By Their Own Petards Shall Ye Hoist Them
Our Dark Lord Rove looks on the bright side, notes post-Election Day GOP wins, counsels a rigorous program of planning and preparation. Sounds like a good idea. Then again, after eight grueling years and a hard-fought campaign, there’s nothing wrong with just sitting back and watching the show. Blago-roundup:
He doesn’t want to talk about it. Politico on the censoring of Blago questions at the O-Transition site. The O-pologism begins, where else, Balloon Juice. Politico chimes in helpfully with Seven Blago Questions for Obama.
Obama’s appalled! No doubt. Shocked, shocked, too, I bet. Wants the guy who’s making him look bad to get under the damn bus.
Here’s someone who does want to talk about it. WPost: Affidavits show Rezko is singing like a bird.
NYT: Blago scandal is an early test for the O-team. Put another way, will this be the first U.S. presidency hamstrung by scandal before it takes office? (Help me out in comments if I’ve forgotten one. Clinton-Gennifer Flowers doesn’t count. He skated.)
LA Times lefty columnist Rose Brooks, moving for the barn door, cautions Dems:
… it’s precisely when a party achieves power that its members need to start worrying the most about idiocy and greed. When you’re in the opposition, you’re already down and out, so what difference does it make if your side’s idiocy leaves you — temporarily — a little bit more down and out? And being in the opposition offers fewer patronage opportunities.
But power really does corrupt.
But what about the hoping? The changing?
Here’s a change: Wright’s back at Trinity Church. But reporters aren’t. Tigerhawk.
In other business, a fly in the seamless transition ointment as NASA Administrator Mike Griffin refuses to cooperate, demands to speak with His O-ness. “Griffin’s resistance is part of a no-holds-barred effort to preserve the Constellation program, the delayed and over-budget moon rocket that is his signature project,” the O Sentinel report. Gets historically interesting with the footnote that the JFK tranny team ignored Eisenhower’s NASA staff.
Also, Obama wants to rehabilitate the tarnished U.S. brand with Muslims. Because, as Gateway notes, rescuing 50 million of them from brutal tyrannies didn’t test-market well.
Ace on why O’s reported tough-talk pro-Israel nuke umbrella offer is not only dumb, but stupid, and Iran-enabling. Here’s Ha’aretz, which doesn’t sound overly enthused.
Granting Israel a nuclear guarantee essentially suggests the U.S. is willing to come to terms with a nuclear Iran. For its part, Israel opposes any such development and similar opposition was voiced by officials in the outgoing Bush administration.
“What is the significance of such guarantee when it comes from those who hesitated to deal with a non-nuclear Iran?” asked a senior Israeli security source. “What kind of credibility would this [guarantee have] when Iran is nuclear-capable?”
House Dem Intel Chair advices O-team to stay Bushy: Keep Cheney-Bushitlerite intel chiefs in place.
Jawa has Obama’s Epistles to the Arabs. Only not really. It’s more like the Bush letter Friedman wrote.
This looks like a good place to close. Debra Saunders at RCP, “Bailout Generation.”
For eight years, Democrats have hurled all manner of criticism at President Bush. Some of the heat was well deserved, some was not.
Either way, it is about to be their turn to be held to the standards they held for Bush — and they are not prepared.
Topics: Obama, money, moronocy, pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:38 am on Thursday, December 11, 2008
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December 11th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
All this schadenfreude would be delicious if it weren’t for the fact that it’s us ordinary people who are getting crapped on.
December 11th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
The primary problem for the current GOP is that it’s become a top down organization. Good, solid, valid political parties need to be motivated by pressure from the bottom up.