Confronted with the odor of establishment GOP flop sweats — an all-too-frequent occurrence in these staunch and heady days of unforced Republican retreats — the WSJ notes, “Paul Ryan’s GOP critics are ObamaCare’s best friends”: Underneath Newt Gingrich’s rhetoric last week about Paul Ryan’s “right-wing social engineering” was a common anxiety about the politics of Medicare: Is this the right moment for entitlement reform? Did the GOP endanger its House

Philip Klein, “Beltway Confidential,” highlights the obvious contradiction in Obama’s AIPAC speech: […] the most alarming aspect of the speech was when Obama managed to completely contradict himself within just two paragraphs. In one, he said that Israel couldn’t be expected to negotiate with a government that includes Hamas, while in the very next paragraph he said not negotiating wasn’t an option. Here are the relevant paragraphs (emphasis mine): Now,

— At least, that’s the new spin coming from the leftist sharks and at least one “rightwing” Trig truther who clings to their bellies like some hirsute drug-addled Remora. And if you think about it, a lot of people did immediately conclude that Obama and his talk of a “contiguous” Palestinian state, which is to be made possible by Israel’s relinquishing of the buffer land it uses to guard against

Because I’m assuming there’s at least one person who has the President’s ear who knows what “contiguous” means, I’m going to conclude that what is happening here is that Israel is being set up — that when they are inevitably attacked (likely, following a September UN declaration that the Palestinians “deserve” a state, and that that state should come at the expense of some of Israel’s land, as opposed to

Karl Rove, the Bushes, and most of the fellas at National Review wept. The truth is, at some other moment in time, Daniels may have made a good GOP candidate. But this is an election where, win or lose, conservatives have to make their case and present a clear, unambiguous, and unapologetic defense of liberty, individualism, free market capitalism, natural rights, and the rule of law proceeding from the Constitution.

The Slim lever. For what it’s worth, I haven’t tried this yet. But I did just hoist the 37.5# York blob with both hands. — Which, believe it or not, is pretty freakin’ sweet.

[for American Jewish Democrats.] If your girl’s kisses make you feel weak in the knees, she may be a vampire. — Richard Brautigan, “profound saying 3”

Well, only in order to paint the modern GOP as extreme, by the standards of the 1990s. It never even occurs to Schumer that, rather than the party moving to the right, Gingrinch — who signed on to the global warming scam, vociferously defends ethanol subsidies, and seems not to understand the Constitutional problem of an individual mandate (unlike Heritage, which changed positions some years ago) — may have drifted

Sure, I’m paraphrasing. But that’s about the gist of it. Thank the lord. Turns out not everybody thinks negotiating with a terrorist organization like Hamas — who has declared that you have no right even to exist — is such a swell idea. Mr Obama’s desire to legitimize them (along with the Muslim Brotherhood) notwithstanding. Of course, now Obama has positioned Israel as the central obstacle to peace in the