A July microcosm. From US News & World Report: Many House and Senate conservatives are reviving their battle against federal regulations, claiming that the president hasn’t stopped issuing job-killing rules during the debt ceiling fight. “While Washington and Americans have been focused on the debt ceiling, the Obama administration has continued to roll out more crushing red tape,” said a spokesperson for Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso, who’s been championing

Washington Examiner: previous failures of government programs never stop Big Government obsessives like Obama and Kerry from slapping catchy new titles on the same old failed ideas and promising, as Obama did in the Rose Garden, that, trust us, this time, we promise, it really will “put construction workers to work right now.” Professional Washington politicians like Obama and Kerry would have us believe that the outcome will be different

We’re all Hobbits now, I guess. Right, WSJ editorial board? Somebody send them a fruit basket, too. **** more here.

A visual. Oh. Then there’s this nodal point, subject to change: Dow 11,590.80 -305.69 (-2.64%) Nasdaq 2,615.20 -77.87 (-2.98%) S&P 1,225.25 -35.09 (-2.86%) Somebody send Bill Kristol a box of chocolates.

Some in Obama’s base have expressed disappointment with the job he’s done so far as President, with Keith Olbermann and others even openly discussing if maybe it wouldn’t be best to challenge The Won with a primary. But then, Olbermann never was very bright. If you really want to know how Obama’s doing — he’s pushed through Obamacare, expanded the size and scope of government, instituted backdoor amnesty and bureaucratic

No shit? Wow. Who could have ever seen that coming. Not Bill Kristol, or Jpod, or Jen Jen, or Dr Krauthammer, that’s for sure. But that’s okay: they get to “represent” conservative thought whether we’re in power or out, whether their counsel proves effective or not. Accountability? That’s just a word we throw around when we’re trying to lure bitterclingers in flyover country to buy them some subscriptions. And besides,

We TEA Party supporters didn’t “win” dick. Because we only win when the country and its citizenry win, and adding an additional $2.6 Trillion or so in debt with the promise of adding new government “revenue enhancement” legislation — all in exchange for distant reductions in the rate of spending on money we already don’t have — is not a win. Have we “changed the conversation” in Washington? Who cares.

In which protein wisdom responds to Maureen Dowd, whose aged bleached squeakhole is in quite a pucker. Writes Dowd, of the Tea Party types who just refuse to let alone the self-appointed elites so that they can rule us like God Nietzsche intended: They were like cannibals, eating their own party and leaders alive. They were like vampires, draining the country’s reputation, credit rating and compassion. They were like zombies,

Rep Mack to the insufferable, twee Piers Morgan, (who, as a sober, balanced journalist, asserted that Sarah Palin was an accomplice in the shooting of Gabby Giffords, and once compared Tea Party supporters to Nazis and fascists, confused, evidently, about who it is who calls for a civilian defense force, or who has nationalized student loans, healthcare, a couple car companies, and keeps Jeff Immelt on speed dial): “You’re making

I need to get the bend to 40-degrees for it to count, but for a first ever try it wasn’t too shabby, I don’t think. My technique was pretty terrible — I went back and watched a pro strongman do it correctly after I tried it on a whim — so I’ve got a lot of room for improvement there that I think will make a big difference. Plus, I