Wow. This guy gets it. And makes it clear that the weathervanes in Congress, who spin willingly with what they perceive to be the present political winds, don’t and, sadly, won’t. Ever. Unless there’s something in it for them, that is. (h/t JohnInFirestone via the Firestone Police Dept. on Facebook)

Another putative conservative organization that, on the executive level at least, is hoping to redefine conservatism as mush RINOism. This is Jeb Bush.  A man who utterly rejects principle when principle becomes difficult to stand on.  Or, as he tries to frame it: we must not layer onto our fundamental beliefs thick black lines of ideology — black lines that we do not allow ourselves to cross. Those black lines

And just so you know it isn’t all gloom and doom around here:  a haiku, offered happily: My military- style assault rifle’s pregnant! Molon Labe, bitches.

The House is said to working on behind-the-scenes secret “immigration reform”; the Senate is about to green-light gun-control measures (a cap on mag capacity, entirely unenforcible “universal background checks,” if I had to guess — which will later be added to a vaguely worded sense of the Senate resolution by Reid, with his controlling the process, giving cover to vulnerable Senators), with perhaps a few Republicans breaking ranks and yielding