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June 23, 2011

Obama’s speech last night was well-crafted with tight logic and clever metaphors.

But, Dennis Miller summed it up best: “more smoke than the Vatican announcing a new pope.”

I was afraid it was just me thinking that  Obama’s speeches have taken on a certain ‘tree falling in the woods’  character.

Like, who cares?

It’s not like anything is going to change.

The Middle East will continue to be a mess, we’ll continue to throw lives and money down the rat hole, and Al–Qaeda will just keep operating out of Pakistan, Yemen and other places.

Only difference: by declaring the withdrawal, Obama owns anything that goes wrong in Afghanistan.

Tell me again why anybody wants to be President ?

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Interesting observation …

Paraphrasing Wolf Blitzer on CNN:

“The U.S. has 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, NATO has about 50,000, and there are supposed to be 300,000 in the Afghan security forces.  It’s estimated that there are fewer than 25,000 Talban and Al–Qaeda fighters in the country.  With a manpower advantage of almost 20 to 1, shouldn’t we be able to snuff these maggots out?”

Good question, Wolf …

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Viva McKinsey …. study was “rigorous”

June 23, 2011

Of course, I’ve got horses in this race since I’m a McKinsey alum …

When dufass Henry Waxman started attacking McKinsey for lack of credentials and poor methodology, I just had to laugh.

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From the WSJ: Shutting Up McKinsey

The White House routinely tries to intimidate its health-care critics, but the campaign against McKinsey & Co. is something else.

The management consultants attempted to find out how U.S. business will respond to ObamaCare,

Democrats don’t like the results, and so McKinsey must pay with its reputation.

The firm’s sin was to canvass some 1,300 companies and report that nearly a third will “definitely” or “probably” stop offering insurance to employees after 2014, dumping them instead into ObamaCare’s subsidized exchanges.

Democrats immediately blasted the results, attacked McKinsey’s integrity and demanded that it release its methodology and full responses.

So this week McKinsey opened its books, and what do you know, the survey was rigorous.

Respondents were a representative cross-section of businesses of many sizes and across industries and regions, and the questions were impartial.

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The White House shills declared that the study  was not a “predictive economic analysis.”

For truth, they point to the ever-dutiful Congressional Budget Office which – after the CBO got an all expenses paid trip to meet with Obama in the oval office —  thinks the law will have little effect on employer coverage.

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Viva McKinsey.

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