As expected, Mittens won big in New Hampshire (or, as Mitt put it, he “made history”). Must be pretty discouraging for Newt and the Frothman, because they didn’t even finish in the top three (Ron Paul and John Hunstman took second and third). Shocking news, as you’d think New Hampshirites would have flocked to polls and voted for Newt, given the strong endorsement of Crazy Uncle Carl Paladino. Of course, they’re unwashed, godless, commie liberals in NH, and things promise to be different down in South Carolina.
It’s the day of the hump. Well, technically, I guess I’m over the hump because I decided to take Friday off, giving me a four-day weekend and preserving my string of four-day weeks. Of course, this means the weather will turn to shit but, hey, that’s OK. With the high temperature expected to be damn near 50 today, no matter what happens, we’ve gone through damn near half the winter more or less unscathed. Personally, I’m more than ready to cede the Golden Snowball to somebody else.
We haven’t had our stupid every-other Wednesday meeting in quite a while now, but I don’t think we’ll get out of it this week. It’s a real waste of time (you’d think “management” would have all kinds of important shit to do; makes you wonder what their purpose it), but, well, whattya gonna do?
I know what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna get more coffee.
So Mittens won! No surprise there. But, it’s kinda fun to hear Perry and Newtie being yelled at by Rush. It seems that no matter how you make your money, as long as you make money, the Rethugs will defend it. Being poor, now that’s indefensible.
And the unqualified defense of the virtues of Bain Capital by some on the right is also silly. Criticism of any behavior by a private firm? Outrage! An Assault on Capitalism! Haven’t they read Schumpeter? Don’t they know the glories of Creative Destruction? And, of course, all such destruction must be assumed to be creative!
Yikes. If this is where some in the conservative movement and the Republican party are inclined to go—four cheers for finance capitalism!—good luck. Indeed, it’s useful to flush out this tendency now, and subject it to debate. Because it’s a recipe for political disaster—and intellectual sterility.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/special-editorial-bain-main_616568.html
I neglected to say that the above if Bill Kristol’s writing.
Another night without Olbermann.
How does the Citizens United ‘corporations are people’ SCotUS decision work with the ‘personhood amendment’ the anti-choice interests are pushing these days? Would all corporations now become too small to fail?