(thanks to Diana)

That’s right. My Christmas Eve morn was unexpectedly interrupted by an inadvertent stop on the “Kelly and Michael” show, where I heard Matt Damon explaining — unchallenged, but with very serious and concerned head-nodding by the know-nothings paid to allow the actor, genius, and now fracking expert to pimp his latest mediocre movie — just how serious an environmental concern fracking is, and, well, Big Oil, tainted water tables, fiery

Fortunately for those Americans, they aren’t compelled to own either — though they have an unalienable to right to own both, and no right to deny me my natural right to self defense.  Meanwhile, most Americans don’t want ObamaCare.  And they have no choice in the matter.  Because Justice Roberts. So.  The defense rests. Honestly:  are these the kinds of bleating idiots (Penn Jillette excluded) who you want crying for

To be fair, I’m sure many of them were there just to learn about this strange alien ideology the teabaggers are always railing against, not because they are sympathetic to the ideas of positive rights, political correctness, a heavily progressive income tax, public sector unionization, government redistribution of wealth, an egalitarian-based civil society, or the Balkanization of the population into manageable (and often competing) identity groups — leaving the technocratic

Kudos to me — and to Mr Ross for recognizing my enormous and often unappreciated talents.  He is to be commended. But not as much as I.  Because my awesomeness preceded his recognition of same. Still, nice gesture.

Just so we’re clear here, LaTourette is admitting it was TEA Party conservatives who prevented the Republican Party from surrendering to a Marxist class warfare paradigm in exchange for funding the government for what, two days? Cool. You’re welcome, bitch. **** update: Writes Ed Morrissey: That’s not to say that LaTourette doesn’t have a genuine beef, either.  Steve Doocy defends the Tea Party opposition to Plan B as a response

This is one sure way to know you’re living in a post-constitutional police state:  when some bloated legacy pol believes it within his power — or the government’s power generally — to seize private property protected under the Bill of Rights simply because he doesn’t care for its aesthetics.  In fact, even by floating the idea of confiscation of firearms, what the left is admitting here is that to them

Jesus.  I’m in agreement with Dianne Feinstein and Bernie Sanders, for Chrissakes. Are we sure the world didn’t end, and that this is just some version of hell I’ve been sent to for that one time I coaxed a couple of very hot, slightly drunk coeds into, you know, touching each other for me? (h/t geoff b)

From what I understand, Boehner was threatening committee seats, subcommittee seats, and everything in between in order to get the “insane” teabaggers — or as I like to call them, principled Constitutionalists — to go along with his plan to jettison Republican party principle, adopt the paradigm of class warfare (as Romney had before him), and set the precedent for punishing successful people in order to fund the government for