The Leveller: A modern day regulator

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May be unbelievable

Why Palin? Better than the many cannibals that haunt Congress. Take your pick venality or vanity?

John Ziegler, a Palin ally, said Schmidt “is trying to justify an incredibly, poorly run campaign on his part. His career has been greatly damaged in Republican circles. Why would anyone hire Steve Schmidt? He’s tried to torpedo the most popular Republican that there is after running a horrendous presidential campaign.”

Sure, I agree that Schmidt ran a poor campain and it is likely he torpedo’d his own career strikingly similar to Matlin in the aftermath of Bush’s ’92 campaign. But if this is true it really makes little sense for Schmidt to lie about these particular details. Remembering the Couric interview and other embarrassing moments for Palin last year the statements from Scmidt are entirely believable.

To me Palin speaks rather oddly, not sounding stupid like Bush in terms of pronunciation but more like rambling on. Her sentences fit together grammatically but its as if she puts it together just in time to make the whole sentence proper, barely appropriate, and, ahem, believable with the last string of words. Its an odd skill.

However, “[S]he still didn’t really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea, Heilemann told the program’s Anderson Cooper. She was still regularly saying that Saddam Hussein had been behind 9/11.”

It’s harder to believe that Schmidt would fabricate these items.

Schmidt continues by saying, “I believe, had she not been on the ticket, our margin of defeat would’ve been greater than it would’ve been otherwise.”

Dumb but true statement by Schmidt but again he is merely telling his own opinion no doubt with the interviewer. But really, any Republican can’t lose by much more than McCain no matter how awful the campaign. However, if McCain would have picked Leiberman as I assumed, the campaign would have appeared a little more deliberate and avoid the embarrassing flaps the camp endured not exhausting so much energy and resources in getting Palin fit for prime-time in terms of image.

Now conservatives must be confusing her general population curiousity with real voter muscle. Conservatives seem to be expecting that they will be able to cash in not only dollars but votes with Palin. I doubt this will happen as time goes by and near the next major national elections as it did in 2008.

But the conservative support is still baffling. Is Sarah Palin really the best thing for the conservatives or Republican party?

Her ascendacy is a bit surreal and reminds of a movie called Idiocracy where an Army experiment gone wrong left the most average Joe in the world frozen for 500 years only to awaken to a world of idiots. He was considered a genius by the masses. It was silly but reminds of Palin who is painfully average in every way. Yet Republicans are acting extremely thrilled. I suspect there is some sexuality involved due to various comments that have surfaced from time to time but there is little motivation for such widespread support among conservatives on that basis alone.

It may be unbelievable but it happened just that way…therefore I nominate the Sleepy Rebels song for Palin and conservatives who are joined together in a most peculiar way. Good luck in 2012!

Palin, a reckless choice

I believe Cheney made the remark. Its among his few criticisms I can agree with.

More than that, Sarah Palin takes Fox News commentator job

I guess this is what Palin meant by wanting in someway to cash in on her notoriety. Quit Governor of Alaska to collect speaking money, a book deal, and now this.

Also, McCain aide: Palin believed candidacy ‘God’s plan’

What leads people to believe this kind of thing? Why can’t the candidacy of Ron Paul be God’s plan? It’s just another asinine statement demonstrating the weakness of the people we have running in politics today.

We truly have the most feeble minded lemmings lurking in and around Congress.

Consider what is more reckless. What was reckless about Palin as McCains choice exactly? How would Cheney answer that question. Was it meant politically as a candidate or in office as VP? If the publication is accurate and “unprepared for high office” is what he thought then we have to assume the latter.

Why should we as a people have a government that according to Cheney’s own words can elect someone so unprepared but to nearly become the most powerful person on earth? In other words if any earthling was asked who is the most powerful person on earth, most likely the president of the U.S. would be listed number one. Removing the president of the U.S. from this survey and the earthlings choices would probably be hard to guess.

So it seems obvious that for now, the president of the U.S. is the most powerful person in the world. I contend this is not a favorable outcome, it is a least desirable situation. If “unqualified” persons can be elected certainly we should argue for a smaller more humble if not not impotent government.

Having a monetary standard, and a truly limited government as the majority of the founding generation articulated then nothing like 8 years of Bush or the present government would be allowed to carry on the criminal activity that has become business as usual.

Harry Reid and a double standard

In a private conversation reported in a new book, Reid described Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a “light-skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in a statement that Reid should step down, calling his comments “embarrassing and racially insensitive.

Sure, Reid is quite stupid, and probably a bit racist like most people. I would agree he should step down but more for being stupid than anything else. The reported racial comment does show how ignorant he is.

But far too many white people are acting like they care. For a bunch of conservatives to rush to critical judgement for Reid being insensitive does not make the argument anymore useful. Since they are calling out a true double standard, the liberals and blacks that hate Republicans also know its true but politics trumps the reality every time. No one else but Republicans really care.

A more important double standard or hypocrisy to me is the one conservatives fomented during the Bush administration. To excuse big government policies as they did during those years only to suddenly discover freedom and liberty within the last 12 months since Obama was elected is more egregious than anything Reid could utter with his stupid mouth. BTW, I hope that bastard loses in Nevada.

Anyway, the double standard for treating the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to me is the real crime here that no one else seems to care about either.

Basic economics and current healthcare legislation

We’re on the cusp of massive government intervention not seen since last month and again about 12 to 14 months before that during the last days of the Bush administration. Yes, it is insane how the current events are piling on asinine policies. The proposed health care legislation seems to be nebulous and since the Senate voted on it without possibly having time to even read it probably wouldn’t have made much sense.

Why the rush to pass something, anything? In brief, no matter what legislation is passed these politicians will simply point to it down the road to take credit if events are “interpreted” as generally good by the people. If the events are interpreted “bad” the blame will be placed on anything but the legislation that was passed.

The proposed intervention into health care is certainly going to cause confusion and imbalance the effect of which can not be precisely predicted. The fact is no one knows the deleterious afterwards that will follow.

Excuse me, I am watching PBS right now in the middle of a segment on the recession interviewing Alan Blinder from Princeton. He just finished answering a question about how come “no one warned us” about the possible implosion of financial markets. He said, “it was beyond almost everyone’s imagination”. WTF? How come Joe Public like myself, the articles I read, the people I discuss issues with knew better? Very similar to the lunacy about invading Iraq and the intelligence assessments neglected by the executive branch.

Let’s explain the current financial bailouts and criminal activity by the government in terms of “hooking up” Goldman Sachs and attempts to pass invasive healthcare legislation with an economic comparison to classical biological control. Just as an exotic plant can turn invasive when freed from the enemies that kept it in check back home, so too can an exotic biocontrol insect run amuck itself in the absence of the predators and competitors it evolved with.

Ah, excuse me. Same program on PBS now interviewing Laura Tyson, barf, remember her as one of Clinton’s administration economic advisers big 3. She just uttered more nonsense like Blinder.

Ok, so you may be familiar with biological controls. The unintended consequences can be devastating and in each case unpredictable. Of course recent scientific advancements have probably contributed to more precise biological interventions the comparison between economic predictability of intervention remains the same but always potentially devastating.

We can use Geithner’s and Bernanke’s own words here when they discuss the recent interventions as being “imaginative” or “exploratory” alluding to wonderful new financial tools present today that didn’t exist decades ago. The stronger critics, most visibly Ron Paul since he is the only member of Congress that gets it, will say these invasions into the economy will cause imbalances, severely retard free markets and so on. The other side of this legislation after its had to time to distort the economy will leave common people poorer and with fewer choices. They are right but because these predictions can not say with precision the day or the hour does not make it any less so.

The health care legislation will simply cause increasing distortion in the industry. We know it will create fewer choices, cost us more, and leave us with inferior medical care.

Don’t believe the economic pseudo science. No math is necessary since the economic models are for the most part a canard. These so called experts try to introduce high math models and general functions to explain economics to pretend they understand and can in fact “predict” the effects of economic policy on the market. But just as with any other legislation if there is some good as a result, perhaps a green shoot, credit is then taken. If there is brown shit then blame is likewise deflected.

Have a happy 2010.