Obama Asks Federal Workers to Sacrifice: "Citing the current economic recession -- and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks eight years ago -- President Obama says he will use emergency powers to cut the programmed across-the-board January increase in federal employees' pay from 2.4 percent to 2.0 percent, according to a letter he sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Monday."
It's not about Obama. It's never about Obama.
Via Instapundit, who has his own opinion on the "cuts."
Monday, August 31, 2009
LET THEM EAT CAKE
Attributed to Marie Antoinette before she was beheaded during the French revolution. In his opinion piece flacking Obamacare, E.J. Dionne quotes Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has his own "Marie Antoinette" moment.
Schumer "argues that the administration should use a simple analogy to drive home the idea that government has the capacity to expand the choices people have. 'In my state and every state, we have excellent private universities and excellent public universities,' he said. 'People have a choice.'"
Uh, Chuck, it's a good idea to engage the brain before opening the mouth.
What is the cost differential between an "excellent private university" and an "excellent public university?" What percentage of public universities can truly be rated as excellent?
And now for the $64,000 question: Which university do you think most Americans can afford to attend? The excellent private university? The excellent public university? The average public university? Or the local community college?
Schumer "argues that the administration should use a simple analogy to drive home the idea that government has the capacity to expand the choices people have. 'In my state and every state, we have excellent private universities and excellent public universities,' he said. 'People have a choice.'"
Uh, Chuck, it's a good idea to engage the brain before opening the mouth.
What is the cost differential between an "excellent private university" and an "excellent public university?" What percentage of public universities can truly be rated as excellent?
And now for the $64,000 question: Which university do you think most Americans can afford to attend? The excellent private university? The excellent public university? The average public university? Or the local community college?
POST STILL PUSHING OBAMACARE
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne is flacking Obamacare.
I've been following the debate fairly closely, and all the polls I've seen tend to indicate that most Americans recognize the system needs improvement but are not "eager for fundamental change."
And advocates of Obamacare never, ever, lied? C'mon, EJ.
And Ted Kennedy didn't get his way, either.
President Obama can still secure major health-care legislation this year if he learns from his mistakes in recent months and spends more time reminding Americans why they were once eager for fundamental change.
I've been following the debate fairly closely, and all the polls I've seen tend to indicate that most Americans recognize the system needs improvement but are not "eager for fundamental change."
[A]dvocates of the status quo filled the vacuum -- often with outright lies.
And advocates of Obamacare never, ever, lied? C'mon, EJ.
[T]he administration now needs to lay out clear and understandable goals, so it can bargain from a position of strength. Dare one say it? That was Ted Kennedy's way.
And Ted Kennedy didn't get his way, either.
AFTER 42 YEARS, FLYOVER DENIED
What's next? No flyover of the Super Bowl if "God Bless America" is played?
Obama's going to be a one-term President, unless he's impeached first (which is looking more likely every day he's in office).
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