Breakfast Scramble: Hope Loses Plouffe

Hope goes Plouffe from Ian Swanson, Hill:

President Obama’s senior political adviser David Plouffe said Wednesday that people won’t vote in 2012 based on the unemployment rate.

Plouffe should probably hope that’s the case, since dismal job figures aren’t

Fast and Furious, from Michael A. Walsh, New York Post:

Don’t look now, but the real action in Washington this week isn’t the parti san wrangling over the debt ceiling but something — literally — even more incendiary:

More Warmist bunk, from Richard Black, BBC News:

The lull in global warming from 1998 to 2008 was mainly caused by a sharp rise in China’s coal use, a study suggests.

The absence of a temperature rise over that

In order for Americans to get their jobs back, Barack Obama must lose his, from Shannon Travis:

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) – Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is getting more creative, and apparently more aggressive, in her

Fred is back! Well, kind of, sort of.  It no secret that the last presidential candidate we liked was Fred Thompson.  Alas Fred was just not into that campaign thing.  Well now the closest incarnation of Fred has announced.  Thad

Two takes on Dumbo’s presser, first the literate, from Yuval Levin, National Review:

It all had the feel of a childish tantrum by a person who desperately wishes he were living in a different reality — one in

Barack Obama, a/k/a Dumbo, was for corporate taxes breaks before he was against them.

Dumbo then, from February 18, 2009 Fox News:

WASHINGTON — Just a few months after lawmakers scolded auto executives for flying to Washington in

How dumb is Dumbo, from Monty Pelerin, American Thinker:

Two hypotheses are often cited to explain why things have gotten so much worse:

1. Obama is incompetent.
2. Obama knows what he is doing and is deliberately destroying the country.

Lame Stream Media, if the media will lie about Jose Antonio Vargas by allowing him to report about illegal immigration without disclosing his massive conflict of interest to wit Vargas was illegal, see Michelle, what are they hiding

Algore, from Walter Russell Mead American Interest:

It must be as perplexing to his many admirers as it is frustrating to himself that a man of Vice President Gore’s many talents, great skills and strong beliefs is one

Fact checking the Fat Lady, Wordsmith compares and contrast this FLOTUS, b/k/a Michelle Obams, quote with the real world, from Flopping Aces:

“See, what you all need to know about the President you helped to elect is that

Forty seconds of video which will live in infamy:

Hat tip and more: Nice Deb:

The creator of this video noticed that in the span of 40 seconds, Obama managed to refer to himself 6 times, but was unable

Jon Huntsman, stalking horse, Jennifer Rubin explains why the newly launched Jon Huntsman campaign so  hyped by the media, and so dead in the water, from Washington Post:

From the mainstream media’s standpoint, he is the McCain 1980.

The election in black and white. Barack Obama’s inept economic policies have hit the black population hard, from Michelle Miller, CBS News:

The economy and jobs will be big issues in Washington again this coming week.

While unemployment

Obama-speak, from Peter Kirsanow, National Review, via Clarice Feldman, American Thinker:

“The real problem with ATMS . is not so much that they destroy jobs, but that in at least 50 of 57 states you can’t conduct