Archive for January 6th, 2010

Beijing Ducks

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Not time for more sanctions on Iran, sayeth the Chinese!

And so the President has to decide: start talking directly with Iran or try to keep yet another coalition of the unwilling together.

So far, the policy seems to be, as it is on most everything these days, hit and hope.

We’d like the Iranians to come to the table, we’d like to see regime change in Tehran, we’d like to keep the Israelis from pulling the trigger.

But there’s very little we can do to achieve this until and unless bilateral talks begin.

The President is certainly smart enough to know this, but he’s also handicapped by the need to appear tough on underwear bombers.

Gorilla thinks it’s more or less a Brooklyn Dodgers scenario: “Wait til next year!”

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Less Lousy Is Still Lousy

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

More jobs shed!

Well,not as bad as when the economy was falling off the cliff, but hardly a cause for celebration.

10 million new jobs are needed just to get America back to where it was in 2007; there’s no evidence so far that anything like that will be happening anytime soon.

Gorilla says: “Modest improvement is the new lousy!”

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