On Sept. 2, the Yew Nork Times had him trailing by twelve points.
He won tonight by a margin of 66% to 34%.
This was not supposed to happen. OS was in Yew Nork over the weekend, and Paladino's candidacy was still being pooh-poohed by The Times. He was one of those, you know, Conseeeervative Tea-Bagger types, and all his followers are just hicks, all angry-and-stuff about losing their jobs and businesses and seeing the state government totally out of control. Nothing to see here, just keep moving along.
Tomorrow morning should be interesting. Obama Bob hit all three morning network shows on Monday, bam-bam-bam, within one half-hour time segment, pushing the spin of the day.
How does he plan to spin this?
How, for that matter, does the Republican National Committee plan to spin this?
Whooo-weee, ya'll. This could get interestin'!
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Angelo Codevilla: America's Ruling Class
Just to let ya'll know this gent is not a tea-bagger living in Momma's basement, as the folks in the White House tend to characterize any who dare disagree.
Angelo M. Codevilla, a professor of international relations at Boston University, a fellow of the Claremont Institute, and a senior editor of The American Spectator, was a Foreign Service officer and served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee between 1977 and 1985. He was the principal author of the 1980 presidential transition report on intelligence. He is the author of The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility.
Codevilla weighs in this month with a long and thoughtful article on the American culture, which goes far in explaining what has happened to us.
His thesis is: America has been taken over by a ruling class, profoundly out of touch with the people they rule, and the strains are beginning to show.
As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors' "toxic assets" was the only alternative to the U.S. economy's "systemic collapse." In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets' nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America. The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.
When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term "political class" came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public's understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the "ruling class." And in fact Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the country. They think, look, and act as a class.
It's a hefty read, but truly enlightening. Kudos to American Spectator for publishing it for our consideration.
Angelo M. Codevilla, a professor of international relations at Boston University, a fellow of the Claremont Institute, and a senior editor of The American Spectator, was a Foreign Service officer and served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee between 1977 and 1985. He was the principal author of the 1980 presidential transition report on intelligence. He is the author of The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility.
Codevilla weighs in this month with a long and thoughtful article on the American culture, which goes far in explaining what has happened to us.
His thesis is: America has been taken over by a ruling class, profoundly out of touch with the people they rule, and the strains are beginning to show.
As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors' "toxic assets" was the only alternative to the U.S. economy's "systemic collapse." In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets' nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America. The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.
When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term "political class" came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public's understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the "ruling class." And in fact Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the country. They think, look, and act as a class.
It's a hefty read, but truly enlightening. Kudos to American Spectator for publishing it for our consideration.
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