Who are you to question one such as me? was the gist of it. All of which I bring up to suggest that maybe we are all Job, and our Benghazi questions are quite rightly being met with indignation. — If you can make the jump from Old to New Testament, that is. (h/t Darleen)

Obama got 10 million less votes last night than he did in 2008; and yet the only “electable” GOP candidate — I know this, because so many of the pragmatists and pundits told me so, over and over and over again — couldn’t beat him.* Which can mean only one thing:  the GOP can’t win.  Or, for the conspiratorially-minded, didn’t want to win.   So we’re going to need some

Erick Erickson, in what is an otherwise very nice post, writes: Romney made a conscious decision to blow off Hispanic voters. Yes conservatives, we must account for this. The Romney campaign to the hispanic community was atrocious and, frankly, the fastest growing demographic in America isn’t going to vote for a party that sounds like that party hates brown people. That does not mean the GOP must offer up amnesty.

Sdferr heard it and I did, too.  So what the fuck.  As the newly bemused, we note only in passing — and with a knowing smile — that just because you’ve gone Godwin doesn’t mean you’re wrong.  From Obama’s speech, in which he expresses his desire to “perfect” the US (presumably, by disencumbering great and visionary leaders from having to follow the constraints placed upon them by dead white patriarchal

I still say a two-child limit is the way to go. Otherwise, how are we ever going to get rid of the “carbon pollution” that keeps Robert Redford from having acres of pristine land free from vacationing human parasites? Cheap energy — and this frakking business has got to stop, pronto! — allows people to be mobile and productive. Which allows them to spread out and consume.  And all of

Reagan never really won the Cold War, sad to say.  Bill Ayers, Barack Obama, Alinsky, Gramsci, and Cloward-Piven did.  With an assist, I suppose, from Frank Marshall Davis. ABC News, via Weasel Zippers: Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a congratulatory note to President Obama after his re-election Tuesday, his spokesman said. The Kremlin says it will make the text public after the Americans have received it. Putin is also

Smile, bemusedly: Barack Obama may consider introducing a tax on carbon emissions to help cut the U.S. budget deficit after winning a second term as president, according to HSBC Holdings Plc. A carbon tax starting at $20 a ton of carbon dioxide equivalent and rising at about 6 percent a year could raise $154 billion by 2021, Nick Robins, an analyst at the bank in London, said today in an

Some advice for my fellow classical liberals / constitutional conservatives going forward:  embrace bemusedness.  Lead from behind.  Point and laugh and shake your heads.  Smile knowingly. Be not bothered by the smug lectures from progressives who today wish to chide you or molest you with their sudden interest in “reality,” and then declare your demise is complete.   Let them stay drunk on their pride; let them embrace the demographics they’ve

… class-baiting, corrupt, disengaged, coveting, narcissistic, even-makes-Jimmy-Carter-look-good, President is re-elected? Oh yeah, because 59 million of my fellow “Americans” believe they have a right to pick my pocket, because I didn’t really “build that”. Get off my lawn.