“We are pretty pissed off about it,” says one confidant. “She messed up, making it harder for other candidates to speak up. Taking on Perry on this front, with serious arguments, could have been a long and very successful line of attack. She went a step too far and embarrassed the field. She polluted the issue.”
Stalking horse or fucktard?
Friday, September 16, 2011
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Of course, Tecs is with the Palis on this one.
You know when you've gone too far and too fringe?
When Ron Paul says you've gone too far and too fringe.
Uh, oh.
Of course, Rot thinks Kraut is a retard.
Tecs claims Romney has never flip-flopped. Duh. He's part of the fruity delegation.
Did you listen to the Kraut clip? It's worth the while.
Incidentally, I forget now whether it's in there or not, but the Hammer says at some point (in reference now to Solyndra) that the government picking technologies in such fashion is like the feds investing in jet engines in 1920.
Ah, but if Coanda coulda have had a cool 0.5 billion dollars back then (accounting for inflation, of course), he coulda built a jet plane by 1924, that's for sure!
Yes, I paid attention to Krauthammer. I am not so sure that this "picking winners" thing really makes sense.
Libs can point to the transcontinental railroad and the interstate highway system as being examples in which the government picked technologies that proved crucially important for future development nut senseless for private enterprise to invest in at the time.
The real difficulty with solar is that it's all predicated on the idea that it will be crucial in the future though it is plainly not now.
The railroads connecting California to the rest of the country were obviously necessary when they were built. Solar technology might be a weaker case, but it looks pretty good too.
You put a $200 thing on your roof and you have hot water for 30 years. Sounds useful to me.
Krauthammer's invoking the jet engine makes the point in the right sense.
Before WWII, there was no economic reason to make jet engines. The rest of the technology took 50 years for the need to show up.
You're right in bringing up investing a ton on Coanda in discussing Solyndra. He was on the wrong track too.
Powww!!
No, no, no -- Coanda was on the right track. He realized propeller blades were not the way to go all the way back in 1910, and so he built a jet engine. So, OK, it kind of blew up on the first try, but the idea was there. If he had some seed money (eg, from the French govt?) to pursue things, he coulda gotten off the ground, way before everyone else. And, at the very least, he coulda spun off all sorts of stuff that came out of that momentous test, based on the Coanda effect: the Coanda BBQ, the Coanda turbine, the Coanda helicopter, the Coanda flying saucer, etc, etc.
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