Tag Archives: Mickey Kaus

Democrats deserve a choice too

I’ve always enjoyed reading/listening to Mickey Kaus, formerly of Slate’s Kausfiles. Now I wish I could vote for him for Congress. Although to do it I would have to live in California. Uh, uh. He doesn’t have anything against his incumbent opponent, Barbara Boxer, other than that she’s in bed with the unions and all for creating another wave of illegal immigration from Mexico to further suppress low-skill wages for citizens. Me, in addition to those policies, I can’t stand her whiny voice. Mickey has a nice, almost soothing voice, and lots of common sense, something you don’t often see in a Harvard grad, and something the Dumbocrats could use a lot more of.

Our new socialism

James Lileks: "Maybe I’m old-school, but ‘President fires CEO’ looks as wrong as ‘Pope fires Missile.’ Does not compute."

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE: Baldilocks has an interesting take. But leaves out the question of whether the GM logo will become an O. You know, for Obama Motors. First, though, he’ll have to get his own staff to trade "up."

The country he loves

BarryFlag.jpg

So he said yesterday, anyhow, in the speech reviled by historian Victor Davis Hanson. The phrase reminded me of this picture and Barry’s, at the time, seemingly little protest against lapel flags and the old hand-over-the-heart when the anthem is played. However, after learning that he listened to anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-white screeds every Sunday morning for twenty years, I have to wonder who he really is. His anti-war stance turned me off before his questionable messianic persona surfaced, but I still liked the boldness of his race speech at first read–even when he threw his white grandma under the bus. (In the process, lying about her.) But I evidently missed some things. Mickey Kaus lists a few critical ones.