Friday, August 6, 2010

We sue history

Following the successful repeal of Proposition 8, the confirmation of the fourth woman on the SCOTUS, and other stuff I can't recall, we (i.e. me) here at truecents are considering cashing in on the bouyance of the US courts by suing history. You heard right. We're taking Time (not the magazine, but the fourth dimension itself) to court for violating our sacred truecents IP by unfolding as predicted. In our Inauguration Special we warned that:
Unraveling: Obama's juggernaut-of-rivals will give way to a more focussed, coherent, administration. The peripheral elements (like Paul Volker) will give way to the core, so that within two years the administration will look a lot more trim. If this is well managed (gently picking off the elements one-by-one), it will herald an unremarkable transition from a campaign of transformative insurgence to a conservative administration. If it's poorly managed it could spark divisive revenge from the outgunned rivals. Either way, the implementors of Clinton's triangulation will reintroduce centreism as the animating theme of the adminstration. This time, the chastening effect of the economic fallout will double the conservatising impulse.

Greg Craig was damply squiby, but with Christina Romer's resignation the portents are clearer. This bit of deepthroatery from Hotline
"She doesn't feel that she has a direct line to the president. She would be giving different advice than Larry Summers [director of the National Economic Council], who does have a direct line to the president."
And you thought Bill was dead...