Not the actual outlines of the proposal that Obama wants on his desk by August, but the headlines that we can look forward to seeing. Sure will be a relief from all that torture. (h/t Stoo)
Preview of 2010?
Gordon Brown was dealt another huge blow last night when Labour lost all its remaining county councils in its worst ever local election results.
Counties turned from red to blue in quick succession as the Labour vote collapsed in its heartlands. Hundreds of councillors lost their seats and their share of the vote fell to 23 per cent.
Labour councillors blamed their defeats on the Government’s difficulties and the MPs’ expenses scandal as Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lancashire slid from Labour control into the Tories’ clutches.
Most of those counties had been held by Labour for nearly 30 years. Labour parliamentary seats in the North and North West look suddenly more vulnerable.
With results still pouring in yesterday evening, Labour had lost more than 300 councillors and was at risk of disappearing entirely in some southern counties.
Phoenix burns (with a passionate hatred)
While Obama was yammering at The Muslim World:
The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday it had found traces of processed uranium at a second spot in Syria and was checking for a link to particles retrieved from the site of [what] Washington says was a covert atomic reactor.
The development, coupled with new information about Syrian procurement of large amounts of graphite and a compound used as a radiation shield, could heighten concern about possible undeclared nuclear activity in Syria assisted by North Korea.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has been examining U.S. intelligence reports that Syria had almost built a North Korean-designed, graphite reactor meant to yield plutonium for atom bomb fuel before Israel bombed it to rubble in 2007.
Syria denies hiding anything from non-proliferation monitors but a restricted IAEA report, obtained by Reuters, said Damascus was still withholding documentation and preventing access for inspectors needed to clarify the case.
The IAEA said in February inspectors had found enough traces of uranium in soil samples collected a year ago at the site, known as Dair Alzour, to constitute a “significant” find.
During the same factfinding visit, IAEA sleuths detected similar “manmade” uranium particles in test swipes done at a small research reactor in Damascus which the IAEA knew about and checks routinely once a year, a new IAEA report said.
Donald Douglas has some observations on Gordo’s big loss.
It’s worse than that for Gordon Brown. Apart from the disastrous local government elections, 8 cabinet ministers have resigned. It’s the night of the living dead.
He’s not going to walk away. Then again, he’s too crippled to walk.
Considering no one, not even his own party, actually voted to put Broon into office, it’s no big surprise to see his rats jumping ship. The political cowardice shown by not going to the country following his succession was the kiss of death to this buffoon. From the Conservatives’ point of view, you have to think they are begging Broon to cling on – they will be a shoe-in if he hangs on until next year.
It took a World War to get FDR out of the mess he created. Obama loves him some FDR…
Hmmm. So that’s where all of Saddams nuclear stuff went.
‘Fraid not. Brown is neither articulate nor charismatic, nor particularly exciting to journalists. Our guy, though, he gives good shivers. He’ll mesmerize, just as he’s been doing for years.
I wish the Smart People would quit trying to rule us. They don’t have clue one.
Silver Whistle –
Its worse than that.
We Englishmen are now ruled from Brussles by the “appointed” President of the European Commission (a Spaniard), and from London by a Scottish socialist mofo (is that the correct term?) that NO-ONE in England has EVER voted for. After “devolution”, the Scots have their own SNP First Minister – the SNP is a secessionist party – but I’ll have to denounce myself for racism for pointing this out.
And don’t even get me started on the European Constitution/Lisbon Treaty – which should be dead after an Irish plebiscite voted it down. A second plebiscite is booked for November and I suppose the Irish will be forced to vote over and over on this question until they vote the RIGHT way!
What the hell happened to my country? This is normally where I think about moving to the US – but you currently seem to have your own problems with “le socialisme”
“The development, coupled with new information about Syrian procurement of large amounts of graphite and a compound used as a radiation shield, could heighten concern…”
Really? “Heighten concern” among whom? And so what if it does? A nation run by deranged theocrats with genocidal intentions has been marching toward nuclear weapons for years amidst a lot of so-called “concern.”
And as for the FDR allusions — come 2011, war is the only thing that will save Obama. The supreme irony of our time will be Obama turning to the military to save his political life.
Hmmmm… 2011 is the year I was counting on becoming LTC(ret).
This is very good, but…
the next step is photoshoping this image with the One’s face.
Universal healthcare! Semi devine god king! So let it be written, so let it be done
You’re telling me.
“You’re telling me.”
Howie; you and yer ilk MUST find something substantive to criticise Obama for, or yer status as iconoclasts of the Right are sorely threatened with extinction. Brown misspeaking ‘Obama Beach’ instead of Omaha Beach is like yer predilection for deflection on my typos. It’s all you have, and you have my sympathy for yer sad state. Carry on………….
We need a new word for this, I am thinking psycophant.
On the Boston paper — is it just me, or does the open, high-level demonization of conservatives and Republicans accelerating? We’ve always had the Kossites and such, and no doubt the Boston Phoenix is an “alternate” paper, but it seems to be getting more extreme and more “respectable”.
Plus you have MSNBC literally running “breaking news” updates on what Limbaugh says while his show’s running. Add in the disgusting Playboy article — and the storm of lefties defending the sentiment afterwards — and there’s something ugly brewing.
Something very, very ugly.
Sure thing, cleo. And I’m the guy asking you — to the eternal sound of crickets — to outline just one liberal principle that holds water.
If extreme, hypocritical, willful irony is a lie, and surely it is, than I am reconfirmed in my assertion that you are a liar.
Which is to say, liar, that Gordon Brown is neither articulate nor charismatic.
Thin Man,
You don’t have to tell me – I live in the People’s Democratic Republic of Caledonia. As such, I feel partly responsible for Broon and the rest of the Scottish Mafia who have infested the halls of Westminster. Broon, as JHo so succinctly puts it, is neither articulate nor charismatic, and in comparison makes Obambi seem almost intellectual.
On the resigination of eight of Mad Gordo’s cabinet, I found this comment at Guido Fawkes to be apt.
“Shits deserting a sinking rat.”
“Something substantive to criticize Obama for…”?
Are you kidding? But I can see how you voluptuaries on the Left who got so spoiled on your scandals du jour and media spoonfeeding of anti-Bush calumny for the previous eight years can’t see what’s happening, especially as you now wake up to nothing but rosy scenarios in your congenitally corrupt and mendacious media. But just because it isn’t being reported doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Each week brings a new — mostly un-reported — beauty. We just saw our “Justice” Department dismiss what Bobby Kennedy’s former civil rights advisor call one of the most flagrant cases of election-day intimidation in history by Black Panthers. I’m sure the media would have been just as silent if Alberto Gonzalez had dismissed charges against baton-wielding white supremacists in martial uniforms outside a voting center in Tennessee?
Or the DOJ’s intervention to scuttle the state of Georgia’s completely legal citizenship verification process to give cover to their election racketeering friends at Acorn.
Or Obama’s recent broken promise on lobbyists in government?
Or the increasing revelations about White House coercion and even threats to TARP-resisting companies and executives? Or the Wall Street Journal’s report last night on how business genius Obama pressured Chrysler into an ill-advised deal with Fiat. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/06/06/shotgun-wedding-court-docs-reveal-govt-likely-forced-chrysler-fiat-deal-
I’m sure the media would have said nothing if the Bush had authorized such bullying tactics. They only spent a year slandering Karl Rove for leaking the identity of a CIA agent whose identity was pretty much public information and which he didn’t leak anyway.
Not little drops of water evaporating into the atmosphere but little bits of slag dropped into the ballast of the ship, on and on, day after day. A “sinking point†will be reached. There is a larger Department of Justice in this world, thankfully.
Not saying it will hold water, or is even particularly coherent, but he did give us a little glimpse behind the current here, JHo.
Freedom: Don’t know what it is, but he’s agin it.
In which there’s nothing but partisan spew. Cleo is as whacked in the head on these matters as it is dishonest on these matters. Utterly.
You know, I remember when the Times used to be a conservative paper. Now you can file it under “general fishwrap“. Let the slobbering proceed.
Eh, real soon now we can file the Times under Chapter 7…..