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Archive for March 29th, 2010
Ed Morrissey is doing his bit to document the unintended consequences of government action.
ie like requiring the posting of calorie counts.
Will it cost money? Sure. If you have 21-25 restaurants and you wouldn’t be required to spend all this money, or basically keep your menu pretty static if you only had 19 restaurants what would you do?
Yep, me too.
If you were a business that got a tax break for offering prescription drug coverage to retirees, but then that tax cut expired and yet you knew the retirees would still get coverage elsewhere, what would you do?
Yep, me too.
Apparently the US is still throwing their weight around in Honduras. Via Mary O’Grady (no subscription required)
Last year, the U.S. tried to force the reinstatement of deposed president Manuel Zelaya. When that failed and Team Obama was looking like the Keystone Cops, it sent a delegation to Tegucigalpa to negotiate a compromise.
Participants in those talks say Dan Restrepo, senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council, let slip that the U.S. interest had to do with American politics. The Republicans, he said, were using the administration’s support for Mr. Zelaya, an ally of Venezuelan Hugo Chávez, against the Democrats. It’s not going to work, Mr. Restrepo is said to have informed the other negotiators, because “we have the power” and would be keeping it for a long time.
It can’t have been comforting for Hondurans to learn that while their country was living a monumental crisis, fueled by U.S. policy, Mr. Restrepo’s concern was his party’s power. For the record, an NSC spokesman says “Mr. Restrepo didn’t say that.” But my sources are more plausible considering what has transpired since.
She let’s you know some of the intimidation that’s gone on since. Power!
Not because it’s interesting, but because the person who said it is the most unlikely person to have said it.
Barack Obama: (regarding Afghanistan)
“the US doesn’t quit and will prevail.”
Um – wasn’t he ready to go home from Iraq before it was won?
