Roadtrip
Iowahawk and Blair, tripping on LSD. Hey, is that photographic evidence blacked out or is it just the tinfoil hood on my computer? Blair, in a Mustang out of Minnesota, takes a gander at the view of Guantanamo:
Senators John McCain and Barack Obama have said they would close the detention camp, but the review of the government’s public files underscores the challenges of fulfilling that promise. The next president will have to contend with sobering intelligence claims against many of the remaining detainees.
As opposed to the NYT’s previous, presumably drunken views.
Yeah, well, people in extended pubcrawls shouldn’t throw stones, but NYT was asking for that rock through its windshield.
Meanwhile, a double-secret Blairite boozehound offers this sobering news. WSJ, New Economic News Will Force Winner’s Hand:
WASHINGTON — With a fresh blast of bearish news hitting just before the presidential election, Tuesday’s victor will be under rising pressure to put his stamp on U.S. economic policy well before his Jan. 20 inauguration.
On Monday, auto makers reported steep declines in U.S. car and light-truck sales for October, with General Motors Corp. reporting a 45% drop compared with the number of vehicles sold a year ago. Ford Motor Co. was down 30% and even once-mighty Toyota Motor Corp. was off by 23%. A senior GM executive said the company’s results, when adjusted for population changes, represented “the worst month in the post-World War II era.”
The auto industry’s woes contributed to another drop in overall factory output, with the Institute for Supply Management reporting its manufacturing-activity index fell to a 26-year low in October. Meanwhile, troubled electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. said it was closing one-fifth of its stores.
“We’re dealing with a situation that could develop into another Great Depression, if not handled properly,” says Daniel DiMicco, chief executive of Charlotte, N.C.-based steelmaker Nucor Corp., who spent an hour in line on Friday waiting to cast an early vote.
Few economists predict the world is in for a repeat of the 1930s. But the deepening problems — rising joblessness and home foreclosures, falling consumer spending and tight credit — are prompting calls from businesses and Congress for quick action by the next president to clarify, and begin working on, his economic agenda.
Dude … bummer. Can’t you see we’re drinking here? Another round before it all goes down the toilet.
Topics: al qaeda, booze, cars, drugs, money, pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:48 pm on Monday, November 3, 2008
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November 4th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Tuesday’s victor will be under rising pressure to put his stamp on U.S. economic policy well before his Jan. 20 inauguration.
In other words, if Obama wins, we’ll see the most remarkable economic turnaround in history… at least according to the MSM.
November 4th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Oh, it will be The Bush Recession right up until it ends, however long that takes, and afterwards shall be spoken of only as The Obama Recovery, no matter how weak.