Ted Rall for August 23, 2010

Heh, it reminds me of the movie Inception.

Ted made a good point.

Someone finally noticed. And when he does move at half speed, it’s with with half measures.

D-d-d-dither.

The good news is it’s Obama doing whatever instead of McCain and Palin tearing up the planet.

”The good news is that the inaction reality in panel 4 is far preferable to the statist actions suggested in panel 3.”

jrmerm, please explain your argument in logical terms a Vulcan could understand. The background in panel 4 looks remarkably post-apocalyptic. Is that really preferable to socialism?

The founders designed it to work slowly & broadly, not to micromanage in nanoseconds.

“Just do something even if it’s wrong,” worked so well for W.

jrmerm, thanks for your thoughtful, calm, and reasoned answer. I do believe that BP has a great many American shareholders, by the way.

“I am against passing huge, complicated, ineffective legislation that restricts freedom arbitrarily.”

“Like the Homeland Security Dept. and the Patriot Act?

I get the concept: Ted’s been watching old Star Trek reruns. :-)

“Inaction is almost always preferable to doing the wrong thing,”

Inaction would have cost Bush a second term. Even though it was the “wrong thing” to do, the Iraq war got him reelected.

Deeper in the geological record, it was a Wild, Wild West episode also.

It was Prof. Friedrich von Hayek who said that the use of politics to plan society (e.g., government regulation of free enterprise capitalism) was “the road to Serfdom” (c.f., Stalin’s Russia). But the application of the Nash Equilibrium reinforced by medical (a Brave New World “gramme is better than a damn”) psychiatry no doubt has Aynn Rand turning in her grave and leads to the anti-evolutionary stasis of adjusting (the) individual(s) to society instead of society to (the) individual(s). Could it be that Sartre’s continual revolution concept was on to something; despite the resulting bloody chaos? …please; no. Or maybe we should just legalize recreational drugs across the board and hope everything works itself out.

I never would have suspected Supreme Court justices would vote conservatively in 1935 or that they would be more interested in curbing the power of a successful opposition president rather than staying true to the letter of the law…

the good news is, no matter what happens, it apparently will ALWAYS be Bush’s fault.