Nicolo Machiavelli:
Political misjudgments and wrong turns are like tuberculosis, hard to detect and easy to cure in the beginning and easy to diagnose and very hard to cure in the end.Der Spiegel:
Just as the US public initially rallied behind the war President Bush -- even to the point of re-electing him -- Americans have now thrown their support behind the debt president Obama. The mistakes of the Bush administration are now widely accepted. The mistakes of the Obama administration are still not recognized as such. They are seen as the truth.Machiavelli:
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.Der Spiegel:
Obama's Cheney is named Larry Summers. He is Obama's senior-most economic advisor, and like the former vice president, he is a man of conviction. The financial crisis may be large, but Summers' self-confidence is even larger. More importantly, President Barack Obama follows him like a dog does its master. ...Machiavelli:
Summers [said] that the way to bring about an end to the crisis was -- more confidence, more credit and more debt. And the nodding stopped. Experts and non-experts alike were perplexed. Even in an interview following the presentation, Summers was unable to supply an adequate explanation for how a crisis caused by frivolous lending was going to be solved through yet more frivolity.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.Glenn Reynolds:
HOPE ANDCHANGESAME! FBI compounds mystery with secret justification of gag order. “The FBI continues its secrecy binge by filing a classified justification of its use of a gag order on an ISP in the ongoing Doe v. Holder battle. . . . Clearly, the FBI isn’t ready to give up its Bush-era secrecy addition just yet. As we reported earlier, the EFF is also on the Bureau’s case over fact that the internal guidelines that govern its domestic surveillance practices are also secret.” Remember when getting rid of this kind of thing was a matter of fierce moral urgency?
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