Breakfast Scramble (Tuesday)

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Who is Barack Hussein Obama, from Lori Montgomery, Washington Post:

President Obama rolled out a $3.7 trillion budget blueprint Monday that would trim or terminate more than 200 federal programs next year and make key investments in education, transportation and research. The plan is aimed at boosting the nation’s economy while reducing record budget deficits.

[…]

However, Obama also would rely heavily on new taxes, to a degree unacknowledged by administration officials in recent days. His budget request calls for well over $1.6 trillion in fresh revenue over the next decade, much of it through higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses.

Just another tax and spend liberal.

More budget reax, from Stacy McCain, Other McCain:

The Bottom Line is the Punchline in Obama’s Laughable Joke of a Budget

Reax from the across the conservative panoply, from Jill, Pundit & Pundette.

Puffington for Przz, Clarice Feldman makes her case for Arianna Huffington for President, from American Thinker:

On the other hand, Arianna goes from riches to more riches exploiting the left and right with a certain bipartisan je ne sais quoi

Clarice is right.  While Dumbo has no talent save for spending money, Puffington does know how to make money.

Make my day, Shirley Sherrod has just made Andrew Breitbart’s day, night and wet dreams, from Pajamas Media:

First Daniel Snyder, now Shirley Sherrod.  Captain of the Bigs Andrew Breitbart has been sued by former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod for defamation.

[…]

This seems like a dangerous play for Mrs. Sherrod, because now Andrew and the Bigs can depose her, her friends, get documents they couldn’t otherwise get, and conduct all manner of discovery on her.  In other words, they have the power of the law to dig deeper into the scandal.  In fact, it’s probably something Andrew has been dreaming about for months.

With Valentines Day coming up, Andy should send Mrs. Sherrod a big box of chocolates.

Fast Track to Nowhere, the insanity of the Obama administration’s obsession with high speed rail, from Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post:

Governing ought to be about making wise choices. What’s disheartening about the Obama administration’s embrace of high-speed rail is that it ignores history, evidence and logic. The case against it is overwhelming. The case in favor rests on fashionable platitudes. High-speed rail is not an “investment in the future”; it’s mostly a waste of money. Good government can’t solve all our problems, but it can at least not make them worse.

Granted Obama is uneducated, but is his entire administration stupid?  If you in a hurry, fly.    If you want to save money, take a bus.

CPAC, from by Mark McKinnon Daily Beast:

At the auditions for Conservative Idol 2012, also known as the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend in Washington, D.C., some contenders pitched hard but fell flat, while others hit perfect notes and were rewarded with rock-star receptions from the record crowd.

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), the Sanjaya of presidential candidates—with a fevered but limited libertarian fanbase—won the straw-poll vote for the second year running. But the CPAC straw poll is not historically predictive. Other more likely contestants for the final two on the GOP ticket tested their messages, finding their rhythm and groove

Ron Paul is not a serious candidate for president.  Likewise any poll showing Paul to be the leading presidential contender, can not be taken seriously.

WTF Dumbo? Barack Obama refers to himself as the Gipper, video:

Hat and reax: Locutisprime,  Brutally Honest.

There seem to be a lot of comparisons of late, between Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Throwbacks to a better time and wishful thinking on the part of the left, combined with their belief that they obviously believe they can confuse the people and blur the lines between a truly great American president and heretofore, the worst president this nation has ever suffered.

I will not paraphrase Lloyd Bensen.

Dumbo is not the Gipper, from Lawrence Kudlow, RCP:

Reagan and Obama both inherited deep and brutal recessions. But the first six recovery quarters look completely different for each president.

So far, real GDP has averaged only 3 percent annually for Obama. Employment as defined by nonfarm payrolls has increased by a paltry 121,000.

On the other hand, going back to Reagan’s first six recovery quarters, real GDP averaged 7.7 percent annually while nonfarm payrolls rose by 5.3 million.

Moreover, Reagan didn’t want credit.  He wanted to get things done.   All Dumbo cares about is credit.

This is a truck I caught outside Carlisle, PA. This picture doesn’t really do the truck justice, but you get the idea.

The pictures above are all from one day in Southern NY around the Binghamton, NY area last week. Today that area saw temps in the low 60’s.

A look at my old office, at night. Yes, I said my OLD office. I’ll explain later.

This is a truckstop early in the morning, out along I-80 nearthe bottom end of I-180 in PA. It snowed last night as you can see, but the sky is clear, and the moon is visible.

Oprah Winfrey wants Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama to get respect, from M J Lee. Politico:

Reax, Robbie Cooper, Urban Grounds:

Well…Oprah (and Obama — both of ’em) can kiss my cracker ass.

Hat tip: On the Box: Lie to Me

Hat tip phote: On the Box: Lie to Me

No sale Winny.    Respect is only mine to give and not yourx to demand.   Dumbo gives no respect.  He gets none.

Florence, NJ– Eric is a hurting unit, today. I fell off the truck day before yesterday, while doing a roadside repair, and I’m felling all of it, the day after. Other than that, I’m actually doing fairly well, I think.  Like any new job, there are days when I think I’ve got a handle on the minutiae involved with this job, and there are times when it overwhelms me totally. Today I pretty much felt in control for the first time in many days.

Since I last wrote, I went to Springfield, MA, to Worcester,MA to Newburgh, NY to here. IN a few minutes, I’ll be leaving for some very familiar ground, in Carlisle, PA.  I do have one stop in Harrisburg, but that’s no biggie.

I told you a few days ago that my connectivity is a bit spotty on the cell network and it remains so, and so my ability to post daily is a little limited. I’ll post when I can find a link, and when I can’t I’ll still write daily and post it when I can.

Politics and such:

Looking around, today, I see Glenn saying:

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, politicized science at the FDA would inhibit women’s contraceptive choices.  And they were right!

Look, gang… even leaving aside the moral issues of the act of abortion itself, when you have a party in power that considers abortion to be  healthcare, and when that same party in power that considers itself the lord and master of all that is healthcare…. does anyone not expect such matters to become political fodder?

Glenn also posts a comment from Roger Kimball, which I will echo here:

“The goal of the idea the Times calls ‘pernicious’ is to restore fiscal sanity to America.  Along the way, public sector unions should be decertified and once again made illegal, as they were until the late 1960s when the spendocrats got put in charge.  There is nothing hidden about this agenda, or rather call it a goal, an ambition, a consummation devoutly to be wished for. I only hope that its lack of hiddenness becomes ever more obvious so that the people who pay the bills understand what a racket has been going on in their state and local legislatures, to say nothing of the monstrousness that is Washington.”

Absolutely…. and the thing is it’s not just the federal government huge as that aspect is. Most of the dollars are being thrown around at the state level.  The unions are killing us, people. It’s time the mask was removed.

I’ve commented on the Egypt situation in the last few days. Here’s an excellent post from Bruce McQuain  on that subject I comment to your reading.

Bitsblog Echo Syndrome, I found it amusing to see Dana Milbank hitting Arianna Huffington from the same angle as I scramble the other day, for being a capitalistist pig, from the Washington Post:

Did Arianna Huffington just sell out her fellow progressives?

In the literal sense, she undoubtedly has: The sale of Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million (including a large pile of cash going to Huffington herself) means this powerful liberal voice is formally joining the “corporate media” its writers have long disparaged.

It has not been the habit of Bitsblog to take the Puffington Post seriously, more Milbnaks:

AOL Chairman Tim Armstrong said he thinks “Arianna has the same interest we do, which is serving consumers’ needs and going beyond the just straight political needs of people.” Huffington agreed, boasting that only 15 percent of her eponymous site’s traffic is for politics (that’s down from 50 percent a couple of years ago), and she emphasized that politics is just one of two dozen “sections,” including a new one devoted to covering divorces.

The marriage of Puffington and AOL should take  journwhoreism to new lows.

Shelly Jackson Lee v. Pepsi, Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee is offended by this Super Bowl commercial, video:

Jackson-Lee, from Pete Kasperowicz, Hill:

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) took to the House floor Tuesday night to criticize what she called a “demeaning” Pepsi ad that aired during the Super Bowl.

It is also funny.  Look Shelly Baby, it the Pepsi commercial offends you, then don’t buy Pepsi.  Call it freedom of choice.

Look the reason that advertising pay such exorbitant ad rates for the Super Bowl is that is the largest male television audience of the year.  And lord knows, the male mind is pretty simple.  We just ain’t evolved enough to handle nuance

Frank Lautenberg impugns pro-lifers as child molesters:

(CNSNews.com) – In expressing opposition to the House Republicans’ “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) said politicians should not interfere with his family’s health and well-being. He also had a message for the GOP, saying, “I won’t attempt to voice my views on your family and let my family alone. Don’t go near my daughters.”

Video at the link.

Believe me Frankie, if your daughter look anything like you, they are totally safe.

In reference to his daughter, Lautenberg said:

“I don’t want politicians making decisions for them when it comes to their health and well being,”

So as proud loyal and consistent supporter of Obama Care,. you don’t object to politicians and bureaucrats making decisions about other peoples’ daughters,  just yours.   Evidently your daughters must have been exempted.    Further, you don’t seem to object to your daughters making life of death decisions  about any potential of your unborn grandchildren.

[Lautenberg] was joined by other Democratic senators at a press conference held to “express their opposition to legislation being pushed by House Republicans this week that would endanger women’s health by severely limiting their access to affordable health care and reproductive health services.”

Listen up Frankie,  the Supreme Court has ruled that abortion is covered by a woman’s so-called right of privacy.    So your daughter’s pregnancy is her private choice.  It is her private responsibility.    The taxpayer has utterly no moral obligation to expend public funds to pay for the consequences of your daughter’s private decision.

“I won’t attempt to voice my views on your family and let my family alone,” he said.  “Don’t go near my daughters. If they want to make a choice, that’s up to them and it’s with the advice of a doctor and loving parents and a loving family. So we’ve got to strike down this outrageous assault on women’s rights.”

Frankie, you just don’t understand.   Your daughter decision what do with her pregnancy is her private choice and none of your damn business, even if she is a minor.   Quite acting like a conservative, but butt our your daughters’ private business.

The Great Lady on the passing of the cows, from Phyllis Schlafly, Townhall:

Another contemporary feminist, professor and author Linda Hirshman, set forth a popular definition in the Daily Beast. She wrote that “support for abortion rights and Obamacare were litmus tests for true feminism.”

That shows how out of touch the feminists are. The Republican victories in the 2010 elections, which demonstrated American opposition to Obamacare, included many new non-feminist female House members, a senator and four governors. Nearly all newly elected Republicans are anti-abortion.

Dazed Dumbo can’t remember raising taxes. from Wall Street Journal:

Bill O’Reilly’s Fox interview with President Obama on Sunday was fascinating, and not merely because Mr. Obama made clear he’s an ardent fan of these pages. What really caught our attention was the President’s claim that “I didn’t raise taxes once. I lowered taxes over the last two years.”

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As for tax increases on individuals, perhaps he forgot the health-care bill’s new 0.9 percentage point increase in the Medicare payroll tax for families making over $250,000 and singles over $200,000. That tax increase takes effect in 2013, as will the application of what will be a 3.8% Medicare surtax (up from 2.9% today) to “unearned income” for the first time. This is a tax hike on investment and interest income, which will reduce the incentive to save and invest.

More rebuttal, from Polifact:

The idea that Obama did not raise taxes is just plain wrong. He signed legislation raising taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products soon after taking office; that money goes to pay for children’s health insurance programs. The law went into effect in 2009. He also signed the health care law, which includes taxes on indoor tanning that went into effect last year. (Regular PolitiFact readers will remember our fact-check of reality TV star Snooki and her complaint about the new tax last year.)

Evidently, Dumbo has been so stoned out, that he can’t remember any of  his tax increases.

Dumbo cancels post presidency travel plans. Evidently Barack Obama has no play to travel overseas after January 20, 2012h, from David Frum, Frum Forum:

CNN International is reporting that George Bush canceled a trip to Switzerland after – and possibly because – a so-called human rights group filed with a Swiss court a request for the ex-president’s arrest.

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It’s hard to know how much of this story is true, and how much is fundraising bluster. But if even a small portion of the news is true, President Obama has a duty to speak up and to warn foreign governments that further indulgence of this kind of nonsense by their court systems will be viewed as an unfriendly act by the United States. It is one more reminder of why the concept of an International Criminal Court is such an invitation to mischief

From Alana Goodman, Commentary:

Regarding that story about the Swiss arrest threat against President Bush, David Frum points out that one person has been conspicuously silent on the matter. As NGOs claim credit for thwarting Bush’s trip to Switzerland, President Obama has made no attempt to intervene on behalf of his beleaguered predecessor

Any kidnapping of an American at the behest of the International Criminal Court is an act of war.

Michael Moore is right, capitalists are fat pigs, from Nikki Finke, Deadline Hollywood:

Michael Moore vs Movie Accounting: Sues Weinsteins For More 9/11 Movie Profits After Already Pocketing $19.8 Million; Yes Or No – “He Redefines The Term Greedy”?

How would  have thought?|

Rome, NY– As this is posted, I’m in the old Griffith Air Force base.  They’re using a whole bunch of the old base being used for industry, these days. One of the industries is a Family Dollar distribution center, to which I’m making a delivery.

I came up from Dayton, NJ last night, and drove through the front of the storm that’s now pounding us here in central NY state.  I’ve got some dinner warming in the oven, and a cup of tea (Earl Grey, no milk) near to hand.

The snow is blowing,  and the weather services are screaming that we’re going to see single numbers around here tonight, again. Guess I’ll be running the truck most of the night so as to stay warm.

I’m finding myself getting somewhat more organized in places, and not so much in others.  It’s a huge change in lifestyle that takes the most getting used to.  A week away from home at a time can really screw things up. Add to that the aspect of seperation from one’s family and you will begin to understand how easily one can get addled. Donna’s having a hard time with it, too, though not as hard as I originally thought.  I fell badly for her… she didn’t sign on for this 20 years ago.  But, I’m determined to make the best I can of this situation.

TAXES:

Looking around, I see Glenn commenting on Perry’s state of the State message, from Texas. Says he:

“Contrast Gov. Perry’s words with California’s Gov. Jerry Brown, who tried invoking Egypt’s unrest to justify raising taxes, and the Democratic leadership in Illinois, which is raising income taxes 66%, and it’s not difficult to see why businesses are flocking to Texas, bringing jobs with them.”

No duh. The funny part is, that a large number of the people bailing out on places like California and Illinois, (and New York, for that matter) are Democrats. They see the damage that Democrat policies are causing and yet, they’re still Democrats.  I wonder sometimes what it will take to wake such folks up.

Oh… and as for Obama’s claim he never raised taxes?  We know better.

Centrist? Bah…

Bruce points out that there’s not all that much difference anymore between the Blue Dog Democrats and the Country-Club GOP, as regards spending. He’s quite right of course… but more… it’s the supposed centrist yen of the country clubbers in the GOP that are the problem, here. It’s not that the Blue Dogs are coming right, it’s that the establishment GOP has been going left on us. Hence, the Tea Party. And that’s also why both the Dems and the GOP are trying to dump on the tea party.

Are you getting this down?

Egypt:

I’ve been watching that melt down over there for some time… and I’ll say at the off, I’m totally unimpressed by Urkel’s efforts there.  Like most leftists, he’s still not learned that there are some people…. other than his wife…. who cannot be negotiated with.  The Israelis know this very well and are watching our actions in Egypt with a mounting fear.

So too is the remainder of the world… and I tell you now, this will affect our foreign standing more than anything else… our treatment of  Mubarik. Is there anyone who does not understand that our nation had a freind in Mubarik, and what the rest of the world’s governments think when we streat our freinds ths way at every election?

Dinner’s ready.

Once a socialist, Dumbo goes before the Chamber of Commerce and tries to give a pro-business speech.  Instead he just sounds like the socialist that he is.  From RCP:

“If we’re fighting to reform the tax code and increase exports, the benefits cannot just translate into greater profits and bonuses for those at the top. They have to be shared by American workers, who need to know that opening markets will lift their standard of living as well as your bottom line,” President Obama told the Chamber of Commerce on Monday morning.

Video at the link.

Maybe Mr. Harvard Law Review Editor does not understand the difference  between should and must.

Dumbo on Freedom, from Fred Hiatt Washington Post:

For the most part, the Obama administration chose not to – because the “freedom agenda” had become too associated with President George W. Bush, because U.S. involvement in Iraq had tarnished the idea of democracy promotion and because it believed “feel-good” democracy promotion would interfere with hardheaded engagement on Mideast peace.

If I could establish that Adolf Hitler wiped with toilet paper, would Obama wipe with his hand?

Pig of the Day, Arianna Huffington is the capitalist Pig of the Day.  Puffington has just sold her blog, which she largely does not write, and posts articles for which she does not pay, to AOL for a purported 315 million dollars. from Kara Swisher, All Things Digital:

In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web’s most prominent news and opinion sites.

I am not quite sure just what AOL thinks it is buying.

Fausta seys sell AOL:

AOL is not the most solid company around; it’s laid off thousands of employees, shows no profit and pays no dividends. It has 106 million shares outstanding, currently trading at $21.39 (down since the announcement of the purchase) in the NASDAQ, and this deal will cost $3 per share outstanding

Meanwhile back in Atlanta, Stacy is not quite sure just what AOL bought, from Other McCain:

Twenty-five million uniques at HuffPo? Really? And that makes it worth (a) $315 million and (b) hiring Arianna as an executive editor?

Our own traffic has amounted to 200,000+ visits per month since August. Although those numbers aren’t the same as “uniques,” the data is public — it’s there on SiteMeter, available for analysis to anyone who cares to look  – and can be compared to any other site that makes its SiteMeter data public.

Later.

Dumbo’s green economics, from Debra Saunders,RCP:

The problem is that Obama thinks that green jobs are the answer to the anemic economy recovery. And he clings to that belief in the face of contrary evidence.

I would have better described it as Obama believes.   Thinking is above Dumbo’s pay grade.

Reich comes up short, from Robert Reich, San Francisco Chronicle:

By the way, the president is absolutely right about those investments. But he’s not going to get anywhere if they’re competing for dollars with Social Security, Medicare and defense. And he doesn’t have a prayer of getting extra dollars to help hard-pressed states that are disinvesting like mad in education and infrastructure.

Over the long term, the only way to improve the living standards of most Americans is to invest in our people – especially their educations, skills and the communications and transportation systems linking them together and with the rest of the world.

As usual, Riech is wrong. The key to improved standard of living is increase efficiency.   The more goods and services we can buy with the same one dollar, the higher our standard of living.   If you earn a dollar a day, and a potato cost a dollar, your standard of living is one potato.  On on the other hand,  on the same dollar, if potatoes are two for a dollar, your standard of  living is two potatoes.

Defending FLOTUS, the Sister defends the Fat Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama,  from Sister Toldjah:

Hat tip: Cripe Suzzette

In another Politico article, here’s a direct quote: “First Lady Michelle Obama’s Charlotte barbecue gaffe”. Please!

The AP article referenced in the Politico piece was entirely devoted to the whole “pure BBQ” debate, where to get the best, etc, but also took a shot at Michelle Obama’s BBQ reference.

Seriously? And it’s not even a slow news week. Not by a long shot.

In an effort to be more involved with Bitsblog, I now have an app that allows me to post directly to the blog fom the phone. No laptop required. 

Of course, I still need the time to post, but that should be less of a concern, now.

I have been taking a number of pics with this phone, but haven’t had a way to post those pics cleanly.  This app will allow that. Here’s an example:

I found this truck in a rest area along Interstate 81 near the NY-PA border.   I was on my way fom Carlisle PA to Syracuse,NY. 

That’s the truck I’m currently driving, to the left of the shot. 

I’ll have more for you soon. 

Who we Paleface? From Gail Collins, New York Times:

As if we didn’t have enough wars, the House of Representatives has declared one against Planned Parenthood.

Maybe it’s all part of a grand theme. Last month, they voted to repeal the health care law. This month, they’re going after an organization that provides millions of women with both family-planning services and basic health medical care, like pap smears and screening for diabetes, breast cancer, cervical cancer and sexually transmitted diseases.

Since 1973, Roe v. Wade, normal pregnancy has not been a health problem, but rather a woman’s choice.    The Supreme Nine may deem a woman’s sole right to kill her unborn baby,  but by  there is not need to have a taxpayer fund a woman’s private choice.     Public funds should not be used to fund private choices.

Dumbo’s Economics,  Barack Obama seems to have invented an entirely new theory of  economics, video:

Transcript:

“If we make America the best place to do business, businesses should make their mark in America,” the president said. “They should set up shop here, and hire our workers, and pay decent wages, and invest in the future of this nation. That’s their obligation.”

Hat tips: Geoff,  Ace of Spades and Abby Phillip,Politico.

Obligation!   Obligations don’t appear by magic.   Obligations are a form of contract to which a party agrees to abide.    No pers9n, not even self-proclaimed professor of constitutional law can unilaterally create an obligation.

Further, if you create a better product, people will buy the product, without duress.   It is mutual voluntary interchange.    From wherever Obama got his economic theory it was not Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell or Walter E. Williams’.   From just where did Obama concoct his theory of economics, where are it guiding principles articulated and where has the Obama theory of  economics ever been demonstrated?

Henry Ford didn’t assume that anybody has an obligation to buy his cars.   Rather, Ford assumed  that if he produced a better product at a better price, people would voluntarily buy them.  That the same way Ray Kroc  sold hamburgers.   Bills Gates software, and Thomas Edison electricity.   In short, classic economics works.   Shame Obama never studied it.

Black History Month, from Colbert I. King, Washington Post:

When Black History Month was celebrated in 1950, according to State University of New York research, 77.7 percent of black families had two parents. As of January 2010, according to the Census Bureau, the share of two-parent families among African Americans had fallen to 38 percent.

What do the Reverends Sharpton  and Jackson have to say?

Krauthammering Algore, Charles Krauthammer mocks Algore’s religion, video:

Hat tip:   Noel Sheppard,  News Busters.

Fack Camp David, Muslim Brotherhood wants to scrap Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel, from Ria Novosti:

Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood movement has unveiled its plans to scrap a peace treaty with Israel if it comes to power, a deputy leader said in an interview with NHK TV.

Rashad al-Bayoumi said the peace treaty with Israel will be abolished after a provisional government is formed by the movement and other Egypt’s opposition parties.

“After President Mubarak steps down and a provisional government is formed, there is a need to dissolve the peace treaty with Israel,” al-Bayoumi said.

The Muslim Brotherhood is to whom Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama  wants Honsi Mubarak to hand over Egypt.   Such a move would turn the so-called road map to peace into a superhighway going in the other direction

There is no E in Obama, the United States Chamber of  Commerce says to key to developing our energy resources is for the Obami to get out of the way:

(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says the key to solving the nation’s energy challenges in a struggling economy is for the government to allow the private sector to develop domestic energy resources, including traditional sources such as oil and gas, as well as renewables

Obama Care dead in Wisconsin, from Brian Bolduc, National Review:

In light of Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling that Obamacare is unconstitutional, Wisconsin’s attorney general, J. B. Van Hollen, has declared the Badger State free of any obligations imposed by the law. “Judge Vinson declared the health care law void and stated in his decision that a declaratory judgment is the functional equivalent of an injunction,” Hollen says in a statement. “This means that, for Wisconsin, the federal health care law is dead — unless and until it is revived by an appellate court.”

One down fifty-six to go.

Egyptian democracy still born, Robert Springborg, Foreign Policy:

The Obama administration, having already thrown its weight behind the military, if not Mubarak personally, thereby facilitating the outcome just described, can be expected to redouble its already bad gamble. Fearing once again that the regime might be toppled, it will lean on the Europeans, the Saudis, and others to come to Egypt’s aid. The final nail will be driven into the coffin of the failed democratic transition in Egypt. It will be back to business as usual with a repressive, U.S.-backed military regime, only now the opposition will be much more radical and probably yet more Islamist. The historic opportunity to have a democratic Egypt led by those with whom the U.S., Europe, and even Israel could do business will have been lost, maybe forever. Uncle Sam will have to eat yet more humble pie, served up by the dictator who has just been insulting him.

I agree with half of what Springborg says,the opportunity for democracy in Egypt is dead.  I disagree such an opportunity ever existed at all.  For, you can not have democrasy unless you first have democrats.  There are no democrats in Egypt.

EEIU for Obama Care  for thee, Service Employees International Union, from Alexander Bolton, Hill:

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is lobbying hard against the amendment offered by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) to repeal the healthcare reform law.

[…]

SEIU’s outspoken defense of the law has prompted charges of hypocrisy from Republicans, given that some of the union’s chapters have sought waivers exempting them from a key provision of the law requiring the phaseout of health plans with low caps on annual benefits.

It has been said, that the best way to kill a stupid law,  such as Obama Care, is to fully enforce it.    IF the democrats can’t live with Obama Care, it should be killed.

Babs Boxer explains lack of snow, video:

I know Babs is not a real blond, but she ought to be.