Here are the actual GOP compromise proposals, both of which Harry Reid and Barack Obama have rejected — and both of which the media have eschewed reporting in favor of breathless concerns over canceled park vacations and a sadly fade-to-black Panda cam:  1) agree to a universal 1-year delay for Obamacare enrollment rather than granting delays to selective constituencies; 2) insist that those lawmakers who crafted and passed ACA be

I made this observation earlier on Twitter, but let me repeat it hear, where fewer people will read it:  reading through the comments of an NRO piece by Robert Costa this morning, it occurred to me that the commentariat at NRO is really not significantly different these days than the commentariat at Huffpo.  And it’s not just that the left has brought in a vocal minority:  look at the up

Mark Levin tonight (courtesy of The Right Scoop, who provides a partial transcript): I want to say this loud and clear to the people on Capitol Hill who are listening, to this administration. You lay one damn hand on one of those World War II vets at that memorial and I’ll bring half a million people to that damn memorial! You got that?! I’m sitting here stewing thinking about this

Which, sorry about that.  But my kid’s Daisy Red Rider was just kinda sitting there calling out to me from the hall closet — much like God sometimes calls to Bill O’Reilly when the Lord wants a hackneyed, trite, simplistic book written tout de suite! And who doesn’t like the sound of opaque polycarbonate panels shattering, anyway?  

Second verse, same as the first. In this episode, we answer the burning question, whose fault is it that the we don’t have Panda Cam? And the answer?  James Madison’s, that’s who. Dylan Matthews, “The shutdown is the Constitution’s fault”: This week’s shutdown is only the latest symptom of an underlying disease in our democracy whose origins lie in the Constitution and some supremely misguided ideas that made their way

I’ll be damned, but my automatic sprinklers just went on. Just as I planned! Next up, lunch — and a quick look in the pantry suggests I have a variety of soup choices, should I wish to go that route. So. Crisis averted!

John Nolte, Breitbart: Last week, as the prospect of a federal government shutdown loomed as reality, the President of the United States told the media that he would “not negotiate” with “house burners.” And with that, the American mainstream media threw away their longstanding belief in “civil bipartisan compromise” in order to stand with Obama. Since then, the GOP have passed two bills to avert a shutdown, both Senate Democrats

Maybe this time people will finally see the true face of the left.  From “Blame the Constitution for this mess,” Alex Pareene, Salon: The government shut down. It shut down because Republicans wanted it shut down. More important, it shut down because Republicans have the power to shut it down. This is the disturbing thing: The Republicans are acting rationally. At least, each individual Republican is acting rationally, with maybe