OMG! NFW! I actually agree with Karl “Weasel” Rove about something. The idea that Donald “Gasbag” Trump running for President is a joke.
I suspect the reason why Rove doesn’t like the presence of Sarah Palin or Donald Trump on the national political stage is that they’re wild cards. They don’t play the Republican game by the rules in Rove’s playbook. Trump simply has no credibility, and not just for the birther nonsense. For example, he says…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/19/us-donaldtrump-idUSTRE73I5Z620110419
If we stop buying from China, China will go down like no other country has ever gone down before. China needs us more than we need them.
Poor, uninformed Donaldo is wrong, because one way or the other we have to buy from China.
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/37344/With worldwide demand for the materials exploding, the site’s owner, Molycorp Minerals, restarted mining at Mountain Pass last December. It is now the Western Hemisphere’s only producer of rare-earth metals and one of just a handful outside of China, which currently produces 95 percent of the world’s supply.
The GOP’s best bet for the 2012 ticket are the Massachusetts Republicans — Mitt Romney and Scott Brown. Go for it, guys.
And while I’m feeling all politic-y, with the tax returns out of the way, and with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert off this week, I’ve been getting caught up on NPR Planet Money podcasts. This pair of reports from a couple of weeks ago is good, about what Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were…
… and what they should be — if anything.