The message received in November? Americans want new deficit spending, a stagnant economy, and few new jobs just so long as the only tax hike is on the wealthy dead and their families. Compromise. Pragmatism. **** update: the vote. Most of the nays were from far-left Dems. On the GOP side, Ensign, Sessions, DeMint, Voinovich, and Coburn voted against.

Taxpayers for common sense has identified 6600 earmarks in the omnibus bill worth $8 billion. From the pdf: Transportation Chicago Aviation Education Initiative $250,000 Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) Old Taylor Road Roundabouts $500,000 Childers Cochran, Wicker Bronx Zoo Transportation Facility to alleviate traffic congestion and improve access, Bronx, NY, $500,000 Serrano E. Stadium Bridges Replacement Project, City of Ann Arbor, MI, $500,000 Dingell Illinois Pedestrian and Bicycling road and trail

We’re doomed. As a country, I mean. The press is no longer interested in hiding its progressive propaganda interests; we’re in a civil war, people. And “our” side is losing. Best to keep that in mind. (h/t Andrew Malcolm)

If the GOP leadership can’t stop several of its members from voting for an omnibus bill that will effectively neuter the incoming Congress for an entire fiscal year — and so intentionally undermine the will of the American electorate — than that leadership needs to go. And if we can’t vote our own interests any more by voting for the GOP, we should seriously begin thinking about leaving the party

WaPo: Federal courts in Michigan and Virginia have upheld the law as constitutional, but Monday, a federal court in Virginia reached the opposite result. These and other cases will continue through our courts as opponents try to block the law. But these attacks are wrong on the law, and if allowed to succeed, they would have devastating consequences for everyone with health insurance. […] The legal arguments made against the