And good riddance

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Right then, right today

Right then, right today

Former Bush officials leave the Republican party and blame Trump supporters.

These horrible people failed conservatives and long-ago abandoned any claim to principles they may once have held.

Pete Dupont had it right, three-decades ago.

The moderate Republican Party of the 1970s were basically eighty percenters. They said, 'Democrats, we're for everything you're for--but only 80% of it. Yes, we'd like federal aid education, but not so much. Yes, we can help people on welfare, but not in as expensive a way as you want to do it.' So, as [some wag] once said, 'There wasn't a dime worth of difference between the two parties' and that was true. We were just for a little bit cheaper welfare state.

Newt comes to town and says, 'We're not for the welfare state at all. It's not a question of steering a little to the right, it's a question of turning the whole organization around and going off towards opportunity and individualism as opposed to collective decisions by government.'

The “responsible” Republicans hated the tea party, they hated the Trump party, and they hated, and still hate, the unclimbable. Screw ‘em.

Well, nothing else he's said had a scientific basis, so why would this?

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St. Anthony comes down from the mountain with the Word of God (daily)

St. Anthony comes down from the mountain with the Word of God (daily)

Fauci now admits that “there are no data indicating that double-masking works”.

Not only no data supporting it, yesterday, Biden’s Chinese Virus advisor Dr. Michael Osterholm argued that double-masking “does more harm than good”.

“Yeah, well, whatever”, octogenarian Faluchi told FWIW. “I’ve been slinging this stuff for a year now, making it up as I go along, so … what — you suddenly believe what you hear on TV? C’mon, man.”

It turns out, someone else was onto these public health frauds all along: Andy Cuomo,. who the NYT reports today has been firing his health care experts wholesale, since July.

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I predicted this when it started off in June '19 at $8.9 million.

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Back then, I suggested that 18 Lower Cross Road would face rough sledding at that price, with the headline, “Start the Counter”, and guessed that it might sell in 2023 or so for maybe $5.450.

Even the subsequent Chinese Virus panic and several price cuts haven’t helped, and today the price was dropped to $6.495.

Owners paid $7.2 for the place in 2000.

Lampalla Walla Ding Dong suggests that newly-unemployed energy workers have an alternative to learning to code.

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Ding Dong had flown unannounced into W. Virginia to give local TV interviews to put pressure on fellow-Democrat Senator Joe Manchin, who isn’t enthusiastic about the $1.9 billion slush fund being pushed by the administration. Manchin was not amused, and his anger and Kampalla’s novel approach to unemployment will probably combine to hurt her when she assumes the presidency next year.