June 24, 2008
He's a Uniter!
Secretary Robert Reich and the WSJ Ed Page's Stephen Moore form the "Dynamic Duo" on Kudlow & Company. The two can always be counted on to take opposite sides of an issue. CNBC loves controversy and frequently superimposes boxing glove animations over arguing panel members.
Hearts sank across the control room yesterday as Reich, Moore, and host Larry Kudlow all reached agreement. Yes, it seems that Senator McCain's $300 Million prize for developing a car battery is considered universally stupid across the political spectrum. Here's the clip, I call it Kudlow Kumbaya:
Reich, for a rare change is right. I seriously doubt that he would not love this idea had Senator Obama proposed it -- but he didn't, this is my guy that says let's take [pinky in mouth] 300 miiiillion dollars out of the Federal largesse to pay some prize to a person that would make billions in the open market. Sad.
UPDATE: Your wish is my command, commenters. Here is the clip right before the Kumbaya moment shown above. Markets need regulation, alternative energy investments will bring down futures prices &c.
UPDATE II: It's a battle of the Titan bloggers! Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit (3.0 x 108 daily readers) vs. jk of ThreeSources (3.0 daily readers)!
I still don't know the proper etiquette for what AlexC calls "link-whoring," but I sent this to Reynolds as a counterpoint to a Jerry Pournelle piece he linked that was in favor of the prize. I know Reynolds respects Kudlow, and I thought it gave an important and different take.
I'm not surprised to get ignored by Reynolds. He gets a ton of these and it's his site to edit as he pleases. But he revised the Pournelle post and updated it with three additional links that support the prize idea.
I'm thinking I will email him again and say "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM????"
It's a shame that Reich is only in favor of the free market when disagreeing with McCain. What isn't shown in the clip is the fact that moments earlier, he was arguing that the U.S. shouldn't open the OCS, but rather that "we" should be investing in alternative energy.
Posted by: HB at June 24, 2008 11:29 PMReich is a piece of work all right. Jonah Goldberg takes some serious whacks at him in his "Liberal Fascism" book, documenting a few cases of outright lying when the facts did not support his position. I think it is a credit that Moore and Kudlow will cross over and criticize their candidate -- Reich will always hold the party line.
Posted by: jk at June 25, 2008 10:37 AM | What do you think? [2]