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Daily Kos —
Sunday, and the living is easy... Thomas Friedman: If I had my druthers right now we would convene a special session of Congress, amend the Constitution and move up the inauguration from Jan. 20 to Thanksgiving Day. Forget the inaugural balls; we can’t afford them. Forget the grandstands; we don’t need them. Just get me a Supreme Court justice and a Bible, and let’s swear in Barack Obama right now — by choice — with the same haste we did — by necessity — with L.B.J. in the back of Air Force ...
58 Days
The Mahablog —
... Many pundits argue that the nation can’t afford to keep Bush in office for three more months, because we need effective leadership now. Good luck with that. We’ll be lucky if he doesn’t chain himself to the Resolute desk on Inauguration Day, forcing the Secret Service to saw the priceless antique apart and carry him out of the White House.
So the ship of state will continue to float along aimlessly for the next, what, 58 days? Tom Friedman writes,
Right now there is something deeply dysfunctional, ...
Deluded Liberals Think The Mere Presence Of Obama In The White House Will Cure Economic Woes
Say Anything —
First it was Gail Collins calling on Bush to resign in order to hasten the injection of a liberal leader into the White House. Now Thomas Friedman is essentially doing the same thing.
These liberals are slobbering about the idea of Obama taking power. They don’t even want to wait for the Constitutionally-mapped transition process to take place. They want their messiah, and they want him now.
Now you know why I don’t get invited out for dinner much these days. If I had my druthers right now we would convene a special session of Congress, amend the Constitution and move up the inauguration from Jan. 20 to ...
As If Gail Collins Was Not Enough To Put Up With . . .
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
Along comes Tom Friedman with his stock clichés and the kinds of shibboleths that too often pass for serious analysis these days to tell us that we ought to (a) move up Inauguration Day or (b) make Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary right now . I love all of these pundits who seem to think that the market is an easily manipulable system or vehicle that only requires the right touch from the right personnel to make work again in short order. None of these people seem to have anything resembling a grasp of economics and yet, they are in a position to drive popular opinion and with it, policymaking. I don't fear a Great Depression. But we will be closer to one if ...
Can They See The Writing on The Wall?
Confederate Yankee —
... and now Thomas Friedman of the New York Times have both asked President Bush to step down early, ushering in a new era of hopechangegood prior to Obama's January 20 inauguration. Both offer daft if different excuses for their need to hurry Bush into history, but perhaps they simply want to be able to write about Obama while still a columnist with the fast-failing Times , and they aren't exactly convinced the Old Gray Lady will be above ground when the scheduled transition occurs.
Is Bush A Stinking Drunk Again?
DownWithTyranny! —
... What can Bush do? Well, just delay the inevitable personal disintegration for a couple months wouldn't be too much to ask. Thomas Friedman, who stopped making any sense years ago, actually came up with a good idea today-- if one that no one will take seriously, being accustomed to only taking his bad ideas seriously. He suggests that Bush appoint Geithner Treasury secretary now, replacing Henry Paulson. ...
As If Gail Collins Was Not Enough To Put Up With . . .
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Along comes
Tom Friedman with his stock clichés and the kinds of
shibboleths that too often pass for serious analysis these days to
tell us that we ought to (a) move up Inauguration Day or (b) make
Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary right now. I love all of
these pundits who seem to think that the market is an easily
manipulable system or vehicle that only requires the right touch
from the right personnel to make work again in short order. None of
these people seem to have anything resembling a grasp of economics
and yet, they are in a position to drive popular opinion and with
it, policymaking.
I don't fear a Great Depression. But we will ...
Not a Friedman Unit (™ Atrios) too soon...
Upper Left —
Friedman his own self says… Just get me a Supreme Court justice and a Bible, and let’s swear in Barack Obama right now — by choice — with the same haste we did — by necessity — with L.B.J. in the back of Air Force One.I'm in. Hat tip to Gordon.
Two presidents
BuzzMachine —
Barack Obama says we have only one president at a time. That, apparently, is why Gail Collins and Tom Friedman want the old one to leave office now, which is silly if understandable wishful thinking.
What we need instead is, indeed, two presidents. And we’re beginning to get that. Barack Obama is revealing his path and is taking action. The fact that the stock market can reach orgasm just on his naming a Treasury secretary - and not a particular superstar at that (see Andrew Ross Sorkin’s leavening of the exuberance today) ...
