Mark Warner would like us to believe that his record in state politics and that of his opponent Jim Gilmore are far more important than their views on national issues, such as Warners’ panic-driven support for the bailout.
Be careful what you wish for, Mark.
My buddy Tim Watson (I’m Surrounded by Idiots, h/t BVBL) has the […]
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[The right-wing liberal] Warner’s explanation: Who are you going to believe? Me? Or your lying ears?
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 7th 2008 under: Democrats, Economics, Government spending, Jim Gilmore, Mark Warner, On the Blogosphere, Republican Party, U.S. politics, Virginia politics, aggregated
[The right-wing liberal] Good Morning, it is now a different (Senate) race
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 6th 2008 under: Economics, Government spending, Jim Gilmore, Mark Warner, On the Blogosphere, Republican Party, U.S. politics, Virginia politics, aggregated
In the four months or so that I have posted in this space (as stated below, this was orginially posted on Bloggers 4 Jim Gilmore) , I’d like to think I gave Mark Warner the rough treatment he deserved. I will confess, however, that I was less enthusiastic than most over here about heaping praise […]
[The right-wing liberal] The Jim Gilmore I remember finally resurfaces
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 6th 2008 under: Economics, Government spending, Jim Gilmore, On the Blogosphere, Republican Party, U.S. politics, Virginia politics, aggregated
You remember him, right? The risk-taker? The fellow willing to throw caution to the wind? The guy who knew the taxpayers of the Commonwealth were taking it on the chin and wouldn’t stand for it anymore?
You know, that Jim Gilmore.
Well, say hello (once again, it’s been a while) to Jim Gilmore, the taxpayer’s best friend […]
[The right-wing liberal] Bailout passes with room to spare
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 3rd 2008 under: Economics, Government spending, On the Blogosphere, Republican Party, U.S. politics, Virginia politics, aggregated
The bailout won 58 more votes this time, a sad commentary on the depth of the panic that gripped Washington since Monday. Kat is beside herself, while Leslie sees a silver lining.
More than two dozen Republicans flipped, among the names I recognized in that bunch were Rodney Frelinghuysen (latest in a long line of Federalist-Whig-Republicans […]
[The right-wing liberal] Words of wisdom from Democratic Central (No, I’m not kidding)
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 3rd 2008 under: Democrats, Economics, Government spending, On the Blogosphere, Republican Party, aggregated
Blogger cvllelaw comments on the effects of the Wells Fargo-Wachovia deal (emphasis added):
So what does this have to do with politics?
It may provide a reason for some House members to vote against the bailout proposal.
The hastily-arranged Wachovia-to-Citibank deal last weekend, for $1 a share, would have required $42 billion in FDIC exposure. Now Wells […]
[The right-wing liberal] Joe being Joe
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 3rd 2008 under: John McCain, On the Blogosphere, Sarah Palin, U.S. politics, aggregated
“. . . Biden’s “gravitas” is derived almost entirely from the fact that he can lie with absolute passion and conviction. He just plain made stuff up tonight.” - Jonah Goldberg
I also noticed Biden flat-out lying (or, as Jim Geraghty partially assumes, hallucinating) last night. The McCain campaign quickly produced about 14 instances of what […]
[The right-wing liberal] Mark the date: May 31, 2009
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 3rd 2008 under: Communist China, International Affairs, On the Blogosphere, WBK war, aggregated
That will be the date of Iran’s nuclear test.
I explain why over at the China e-Lobby.
[The right-wing liberal] Michael Graham hits the nail on the head
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 3rd 2008 under: On the Blogosphere, Sarah Palin, U.S. politics, aggregated
I grew up in either the Northeast; Michael Graham grew up in Southern California. Both of us had our formative years outside Middle America. Thus, he has come closer than anyone else to my view of the debate last night (NRO - The Corner):
I’ll admit it—Joe Biden is my kind of debater. Dispassionate and disconnected, he speaks […]
[The right-wing liberal] And the debate loser is . . . me?
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 3rd 2008 under: On the Blogosphere, Sarah Palin, U.S. politics, aggregated
At about 9:35 PM, the Fredericksburg Expo wireless network slowed to less than a crawl. In my impatience, I ended up hitting the wrong key and wiping out my entire post. As such, the last half of the debate was a frustrated blur.
If you ask me (whaddya mean you didn’t?), Palin won the first half […]
[The right-wing liberal] Ah, this brings back memories
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 2nd 2008 under: Barack Obama, Democrats, On the Blogosphere, U.S. politics, Virginia politics, aggregated, education
Riley at VV has the latest shenanigans from the Virginia Education Association:
This really should be no surprise that the Virginia Educators Association (sic) sent out an email asking teachers to wear blue to school as part of “Obama Blue Day” and try to get their students registered to vote. After all, 3 years ago their […]
Iain Murray seems to think so (NRO - The Corner):
If there is indeed a liquidity crisis, and I’m not sure there is a systemic crisis, it would be best solved by reforms that make sure that early terminations do not lock in mark-to-market losses (which is what killed Bear Stearns). The supposed “reform” of mark-to-market […]
[The right-wing liberal] Of all the slop spewed by Wayne Gilchrest . . .
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 2nd 2008 under: On the Blogosphere, Religion, U.S. politics, aggregated
. . . for some reason, this comment bothered me the most (Mark Fisher, Washington Post):
We’re in this bad place as a country because of the evangelicals, the neocons, the nasty, bitter and mean . . .
Now, just as an exercise, I’m going to change one word in the above quote:
We’re in this bad place […]
[The right-wing liberal] Bailout bill zooms past Senate
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 2nd 2008 under: Economics, Government spending, On the Blogosphere, U.S. politics, aggregated
Leslie Carbone has the gory details.
Will the House stand firm again? I’d like to think so, but I doubt it.
[The right-wing liberal] House Republicans present another alternative
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 1st 2008 under: Economics, Government spending, On the Blogosphere, Republican Party, U.S. politics, aggregated, taxes
CNBC has the details (h/t Mary Katherine Ham at the Weekly Standard Blog). It’s a very good list of reforms (albeit not perfect). They are as follows:
Require the Treasury Department to guarantee, at up to 100 percent, bank losses resulting from failed mortgage-backed securities originated prior to the plan’s enactment. Such insurance, supporters say, would […]
[The right-wing liberal] David Freddoso gets it
Posted by rightwingliberal in September 30th 2008 under: Economics, Government spending, On the Blogosphere, Republican Party, U.S. politics, aggregated
This is what I’d like every House Republican who voted no to read and take to heart (NRO):
. . . Republicans cannot expect to win sympathy from the electorate merely by playing an obscure insiders’ blame game over who hurt whose feelings. Instead of pointing the finger at the other guy, they should boldly make […]
[The right-wing liberal] I have to give this comment more pub!
Posted by rightwingliberal in September 30th 2008 under: Economics, On the Blogosphere, U.S. politics, aggregated
Last night, I had this to say about Donald Trump:
There was a time when I never thought I would ever say this, but we need Donald Trump as Secretary of the Treasury. He’d be a dramatic improvement over Henry Paulson.
Riley at Virginia Virtucon responded as follows:
A Chia Pet would be a dramatic improvement over Paulson.
No argument […]
[The right-wing liberal] Words of Wisdom from Mark Levin
Posted by rightwingliberal in September 30th 2008 under: Economics, Government spending, On the Blogosphere, Republican Party, U.S. politics, aggregated
Clearly, Mark hasn’t caught the fever either (NRO - The Corner):
. . . count me among those few here who want to thank the House Republicans for taking a bold stand against what had been a stampede on a scale I have never before witnessed on matters of huge consequence. Conservatism is more than a quaint […]
I am deeply shocked by the rampant ignorance running throughout elite opinion on the failed bailout. IN particular, the “explanation: for so many nay votes would be laughable if it wasn’t so outrageous.
After the bill sank beneath the waves, John Boehner, Roy Blunt, and Eric Cantor stepped forth to blame Nancy Pelosi for turning off […]
[The right-wing liberal] As we deal with the latest panic . . .
Posted by rightwingliberal in September 30th 2008 under: Economics, Energy, Government spending, On the Blogosphere, U.S. politics, aggregated
. . . it would be instructive to note the demise of the last one (”global warming”).
From Investor’s Business Daily via NRO - Planet Gore:
The four major agencies tracking Earth’s temperature, including NASA’s Goddard Institute, report that the Earth cooled 0.7 degree Celsius in 2007, the fastest decline in the age of instrumentation, putting us […]
This is priceless (NRO - The Corner):
As a general proposition, when told by unanimous elites that a particular course of action is urgent and necessary to avoid disaster, there’s a lot to be said for going fishing.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
[The right-wing liberal] Donald Trump doesn’t feel the panic
Posted by rightwingliberal in September 30th 2008 under: Economics, Government spending, On the Blogosphere, U.S. politics, aggregated
So you think the bailout failure is the end of all things? Are you subsumed by the fever of the panic? Are you seeing the Second Great Depression on the horizon?
Well then, Donald Trump would like to talk to you (Fox News via Mountain Sage):
Oil is going to drop down to nothing . . . […]
[The right-wing liberal] One of the heroes explains her decision
Posted by rightwingliberal in September 30th 2008 under: Economics, Government spending, On the Blogosphere, Republican Party, U.S. politics, aggregated
Funny, Marsha Blackburn (one of the 228 who shot down the bailout) doesn’t sound ignorant or “irresponsible.” In fact, she sounds perfectly reasonable. I guess this is what happens when you don’t succumb to mass hysteria; those in the throes of the panic can’t understand a word you’re saying.
For those of you not suffering the fever, here […]
[The right-wing liberal] As of 1:49 PM, No had 220 votes
Posted by rightwingliberal in September 29th 2008 under: Economics, On the Blogosphere, U.S. politics, aggregated
Vote count via K-Lo at NRO - The Corner.
Forget twisting, several arms will be broken before all this is over.
[The right-wing liberal] Nice line, Doug
Posted by rightwingliberal in September 29th 2008 under: Economics, Government spending, On the Blogosphere, U.S. politics, aggregated
Doug Mataconis over at Below the Beltway has the line of the day (so far) on the bailout, and the blank check it will (almost literally) give Henry Paulson:
It’s the kind of unchecked authority that would have made even Alexander Hamilton blush . . .
Nicely done, Doug; nicely done.
[The right-wing liberal] This is what principle looks like
Posted by rightwingliberal in September 29th 2008 under: Government spending, On the Blogosphere, Republican Party, Rob Wittman, U.S. politics, Virginia politics, aggregated
From Congressman Mike Pence (Human Events):
Dear Colleagues:
Our nation has been confronted by a serious crisis in our financial markets. The President and this Congress were right to act with all deliberate speed in addressing this crisis.
We now have a deal that promises to bring near-term stability to our financial turmoil, but at what price?
Economic freedom […]
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