Thursday, December 4, 2008

gimme gimme shock treatment

12-4-08—Obama’s team is resisting Treasury overtures to get more involved in financial rescue spending. WSJ A1[what a shock]

12-4-08—Vermont ranked as the healthiest US state in the lastest annual rating. Louisiana finished last, after Mississippi. WSJ A1 [what a shock]

12-4-2008—China Suns Investments in West’s Finance Sector --NYT B5 [what a shock]

12-3-08—Chertoff, Shifting Views on Security, Pushes Use of “Soft Power”—WSJ A6 [even HLS graduates can learn...][what a shock]

12-3-08--“Blocking Obama’s Health Plan is Key to the GOP’s Survival,” proclaims the headline of a November blog by Michael F. Cannon, the libertarian Cato Institute’s director of Health Policy Studies. His argument, stitched together from other blog posts, is pretty much the same as Mr. Kristol’s in 1993. Any kind of national medical program would be so powerfully attractive to working-class voters that it would shift the tectonic plates of the nation’s politics. Therefore, such a program must be stopped. –Thomas Frank, WSJ A15 [can Democrats learn?]

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