Jesus. For his sake, I hope Charles is in charge of his prostate. Is it just me, or is America getting old rather suddenly?

Full text at the American Spectator. Here’s a sampling: The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. Its powers are vast and consequential, its requirements — from the outset and by definition — impossible for mortals to fulfill

Congress: “Well, were you awake — and not quite so fucking stupid — you’d be like, begging me for it. And even if you weren’t, you should. So let’s do this thang…!”*

Unelected appointees and bureaucrats are being handed more and more control over the lives of US citizens — and because they are bureaucrats, they insinuate themselves into the very fabric of our civic bodies, oftentimes free from partisan blowback and immune to election results, rack-suited bed bugs who are able to exist through any number of changes in itinerant tenant. This man will help shape health care policy and practice

So for now, I’ll just leave you with this protein wisdom Mach 2 thought: Team R rulez, Team D droolz! Touchdown!

Just because.

Few deserve it more. Trust me. As promised, the armadillo is now once again free to dance (or, you know, not)… **** update* update 2**

Levin, reacting to Richard Baehr’s American Thinker piece that argues, eg., OUTLAWism is “Stalinist” — the analogy being that idealism-based voting is a call to “purge” the party of “moderates”: I oppose Mark Kirk, the only Republican I oppose in the general election, because he was 1 of 8 Republicans in the House who voted for cap-and-trade (Baehr’s favorite Mike Castle was another). It was a hugely imprudent act based

Guess they are among the 61% of Americans who favor repeal. — And that’s before rates sky-rocket, and before more than just late-state breast cancer sufferers are told they’re too much of an economic burden to live that extra half year. But hey, dead people don’t vote. So there’s always that that the government has going for it…

Major Garrett, writing in the National Journal: “Americans Want Their Leaders To Stand And Fight”: Nearly half of America — including nearly two-thirds of Republicans and 53 percent of independents — admires political leaders who refuse to compromise. This is further evidence that the current political atmosphere is not merely contentious, but hostile to any hope of negotiated settlements to the many political and policy differences that define the current