Breakfast Scramble: Dirty Harry Pays the Ransom

Dirty Harry Reid calls ‘pubs hostage takers, from John,  Verum Serum:

Over at the Daily Caller, C.J. Ciaramella has a story about a testy press conference held yesterday by senior Democrats. The ostensible issue for the presser was

Obama has lost that loving feeling, from Dr. Milton R. Wolf, Washington Times:

Is President Obama really a different man today than he was before he entered the Oval Office? The same Illinois legislator who voted “present” 129

Is this what the left really wants?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

John F. Kennedy

New York Slimes wages last ditch war on sanity, from Joe Nocera, via Confederate Yankee:

You know what

Dumb Dickie Durbin, from Elise Foley, Puffington Post:

WASHINGTON — The Republicans are killing Keynesian economics with their attempt to cut spending as the economy rebounds from a recession, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in a

Where’s your plan Dirty Harry? Dirty Harry Reid owns default, from Paul Conner, Daily Caller:

The Senate voted down a House-approved bill to raise the debt ceiling, leaving the ball in the court of Senate leadership to produce a

Warmists full of hot air, a twofer from Ed Morrissey, Hot Air:

Two stories have dropped that may blow big holes in the anthropogenic global warming argument — one of which is literally sky-high. Forbes reports on a

Oslo, from Steven Erlanger,  New York Slimes:

OSLO — The Norwegian police on Saturday charged a man they identified as a right-wing fundamentalist Christian in connection with the bombing of a government building in central Oslo and a

But when has Obama given progressives any reason to believe they can trust him?

Paul Krugman, New York Times.

Mr. Krugman, meet Barack Obama, a man of extraordinary vanity and rather pedestrian ability.

Obama is choking business, from an interview with Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, from Investor’s Business Daily:

IBD: If you could sit down with Obama and talk to him about job creation, what would you say?

Marcus:

Dumbo stuck on higher taxes. Barack Obama is addicted to the idea of big government,from James Pethokoukis, Beuters:

But Obama’s tax obsession becomes understandable when you realize the long game he’s playing: Big Taxes to fund Big Government.

More Obami temper tantrums, from Doug Powers @ Michelle Malkin:

In addition to threatening to veto the Cut, Cap and Balance bill (H.R. 2560), the White House is threatening to veto H.R. 2434, the 2012 Financial Services and

“According to Jim Messina, his campaign manager, through the second quarter of 2011, President Obama now has 552,000 contributors to his 2012 re-election campaign. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that during the same two quarters, the U.S. economy

Is Hope Dead? From the Sharp Tack Clarice Feldman, American Thinker:

This was the kind of week where any self-respecting 2008 Obama supporter who had not yet yanked off his Obama-Biden Bumper sticker should have been in his garage

Panic at the White House? From James Pethokoukis, Reuters:

Last night in a new report, Democrat-friendly Goldman Sachs dropped an economic bomb on President Obama’s chances for reelection (bold is mine):

Following another week of weak economic data,

Tapper is the new Russert, Jake Tapper plays one man tag team on White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, Tapper asks a simple, A or B question, and can not get a straight answer, from ABC News:

Which