Is Mrs. Pelosi’s Reign of Errror in Peril?

Is Speaker Tablecloth about to rejoin the rank and file, Ed Morrissey, Hot Air:

Congress just started the 111th Session just four weeks ago, and already some Democrats have had enough of Nancy Pelosi’s ham-handed tactics. A rebellion has

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As usual, there’s lots going on, most of it both predictable and avoidable. Let’s get to it.

• Cutting the Military? The only

Unfortunately, new facts have come to light – involving his failure to pay substantial taxes that were owed and his sizable income from health-related companies while he worked in the private sector – that call into question his suitability for

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Nancy Killefer on Tuesday withdrew her nomination to become chief performance officer, a new post in President Obama’s administration, a White House spokesman told CNN.

Officials said privately the reason for the withdrawal was unspecified tax issues.

Chris Dodd has suppsoedly gotten around to releasing details of his Countrywide loans.  But what he’s offered us in response to the 6 months of hammering leaves a lot to be desired.

The Hartford Courant has what documents he’s offered…

This is f*cking pathetic.   A neighborhood is gripped by terror and the residents are forced to hold prayer vigils.   As if prayer vigils ever made a dangerous neighborhiood safe, WHEC-TV, Rochester, NY:

On Dayton Street, in the neighborhood where

Chrissy Matthews may still get a tingle from the mere thought of  Barack Obama, but Matthews’ tingle does not extend across the pond, Toby Harnden, Telegraph(UK)

Obama, however, cannot get away indefinitely with high-minded but empty statements about changing

Fox News is reporting some democrats want to “gut” the Pelosi-Reid-Obama debt bill:

Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson, who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Republicans and Democrats alike want to gut the nearly $900 billion program of

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 There’s a lot to discuss, today, and here’s some of it, in order of importance:

• The Punxsutawney Prognosticator Predicts Plowable Piles (6 More

David Duke is pissed,  Davidduke.com:

By David Duke, former Republican member of the House of Representatives in Louisiana, and former Chairman of the Largest Republican District in the state

The Republican Party leadership in its latest act of self-immolation

We have yet another tax issue showing up on the list of people nominated for service in the Obama administration. There seems something of a pattern, here. Jake Tapper and Jon Karl at ABC say:

ABC News has learned

Jonathon Porritt, British nincompoop, prefers trees to people, Sarah-Kate Templeton, Times(UK):

The Optimum Population Trust, a campaign group of which Porritt is a patron, says each baby born in Britain will, during his or her lifetime, burn carbon roughly

I quess Sarah not a Bithead, yet, Sarah Baxter, Sunday Times(UK):

LESS than two weeks into his administration, President Barack Obama is being portrayed by opponents as a new Jimmy Carter – weak at home and naive abroad –

I’ve been teling you since… well, forever, that FDR made things worse not better…  So  along comes Harold Cole and Lee Ohanian at The Wall Street Journal this morning:

The New Deal is widely perceived to have ended the Great

Different subject, but apt never the less, John, Powerline, sums up Barack Obama’s basic problem:

Obama is going to have to learn, and soon, that governing is very different from campaigning. Vague and contradictory promises no longer cut it