6-1-2009

WSJ: Mr. Obama likes to say he’s a pragmatist who only prefers a government solution when it will work. But in resurrecting an industrial auto policy that even the French long ago abandoned, the President has made himself GM’s de facto CEO. Our guess is that he’ll come to regret it as much as taxpayers will.

Richard Fernandez: Ted Rall writing in State Journal Register has an extended piece calling Barack Obama a monster. Glenn Reynolds notes the tut-tutting from other sites to the effect that “if Obama’s lost Ted Rall, he’s lost un-America.” Rall essentially rails against what he believes is a wholesale betrayal by President Obama of his most cherished principles.

Gory, Gory hallelujah:  There’s an adage that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. In this case you can’t really take your pick. Most people in the pro-life camp aren’t rallying to the support of the suspect, but they are worried that Dr. George Tiller will become a martyr to a cause they despise.  In the calculus of crime Dr. Tiller is indisputably the victim. Yet on the scales of politics George Tiller is very much alive.

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