Señor Jehuda, aka "El Blogo de Conservo", is an attorney and media professional with a background in TV marketing and production, copywriting, independent filmmaking, and spontaneously speaking perfect Spanish. A proud Texan who recently escaped from Los Angeles to Albuquerque, he spends far too much time thinking about movies - especially since his job requires it. Jehuda is also a contributor at YesButHowever.com and PJ Lifestyle.
Hasn’t the White House been emphasizing that bank deregulation was bad? And yet the nominee for the second top spot at Treasury helped draft bank deregulation legislation back in the late 90′s (hmm…who had the White House back then…Democrats or Republicans?).
It’s going to be a long four years…
Via Instapundit.
From STRATFOR‘s latest:
[W]hat could be perceived as a massive U.S. donation to the IMF would resonate politically in the United States. The American political system has become increasingly sensitive to the size of the debt being incurred by the Obama administration. A loan at this time to bail out other countries would not sit well, especially when critics would point out that some of the money will be going to bail out European banks in Central Europe.
Obama will need something in return from the Europeans…But there is almost no chance of Germany or France sending more troops, as public opinion in those countries is set against it and they have vastly limited military resources.
Give it a read. How Turkey comes into the picture is particularly interesting.
UPDATE: Telling it like it is: How do you say “mooch” in German? (via Instapundit)
AP: Auto workers say they got worse treatment than banks.
Well, the problem with the Big Three automakers is fundamentally different from the problem of our banking system, although both were trying to avoid reality in their own ways. Also, these autoworkers seem to assume there’s some method behind all the madness. I’m not sure there is.
Jonathan Chait: Why Democrats can’t govern.
Via Instapundit.
Bond beats Bourne in EW‘s ranking of the 20 all-time coolest pop heroes.
The things people will do for money: “The video purporting to show Vice President Joe Biden‘s daughter Ashley snorting cocaine was preplanned by a man trying to get rich selling the tape, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.”
Barney Frank introduces a bill to let government control the salaries of all bailout-connected employees: the Pay for Performance Act of 2009.
Are Hollywood producers within the scope of the legislation? Don’t count on it.
And then they complaint when we call them socialists…
UPDATE: Dan Riehl puts it in perspective. Lest we forget, elections have consequences…
MORE: Politico: Obama, the Nation’s CEO. And Larry Kudlow wonders if this is the dawn of a new era of government-controlled business.
I’m pretty sure we don’t want to go there. I’ve seen this sort of stuff before…
Man busted for driving drunk…on a motorized bar stool…
In the last few days we have seen some egregious examples of government interfering in business.
Progressive corporatism, emerging economy, or worse? As I’ve alluded to before, it upsets me that our current political climate reminds me of 1980′s Mexico; and at least one newspaper columnist shares similar concerns. Is Washington getting Mexi-fied?
Michael Barone: Not Ready for a Welfare State:
Obama has the audacity to hope that he can jam things through with sizeable Democratic majorities at a time of economic crisis and uncertainty. But he has quickly encountered some roadblocks — and may yet encounter some more.
Nice. But this is no time to get confident. We need to keep pushing him back.
UPDATE: Kim Strassel at the WSJ says Card Check is not dead, but sleeping.
Like I said, we need to keep pushing back.
ANOTHER ONE: Also at the WSJ, two attorneys who say Card Check is unconstitutional.
25 years of Michael Radford’s film adaptation of 1984. No new DVD’s are being made, but you can watch it or download it from Google Video for free.
Make sure to read the book
Glenn Beck, conservative media icon.
I’ve watched his show a couple of times. He’s good!
A sale on Easter-related goods at Amazon
May he rest in peace.
LAT: The challenge that awaits Obama in Europe.
WaPo: “[I]f the U.S. president thought his popularity would cause foreign governments to fall quickly into line behind a new American leadership, experts warn, he could be in for a rude awakening.”
Plus: the groups behind the upcoming G20 protests. But why mince words? Let’s describe them in more detail.
Thomas Mitchell: The Supreme Court should declare McCain-Feingold unconstitutional.
Via RCP.
UPDATE: Forgot to include the link! Sorry about that. Fixed.
Jay Cost: when politicians fail to deliver growth, the judgment of the electorate is swift and brutal.
The Hill: “A group of junior Democratic senators are pressing their more senior colleagues to push through a controversial climate change bill by attaching it to a special budget legislative maneuver.”
The idea is to get around a GOP filibuster…
UPDATE: Another missing link! Sorry about that. Fixed. Must be more careful when blogging in a hurry…
Or do his critics just want to feel better about themselves? The only reason why this is a topic for discussion among pundit-dom at all is because of the recent JournoList leak, in which enlightened pompous JournoList members can be seen tearing Marty Peretz apart for ranting on Mexican-American relations and evincing what they termed “crazy-ass racism”.
Well, I am technically a Mexican, although I don’t have the papers to prove it because I was born in the States (which technically makes me an American citizen, which I am also in my heart). But both my parents are Mexican and that makes me a Mexican citizen under Mexican law. I was also raised in Mexico and half of my family remains Mexican nationals. My childhood friends, with the exception of a few, are all Mexican. So I think I’d know whether Peretz is on the money or not and whether he’s being racist or not. (More …)
WSJ: Rio Bravo
And don’t forget John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13
AFP: Iran and Venezuela revise ties ahead of Chavez visit to Tehran.
And remember that Iranian puppet Hezbollah is using drug trade routes to enter the U.S. from south of the border.
Figures and analysis from Nikki Finke.
Monsters vs. Aliens cleaned up for the biggest opening ever of a 3-D film. I Love You Man still in the top 5!
WSJ: Reich says Obamanomics is not about big government.
I presume that is because government would still be too small for Obama and Reich’s tastes after the President carries out his plans…
Screenrant: Is Dollhouse about to get good?
Wired‘s Threat Level Blog: MPAA negotiating with broadband providers to act against customers who download movies often.
Ralph Peters on the Afghanistan escalation: “Our pathetically naive president articulated one sound goal — defeating al Qaeda — then told us how he wasn’t going to do it. Like LBJ, all he can think of is more troops and more aid.”
I just hope that’s where the LBJ channeling stops. Incidentally, how come the MSM is not covering the anti-war movement anymore? It’s almost as if wars are bad only when a Republican is in the Oval Office.
Related content here.
Angela Merkel deep-sixes Gordon Brown’s plans for a Global New Deal: “I will not let anyone tell me that we must spend more money”.
Not speaking Obama’s language, I see…
Radar Online says they’ve seen videotape of Vice President’s Biden daughter allegedly snorting cocaine.
UPDATE: The NY Post has more. With friends like those…
UPDATE: This is getting sleazier. The attorney representing the “friend” who’s shopping the videotape around has quit upon learning Biden’s daughter was videotaped with a hidden camera, which could now make the “friend” a ripe target for a lawsuit…or even prosecution (depending where the videotaping took place).
So a few days ago, Dr. Fiancee – who likes to keep track of criminal and terrorist organizations here – read on the International Herald Tribune about an enterprising Korean chef in L.A. who’s emerged as a local cult hit with his Mexi-Korean fusion cooking.
One of the coolest things about this chef’s story is how he got around the problem of how expensive it is to open a restaurant in L.A: he mostly operates out of two vans that roam the L.A. area, advertising their changing locations via Twitter.
One of the vans was parked near us some nights ago, and we went out to check it out. Very tasty.
UPDATE: Some pics below. The line was long, but manageable when we got there. We were in line for about an hour before we could order.
MORE: If you live in the L.A. area and want to locate one of chef Kogi’s vans near you, you can follow them on Twitter here. Check out their menu at kogibbq.com.
The Wrap: Old Media’s Sinking Ship, Day by Day.
It’s devastation out there…
Jonah Goldberg: “[M]aybe, just maybe, the lesson from the financial crisis isn’t to get big business and big government even more involved with each other, but to finally bust the trust between them.”
Greg Mankiw: Middle Class Tax Cut? Didn’t get it from Clinton. Won’t get it from Obama.
Prospect Magazine: “Barack Obama was always going to disappoint. When you promise almost everything to almost everybody…you will inevitably let many people down.”
Long feature, but it’s from the UK. They’re over Obama over there, as we know…
Parcbench: As American as Apple Pie.
Two divergent views, from Wired and Portfolio.
From Christian Toto at BigHollywood.com.
No protests at this wealthy individual’s home; and no outrage about bailout money going to promote a movie.
This double standard is nothing new, though.
UPDATE: Insta-lanche! Thanks for the link, Professor Reynolds!
