Drifting Away

Banned in Boston
The ban on 100-watt incandescent Thomas Edison light bulbs, which was supposed to begin Jan. 1, was put off. Congress has denied the green fundamentalists any funds to impose their eco-sharia law on the rest of us infidels who have figured out that global warming is a scam, or should I say false religion.  What’s ironic about the Church of Green is that these are the same people who want government out of their bedroom, or their uteruses, now want government in your light socket, or your toilet. (Howie Carr, Boston Herald.com, 12/18/2011)


RedStateVT has already developed a strategy to deal with the potential ban on the 100 watt bulb. We will utilize two 60 watt bulbs instead. How does that sound to the Luddite crowd?


Poached
Both Indiana and Ohio have been aggressively poaching Illinois businesses, especially since January, when lawmakers raised the state income tax to a flat 5% from 3% and the corporate tax to 9.5% from 7.3%. (WSJ, 12/18/2011)


Simple cause and effect.


Bolstered
In what would be the final deal of his private equity career, he negotiated a retirement agreement with his former partners that has paid him a share of Bain’s profits ever since, bringing the Romney family millions of dollars in income each year and bolstering the fortune that has helped finance Mr. Romney’s political aspirations. (NYT, 12/19/2011)


It's "Bash Romney" day at the New York Times which temporarily pivots away from Newt Gingrich. The Times will consider Obama's drug use and shady Chicago real estate deal old news, but Romney's pension deal from 1999 is fair game. Notwithstanding that it was a legal arrangement signed by willing parties. Unlike, say, the sweetheart pension deals public sector employees received in return for greasing the Democrat machine with campaign contributions. 


Transformed
It’s not as if the criticisms being leveled at Gingrich are wrong. On the contrary, there is a flamboyant self-importance and an eerie sense of mission about him. “I am a transformational figure,” he has said. (E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 12/18/2011)


Now who else sees himself as a "transformational politician." Dionne doesn't tell us so we have to remember on our own.  Thinking, thinking...is it Obama?