Well. That certainly explains the facile and puerile policy positions Michelle tends to stake out, doesn’t it? Next up: Michelle Obama calls on Congress to name November 23 “Miley Cyrus Day” — with retailers directed to take at least 50% off all Hannah Montana merchandise, so that “like, poor kids who eat nothing but beans and stuff, can love love love Hannah Montana just like the rest of the normal

Obama jobs bill, page 135: millionaires & billionaires? Newly defined as married, making $125k year and filing individually. Because under the President’s “jobs” bill, deductions for such people would be limited to 28%. (Alternately, those not married but rather “living together” and operating under the same financial circumstances? Don’t become millionaires or billionaires until they make $200k. So there’s that). Just so’s you know.

Pass this bill now? Hell, I think we’d settle if the Democrats would just agree to vote on this bill now! But then, doing so would take away Obama’s entire campaign strategy — because a number of Democrats would break ranks and sink it, making it a bi-partisan repudiation of what everyone knows is a tax bill camouflaged by investment socialism. (h/t Mark Levin and Jim DeMint)

Most transparent Administration evah! Daily Caller: On Tuesday’s Laura Ingraham Show, Attkisson said DOJ spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler and White House associate communications director Eric Schultz yelled and screamed at her over the story. “The DOJ woman was just yelling at me,” Attkisson said. “The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. Eric Schultz — oh, the person screaming was Tracy Schmaler.

WSJ, “Why no one wants to repeal a program that everyone knows is a fraud”: Since the CBO says Class’s front-loaded collections cut the deficit to the tune of that $86 billion, HHS has to pretend that the program is still alive to preserve these phantom savings. Some Republicans are also nervous about repealing Class because, under CBO’s perverse scoring, they’ll be adding $86 billion to the deficit. Others would

Geoff B notices that the way its playing out seems to take much of its direction, such as it is, from some rather infamous remarks by Stephen Lerner, a former SEIU official and, I’m willing to bet, a man who has the ear of many inside this Administration and inside the labor movement. Consider:

As someone who frequently generalizes about the modern academy — for the most part, it has become a bastion of mediocre groupthink and anti-intellectualism — I should probably point out examples of academics who have not succumbed to institutionalized leftism that has rendered much of contemporary scholarship nothing more than politically-motivated pablum. Here is one such example. Were it that this were the rule rather than the exception.

FOXNews: House Republicans are going to call for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Holder perjured himself during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious, Fox News has learned. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is sending a letter to President Obama arguing that Holder cannot investigate himself and will request a probe by a special counsel. The question is whether Holder

And why should he? I mean, same size screen as the iPhone 4? Dealbreaker. For now, at least. Maybe in 2016

The US Attorney General for all intents and purposes is a co-conspirator in the murder of US border agents. And where is the WaPo on this? Tracking down the history of a fucking rock in Texas — hoping the rock’s palimpsest history will speak to the subconscious racism of a GOP Governor whose most serious problem with his base is that he is too soft on illegal immigration. Journalism. ****