Presented solely for the delicious situational irony. From Biden’s schedule yesterday: At 1:00 PM, the Vice President will attend a meeting of the Government Accountability and Transparency Board in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. At 2:30 PM, the Vice President will meet with representatives of the National Sheriffs’ Association in the Roosevelt Room. These meetings are closed press. And to hammer home that delicious situational irony of which I wrote:

Or, “how a state school snowbilly presumes to take Congress to task — as if she has the requisite education and pedigree to dare do so! — for the culture of self-servitude and corruption that is driving Americans of all political stripes to question just how we came to have a permanently entrenched political ruling class in what is supposed to be a representative republic.” Sarah Palin, WSJ: Mark Twain

I blame Jesus. **** update: and also that 20-yard game-winning TD run — the longest TD run by an NFL quarterback to win a game with under a minute to go in the history of ever.

I don’t often read all of a NY Times story, for the same reasons I don’t wander around asking people to hit me with a baseball bat. And while the story is somewhat interesting, the language, focus, and mindset of the reporter John Broder, the editors, and the organization that produced it are much more interesting. The primary source is Lisa P. Jackson, Defender of The Children, versus Bill Daley

Of the people, by the people, for the people. Senate Rules Committee staff on Thursday removed microphones and locked the doors of a hearing room in the Russell Senate Office Building where an informal hearing was scheduled to review the findings of the Tea Party Debt Commission, a months-long crowd-sourced effort to develop a budget proposal that balances the budget, reduces the debt and gets America’s fiscal house back in

The biggest problem with Americans? They trust in stodgy, old-people ideas. Clingers, they are. Who really need to get off their lazy asses and embrace the exciting new normal of democratic socialism. Like you young kids do! Nanny government controlling your every move and involved in every aspect of your lives? Why, what could be more hip and liberating than that? HEY HEY, HO HO, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY THAT PROMOTES THE

Squatter’s rights. Liberating foreclosed homes from those who own them. This is quite the plan for home ownership the left has given us: keep interest rates artificially low, require banks to give loans to those who can’t pay them back, put in place economic plans that destroy the economy and lead to large scale job loss, crash the housing market, destroy the middle class, evict people from the homes, then

Behold! That’s about 100% of GDP! But things aren’t all dire: yes, we have this debt; and yes, we have built $1.5 Trillion or so of new deficit spending into each budget going forward; and yes, we have anywhere between $60 and $140 Trillion in unfunded liabilities — to be paid with money that doesn’t exist in the world, as of now. Still, in about a week’s time, there’s an

When the Supercommittee fails next week — and it’s meant to, and always has been, I’m convinced — Democrats will get significant and automatic cuts to military spending, no real cuts to entitlements (there will be some cuts that don’t affect patients, which will nevertheless be demagogued as cuts that affect patients), and the President will be able to continue pushing his reelection campaign message: Congress is broken and won’t