Fresh off the Historic Loss of roughly 1% of his proposed $3+ trillion dollar budget* suffered at the hands of John Boehner and his relentless, cost-cutting GOP jungle cats, a clearly weakened President Obama will try to regain footing Wednesday when he offers what the Washington Post is calling a “new approach to deficit reduction” — one that very timidly and bashfully ignores both his own debt commission’s recommendations and

Well, not me me. But you get the idea: These are the voices of the perpetually aggrieved on the right who will oppose any deal because their aim is not conservative governance but confrontation and incitement of an anti-Washington base. Got that? People like me — who have taken the position that Boehner’s entire play, from beginning to end, could only end with the GOP taking crumbs before ridiculously congratulating

— Which, I’m assuming, means some light GOP grousing and fraught finger wagging followed inevitably by capitulation — with that followed by an explanation detailing how the party’s ostensible capitulation is really part of a super-smart strategic long-term plan to win elections. So that the Republicans can govern just like Democrats. Only with more Jesus. And some lower taxes. Amen. Yeah, I’m a cynic, I know. Sue me.

On the one hand, we have me, Levin, McCarthy, Cafe Hayek, and a whole crowd of extreme ideological purists who Don’t Understand The Realities of DC; on the other, we have Huckabee, Karl Rove, inside the Beltway GOP “realists” and the more “pragmatic” GOP’s rank and file cheerleaders (or, if you prefer, optimists). And — after reading the comments here — it’s clear that never the twain shall meet. OUTLAW

GOP caves: The agreement would cut $37.67 billion from the 2010 budget and keep intact funding to Planned Parenthood, sources from both parties told ABC News. “We protected the investments we need to win the future,” President Obama said after the deal was struck. “At the same time, we also made sure at the end of the day this was a debate about spending cuts — not social issues like

This just keeps getting better and better! Writes the story’s author in the comments: I posted this article and chart at 12:24 a.m. on election night, using data handed to me from the City of Brookfield clerk’s office, not from Waukesha County. Lots of confusion about this. This came straight from the city ON election night. These are the results County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said today that she failed to

From Big Government, a little background on Moran: Moran has a history of anger issues. For example, in 2000 Moran stooped as low to accuse an 8-year boy, who was a straight-A student, of trying to steal his car. During the incident, Moran began choking and cursing at him. He later said the boy claimed he had a gun on him. He didn’t. The child also told the police he

Sent to me by an interested observer, here is David Post, writing at Volokh, in a debate with Caroline Alexander over the propriety of using an inscription from Virgil for a planned 911 memorial. Objecting to Alexander’s argument that Virgil’s line has a specific meaning, and that said meaning doesn’t quite jibe with the purposes of the memorial inscription, Post writes: Sorry, but Caroline Alexander does not get to decide

Wait, what…? … … NO WAR FOR OIL! Of course, on the plus side, if the TEA Party manages a government shutdown, at least we won’t have to pay our soldiers, the imperialist baby killers. So there’s that.