Ricochet Podcast #113: It's The Grit
BREAKING: We didn't win the lottery, at least not the one where they give away all the dough. We did win the one where they give away podcast guests however. This week we've got Commentary's John Podhoretz and California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (they worked for the same employer at different times in their careers. Who? Tune in and and find out). We cover the primaries, SCOTUS and HCR, the OPM scandal, Titanic, the budget, and the Congressman's triplets. Yes, you read that right, TRIPLETS.
Music from this week's episode:
- Is That Clear by Nick Waterhouse
- I've Got You Under My Skin by Louis Prima and Keely Smith
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Aug '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #113: It's The Grit
You're probably in the middle of doing so right now, Yeti, but don't forget to update the feedburner RSS feed for those of us who grab the episodes that way.
EDIT: As I knew it would, it has appeared. Thanks!
Edited on April 4, 2012 at 10:29pmJan '11
Re: Ricochet Podcast #113: It's The Grit
I think the direct link above is going to the episode 112.
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Fixed, thanks.
May '10
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What's with this idea that Obama leads Romney in the polls lately? Here's an average of polls that puts the President at 45.4 to Romney's 44.8. Meanwhile, the Real Clear Politics average looks worse . . . but if you look more closely, you'll see the President leads in polls of registered voters. Only Rasmussen is polling likely voters right now (and they show Romney doing well).
Jan '11
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I was just about to point to the RCP page as well - as Fredösphere points out, the Rasmussen likely voter poll shows Romney leading Obama 47-44.
Jan '11
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I think it is dangerous to draw conclusions about the election from polls this far from the election. Just because Romney isn't winning all the polls doesn't mean he can't win the election. Also, just because he wins in one poll doesn't prove he will win. If he is down in the polls, then it means he has work to do - not that we should give up.
Re: Ricochet Podcast #113: It's The Grit
Thanks for the links. I based that whole discussion on my perusal of RealClear polls. (Had I know we were going to get into it, I'd have paid a lot more attention.)
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My point exactly. He has work to do.
May '10
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Maybe Friedman meant Rolling Stones promote peace. After all, that evil Rush Limbaugh dominates the airwaves, and the Stones certainly make me want to turn off the radio.
May '10
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Agreed. Hopefully, that will affect turnout for Democrats (and perhaps counter the inevitable voter fraud a bit?), but Republicans can't criticize President Obama for being incompetent when we hate almost everything he wants to accomplish.
James is right to bring up Obama's campaign comments about actually wanting gas prices to be higher. Gas prices are double what they were only four years ago! As y'all know, I have a low opinion of swing voters, but even I would be amazed if playing that clip over and over again on TV, radio and internet ads didn't hurt the President's campaign this year.
Even people who agreed with him in theory ("Oil and coal = bad. Alternative energy = good.") will have a harder time agreeing now that they feel the consequences.
May '10
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Peter, your associate is right that there is a lot of oil and gas to be tapped in North America. But oil industry veterans have told me repeatedly these past few years that much of that new exploration is only economical because of high oil prices.
I wish I could explain it in detail or talk one of those veterans into joining Ricochet, but alas.
Jan '11
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James, when discussing the Office of Personnel Management did you mean its acronym as Other Peoples Money or OPiuM?
Re: Ricochet Podcast #113: It's The Grit
Other People's Money, Pike. But OPiuM works too: just as addictive.
Feb '11
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John, when discussing Thomas Friedman at about 25:00, you used the phrase "hurling a stone at somebody's head," you left out ""while the somebody is driving a car on an intercity road."
Nov '11
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Wait a minute!
That looks like somebody used computers to put pictures of their faces on other bodies!
Nov '10
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J-Pod is one funny dude!
Oct '10
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In NYC, it's the grit, but in the South, it's the grits. Great podcast.
Mar '11
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A non-geothermally powered 1912 Stanley Steamer. Instead of the Tin Lizzie maybe we could call it the Biden Boiler.
Apr '11
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I am disappointed with the discussion on energy policy because it is clear to me that neither side has a clue how the energy industry works. I know that this is not an energy forum and as such thediscussions are not going to be very deep, but someone PLEASE at least make an effort to read a energy trade publications before opinionating on energy policy, it's embarrassing to read or listen to ill conceived ideas put forth in this forum by folks who obviously don't have any idea how the energy industry works.
Why don't you have on an energy expert, not a wonk, who can give a well informed view of the energy market and what perturbs it.
Eeveryone knows that large energy related projects take years to vet and build, but what most don't know, is that the announcement of a large energy project alone has an inordinate and immediate effect on the energy market, because the companies that are in the market automatically start reviewing their position in light of the new capacity coming on line, the credible announcement of new capacity has a dramatic effect even before the first foundations are poured.
Jan '11
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I've been on vacation and away from my iPod syncing computer so I'm just finished listening to this podcast yesterday in the evening. Representative Rohrabacher disappointed me with his nativism. While I fully expect a conservative politician from California to have a low opinion toward immigration [of the illegal variety], I do not expect the China bashing. He actually insinuated that our commerce with China has created a transfer of wealth [and I presume that he meant from the U.S. to China]. But tell me: if the flip-side of a current account deficit [aka trade deficit] is a capital account surplus by an accounting identity, then isn't the U.S. the recipient of the wealth transfer?
Knock off the China scaremongering and ditch the Donald Trump-like hysteria [or Lou Dobbs even]. Yes, China has claims on U.S. assets. But until they come to claim those assets [namely take final principal payments on U.S. issued debt without repurchasing newly issued debt], the wealth transfer is decidedly going our way from China; stop the misguided complaining of things that our happening exactly opposite of how you think that they are.