Monday, February 22, 2010

The No's Have It

No Quarter
President Obama began what may be his final push to win enactment of a health care overhaul, laying out a legislative blueprint on Monday that seeks to unify House and Senate Democrats but makes no big new concessions to Republicans. (NYT, 2/22/10)

It’s now become a bit of a tired cliché, but it still works here. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

No (More) Talking
A senior Iranian official said on Monday that his country planned to build 10 more nuclear enrichment plants — two of them within the next year — and had identified “close to” 20 sites for such facilities. (NYT, 2/22/10)

Let’s say that you believed that President Obama was right in trying to reach out to Iran. At what point do you then say that the strategy didn’t work and it’s now time to put the screws to them?

No Way to Treat a Bodhisattva
But the piece de resistance was how the White House managed to turn what should have been a moment of celebration for the Dalai Lama's supporters in the United States and worldwide into a stunning display of disrespect. Apparently someone forgot to move an enormous pile of garbage from the service entrance that the Dalai Lama used to exit the White House yesterday, so the first image that the assembled press corps snapped was of him literally next to a huge mound of rubbish. Classy. (Kelley Currie, Weekly Standard, 2/20/10)

All those with FREE TIBET bumper stickers need to voice their disapproval!

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