substance Abuse.” Gee, maybe Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Harry Reid should have thought of the possible consequences of their actions before they decided to create the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy during June of last year.
