According to this report in the Orlando Sentinel, billionaire George Soros doesn’t feel like he got his money’s worth in supporting Barack Obama. That this international control freak, who is not even a US citizen, should financially support a presidential candidate, is bad enough. But that the issue of his “satisfaction” should be the subject of news interview is ludicrous, and very revealing.
Zakaria on his “Fareed Zakaria GPS” this morning also noted that Soros was one of Barack Obama’s biggest supporters. Zakaria asked, “Are you satisfied with the job Barack Obama has done?”
Soros said he wasn’t. Soros wanted the banks nationalized, but added that Obama “made the political decision that that is un-American, will not be accepted.”
Why is Zakaria asking this? Why does CNN give Soros any kind of attention, much less an audience?
Soros makes money speculating on currencies, and can make money when whole countries’ economies collapse, so nationalizing our banks and going for socialized medicine would certainly have been good business for him.
Most important to us, however, is that Zakaria even thought to ask about Soros’ satisfaction. Why should this be important? Why is this news? CNN’s approach should be more investigative, trying to figure out what this creep is up to, rather than tossing him softballs about how happy he is with OUR president (not his.)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid commented, not atypically, “”Men, when they’re out of work, tend to become abusive. Our domestic crisis shelters in Nevada are jammed.”
Reid made the comment on the Senate Floor yesterday, presumably shilling for the jobs bill, which is now also an anti-spousal-abuse bill, apparently.
It never ceases to amaze us how many ways politicians come up with to justify legislation, but this is weirder than most. Reid is one of the more devious politicians in the congress, to our way of thinking, but increasingly, he seems to have a screw loose somewhere.
Maybe it’s the fact that he’s got a rough re-election campaign coming up?
Nah.
Reid seems typical of polticians who, in the course of testing just how gullible the constituents are, oversteps. He thought this might sell, so he said it.
Because he thought we were dumb enough to swallow it.
Since we’re downtown fairly frequently, it’s interesting to see the slow but sure progress being made on the Elco Theater, which, once refurbished, will be renamed the Lerner Theater (its original name). A lot of the work on the Elco is being done inside where it can’t be seen, so the biggest attention getter is the construction of the adjacent building which will accomodate meeting/ballroom among other things. The construction requires blocking off Franklin East of Main for a couple blocks, which makes it slightly problematic for access and parking at the IUSB Elkhart Center right next door. But it’s not too bad.
The Politico reports on Democrat plans for health care, now that their filibuster-proof majority is done. The pledge is to move forward and “get something passed,” but unless they can flip an Olympia Snowe or pull some kind of procedural trick, it’s hard to see how. And it’s hard to see how they could even attempt either approach without serious political repercussions.
It seems to us the Democrats need to step back and realize that repeating how ‘important” and “needed” health care reform is, and that the reason they’re having such a difficult slog is that most Americans don’t want it.
And it’s not because they don’t understand it. It’s because it’s an utterly terrible idea. The bill itself has problems, but it appears to us that most Americans understand that it’s only a first step toward something they REALLY don’t want, which is a complete government takeover. It’s not the details of the bills as much as the philosophy it represents that is problematic. And yet, Obama adviser David Axelrod says this:
“I think that it would a terrible mistake to walk away now. If we don’t pass the bill, all we have is the stigma of a caricature that was put on it. That would be the worst result for everybody who has supported this bill.”
Yes, David, but we think it would be the best result for the United States.
