Arrant Bulls**t Headline of the Day

"Republicans Will Win The Government Shutdown PR Battle If They Promise Voters Private Jets" (John Tamny, Galt Gazette Forbes).  Far-fetched you say?  Apparently not to an outfit that publishes Randian Social Darwinist crap like this.

How about just basic health insurance, genius?

Randian Adolescence

Some of the friction we've been noting in the right-wing ranks involves the fault line between "traditional conservatives" (i.e., "tards") and libertarians (i.e., "libertards"). Other fissures involve not so much ideology as pathology: i.e., the "outright nut" camp (Boo Hoo Beck, Bachmann, et al) versus the camp willing to exploit the "outright nut" camp (call them the "cynical hypocrites" -- Gingrich, Pawlenty, Trump, to varying degrees). We enjoy watching the fracturing, of course, as seen in the polling of potential Rethug candidates, where a substantial majority is unhappy with the selections to date.

In today's Kaplan Daily, former Bushie speechwriter Michael "Mushroom Cloud" Gerson, who for the time being falls in the "tard" camp, goes after the "adolescent" worshipers of Ayn Rand who occupy the most fetid swamps of the far right. Give credit to Gerson, though, for having enough sack to take on the brittle Randian ideology so forcefully. But let's keep the circular firing squad going, shall we?!

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Intel's Randian CEO Paul Otellini at Wednesday's Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum":

"I think this group [the Obama Administration] does not understand what it takes to create jobs. And I think they're flummoxed by their experiment in Keynesian economics not working." (emphasis added)

Otellini's preferred laissez faire approach would likely have led to Great Depression II. Our qualms about the Administration's Keynesian experiment are that it wasn't bold enough.