...the lingering concerns over his 2005 comments, as president of Harvard, suggesting that the dearth of female scientists stems partly from inherent differences between the genders. (NYT, 9/15/2013)
Why did Larry Summers withdraw his name for consideration for Fed Chairman? Two reasons. First, Liberals have determined that the next chairman should be a woman. It doesn't really matter which woman. Oprah Winfrey would do, but it has to be a woman. Sadly, Summers is a male. Second, as noted above, in 2005 Summers committed a mortal sin. He challenged his colleagues to examine why males outnumbered females in the "hard" sciences.
That's it.
That's all.
Of course, Liberals went crazy. One attendee at the event where Summers raised this issue (one that few have had the guts to raise) went into convulsions and had to seek medical attention. Others passed out. Eight years and several apologies later, Summers has not been forgiven. This is what happens when you break with Liberal orthodoxy.
Favored
But many Democrats who favor stricter regulation of the nation’s financial institutions have expressed concerns about Mr. Summers’s role in the Clinton administration’s opposition to regulating the derivatives market, a factor that many economists believe helped precipitate the 2008 market collapse. (NYT, 9/15/2013)
Opposition to regulating derivatives during the Clinton administration led to the 2008 financial collapse? How did this get by the fact checkers at the New York Times? As schoolchildren are taught and as everyone knows, it was the Bush administration that was responsible for the financial meltdown.
Show Time
But this time, it was members of the president’s own party who were going to make any confirmation process extremely difficult. Democrats on Capitol Hill said that this was a showdown they were hoping to avoid. (NYT, 9/15/2013)
So first pushback from Dems on Syria and now on Larry Summers. Will the Washington Post Op-ed Liberals - and fellow bloggers - now question the patriotism of Democrats? Will they write of Democrat obstructionism?
You know the answer.
Simmer Down
The White House said late Friday that it can't legally make the primary change unions are seeking to the new health-care law, a long-simmering dispute between President Barack Obama and one of the main backers of his signature domestic initiative. (WSJ, 9/13/2013)
No sympathy here for the unions.
None.
Foreign Intrigue
For how else to characterize a president who declares war against what he calls a great evil demanding immediate extirpation and in the next breath announces that he will postpone taking action for at least 10 days—and then goes off to play golf before embarking on a trip to another part of the world? As if this were not enough, he also assures the perpetrator of that great evil that the military action he will eventually take will last a very short time and will do hardly any damage. Unless, that is, he fails to get the unnecessary permission he has sought from Congress, in which case (according to an indiscreet member of his own staff) he might not take any military action after all. (Norman Podhoretz, WSJ, 9/8/2013)
Even if Assad does declare and destroy his entire CW stockpile, he will have emerged unpunished for having used these terror weapons. Mr. Obama told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that "my entire goal throughout this exercise is to make sure that what happened on August 21st does not happen again."
That isn't how he and Mr. Kerry described their goal over the last two weeks when Mr. Obama explicitly urged a military strike to "make clear to the world we will not tolerate their use," referring to chemical weapons. Assad will have violated what Mr. Obama repeatedly called "international norms"—killing at least 1,400 people including 400 children—and then get a pass for promising not to do again what he claims he didn't do but Mr. Kerry says he did at least 14 times. (WSJ, 9/15/2013)
Conservative commentary on Obama's Syrian adventures has been outstanding. Then again it has not been difficult.
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