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2010-01-31 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Beavis 2010-01-31 09:04|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 "Tell me, what's going on in your country?"

You'd be confused too if all you knew as based upon the NYT [et al] and Zinn type Marxist interpretations of American history.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-01-31 09:59|| 2010-01-31 09:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Meh.. The "America is ungovernable" meme. It was predicted. Next?

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2010-01-31 10:06|| 2010-01-31 10:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Had me going there for a moment...,
until I red the byline.

Posted by Snumble the Wide1145 2010-01-31 10:21|| 2010-01-31 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Friedman should spend less time in Davos and more time in America, which he is clearly isolated from.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-01-31 10:56|| 2010-01-31 10:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Friedman should spend as much time outside America as possible. And the farther the better.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-31 11:03|| 2010-01-31 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 And that is ending our political paralysis and the pall of uncertainty it is casting over everything from the cost of my health care to the cost of my energy to the way our biggest banks can do business.

Wow. Could the writer be more clueless? Does he really think that legislative success by Obozo would improve his health care or energy costs? Does he really think that the opinions of Davos seat warmers matters? Does he really think at all?

Posted by regular joe 2010-01-31 11:06|| 2010-01-31 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 As soon as I hit the definition of "Beijing Consensus" I knew who this was. Friedman has revealed himself for a while now as the type of elitist that believes HIS oligarchy should have dictatorial charge over the little people.

Posted by AlanC 2010-01-31 11:20|| 2010-01-31 11:20|| Front Page Top

#8 yep. Alan. He's been pushing that "if only our government could impose change like those forward-thinking Chinese in the Politburo, we wouldn't have to deal with what the American people want - they'd get what their betters know is best for them. He's an A-grade arrogant asshole

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-31 11:55|| 2010-01-31 11:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Wow. Could the writer be more clueless?

RJ he believes this crap. From last Sept:

One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.

Posted by Beavis 2010-01-31 12:46|| 2010-01-31 12:46|| Front Page Top

#10 If there were just six or eight Republican senators -- a few more Judd Greggs and Lindsey Grahams -- ready to meet Obama somewhere in the middle on deficit reduction, energy, health care and banking reform

Frigging Friedman. Wants the Repubs to offer suggestions on how to run the socialist state.

JUST SAY NO. We don't want a socialist nanny state, and we don't want to tacitly agree by helping to 'improve' the one we've got.

Get government out of the way, while returning to a proven regulatory regime. For example, Glass-Steagall, proper underwriting of debt (i.e. can the borrower repay?), re-establishment of traditional bank reserve requirements, limitation on financial leverage, proper oversight of debt rating agencies.

Posted by KBK 2010-01-31 14:55|| 2010-01-31 14:55|| Front Page Top

#11 This guy is an idiot. The "elites" always worry when the people rumble. As they should. Friedman should be tossed, as well as his Manhattan cocktail party and Beltway society friends who believe themselves to be our "ruling class".

Defenestration from their hi-rise apartments in Mahattan and UN offices in NYC should suffice if done in large enough numbers.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-01-31 15:51|| 2010-01-31 15:51|| Front Page Top

#12 $10 trillion swindle orchestrated by the banking, political and media elites: CHANGE! and HOPE!

Push back from the taxpaying unwashed masses: Political instability.

Screw the socialist clique at Davos who manipulate entire governments for their personal aggrandizement and profit. Any American that sets foot in that sordid town without a protest sign should be publicly shamed on prime time TV.

Posted by ed 2010-01-31 16:49|| 2010-01-31 16:49|| Front Page Top

#13 and not feel torn between his vision for the coming years and the awareness that the forces of inertia and special interests blocking him not to mention the whole Republican Party make the chances of his implementing that vision highly unlikely. That is the definition of stuck.

Damn those corrupt special interests and Republicans! The world, as defined by that portion which shows up at Davos and chats with Mr. Friedman, is waiting with bated breath for President Obama to recreate America as a Western European country, and the world is starting to turn blue from it. How dare those corrupt special interests and Republicans discommode their betters!

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-31 17:49|| 2010-01-31 17:49|| Front Page Top

#14 As soon as I hit the definition of "Beijing Consensus" I knew who this was. Friedman has revealed himself for a while now as the type of elitist that believes HIS oligarchy should have dictatorial charge over the little people.

If there's a silver lining to all the BS that's happened the past few years, it may be that the average Joe and Jane may finally wake up to the fact that within way too many liberals beats the heart of a totalitarian who really, really wants to drag anyone who dissents from leftist orthodoxy to the basement of the Lukyanka for a little neurosurgery by Dr. Makarov.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-01-31 18:35|| 2010-01-31 18:35|| Front Page Top

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