I saw a poll today. It said
Why do you think John Kerry moved to filibuster Samuel Alito’s confirmation?
The choices were
- Conviction
- Politics
So the implication here is that conviction and politics are totally separate. Am I being too nitpicky? Its possible. John Kerry is far from my favorite Democrat these days – just last night I said that if Kerry manages to whip the Senate Democratic caucus, he would claw his way out of being dead to me, but if not, it was over.
So, its pretty much over.
Alan Greenspan is retiring as Chairman of the Fed this week, and everyone who bet that interest rates would always be low and their houses would always gain 10 percent in value per year are about to get an expensive lesson in economics. I may be overstating it a little, but I feel like one of the big things that have been keeping the interior macroeconomic nightmares at bay in this country has been Greenspan’s stranglehold on inflation. I know, he doesn’t do it all himself, he has his henchlings and the finest economic minds in the country to lay it out for him, but good god, he listened. Our national debt is $8 trillion, and most of the $1.5 trillion we’ve borrowed in the last few years has come from China. Things are, uh, gonna get dicey.
I wish I could get excited about Republican problems, but I just can’t, and its because I’m almost entirely convinced that nothing will come of it. My trust is difficult to regain when I’ve had the good sense to withhold it.
I’m going to bed. I’m gonna be funny soon. Maybe I’ll tell you a joke about a statue that comes to life and shits on pigeons.