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Thoughts on the current state of the two party system
As I put in my earlier conversation with Eric:
Each party has no fixed position, but two definite constituencies:
- The people who will vote for the party’s candidates
- The people who will contribute money to the party
For the Republicans the ideology of the median contributor is fairly close to the ideology of the median voter. For the Democrats, the median contributor seems to be farther left than the median voter. This pushes the party ever leftwards (and indirectly pushes the Republican’s leftwards as well).
I suppose the question is: Is this an evolutionary stable strategy? Time will tell I suppose.
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Thoughts on the Supreme Court selection
I think it’s tactically brilliant. By nominating a qualified but recordless (where did he find this guy?) judge he puts the Democrats in a very difficult position.
Bush will probably have 3 opportunities to nominate judges. The Democrats have a limited amount of resources to expend fighting the nomination. If they adopt a scorched earth policy on Roberts they will have nothing left PR-wise should Bush nominate a more naturally appealing candidate (i.e. black/female, aka Janice Rodgers Brown) as his next nomination.
Most likely they will play this one very mellow and save all their capital for the next fight.
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Good times a-coming
The more I think about the Wilson Affair the more I like it. Throw in three Supreme Court nominations (possibly four) and the political class will be fully occupied with partisanship and self-absorption, leaving no room for Bold New Ideas.
Which is the way it should be.
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Digital photo phun
Now that I’ve taken and modified around one hundred photos I encounter the time saving force that is Photo Blog 2.0. A very useful tool I think.
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Perfectly put (again)
By the wonderful Dr Sowell.
Many people are so preoccupied with the notion that their own knowledge exceeds the average knowledge of millions of other people that they overlook the more important fact that their knowledge is not even one-tenth of the total knowledge of those millions. That is the crucial fallacy behind the repeated failures of central planning and other forms of social engineering which concentrate power in the hands of people with less knowledge and more presumption.
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New Gallery
From last Friday night at the Freedom Parkway/I-75 area.
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Saturday Rapid Fire
- How to make your own Google Earth Movies
- Build your own personal 17′ windmilll/Turbine
- An office Trebuchet
- As if on cue, LifeHacker has a digital photo roundup.
- Tour de France meets Google Earth
- The future economics of Poker
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We welcome Dave Henson to the blogosphere
At DaveHenson.com. He is one of the few folks I know who actually has a print following.
UPDATE – just added Dave to the Blog Roll (on right)
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Morning thoughts
So this is what 7:30 looks like!
I wake up to find the Plame affair has gotten much more interesting. It now seems that Robert Novak was the source for Rove! And Wilson says that his wife was not a covert operative at the time of the incident! One more weird fact and we have vaudeville.
I suppose this would explain why the democrats haven’t jumped on this sordid affair as much they could have. At this point, Wilson seems like a bit of a liar and drama queen who does not want a closer look at the facts of his involvement in the early part of this, and if Rove did in fact learn from Novak, then he’s clean on every possible count.
Of course the next obvious question is: Who is Judy Miller’s source in all this? Since she’s in jail now it would seem logical that her source was not Rove, Wilson perhaps?
Vaudeville, Vaudeville I say!
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I like Rehnquist
From CNN
“I want to put to rest the speculation and unfounded rumors of my imminent retirement,” Rehnquist said in a statement released through his family. “I am not about to announce my retirement. I will continue to perform my duties as chief justice as long as my health permits.”
He wants to go out on his shield, how cool.