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Short sighted idiots

Posted: February 13, 2009 by datechguy in doctor who, opinion/news
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I’ve already made my opinion on illegal immigration known, but these people are making a huge mistake:

During a decade in the U.S., Mexican immigrant Linex Rivera gave birth to three daughters, whose American citizenship offered her hope of staying in the land of opportunity. But with job prospects drying up for her husband, Ms. Rivera last week joined a phalanx of compatriots at the Mexican consulate in Los Angeles inquiring about obtaining Mexican citizenship for their children

Obama or no, anyone who thinks the interests of their children and themselves are better with Mexican citizenship than with American citizenship are out of their minds. It will be no more useful than the bees heading back to melissa majoria. It won’t save them in the end.

New Numbers how about that!

Posted: February 13, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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You might recall this post from last week:

Now Arlen Specter is a totally different story, he is not only vulnerable to pressure but we have candidates such as Rick Santorum or Pat Toomey ready who can beat him in a primary is we put in the effort. That is where the direction should lie. The reports that no republican wants to be vote 60 is certainly referring to Specter.

Via Glenn: National Review points out that the withdrawal of Gregg suddenly drops the cover provided.

I’ll be taping a Red Meat in a few moments with Mark, but we just realized that while passage of the stimulus is still all but certain, Gregg’s return to the Senate—and his likely “no” vote—makes the vote on final passage a bit more interesting.

It passed last time with 61 votes. But this time, Kennedy will not be there.

I actually think this is a non-story. Snowe and Collins are not going anywhere, and the democrats will wheel Kennedy out to vote in a hospital bed is if they have to.

Monring Joe all crash all the time

Posted: February 13, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Looks like today will be a crash edition covering the air disaster near Buffalo.

6:08 a.m. I didn’t realize that it had been over 2 1/2 years since the last fatal crash in the US. That’s a hell of a record. Although part of the blame can go to a certain skilled pilot out of NY that you might have heard about.

6:15 a.m. Andrea Mitchel today ugh. On non political issues she is usually ok, sort of like Wikipedia. If its all the same to me I’d just as soon deal with the Annoying version of Andrea and not have 48 people dead.

6:45 a.m. The truth o meter guy apparently wrote a book about a plane crash investigation in 1994. Truth-o-meter is preempted but the guy can cover the crash with some info.

7:40 a.m. They are talking the Judd Greeg stuff now. Nobody has mentioned the census stuff.

7:43 a.m. We don’t need a commerce secretary if there is no commerce.

8:26 a.m. If it wasn’t for the Gregg thing we would be talking about the Caterpillar gaffe.

8:29 a.m. Bigger part of the story the census is going to be taken over by Rahm. Rawest of Raw politics.

8:30 a.m. Oh the census is always political. The Bush administration made majority minority districts.

8:31 a.m. Apparently the Black Caucus applied the census pressure.

8:34 a.m. Andrea Mitchell is making excuses for Obama, what a big surprise.

8:40 a.m. Andrea vs Chuck Todd time

8:44 a.m. Joe says fire people, Gene Robinson says I don’t fire people after 3 weeks. Robinson is right.

Two more votes for Plan A

Posted: February 12, 2009 by datechguy in Blame Bush, opinion/news
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There are two new votes for my economic plan A today. One (via glenn) is from Philip Greenspun’s blog:

What did these guys want the government to do? Nothing, basically. “Back in the 19th Century, there were a lot of steep crashes, guys got wiped out, and the economy came back quickly.” What’s different now? The government is a lot bigger and more powerful. Rich companies and people can put some of their wealth into lobbying and demand that the government prevent them from getting wiped out (or at least slow the process).

Barack Obama promised on Monday not to rest as long as this economic downturn persisted. He promised to act decisively, change whatever had to be changed, spend whatever had to be spent. This is precisely what worries the investors to whom I spoke. They’d rather see the audacity of doing nothing.

The second comes from the news itself:

Sales at U.S. retailers unexpectedly halted a record six-month slide in January, an advance that may not be sustained as job losses climb.

The 1 percent increase followed a 3 percent drop the prior month, the Commerce Department said today in Washington. Excluding cars, the gain was 0.9 percent. Last month’s rise reflected higher gasoline prices and more spending on items including clothing and food.

Perhaps our democratic friends don’t want to risk a recovery that they can’t take credit for. If they can postpone it for say 18 months it might look really pretty come election time.

Even worse if it comes too fast then someone might think to Blame Bush for it!

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