Don’t be silly. Of course they can. It’s one of the benefits of having no principles and being willing to play every side of every issue if it means acquiring, maintaining, or solidifying power. And when you have an orchestrated army of useful idiots willing to do your dirty work for you, not only can you have it both ways, but having it both ways is the point of the

Today, I suppose he’ll call them “the 1%” — and position himself on the side of “the 99%”. Depending on which way the wind happens to be blowing, naturally. **** related: Pros and cons for Perry.

Sure. But he’s going to use that money to get himself re-elected, and once that’s done, he’ll redistribute all the wealth, so that your mortgage and gas bills will be paid and everyone will get an iPad and free broadband internet and a pet Ocelot. So it’s different, you see. Nuance.

Not the same as the Tea Party protests. At all. In the slightest. And to say that it is is to piss on those who want to save the country as founded. You won’t be able to marginalize us by tethering us to them. Try as you might. So fuck you.

Business as usual for the legacy media. Are people still buying? I don’t know, honestly. I just hope they’re not as stupid as Obama and the media seem to think they are.

Froggy sent this along with the following note: This is a big story. B of A has moved $53 Trillion in its Merrill Lynch derivatives from a holding company onto the FDIC INSURED balance sheet which is backed by about $1 Trillion in deposits following a credit downgrade. This is a potential massive FDIC depositor bailout of epic proportions, and basically a desperate move by the bank to avoid the

Which, to be fair, is probably the last grade level he can appeal to as an intellectual superior. So there’s that. Then, not to be outdone by himself, Biden today pushed the idea that Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, Bill Clinton, et al., are all really George Bush — because otherwise, his suggestion that Bush was behind the economic collapse (“people died!” “Houses burned!” “RAPE!”) doesn’t really

Matt Welch, Reason: There are two main problems with this yawning chasm between Mitt’s flip and Romney’s flop. The first is that a president who continues to insist, despite the mounds of contrary evidence, that Romneycare is working well, is a president who will be likely to continue or exacerbate bad health care policies at the federal level. The second problem, which worries me more, is that a president who

Art Laffer, one of the architects of the plan, explains and expands — and beats back the idea that the plan is regressive. WSJ: Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s now famous “9-9-9” plan is his explicit proposal to right the wrongs of our federal tax code. He proposes a 9% flat-rate personal income tax with no deductions except for donations to charity; a 9% flat-rate tax on net business profits;

To borrow a common axiom, if you have to ask… We are so so so so so so so so so so so so screwed.* (h/t Mark Steyn)