Lead, Follow Or Get Out of the Way

There may be many names for what Barack Obama is dong thiese days, from Paul Kane and Shailagh Murray, Washington Post:

A day after President Obama called on them to renew efforts to pass his ambitious agenda, congressional Democrats

From Ann Althouse:

Obama chose to call out the only 9 guys in the room that did their homework in law school. And the rest who ended up settling for politics stood and and cheer it.

Dennis Miller.

Thoughts on J.D. Salinger,  Catcher in the Rye, from Pat Austin, And so it goes in Shreveport:

J. D. Salinger was not my favorite author ever, but I’m sorry he has died. I teach Catcher in the

The  Obama administration year long effort to demonize Fox News has achieved results,
from  Tom Jensen, Public Policy Polling:

Americans do not trust the major tv news operations in the country- except for Fox News.

Our newest survey looking

Comment by Jammie Wearing Fool:

Obama Reflects On His Favorite Subject

Barack Obama is trying to sell his favorite subject, to wit himself, Glenn Thrush, Politico:

Rep. Marion Berry’s parting shot, published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette [no link,

Representative Carol Shea-Porter ( New Hampshire – One)  opens mouth,  inserts foot, video:

But no.  No, Rep. Shea-Porter actually just fell out of the Stereotypes about Women tree, and hit every branch on the way down.

Moe Land.

Maybe if Overbite had not gone to ag school, he might know something:

“This is a Supreme Court-sanctioned murder of what little actual democracy is left in this democracy. It is government of the people, by the corporations, for the

Ben Claw, Talking Points Memo, sums up Barack Obama year, 2009, on healtcare:

Well folks, it’s been one year since President Barack Obama took office. And he spent a lot of that year working on health care reform.

Correction

Eric Zimmerman, Hill writes

President Obama came out swinging today against the Supreme Court’s ruling in a major campaign finance case.[…]

With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special

It is hard having to correct the boss.  
But I’ve been doing it for a long time and somebody needs to do.  Alas!   Eric rambled:

ISSUE AVOIDANCE: It is flat out amazing to me that the wild scramble for

The democrats lost a Senate seat in the bluest of states, Massachusetts, because they were blind to concerns the ordinary American voter, from  Mark Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard:

Democrats fooled themselves into believing the town-hall/Tea Party caricature and ignored the

From Glen Johnson and Liz Sidoti:

BOSTON (AP) – In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in a U.S. Senate election Tuesday that left

As the drunks pronounce her name,  Marcia Coakley, Associated Press:

Patrick Kennedy, the son of the late Teddy and a Congressman from nearby Rhode Island, showed up to give his support for Coakley’s bid to become Teddy Kennedy’s heir.

At least Martha is amusing, video:

From Robert Coata National Review:

Here’s the transcript (via the Brown campaign):

Dan Rea: Umm Would Barack Obama be in if this thing was not this close?

Martha Coakley: Umm it’s hard to know,

Fausta:

I have been reading on the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, and of course, soon enough one finds stupidity strewn along the path.

First Danny Glover, who believes the earthquake was caused by global warming and climate