An Experiment in Scotch

He spends a whole bunch of dig­i­tal ink pro­claim­ing the next com­ing of Jesus Christ clothed as our cur­rent pres­i­dent and gives 3 con­crete exam­ples of things the admin­is­tra­tion has done. The prob­lem is, all three are exam­ples of how said admin­is­tra­tion has screwed the pooch. Yet from this, he con­cludes that we’ve finally got …

Obama Admin­is­tra­tion sup­ports tax haven crack­down. Does no one in the Obama admin­is­tra­tion look at some­thing like this and think “you know what guys, maybe we ought to lay low on this whole tax thing for a lit­tle while.” Surely they have spin doc­tors for this sort of thing. The man must really hold the Amer­i­can …

Obama says he wants to cut mort­gage costs so that the credit can start flow­ing again. Yup, because that’s exactly what we need, more peo­ple to buy homes they can’t afford. Sweet idea. Lead­er­ship these days amounts to throw­ing shit at the wall and see­ing what sticks, I guess.

I won­der if all those peo­ple who voted for Obama and his poli­cies of change are start­ing to feel short­changed. Bloomberg writes: President-elect Barack Obama said over­haul­ing the fed­eral bud­get is “imper­a­tive” and vowed to elim­i­nate unnec­es­sary spend­ing pro­grams in areas from health care to agri­cul­tural sub­si­dies. He’s start­ing to sound down­right con­ser­v­a­tive in his …

Huge turnout is some­thing to be proud of. You hear peo­ple con­stantly bemoan­ing the fact that Amer­i­cans don’t vote but this time they did. That’s excit­ing for our coun­try. The pop­u­lar vote is com­ing in 51% to 45% which is quite close. Remem­ber how impor­tant the pop­u­lar vote was sup­posed to be in 2000? If …

Tom Brokaw notes other non-topics tonight. Noth­ing on immi­gra­tion, job cre­ation, NAFTA, Social Secu­rity and Medicare. All of these will come up in future debates which may define bet­ter where this elec­tion is going.

I think Biden wins this debate, at least the part I’ve seen. Palin is cool and I like her but Biden really came back in the last part of this debate, show­ing some emo­tion, giv­ing facts and being very straight­for­ward and blunt. I don’t like to admit it but I think Biden has the upper …