Jay Carney, just before he took his ball and went home.
Jay Carney
It seems impossible that White House spokesman Jay Carney has forgotten that we do not live in a Communist country, but you wouldn’t know it from the insanity he was spewing a few days ago about economics. The Obama administration’s mouthpiece either went off script or accidently picked up some of Anita Dunn’s leftover speech notes when he had the temerity to utter the ludicrous sentence “So the correlation between greater production (of oil) and the price is simply not there…”
The monumental stupidity necessary to believe that is so mind-boggling that it almost certainly had to be a farce… but it wasn’t. Carney was serious. Supply evidently no longer has (and possibly NEVER had) an effect on price in a free market. Someone go and dig up Adam Smith and let him know the Soviet Union got it right!
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Another great post, Theo!
Whats more the 5th circuit wants a 3 page single spaced statement from the Justice Dept ensuring that Obama understands that they do have authority to overturn fed laws..they want it by Thurs noon. My question is what happens if Holder ignores it….
I had high hopes for Eric Holder, but his justice department has been such a tremendous mess.I get the sad feeling that nothing would happen. The Justice Department is so absurdly powerful that I doubt they feel any pressing need to respond to an entity as lowly as the 5th circuit. This administration’s low opinion of the Judicial Branch illustrates this point brilliantly. I have no doubt there’s a small mountain of roadblocks they can put up to delay or entirely eliminate this spanking the judiciary is trying to hand out.Still, it will be fun to watch what happens. I’d bet there’s a lot of guys and gals burning the midnight oil at 950 Pennsylvania Ave Northwest…