I’m listening to Stuart Varney on Fox News interviewing renowned economist Andrew Napolitano about how we need to return to the Gold Standard. But then the conversation seemed to veer in a bizarre direction and the two actually seemed to be talking about using gold as a common currency. As in, not an economy based on paper money backed by gold. But an economy based on gold. They even said something about new vending machines that are being set up where you can put in your dollars and get out a few grains of gold to take back to the bunker with you so you can still buy a Snickers Bar or shotgun ammo after the apocalypse or maybe just after Ron Paul becomes president and puts us back on the metallic barter system.
It’s a little hard for me not to see this situation in the House as just a needless blow up that didn’t have to happen at all. Speaker Pelosi is apparently now trying to find a resolution of the fight for Minority Whip between Steny Hoyer and James Clyburn. But Clyburn’s people are telling us he’s not going to compromise. He wants a vote. And he’s apparently flying home this afternoon to South Carolina without any meetings scheduled with Pelosi or Hoyer. Read More
With mounting evidence that Steny Hoyer may have built an insurmountable lead in the fight to be the next House Minority Whip, the number two in the Dem leadership, there’s been talk of some agreement to pave the way for an orderly transition, avoiding a divisive caucus election. But Jim Clyburn’s team is saying, no way. They’re going to fight it out until the vote.
Fresh off his Tea Party election victory, Sen.-Elect Rand Paul embraces pork and says he’ll fight for Kentucky’s fair share of earmarks and federal spending projects.
Arizona Tea Partiers lash out against garbage collection socialism.
When Barney Frank and Henry Waxman both come out for Steny Hoyer, you gotta figure this one’s all wrapped up.
Both are important Pelosi allies, Waxman’s a fellow Californian (which is a bigger deal than people realize). And of course both big liberals.
DOJ says no charges in the destruction of those CIA torture videotapes.
Minnesota governor’s race recount heats up with Republican nominee Tom Emmer naming the chief litigator on his legal team.
I’m not sure if maybe Stephen Colbert is more prescient or more tuned into the zeitgeist than I thought. We’ve done a number of posts over the last year or so on a guy named Bryan Fischer, top issues guy for the American Family Association. We’ve had him beating up on Muslims and gays, about what you’d expect from someone from his edge of the ideological woods. Today though he’s coming out against Grizzly Bears. They’re a “curse” he says. And it’s time for them to go. To get right with the Judeo-Christian worldview it’s time to get rid of bears.
Yeah, no idea.