Snark of the Day: Maureen Dowd

If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid

Note the timing of the dim one’s national security speech.   Janet Napolitano makes her Tour de  Farce on the Sunday talk shows, and by Monday, Barack Obama  is in full damage control mode.

Avi Zenilman, Who Runs Government, seems

Well you can’t rush a good thing.   Instead of making an impromptu speech, the nation’s orator in chief waited three day to give this speech that may well  rival the Gettysburg address, video:

I can just see the Islamists plunging

The bitch is a threat to national security.   Fire her now,  from Johnathan Martin, Politico:

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit airline flight Christmas Day demonstrated that “the

Amazing. Seems that every time the left in this country builds up a little momentum in the department of telling us how we’re not in danger from terrorism, one of these stories pops up.

ROMULUS, Mich. -AP- An attempted terrorist

The House passed one version of Obamacare, and the Senate seems intent on  passing a totally different version.    Will Mrs. Pelosi have the House roll over and endorse Dirty Harry Reid’s bill?  Maybe not.   The chair of the House Rules

It is called disparate impact,  Lisa Richwine:

WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – In the rush to fund a U.S. healthcare overhaul, Botox injections to smooth wrinkles will not be taxed, but visiting a tanning salon will be.

Plastic

I don’t what else you can make of this,  Fox News:

Senate Democrats are warning the House not to make any significant changes to the health care package heading toward a vote in their chamber if they want the

Snark of the Day, Bill Kristol, video:

Hat tip: Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit.

Ron Bailey at Reason:

Given the array of government energy mandates and billions in subsidies poured into cleantech, there is no doubt that those sectors will see increased jobs. The effect on overall employment is far less clear. Cleantech energy

The Bitsblog website of the day, dedicatecd to making sport of Alan Grayson,  is MyCnngressManIsNuts.com.    Not only does Grayson’s elevator not get to the penthouse, it doesn’t get out of the basement.

Hat tip:   William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection

The time has come for Barack Obama to have his teleprompter reprogrammed with some fresh material.

Glenn Thrush, Politico:

COPENHAGEN — A visibly angry Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet at China and other developing nations Friday, declaring that the

Ok Keith Olbermann is an arrogant ass, but even an ass can have his day.   Olbermann goes off against Harry Reid health care mandate, albeit for the wrong reasons:

Olbermann is right that the a health care mandate is illegal.

SEIU does not accept that this monumental effort – that this reform that is so necessary to the health and wellbeing

If the Democrats are stupid enough to trust Dirty Harry Reid to write the plan for one seventh our our economy, a plan that nobody likes and most oppose, the