Oh my. Now we have Version 3.0 of "Airforce One: The Movie."
Amy Sullivan has more thoughts on the "reality TV president."
And reality is a moving target in the intensifying case of the Medicare bribe.
Meanwhile, over at the increasingly Strangelovean DoD, the Dept. of Propaganda isn't being resurrected. No, really, it's not.
Now that the right has effectively dismantled much of the New Deal, they want to replace FDR's image with Reagan's. I wonder what Ron would think.
It's all about the money. On Slate, Daniel Gross looks at a hidden concern for the economy. Manufacturers aren't borrowing money, despite continuing low interest rates.
Who can blame them though, with the doddering fools responsible for economic "policy" in the white house (that policy being, whatever it takes to win in '04). "A remarkable ignorance about economics," writes Michael Elliot in Time.
Even Chief Executive magazine -- surely a safe house for GOP economic policy -- can't believe these guys. This from the December issue: "For the life of us, we can't figure out what the Treasury Secretary [John Snow] is trying to say. First, he urged China and Japan to make their currencies more expensive against the dollar. But then he started talking up U.S. interest rates and urging a strong dollar. Huh?" Just keep concentrating on inflating that half trillion deficit, John.
And to think, we once had a grown up as Treasury Secretary. One who actually understood economics and put policy ahead of politics, figuring the politics would sort itself out as a result of good policy. Whatever happened to him?
*****
Jason G's knee surgery had better have been successful. He's going to be playing a lot at first next year. It's a shame to see Nick Johnson go; although he looked awful in September and October, he's a patient, "natural" hitter, like the Yankees of old. But Vasquez seems like the real deal, and a whole helluva lot younger than Shilling. And a 4-1 strike out to walk ration. Cool.
Not so cool. The last time a Selig opened the financial kimono, he redacted, oh, say two thirds of the pages that included non-gate revenue. Things like parking, concessions. TV! I don't expect much this time either. Milwaukee tax payers and fans got screwed.
Amy Sullivan has more thoughts on the "reality TV president."
And reality is a moving target in the intensifying case of the Medicare bribe.
Meanwhile, over at the increasingly Strangelovean DoD, the Dept. of Propaganda isn't being resurrected. No, really, it's not.
Now that the right has effectively dismantled much of the New Deal, they want to replace FDR's image with Reagan's. I wonder what Ron would think.
It's all about the money. On Slate, Daniel Gross looks at a hidden concern for the economy. Manufacturers aren't borrowing money, despite continuing low interest rates.
Who can blame them though, with the doddering fools responsible for economic "policy" in the white house (that policy being, whatever it takes to win in '04). "A remarkable ignorance about economics," writes Michael Elliot in Time.
Even Chief Executive magazine -- surely a safe house for GOP economic policy -- can't believe these guys. This from the December issue: "For the life of us, we can't figure out what the Treasury Secretary [John Snow] is trying to say. First, he urged China and Japan to make their currencies more expensive against the dollar. But then he started talking up U.S. interest rates and urging a strong dollar. Huh?" Just keep concentrating on inflating that half trillion deficit, John.
And to think, we once had a grown up as Treasury Secretary. One who actually understood economics and put policy ahead of politics, figuring the politics would sort itself out as a result of good policy. Whatever happened to him?
*****
Jason G's knee surgery had better have been successful. He's going to be playing a lot at first next year. It's a shame to see Nick Johnson go; although he looked awful in September and October, he's a patient, "natural" hitter, like the Yankees of old. But Vasquez seems like the real deal, and a whole helluva lot younger than Shilling. And a 4-1 strike out to walk ration. Cool.
Not so cool. The last time a Selig opened the financial kimono, he redacted, oh, say two thirds of the pages that included non-gate revenue. Things like parking, concessions. TV! I don't expect much this time either. Milwaukee tax payers and fans got screwed.
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