Joseph Curl, Washington Times: A dignified, transcendent first lady? No chance. Michelle is going to break with a hundred years of tradition and play the role of attack dog, heaping derision on her husband’s political opponents like no other first lady before her. And it’s already begun. Mad Michelle this week popped down to Davis Island, Fla., to hobnob with the very people her husband despises – the 1 percent.

What did Herman Cain know and when did he know it? And isn’t the cover-up (and there has to be one, because there just has to) of a non-overtly sexual sexual harassment worse than the non-overtly sexual sexual harassment anonymously alleged? WE MUST KEEP THIS STORY ALIVE! FOR FREEDOM! **** update: It’s all very concerning, this evasiveness in responding to how much he knew about unsourced allegations of harassing someone

This was always going to devolve into a kind of hemp-rich Lord of the Flies. I’m surprised at some of the surprise: “What we’re trying to build here,” said Jeff Smith, a member of the Occupy Wall Street press working group, “is a model for the bigger society we’d like to see.” And there’s the rub: The “model” civilization that’s sprung up at Zuccotti is itself increasingly divided between the

Anybody else starting to think that maybe economically illiterate leftwing politicians steeped in Marxism may not be the best choice for designing a command-and-control economy? — and that maybe would should let a free market dictate where our “investment” money goes? Reuters: Beacon Power Corp filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, just a year after the energy storage company received a $43 million loan guarantee from a controversial Department of Energy

All the speculation about non-denial denials were tied to this point — and frankly, the inside-the-Beltway GOP media should have recognized the dynamic. Instead, many of them went with the innuendo that, because the Cain campaign was not giving polished denials, Cain himself was likely hiding something. In fact, this attitude continued into this morning, with “conservatives” like Jen Rubin quipping that AEI was somehow protecting Cain (he was there

Of course he does. I’m thinking Boehner, Christie, and Michael Steele should pull their resources and maybe send these poor frustrated well-meaning advocates for social justice, say, a nice fruit basket, or one of those Hickory farms meat plates. Listen: until we show ourselves willing to react to reality as it actually is rather than as the mainstream press tells us it should be, we’re going to continue losing more

Full video on 9-9-9. Cain will also be appearing on FOX shortly, where he’ll give a full response to allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior.

Confess your sins here. Then I’ll have Bob Schieffer come along and decide whether or not to offer you forgiveness.

Pretty soon, even Richard Cohen is going to start getting a bit antsy.

Finally, a “progressive” idea I can get behind! Of course, many of us on the “extremist fringe” of the right wing extremist fringe’s extremist fringe spent those days leading up to the Boehner compromise — which, you’ll recall, was going to save our credit rating and keep us from “defaulting” — flexing our puristy Emotion Muscles, demanding that the GOP stick with Cut, Cap, and Balance, not yet again strike