So says the National Journal. And I guess we’re going to have to take their word for it, since the actual poll isn’t linked in the piece: Despite deepening doubts about President Obama’s economic agenda, Americans generally prefer the proposals he offered last week for reviving the economy to the competing ideas advanced by congressional Republicans and the GOP’s 2012 presidential field, a United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll has

You can send it to Romney and Gingrich, too — though you needn’t bother on my account. I never expected better from them. Bachmann, conversely, I never anticipated would be willing to sabotage the conservative movement and frame the debate from the left — and in so doing, cede yet another bit of linguistic ground to the very people whose programs are at the heart of our economic problems —

The Broncos and Raiders have the late game, which means I put off tailgating today until after I downed a couple breakfast burritos. That was four hours ago, though. So. Question: is it sad that I’m at home, alone, doing beer bongs with Miller Chill? Or is it more, you know — awesome…?

“Yes, It Is a Ponzi Scheme”: The original Ponzi scheme was the brainchild of Charles Ponzi. Starting in 1916, the poor but enterprising Italian immigrant convinced people to allow him to invest their money. However, Ponzi never actually made any investments. He simply took the money he was given by later investors and gave it to his early investors, providing those early investors with a handsome profit. He then used

Wants Congress to Pass the American Jobs Act bill. Right now. I know this, because he’s said as much a dozen or so times. What we’re witnessing here is the first postmodern, faculty-lounge Presidency taken to its inevitable and surreal end: a lazy imperialist President emerges from a weekend of NFL Sunday Ticket and demands Congress pass a bill that hasn’t yet been written, which he expects will be “fully

Sneaky bastards. This just a few years after their last attempt to hide their shameful bigotries by cynically voting a black man into office. But you can’t fool the left. They know who you all are. And the fact is, if you don’t vote Obama a second term, or if you pretend to disapprove of his policies, it’s because you are all a bunch of backsliding quasi-Klansmen who, given the

10 years ago I was loading the car to head to Taos for the weekend. I was practically a newlywed. My wife and I had no children. It’s become a cliche to say that everything changed that day, but it’s true nevertheless. I never made it to Taos — still haven’t, in fact. Instead, I started looking for news. I was disappointed and dispirited by what I found on the

— even as establishment Republicans and the bulk of “conservative” pundits / GOP “strategists” work diligently either to dismiss her out of hand as “unserious,” or else marginalize her as an unelectable extremist whose policy ideas won’t appeal to the real thinky center of the electorate. As Dan Garber notes to me in an email, “I’m not sure, but this may be a sign of the apocalypse.” I guess it’s

— at least, he hasn’t responded to my request that he get right on that. Which, why even bother inventing a time machine, then, am I right?

Seriously. Now they’re just giving us the finger. And David Brooksssthssth, bless him, has decided the best reaction is to drop trou, pull his chalky cheeks asplay, and offer up his hungry hungry asshole for a little Presidential finger bang. I’ll pass, thanks. CNS News: Just days after Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa urged a union crowd to “take out” tea party “sons-a-bitches,” the White House is touting the union leader’s