New York: Obama

Hard to believe, but it looks like the solar power pipe dream (for now) is poised to become even more uneconomical compared to, well, every fossil fuel and nice, clean nuclear. Enviro news is reporting:
Solar thermal projects are sprouting in the Southwest like desert flowers after a rain, spurred by the Obama administration's energy agenda and state renewable mandates. But a showdown over their water needs could now preclude the cheapest technologies.

Yesterday, after months of pressure from environmental groups and some concerned residents, one solar project developer backed out of controversial plans to buy rights to a billion gallons a year of local farmers' water.

Obama China Town Hall: Select Audience, Easy Questions
It was a town hall, but this time Barack Obama was not in Iowa or New Hampshire. There were no hay bales, no bunting and no activists with questions about universal health care, clean coal or legalizing marijuana. This forum, after all, was being held in a nation controlled by the Communist Party.

Instead of being greeted by voters mulling their options, Obama on Monday met with several hundred well-dressed, attentive and relentlessly on-message students, handpicked by Chinese authorities for the occasion. They listened attentively, nodding in agreement at some of his answers and laughing at his jokes.

Hey! Haven't had one of these in a while, eh? As usual, the editors let their emotions get the better of them and can't stick to the truth writing about a liberal issue near and dear to their hearts...

In today's paper -

Coverage would be notable better under the bill the House has passed...

Coverage? Yes. Care. Uhhhhh...no. At least that's what experience everywhere it's been tried has demonstrated.

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Hi, honey, I'm home.

How was your day?

Oh, not bad.

Did you find a job? You know we're pretty far in the hole already on our credit cards, mortgage, 2nd mortgage, loans.

OK, so Obama gets into office and immediately sets up a group to make suggestions on what to do about Afghanistan. They give recommendations. Obama puts "his guy" in charge, Gen. McChrystal. This is roundly applauded as McChrystal is widely acknowledged as a guy that knows how to do what must be done. McChrystal tells Obama he needs tens of thousands more troops, a surge, to quell rising violence and protect the populace.

Obama commences weeks, months of dithering. The attacks from the right heat up as the attacks on our troops heat up in Afghanistan. They culminate in comments from Dick Cheney who basically tells Obama to stop screwing with our troops, follow the plan that was given to him by the people that he asked to give him a plan, and stop screwing around.