Krauthammer Agrees!: Twofer Tuesday: The Middle
Update: Feb. 19, 2010 - Krauthammer agrees!:
..It turned out that the country’s problems were not problems of structure but of leadership. Reagan and Clinton had it. Carter didn’t. Under a president with extensive executive experience, good political skills and an ideological compass in tune with the public, the country was indeed governable.
It’s 2010, and the first-year agenda of a popular and promising young president has gone down in flames. Barack Obama’s two signature initiatives — cap-and-trade and health-care reform — lie in ruins.
Desperate to explain away this scandalous state of affairs, liberal apologists haul out the old reliable from the Carter years: “America the Ungovernable.” So declared Newsweek. “Is America Ungovernable?” coyly asked the New Republic. Guess the answer….
The leadership of the Democratic Party still does not get it.
The lamestream journOlists are trying to spin the departure of Bayh as a sign the ‘system doesn’t work’ i.e. government is broken.
Huh funny that, I remember Dubyah getting Medicare Part D, two wars, No Child Left Behind and tax cuts passed with far less of a majority and the same system of governance. Big Dawg got NAFTA, SCHIP, FMLA, balanced the budget. Both created millions of jobs.
The system is not broken, the leadership is weak. OWN YOUR CANDIDATE.
And that’s the view from here in ‘The Middle’ 
I read posts from the ‘left’- BTD at TalkLeft, and the journOlists – the Politico hit piece on Evan Bayh today and I think, wow they are So Far Away From Me. I think they will continue to be shocked! and amazed! and astounded! as the Dems are swept out of power. It is clear to everyone but those in the bubble or on the left that the country is saying N-O to the Obama Agenda all down the line.
The Democratic Party is So Far Away from the Middle. Since America IS The Middle we will have to remove them at the ballot box again. My Generation’s (X)turn to be a ‘Reagan Democrat’ is it, and save the country from the worst proclivities of the farleft neoprogressive agenda? Okay I’m down with that.
I get so tired when I have to explain
When you’re so far away from me
See you’ve been in the sun and I’ve been in the rain
And you’re so far away from me-Dire Straits
CW Rawks: The Vampire Diaries gets early renewal for Season 2 and Supernatural gets Season 6!!!!…
Sweet
The CW has issued early series renewals to five shows – freshman breakout hit “The Vampire Diaries,” Josh Schwartz’s “Gossip Girl,” sophomore soap “90210,” veteran drama “Supernatural” and the network’s flagship reality staple “America’s Next Top Model.” All five will return next fall.
Vampire Diaries picked up for Season 2 and Supernatural gets Season 6
“Vampire Diaries” quickly became The CW’s most-watched show, averaging 4.6 million viewers. On Thursdays, “Diaries” has aided “Supernatural,” which has improved over last season among the network’s target demo of women 18-34.
Cast and creative crew members from “Supernatural” and “The Vampire Diaries” convey the magnitude of Comic-Con ’09 while signing autographs. Check out more Comic-Con ’09 footage at http://www.thewb.com/comiccon
FOXBiz signs Charlie Gasparino?
Charlie rumoured to be leaving CNBC for FOXBiz…our previous posts on Charlie and the CNBC crew here and some video highlights of Charlie/assorted other CNBC hosts here…
Fox Business Network is near a deal to steal Charlie Gasparino away from rival CNBC.
The famously feisty Wall Street reporter has officially departed from CNBC after being largely absent for several weeks, and is expected to be announced as the latest hire by Fox Business before this week is out.
Gasparino did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
But a representative for CNBC confirmed his departure, saying, “We thank Charlie for all his quality contributions and wish him the best.”
A Fox Business representative further confirmed that the network is in talks with Gasparino. News of Gasparino’s leaving CNBC to join Fox Business was first reported by the Web site TVNewser. (Fox Business, like The Post, is owned by News Corp.)
Gasparino’s would mark the third high-profile hire by Fox Business in the last few months, following the luring of Don Imus and John Stossel to the network. Though he lacks the national profile of Imus or Stossel, Gasparino is one of the most recognizable faces in television business news, and his joining Fox Business will be a major coup for the nascent network….
Shockah!- Evan Bayh (D-IN) to retire!!!
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., addresses employees during a campaign stop as Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., right, listens at AM General Assembly Plant, in Mishawaka, Ind., Saturday, April 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Update 3: ahh Larry Sabato agrees with me, Bayh was still a good certainty at holding this seat, this resignation is a shot at Obama no mistake,
Anybody who says Evan Bayh is retiring because he feared being defeated by ex-Sen. Dan Coats is dead wrong. Bayh was the clear favorite in that match-up, and Coats has been damaged by the lobbying and residency revelations about him over the last couple of weeks.
And that’s why this is such a setback for Democrats. The Crystal Ball has immediately re-categorized this seat from Likely D to Toss Up, pending a clearer picture of the party nominees. 2010 is going to be a Republican year, and despite Obama’s narrow 2008 victory in Indiana, the Hoosier State is still GOP territory overall. At the very least, Democrats will have to spend big bucks to hold the seat, if they can hold it at all. The logical Democratic candidate would probably be an incumbent House member, perhaps Brad Ellsworth (age 51), Joe Donnelly (age 54), or Baron Hill (age 56). Hill has already run against Senate appointee Coats in the 1990 special election (following Sen. Dan Quayle’s resignation to become Vice President), and lost to Coats by a respectable 54% to 46%. Since Hill faces yet another tough rematch with former GOP Cong. Mike Sodrel, Hill might be especially tempted to make the run. But this is all speculation.
‘Grecian Formula’ eludes greying economies of Europe
As CalculatedRisk noted last week, Greece is the word….Germany seems to remember the Weimar Republic, they aren’t going into bailout mode easily…their demographics in Western Europe seem to make their entitlement policies unsustainable (excluding Germany)…
AP (ugh!):
Germany rejects the idea of setting up a special fund to bail out eurozone countries, like Greece, that run into fiscal trouble because budgetary problems must be solved at the root, the Finance Ministry said Monday.Spokesman Michael Offer told reporters that a European equivalent to the International Monetary Fund, as has been floated in the German media, “does not appear to be the solution” to a problem such as that plaguing Greece, because it does not get to the “root” of the problem.
Greece must reduce its budget deficit by four percentage points this year and bring it down to 3 percent of gross domestic product by 2012, Offer said. That is in line with requirements for participation in the common currency.
“The problem is in Greece and therefore there is no way around … the painful austerity measures,” he said. Offer stressed that the IMF, which provides loans to nations in budgetary crisis, would be limited to “technical assistance.”
Financial Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble underlined in an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper on Saturday that responsibility for the euro lies with the 16 eurozone countries. “There is no textbook that explains what to do when a land within a monetary union goes bankrupt. There is no precedent” for such a case, Schaeuble was quoted as saying.
And get a load of Schaeuble’s comment:
“The state of California does not go to the IMF for help,” Schaeuble said…
To which I reply..sure not yet! Give the public unions a few minutes to figure out how to strongarm you and Andy Stern will be there momentarily…But seriously, if they bailout Greece the rest of the PIGS are next. Same here with Obama bailing out Cali..but SEIU made Obama so ya know, he will find a way, stimulus/jobs bill/green jobs bill, whatever he calls it, is is bailouts to state government workers he is about….unsustainable…
The Knack lead singer Doug Fieger passes away, God Bless
One of the Gen X anthems-
Doug Fieger, leader of the power pop band The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit “My Sharona,” died Sunday. He was 57. Fieger, a Detroit-area native, died at his home in Woodland Hills near Los Angeles after battling cancer, according to The Knack’s manager, Jake Hooker.Fieger formed The Knack in Los Angeles 1978, and the group quickly became a staple of Sunset Strip rock clubs. A year later he co-wrote and sang lead vocals on “My Sharona.” Fieger said the song, with its pounding drums and exuberant vocals, was inspired by a girlfriend of four years.
“I had never met a girl like her — ever,” he told The Associated Press in a 1994 interview. “She induced madness. She was a very powerful presence. She had an insouciance that wouldn’t quit. She was very self-assured. … She also had an overpowering scent, and it drove me crazy.”
“My Sharona,” an unapologetically anthemic rock song, emerged during disco’s heyday and held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard pop chart for six weeks, becoming an FM radio standard….
TNT Supernatural marathon – President’s Day, Monday Feb 15th
Set your DVRs
Supernatural411 has the episode list, courtesy of TNT:
9:00 AM – Tall Tales
10:00 AM – Hollywood Babylon
11:00 AM – Folsom Prison Blues
12:00 PM – Bad Day at Black Rock
1:00 PM – Mystery Spot
2:00 PM – Monster Movie
3:00 PM – Yellow Fever
4:00 PM – Criss Angel is a Douchebag
5:00 PM – After School Special
6:00 PM – Monster at the End of This Book
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