Is going swimmingly, isn’t it? Hope and change. **** More.

Introducing Genghis Khan, eco-warrior! BRING BACK THE HORSE-DRIVEN, BOW-WIELDING HORDES! FOR MOTHER EARTH! (h/t Mark Steyn)

Ruth Marcus, RCP: The state of the union is . . . leaderless. Sounds harsh, but when it comes to digging America out from what President Obama calls its “mountain of debt,” I’m becoming increasingly worried that this assessment is accurate. The president talks the talk about fiscal responsibility. But the evidence suggests he’s not willing to spend the political capital to translate that talk into action. […] In his

It’s the new “competition”: the federal government gets to decide who wins and who loses, and if you want to be among the winners, you know what you need to do. It’s the Chicago way: While some 500 groups got waivers for a healthcare reform provision setting annual coverage requirements, about 50 requests for such exemptions were denied, the Department of Health and Human Services told The Hill Thursday. A

At what point is your insistence of someone else’s idiocy forever undermined by being your being so consistently wrong every time you purport to illustrate it? (h/t geoffb)

Tom Harkin: “If the people elect these crazy Tea Party people to come in here and they vote to do these wacko things…” So what you’re suggesting, Mr Harkin, is that, say, Rand Paul is crazy for wanting to streamline government and return us to our Constitutional mandates, but your having lied about flying F-4 and F-8s in combat missions over North Vietnam when you were really flying them out