Lucid Links (110509, Morning)
Last night I noted that the Associated Press finally recognized, nine months after yours truly noticed it, that “Ford has benefited from consumer goodwill because it didn’t take government bailout money.”
The general theme of the AP’s overall coverage of October’s auto sales (”Auto sales show industry beginning to stabilize”) is that last month’s annualized volume of 10.5 million vehicles “signaled that some consumers are starting to spend again and the sputtering economy is beginning to pull out of trouble.”
Writers Tom Krisher and Dee-Ann Durbin also included this “interesting” statement:
Analysts said the figures are good for a normally weak October, but they’re still far short of the 17 million annual rates from the late 1990s and early 2000s.
How convenient. Of far more relevance is the fact that sales in 2007 and 2006 were 16.14 million and 16.55 million, respectively, barely short of the wondrous 17 million units sold many years before that. These people can’t seem to help themselves, instinctively believing, or wanting readers to believe, that we had a lousy economy during most of the Bush 43 years.
We didn’t. We’ve had a lousy economy since June-July 2008. That’s when the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy began.
The POR Economy is one where annual vehicle sales “stabilize” at 10.5 – 11 million units, about 1/3 below where they were just two years ago, and the apparatchik press tries to make us believe that’s acceptable, at least for now. Sales will likely stay right there, or barely budge higher, for most of the next 12 months, as long as this administration’s economically ruinous efforts continue. If this bunch gets its way on health care or cap and trade, look out below.
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Do you remember all those grade school videos produced during Bush 43’s administration singing W’s praises? Neither do I, because, appropriately, there weren’t any. There have been 11 such videos (at least) produced since Barack Obama took office, including one at the Barack Obama Elementary School (I’m not kidding; scroll down at link) in Long Island, New York, so renamed after the 2008 presidential election.
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Well, this is interesting — “Lesson learned: NRSC pledges to stay out of contested primaries.”
It would be nice if the folks at ORPINO (Ohio Republican Party In Name Only) would someday decide to do the same. It’s almost too late this time around. Though it’s not a formal thing, ORPINO is clearly behind totally unacceptable Mike DeWine for AG and obviously unfit Jon Husted for Secretary of State at the expense of self-evidently superior sensible conservative competitors Dave Yost and Sandy O’Brien.
An official declaration of neutrality to clear the air would be nice. I don’t expect it. That’s why they’re called ORPINO.
