Looks like the Dems have decided it’s Obama’s time to take one for the team. And it ain’t pretty.* Still. Couldn’t happen to a gooder man. (h/t Doug Ross)

Note here: if it does nothing else, having the stark conservative choice forces the left wing candidate to move further right. Which, that’s a welcome change from watching the GOP fall all over itself trying to prove its progressive bona fides, if you ask me. (h/t TerryH)

Here’s my most candid admission: I don’t care if Constitutionalists / classical liberals / fiscal conservatives lose the next 10 elections — provided they stick to their principles. The media and the reality on the ground can only fool the electorate for so long — and a break in the action where conservatives are out of power takes away the left’s ability to lay blame at the feet of the

Overheard at the local coffee shop, 8:55 a.m. First overweight lady: “Have you tried the biscotti here? The chocolate macadamia?” Second overweight lady: “Yes. Delicious. You’ll love it. In fact, I think I’ll have a piece as well, now that you’ve reminded me.” First overweight lady: “We’re being so bad, aren’t we…?” Second overweight lady: “I guess. But we may as well enjoy it now, while we both still have

— Though as I anticipated, it is (as of now) a soft and bloodless one. Paul Ryan seems to get that. Responding to David Brooks — and, by proxy, to the rest of the establishment Republicans content to live within the faux binary of the current two-party competition for control of first eats at the taxpayer trough: The issue is not whether we ought to “zero out the state” or