A thoughtful and rigorous plan. — At least, compared to my own. Which involves jalapeno peppers, a thousand monkeys, and aluminum baseball bats. But then, I’m more of a fire and brimstone guy to begin with.

— What with their being Biblethumping mouthbreathers whose idea of a deep thought routinely ends with “you might be a redneck”…? I don’t know. You tell me. (thanks to Lazarus Long)

So argues Byron York: It’s hard to overstate just how surprised Republicans have been by Obama’s performance. In talking to GOP strategists over the past months, most said something like this: The American people don’t expect Obama to perform miracles. They know he inherited a mess. They don’t think the unemployment rate will magically fall to 4.5 percent. But they do expect the president to devote himself completely to the