Congress: “Well, were you awake — and not quite so fucking stupid — you’d be like, begging me for it. And even if you weren’t, you should. So let’s do this thang…!”*

Unelected appointees and bureaucrats are being handed more and more control over the lives of US citizens — and because they are bureaucrats, they insinuate themselves into the very fabric of our civic bodies, oftentimes free from partisan blowback and immune to election results, rack-suited bed bugs who are able to exist through any number of changes in itinerant tenant. This man will help shape health care policy and practice

So for now, I’ll just leave you with this protein wisdom Mach 2 thought: Team R rulez, Team D droolz! Touchdown!

Just because.

Few deserve it more. Trust me. As promised, the armadillo is now once again free to dance (or, you know, not)… **** update* update 2**

Levin, reacting to Richard Baehr’s American Thinker piece that argues, eg., OUTLAWism is “Stalinist” — the analogy being that idealism-based voting is a call to “purge” the party of “moderates”: I oppose Mark Kirk, the only Republican I oppose in the general election, because he was 1 of 8 Republicans in the House who voted for cap-and-trade (Baehr’s favorite Mike Castle was another). It was a hugely imprudent act based

Guess they are among the 61% of Americans who favor repeal. — And that’s before rates sky-rocket, and before more than just late-state breast cancer sufferers are told they’re too much of an economic burden to live that extra half year. But hey, dead people don’t vote. So there’s always that that the government has going for it…

Major Garrett, writing in the National Journal: “Americans Want Their Leaders To Stand And Fight”: Nearly half of America — including nearly two-thirds of Republicans and 53 percent of independents — admires political leaders who refuse to compromise. This is further evidence that the current political atmosphere is not merely contentious, but hostile to any hope of negotiated settlements to the many political and policy differences that define the current

Lesser of two evils seems to be the motivation here. Listen: When Tea Party support starts gaining significant ground among independents — right now they stand at about 48% approval — then we’ll know we have something. And I think there’s a chance to get there, provided we sell the actual principles of classical liberalism/ conservatism — individual freedom; competition; free enterprise; American exceptionalism; equality of opportunity — and not

Michael Barone: the most stark demonstration of the public employee unions’ power came in the District of Columbia, where Mayor Adrian Fenty was defeated in the Democratic primary by Council Chairman Vincent Gray. There’s no Republican candidate, and Gray is as good as elected. Four years ago, Fenty carried every precinct in the city. In office he has drawn national attention for his appointment of Michelle Rhee as school chancellor.