The press couldn’t be bothered to dig up Obama’s past associations, or his transcripts, or anything about him that would trouble voters they were relying upon to buy into the hope and change and historic aspects of his presidency. Similarly, they sat on the story of John Edwards’ mistress and baby, just as before they’d spiked the Monica Lewinski story — just as today they are moving to turn the

Gingrich staff quits en masse; Ethanol supporters, warming proponents, Sean Hannity hardest hit. (h/t Darleen)

Smell the glove!

We all buy this and “read” it together? If for no other reason than a NYT business writer is involved in what is amounts to a massive, factual fisting of credentialed frauds like Paul Krugman, and an indictment of the Democrats, big government, crony capitalism, and the power-hungry machinations of leftist governance that has weakened this country to the point of near collapse. Here’s Walter Russell Meade’s review, courtesy Rush

— that he’d bankrupt the coal industry. That energy prices would “necessarily skyrocket”. He told us he’d spread the wealth. He told us (well, those who were both willing to listen, and who didn’t think they could wring more credibility and populist respectability out of pretending otherwise) he was aiming to “transform” the country, that the Constitution was a “flawed” document, and that the end goal was “social justice” —

It’s a shame facebook doesn’t allow things like this to be published in purple ink, with hearts above all the i’s: President Obama wants to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift. But giving military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia is just plain dumb. You can’t buy off Russia. And giving

When the going gets tough, the tough surrender, call for comity, prop up Romney and Huntsman, and come together for the kind of full-throated attack on conservatives and classical liberals that they can never seem to muster against Democrats and socialists: Members of Congress in both parties don’t believe the controversial Medicare reforms drafted by the House Republican Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan will be a part of an eventual