“BREAKING: Mitt Romney Urged Obama to Embrace the Individual Mandate.” On the national level. And in direct contradiction to the defense of RomneyCare he’s been running on. Somewhere in the cold of Connecticut, Ann Coulter is lying back, thinking of England. (h/t newrouter)

Here’s the thing: Rick Santorum defends the earmark process, so while you can attack him for taking earmarks, you’re attacking something he defends as part of doing business in DC. And as I’ve pointed out before, there are strong conservative arguments for earmarks, particularly in the absence of line-item vetoes. What you shouldn’t do, however, is attack people for taking government funds, then get caught on tape bragging about just

Of course not. But I made you look, didn’t I? And seriously, when progressives, Democrat pundits, and Romney supporters start telling you that Rush Limbaugh is conservatism’s problem, it’s probably time to admit we’ve ceded yet another definition to the Marxist propagandists. Pretty soon, when the Left gets its way, candidates like Mitt Romney will be “severe conservatives” — largely because everyone to the right of them will be cast

I would have gone with “because he’s a Marxist and this is what they do,” but then that’s speaking broadly. Jim Pethokoukis is more interested in the nuts and bolts: All the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts. Gone. It would have been the Mother of All Tax Hikes, a $3 trillion tax increase during shaky economic times. It would have broken a campaign promise not to raise taxes on

…that they routinely track back here (though strangely, always, it seems, in posts that mention almost by rote how silly are my arguments and how irrelevant are my thoughts), I decided I’d do them the solid of exposing some of the things that pass for cogent commentary from their Very Intelligent Readers (among whom we can count timb, who will prove himself unable to resist his spurned-lover’s urges to run

When the Left becomes the hidebound ruling establishment, the youth will revolt against the Left. And the right will give them … Mitt Freaking Romney.

— Which, evidently, will need to be refitted so that they can run on, say, gasoline. Once the electricity is all used up and the coal plants all bankrupted and shut down, I mean. Progress! GenOn Energy Inc. plans to close five of its older coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania over the next four years. The company, based in Houston, said Wednesday that tough new environmental rules make it unprofitable