An objective correlative. Up is down. Black is white. Superman is Lex Luther. (thanks to Thomas D)

Adam Bitely, echoing Sarah Palin, among others: Many elected officials have fallen prey to the belief that because America is exceptional, they as the leaders of the government must also be exceptional. And that is why the responses from these people when their credit rating was downgraded came as no surprise. Some seemed shocked that S&P would point out that over $14 trillion in debt is slightly high. Others claimed

Muggings, beatings, and looting? Why, it’s a solidarnosc for the 21st century!

What a difference a week makes, eh, Laura? How utterly disappointing. **** update: Not serious. Serious. Christina Romer is right. We are so fucked.

Palin, on facebook: […] First, we need to get serious about our deficit. No more accounting gimmicks. No more cuts in “out-years” that never materialize. The permanent political class in D.C. might be fooling themselves with these Enron-like accounting games, but they’re not fooling the world’s capital markets. And we don’t need any more happy talk from the White House about “investing” in solar shingles and really fast trains. The

He’s about 50 minutes late so far, but honestly, isn’t that about par for the course? While we wait, enjoy these video flashbacks: We’ve lost a couple trillion in asset values in the market in the last handful of days. Is it too late to admit that we hope he fails?

John Chambers of S&P noted that Cut Cap and Balance was the only proposal that, had it become law, would have avoided the HISTORIC! credit downgrade. The Democrat-led Senate refused to vote on (and the President threatened to veto) CC&B after it passed the House in a bipartisan vote — a failure to compromise, in that CC&B agreed to raise the debt ceiling, as the Democrats were demanding, in exchange

Notes Limbaugh, Obama inherited a 5.7% unemployment rate and a AAA rating from George Bush. And now look! My. How unhelpful. Still, it’s spreading.

Michele Malkin on the latest attempt by the Mean Girl media to create an iconography that paints serious conservative women as batshit crazy. My. All that women’s studies and postmodern feminist activism sure has yielded some precious cultural fruit, hasn’t it? That’s right: You’ve come a long way, baby! [thanks to Darleen]

Roger Kimball: It’s worth thinking carefully about this brisk reveille that Standard & Poor’s has brought us. As Amilya Antonetti noted in her interview with Neil Cavuto, the business community was not surprised by the news. Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin: they had seen the writing on the wall for months. S&P issued a warning last spring, which prompted Timothy Geithner’s little “no risk” ejaculation. The narrative is now up for