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