Barrel Strength

Mustn’t have been rabbit season, I guess:

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Thank you, Chuck Jones.

The current troubles in the financial markets around the world has necessitated bank bailouts in several countries. Some conservatives, including some on this august site, have eagerly extolled this. The lack of responsibility displayed by the shareholders of the banks is appalling, who at the very least should have been completely stripped of their ownership instead of being rewarded.

It was obviously a bailout for the rich and now these details will be kept under wrap in UK.

The Bank of England has imposed a permanent news blackout on its £50bn-plus plan to ease the credit crunch.

Ferocious and unprecedented secrecy means taxpayers will never know the names of the banks that have been supported through the special liquidity scheme, which was unveiled by Bank Governor Mervyn King last week.

Given the level of secrecy one would think we were dealing with the Keeler client list.

…. share it with the whole class. Mark Steyn in conversation here with Hugh Hewitt.

“And incidentally, I don’t think it’s tough to turn your back on hard jobs, and become a so-called community organizer. I don’t even know what a community organizer is. My own community manages to do without community organizers. I think it’s a rubbish profession, and it wouldn’t make any difference if they all went away tomorrow.”

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s refusal to bow out of the nomination leads to an analysis by International Herald Tribune, which will get prominent coverage given that it was posted on Drudge Report today, as to how she might secure the nomination. The article suggests the following path to nomination.

First, Clinton must win the Indiana primary … and she must run strongly enough in North Carolina… Then she must win in a state … like Oregon or Montana.

[Second, the] Clinton campaign must also persuade the Democratic National Committee to seat at least some of the delegates she won in the disputed votes in Michigan and Florida. It must also persuade superdelegates to include the popular votes cast in Florida, and maybe in Michigan, in calculating the overall tally.

The rest of the article dwells on the superdelegates and how their support must shift to Clinton. A Salon article takes a different tack altogether if the fight goes all the way to the convention.

And at that point, it would not only be the superdelegates who were in play. A little-known loophole in Democratic Party rules potentially frees up every delegate — even those selected in primaries and caucuses — to shift their allegiance at the convention. All that delegates are required to do is to “in all good conscience” reflect the sentiments of the voters who chose them. For delegates with flexible consciences, the sky is theoretically the limit. “The press is wrong in exclusively focusing on the superdelegates,” says a member of the Democratic National Committee, who has closely studied the convention rulebook. “If it goes to the Convention, everybody’s up for grabs.”

In this scenario your correspondent’s money is firmly with the Clinton campaign. One doesn’t rise up through the scum that is Arkansas politics without winning knife fights.