After blasting Sarah Palin yesterday, Princess Lisa has moved on to the next leg of her “the candidates selected and backed by the GOP Establishment are completely different animals from the kinds of candidates selected by, and supportive of, the TEA Party”- tour, this time taking aim at Jim DeMint: “I think some of the Republicans in the Congress feel pretty strongly that he and his actions potentially cost us

So argues Michael Barone: I don’t claim to be an expert on monetary policy or international finance, but I’ve been astonished by the degree of disrespect expressed here and abroad to the latest economic policies of President Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The policies in question are the Obama administration’s attempts to convince other countries (especially China) to strengthen their currencies and the Fed’s renewed bout of quantitative

Harsanyi: […] President Barack Obama promised Obamacare was going to immediately alleviate some of the pain of rising premiums for businesses. This week, we learned that 111 waivers had already been granted by the administration to those threatening to drop coverage for tens of thousands of employees they can no longer afford to cover. Others around the country, like AARP (sweet schadenfreude) and Boeing, were forced to raise their premiums,

Jules Crittenden sends along this sneak peak at our future as wards of the medical collective: The state’s health insurance connector — the highly touted agency that aims to bring cheap medical care to the masses — has turned into a legal pit bull by aggressively going after a growing number of Bay Staters who say they can’t afford mandated insurance — or the penalties imposed for not having it.