Nadya Suleman Channels Angelina Jolie

Nadya Suleman is one weird person, Bill Zwecker, Sun-Times:

Along with many Americans, Angelina Jolie herself is said to be ”totally creeped out” by Nadya Suleman, the now-infamous mother of six who just gave birth to octuplets — all thanks to artificial insemination.

Though Suleman categorically denies she’s undergone any plastic surgery to make her look like Jolie, neighbors, friends and family members of the unemployed single mom of 14 challenge those denials — as do earlier photographs of Suleman clearly indicating thinner lips and a different-looking nose.

Suleman is about one all beef patty short of a hamburger.

It would appear that the rock Obama is going to continue looking for another commerce Secretary.  The senator Judd Gregg has withdrawn his name for consideration.  From a news release on his site, we find the following:

Sen. Gregg stated, “I want to thank the President for nominating me to serve in his Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce.  This was a great honor, and I had felt that I could bring some views and ideas that would assist him in governing during this difficult time. I especially admire his willingness to reach across the aisle.

“However, it has become apparent during this process that this will not work for me as I have found that on issues such as the stimulus package and the Census there are irresolvable conflicts for me.  Prior to accepting this post, we had discussed these and other potential differences, but unfortunately we did not adequately focus on these concerns.  We are functioning from a different set of views on many critical items of policy.

“Obviously the President requires a team that is fully supportive of all his initiatives.

“I greatly admire President Obama and know our country will benefit from his leadership, but at this time I must withdraw my name from consideration for this position.

Frankly, I began to wonder what the taping point would be for this guy.  Apparently, being the token republican on the cabinet so that he could call his leap to the left of the “bipartisan” wasn’t exactly the description job that Judd Gregg got from Obama .  However that situation may be Gregg stands as the first Cabinet appointment to withdraw his name without having cheated on his taxes or some other such thing.

The personally, I wondered if senator Gregg isn’t going to have to watch his back for the remainder of his political career.

Addendum: (David L)

We have a pattern.   Barack Obama invites Mrs. Clinton to be Secretary of State, and then procedes to remove all her portfilos, Kristen Chapman, World Magazine:

Unlike Rice and Powers, Clinton doesn’t have the inside track with Obama. She’s largely an outsider, among former competitors, no less, whose positions are rapidly reducing her potential sphere of influence. So what exactly is left for Clinton to do in her new role? That’s exactly what Morris is wondering

Given BO’s fervid desire to run the entire Executive branch from the White House, and his record of cutting the feet out from under his own nominees,  how  much future ability does BO has to attract cabinet level talent?   Anybody smart enough to run a cabinet department has to notice BO’s bait and switch tactics.   Will future Commerce Secretary nominees demand that BO leaves his hands off the Census?    What would it say about an nominee that would cede such power?

Barack Obama is an man with an immense, over sized ego.   Can BO curb his ego for the sake of his administration?

Welcome one and all to the most intense Nightly Read anywhere on the ‘sphere…Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

This is the “Gone with the Wind” edition.

As I was driving into work this morning, I was getting reports from all over Ohio that they’d had lots of win, and power outs, trees and wires down, schools closing and so on. Wind started up our way around 10-10:30. Snow with it.

• Over at Pajamas Media, Tom Blumer points up that Obama and the Democrats are responsible for much of the pain we’re in, just now… even when history is ignored:
  

  .In his Saturday address that followed this news, President Barack Obama was correct in pointing out that 3.6 million jobs have been lost since the recession, at least as “defined” by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), began. The recession, as normal people define it (“a decline in gross domestic product [GDP] for two or more consecutive quarters”), began in the third quarter of 2008 and became official late last month when the fourth quarter came in negative.

  What Mr. Obama “somehow” forgot to tell us is that almost 1.8 million of those seasonally adjusted job losses have occurred since his election, when his non-stop economic no-confidence game went into high gear, and that 2.8 million jobs have gone away during the seven months that began in July 2008, the first full month of the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) economy..

  It gets worse, of course, when history gets added, but Tom stays on the recent numbers. The evidence is in my view overwhelming that the Democrats are the prixmate cause of our current troubles… on many fronts.

• That’s not the brakes, that’s the gas pedal, you idiot:There’s an awful lot of chatter about how more government is the answer, that we’ve had too much freedom for our own good. Megan Mcardle over at The Antlantic… points out the falicy in that statement. (I”m amazed she got picked up over there, frankly)
  

  New York City’s main industry lies in ruins; its finances are in peril; its housing market is falling. What does the city need? That’s right, tougher rent controls!
  In times like this, it’s easy to believe that if you laid all the economists in the world end to end, they still wouldn’t reach a conclusion. But here’s one of the things that basically everyone, left to right, agrees on: rent control is the surest way to destroy a city’s housing stock short of aerial bombing, and one of the major culprits behind New York’s painfully low vacancy rate. Rent control allows some people to stay in artificially cheap apartments, but only by forcing the people who would have rented them into some other, less desireable place. Those people bid up the price of the uncontrolled housing, so that you essentially end up with two housing markets, one with rents above the natural market price, and one with rents below it. There is no way to ensure that the deserving middle class folks you want to see stay in the city end up in the latter, and indeed, many of the owners of rent stabilized apartments were notorious for finding the richest tenants they could. Rich tenants rarely get behind on the rent, and move sooner than people who can just barely afford their below-market place.

  The principles that are driving this can be used to exemplify so very much of what the left offers us today. Government isn’t the solution… it’s the problem.  And yet, the left offers more government.

•  $13? That’s the tax break that Obama promised.  What do you suppose Obama would say a few years ago if Bush has offered $13/wk? You know the answer to that one, don’t you? Oh… and ignore that Obama has effectively increased taxes on new car purchases and on homes. This helps the economy how, exactly?
• I’ve been chatting up the bit with John Murtha. Clarice Feldman is, too. She says the law may be closing in on him at last.
• Normal:  No, Ann, this isn’t incredible. It’s exactly as we called it. 
• No experience needed: Leon Panetta will attempt to run the CIA, after all. A short time ago, we were all worried about Bush’s appointee to FEMA didn’t have a whole bunch of emergency management experience. Now we’ve got someone running the CIA with no intelligence experience.  Complaints about that? Are you kidding me?
• Priorities: I’m convinced that more people keep closer track of American Idol than they do what’s going on in the government.  There’s a lot of reasons being offered, but the one that makes the most sense is that normally, ostensibly, government isn’t supposed to be making choices about people’s lives.  Problem; That’s not true, recently.
• It’s over, already: Retail sales are up for the first time in seven months. But don’t worry, if FDR is any example, the current government will make the resession last for 10 years.
• Another addict in the making: Derb points out that Iowahawk is addictive.  He’s right, of course. Another reason why is here.
• 67 nuke lab computers missing? Hmmm. What’s Obama plan to do on this one? 
• I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m an avid RV’er. So this Steve Gill article is near and dear to my heart.
• Side note to Billy.   Normally, I’d drop this in your mail, but I’ve no doubt your mailbox is full.  I figure you’ll see this here on the trackback. As I’ve told you in the past, Zappa was never my thing, so I’ve really got nothing to bring to this party. I will say thought that it’s endlessly amusing watching people argue opnion as if it were fact. The entire discussion proves my long held point;  Music being the supremely subjective experience it is, cannot be properly discussed in an objectve framework, and particularly not with people who can’t tell the bleedin’ difference between the two. Your comment about ‘ever good mind” is exactly my reasoning in maintaining the fight here as I do. But it strikes me that the fight could be better directed toward productive pursuits in some corners.

Ben Feller and Christopher Wills, Associated Press:

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama called on Americans Thursday to follow Abraham Lincoln’s example of showing generosity to political opponents and valuing national unity – above all else.

 AFAIK, Abraham Lincoln never attempted to resolve and argument by saying “I won“, nor did Lincoln ever vote “present.”  In short and in the words of Lloyd Bentsen, “Mr President, I know Abraham Lincoln, and you sir are no Lincoln.”:

I have wondered openly in answering feedback mail and in comments sections on other blogs, over the last few days, if the electorate were not being intentionally overwhelmed by the issues being thrown at us by the Democrats. Object being, to slide as much possible by us in the confusion. I’ve been working on the wording of a Bitsblog post to that effect for about as long.  So, along comes Glenn Beck last night, and beats me to the punch;

So I contend the president is a genius.

Who is he? He’s David Copperfield: A master of misdirection, who is making sure that so much is going on that it wears you out. You’re feeling overwhelmed and it’s all intentional.

Look at all the things going on just in a few weeks:

Obama closed Gitmo and dropped the charges against the guy who bombed the USS. Cole. He moved the Census into the White House. Then, there’s the No. 2 attorney general who stood up for child pornographers, TARP 2.0 and all the clowns in Washington with scandals: like Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, the performance czar, Charlie Rangel and Chris Dodd.

These are all individual outrages, set up to divide the media’s attention and your attention — which need to be unified, like an army.

It’s simply a matter of divide and conquer.

You are saying, “I’m just trying to hang onto my job. What? I don’t know what to do.” And we say, call, call, call your representatives right now. And you do call, but at some point it becomes too much and you say, “I’m not calling anymore.” And I don’t blame you. But that’s exactly what David Obama-Field wants.

Are we to believe that Obama stupidly went to Nancy Pelosi and her progressive friends and said come up with the best bill possible and she just loaded it up with pork all on her own accord? Is he that inept that he thought they could get away with overseas abortions, fluorescent light bulbs and polar bear habitats? Or did he know it would distract all of us from what this bill is really about: universal health care — which was quietly tucked into the bill at the last minute. What else is tucked in there?

Hmmm. While I agree there’s certainly a great deal of misdirection going on here, I question it being Obama’s doing. He may be quite good at management of his own spectacle, but I have serious doubt if his skillset goes beyond his immediate horizon. It’s my experience that self-centered people… and Obama most certainly is that, can think quite so far outside their immediate box.

Who set this up, then? Who started this ball rolling? I honestly don’t know. Seems to me a little hard to pin this on one player.But it also seems to me that we should be looking at the biggest players as a start. Among the prime candidates, we should include anyone who would have enough monetary power to tank an economy on command. Does anyone really think that an economy crashing just prior to a national election is an event that happens as a natual cyclical event?  On the top of that list to my thought is George Soros. He’s tanked economies before, and has made no secret of his desire to get Obama in the White House, for all the reasons we’ve discussed here many times.

Speculation Of course. I could come up with at least a half a dozen more names that would fit the known facts, but you get the idea. And anyway, I’d be just adding more smoke to the huge amount already in the room. 

The point I’m making, here is that I can’t help but get the feeling that there’s something quite major going on underneath all this smoke that is blindsiding us…. keepiong us from seeing what’s really going on, until it’s too late.

I don’t for a minute believe this speech was written by a twelve year old. But it is stunning in its presentation and delivery, video:

Hat tip:  Cassy Fiano.

Just think, in just twenty-three years, she will be old enough to run for President. She might.

I will not, will not say that the folks at CNN are slow:

(CNN) — Thousands of villagers in rural Alaska are struggling to survive, forced to choose between keeping their families warm and keeping their stomachs full, residents say.

Villagers in Emmonak, Alaska, travel to the store and to hunt by snowmobile now that the river has frozen over.

But it would help their reporting if they would on accassion flip the channel, here, here.  If CNN were but to flip the freeping channel they might learn something, and avoid posting stupid stories.

Hat tip and more:  Warner Todd Huston,  Stop the ACLU.

From Fox Sports:

The brief Brett Favre era in New York is over.

Favre has informed the Jets he is retiring after 18 seasons in the NFL, ending a record-setting career in which he was one of the NFL’s premier quarterbacks

Brett, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Earlies today, Eric rambled:

FAILURE: With all this going on, is it too early to call Obama a failed presidency, yet?  Remember, gang, the Democrats already had Bush so labled, at this point, relative, and with far less in the way of failure to point at.   Or….. hey…. Try it from the opposite angle: Can anyone point out to me on what issue, Obama has been a success, yet, save getting elected?

Kyle-Anne Shiver, American Thinker,  doesn’t quite agree.   Kyle-Anne does not see Barack Obama so much as merely a failed President, Kyle-Anne sees Obama as a failed Person:

What happens when everything that can go wrong in a person’s character formation does go wrong, and that person continues to be promoted to his level of incompetence?

President Barack Obama happens.

Alas poor Barack, he has simply never been associated with people of decent character in his entire life.    The fact that Obama has named so many low character people to his cabinet level posts,  Clinton, Holder, Geithner, Daschle, Biden could simply be that Obama is blind to the virtues of character or simply blind to character itself.    BO  is less a person to be scorned than he is one to be pitied.

As Kyle-Anne notes raising children to become men and womwn  of good character is indeed hard difficult work.  It is hard for two parents, and in Obama case the task fell to his grandparents.

Welcome to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere: Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

Once again, we at Bitsbog are presented with a target -rich environment. Let’s get some of it.

• IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS THE PLAN: So, Geithner’s plan was revealed yesterday, and the response from the markets was less than enthusiastic, to say the very least.  The market tanked bigtime before he was even done speaking. Clearly, they saw disaster in their future, given Geithner’s plan. I’ve been watching the market for a lotta years and I’ve never seen that depth of  negative response before.  This is the indispensable man? The Financial Times gets into why  the investers don’t like it. So does USNews.  But while they do a good job at listing why this thing is a failure, in terms of specifics, I suspect this is something most people know on an instinctive level, without such specifics. See, here’s the thing; The issue here is to my mind more basic than whatever specifics that Geithner might decide to give us. To whit; Is huge spending and government regulation the answer to the problem, or is it in fact the problem…  Which would explain why approval numbers are tanking about as fast as the markets; people are clearly thinking the latter is true.
• FAILURE: With all this going on, is it too early to call Obama a failed presidency, yet?  Remember, gang, the Democrats already had Bush so labled, at this point, relative, and with far less in the way of failure to point at.   Or….. hey…. Try it from the opposite angle: Can anyone point out to me on what issue, Obama has been a success, yet, save getting elected?
• MURTHA:  Here is more on those raids of Murtha-connected lobby firms. That Murtha should be connected to criminal activity should shock nobody, except the squinting fools who supported him. My guess is that they won’t going forward,  but then again, I under-estimated their level of stupid last time, too.
• CREATING HIS OWN REALITY: So, Schumer says , about those “those little tiny, yes, porky amendments”: “The American people really don’t care.”
  Vid:  Amazing! Has there ever been anyone more totally discnnected from reality, than Chuckles Schumer? Here we have the calls flowing into Washington running on the order of 100 to one againsttheir spending, at a call volume never seen before…. we have polling data backing those numbers…. and this moron comes up with a line like that?  Now, to be fair to Chuckles, he may have been attending the slobbering Hero worship sessions town hall meetings Obama’s people arranged, and is judging by the reactions of the people that they allowed in after checking their attitudes showed up  You know, people like this:  .
  (Shudder) That’s one of those things where you hope beer was involved, hoping nobody could be that stupid… knowing all the while, that this is proof they really CAN be that stupid, even without the beer. But can anyone with a brain— (Which would obviously exclude this moron) —watch this hindlick maneuver, and not understand that those rooms were scrubbed of any and all oppositiion ?  Is there anyone who doesn’t understand that this is a sort of ‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ attempt? I make the observation that we ahve perhaps under-estimated the ability fo Democrats to unite the country. With the exception of our hamburger flipper, here, and a few other morons, such as the one I linked above, the Democrats have managed to unite people as seldom before… unite them against the Democrats.
• HILLARY CONTAINED: I must admit I’d been having some thoughts in this direction of late, but hadn’t gotten around to writing them down… It has been appearing to me for some days now that Hillary Clinton getting State was a containment move on Obama’s part. Dick Morris had those thoughts too… and unlike me, wrote them down. At New Atlanticist  James Joyner has a new piece that seems to lean in that direction as well.
• MIND OF THER OWN: Apparently the votes in Israel didn’t come out the way Obama would want them.  Jonathan Schanzer has interesting thoughts on all this.
• DOMINO THEORY: Apparently a Domino’s in the UK has taken all pork products off the menu. Again, in response to the religion of peace. At some point, someone has to stand up and be counted against this cultural takeover.
• RADIO: I made some noise about audio quality on XM a short while ago. I also allowed as how the quality of the programming itself had changed for the worse, following the merger. Now, apparently, there’s another reason to think twice before subscribing. I’ll keep the MP3 player, thank you. It annoys me I’ve got an unused XM reciver in my truck, but such is the state of technology, these days. It moves faster.
• ALL FIRED UP REDUX: I mentioned the fires in Austrailia, yesterday? Apparently there’s a lawsuit down there suggeting the ‘green’ movement is to blame.  Since this suit is not unlike what we saw out in California a few years back,I expect they’ll win there, too.
• TWISTERS:  Anybody seen FEMA?

Rasmussen :

When it comes to the nation’s economic issues, 67% of U.S. voters have more confidence in their own judgment than they do in the average member of Congress.

Nineteen percent (19%) trust members of Congress more, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Fourteen percent (14%) aren’t sure.

Republicans and unaffiliated voters by double digits have more confidence in themselves than Democrats do, but even a majority of the party that controls Congress trust themselves more than the average legislator.

By the numbers I’ve been seeing over the last few days, there doesn’t seem a whole lot of argument atht some sort of stimulus is needed. The argument is over where the money gets spent. Clearly, Americans are saying they know better than government where the money ought to be going; that they can spend the money more effectively to get things moving again than government can.

I dunno about you, but it’s suggests to me that the American people, instead of calling for massive spending on what Government wants to spend it on, are saying that cutting taxes is the best policy.

I can’t say that I’m sorry at all to see a new Quinnipiac University poll, that reports Chris Dodd is in even more serious electoral trouble than we thought before:

A total of 42 percent of voters say they “definitely” or “probably” will vote to reelect Sen. Dodd in 2010, while 51 percent say the “probably won’t” or “definitely won’t” vote for him.

By a 54 – 24 percent margin, Connecticut voters say they are not satisfied with Sen. Dodd’s explanation of allegations that he received preferential mortgage treatment and 56 percent of voters say they are less likely to vote for him because of this controversy.

His being linked to the current economic woes can’t help him much, either, nor his cheerleading of Geither, yesterday. Of course, there’s always the short memory syndrome.

Addendum: (Bit) Yes, I noticed David’s comments after I posted this. (Shrug)

Geithner:

Administration officials were greeted with sarcasm and laughter Monday night when they briefed lawmakers and congressional staff on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s new financial-sector bailout project, according to people who were in the room.

The laughter was at its height when Obama officials explained that the White House planned to guarantee a wide swath of toxic assets — which they referred to as “legacy assets” — but wouldn’t be asking Congress for money

does Marx:

What was it that Karl Marx said about historic events occurring twice, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce?

 Karl not  Groucho.

Obama throws Elkhart under the bus:

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration on Tuesday overturned another Bush-era energy policy, setting aside a draft plan to allow drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

So much for getting us off of foreign oil.  So much for creating domestic wealth.

Brevity is the Soul of Wit, Walter Shapiro, New Republic:

Through most of his inaugural primetime press conference, Barack Obama seemed like he was channeling a particularly loquacious combination of Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, and the ghost of Hubert Humphrey. The president’s response to the first question from the Associated Press about the risks of sounding too apocalyptic about the economy ran (or, to be more accurate, crawled) for nearly 1,200 words–and ended with Obama saying “Okay” with an implicit question mark as if he were requesting permission to keep on talking. A national poll from the Pew Research Center released Monday afternoon found that 92 percent of Americans described Obama as a “good communicator.” There is a suspicion that those astronomic numbers had dipped by the time that Obama exited from the East Room of the White House at 9 p.m. on the dot.

Chris Dodd on thin ice, Quinnipiac University:

Connecticut voters split 41 – 42 percent on whether they think Sen. Christopher Dodd is honest and trustworthy and disapprove 48 – 41 percent of the job he is doing, his first negative approval rating in a poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University

 Charming Barry, Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal:

Barack Obama has now been president for 21 days, following an inauguration that was supposed to have pressed the reset button on America’s relations with the wider world and ushered in a new period of global cooperation against common threats. Here’s what pressing reset has accomplished so far:

– Iran. Since President Obama’s inauguration, Iran has launched a satellite into space and declared (with an assist from Russia, which is providing the nuclear fuel) that it would complete its long-delayed reactor at Bushehr later this year. At the Munich Security Conference last week, Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani promised a “golden opportunity for the United States” in its relations with the Islamic Republic. He proceeded to make good on that opportunity by skipping Joe Biden’s speech the next day.

 Charm helps but it can not over come a lack of substance.

Joe who, Jimmy Orr, Christian Science Monitor:

Question

FOX News reporter Major Garrett asked the president last night what Biden was talking about.

“Can you at least reassure them it wasn’t the stimulus bill or the bank rescue plan – (laughter) – and if in general, you agree with that ratio of success, 30 percent failure, 70 percent success?” he asked.

Answer

Here’s the chance for the president to set the record straight. To vindicate the vice president. After all, as Rod Blagojevich said, “The truth will set you free.”

Instead, the president offered, “You know, I don’t remember exactly what Joe was referring to,” he said to laughter. “Not surprisingly.”

“But let me try this out,” the president said valiantly trying to come up with something. “I think what Joe may have been suggesting, although I wouldn’t put numerical – I wouldn’t ascribe any numerical percentage to any of this – is that given the magnitude of the challenges that we have, any single thing that we do is going to be part of the solution, not all of the solution.”

 It’s back to Delaware for Joe.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s preconditions,Ian Black, Guardian(UK):

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s hardline president, used the final rally of celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the 1979 revolution to declare a readiness for talks with the US “based on mutual respect and in a fair atmosphere”.

Ahmadinejad told a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Tehran that change by Washington would have to be “fundamental and not tactical” – and attacked the former president George Bush, who included Iran in his notorious “axis of evil”.

 While BO grovels, Ahmadinejad snarls.

Dr. Michael Kamrava impregmamted with Nadya Suleman all of her fourteen of herbabies.   So   Doc yhat about a some child support payments?

Statement from the Institute for Energy Reserach:

“Less than 24 hours ago, the president urged Americans to support his plan to spend over $700 billion in taxpayer dollars to fight our economic downturn. Meanwhile, the Department of Interior this afternoon added unnecessary government red tape that will delay an opportunity to use our vast, domestic energy resources to bring new jobs and billions of dollars in new revenue to this nation.

“Though our economy is in a free-fall and millions of Americans are out of work, the Obama Administration prefers to spend money we don’t have and ignore the resources we do. We are headed down a path that empowers government planners to decide how much energy Americans are allowed to use, and how much they will pay for it. Regrettably, what they fail to realize is that access to affordable energy represents the best and most direct path out of this economic mess.”

 Hat tip:  Ace.

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

Obama’s press conference. What can be said? Nothing, and yet everything. It’s a target rich environment, as I said this monring, and I hardly know where to aim, first. Let’s give it a whirl.

• Only government is big enough to solve our problems? Well, maybe… if you ignore government was the cause of them.
• The politics of fear: Isn’t it interesting that Obama should be such a fan of FDR? remember “All we have to fear is fear itself”?  Now we have someone playing on fear to get his agenda passed in Congress. think about that for just a moment. Rick Moran suggests it’s the transition from “Hope and Change” to “Fear and Loathing”
• Memo to Chairman Steele:  Here’s three names that need to be booted from the Republican party at once: Susan Collins, Arlen Specter, and Olympia Snowe. Here’s why. 
• So, we’re paying for those kids after all? Yep.
• More repercussions of class warfare: Swiss banker UBS lost $7.5BUSD last quarter. Gee, yu don’t think that had anything to do with the Swiss government eliminating the tax breaks for rich foriegn account holders, do you?
• No kidding?  Obama has it both ways on Pork?  Some have suggested the honeymoon is over, based on this article. I counter with the thought that if it was really over, there’s be far more outcry from the press.
• Release ’em all: Wonder why people are leaving California? Here’s one major reason: An insane judiciary.  Of course that raises questions afresh about the ordered closing of Gitmo, doesn’t it?
• It doesn’t count: Funny how very few people are noticing that the White House has taken the census away from Commerce. The implications are clearly political, since it’s the census that decides how many people live where… and thereby, how districts are represented… and redrawn. Are you getting the picture, yet? Of course there are constitutional issues attached to all of this. If you actually get around to reading the constitution, you’ll notice that the census is suppsoed to serve as a part of the legislative branch. In short, Obama’s action here is unconstitutional.  But what’s the constitution to a liberal? If a Republicn president did this, they’d call it a  power grab. As it is, they hardly notice. John Fund did, though, and isn’t happy.
• This is not the Obama they elected: I’ve been telling you to expect a good deal of disappointment and anger from the left. SITYS. Remember, gang, we’ve got years to go, yet. Oh, see Ed on this one, as well.
• Take this Messiah to Cuba: While all the rest of this is going on, there’s a bill in the pipe that would eliminate travel restrictions to Cuba.  Not fir the first time, I’ll wonder if we’re not being intentionally overhwlemed by stuff that would usually get rejected out of hand.
• Did you really vote for this guy again?  By now, you’ll have heard the FBI raided a lobby firm connected with Bagdhad Jack Murtha.  Apparently, the investigation was regarding improper campaign contributions. (What else?) But the investigation also has been turning up links to what I will call for brevity, earmark abuse. Michelle points out it’s not one, but two companies raided… both Murtha attached.
• What drives people? Word from Fox that Nike “Might” dump A-roid. “Might”? What drives them to a discussion of longer then two words, over the thing? Seems to me “He’s gone” would work pretty well.
• Leftist Anger and Disappointment: In my Pajamas Media article of a while ago,  I remarked on how once exposed to reality, Obama’s views started changing. Jeff Pope says that’s part of the reason there’s such a rush on the part of the Democrats just now in more than just the war on terror.  James at OTB has more, too.
• The Hybrid Conspiracy: But it’s not what you think. It wasn’t the car companies that put Hybrids back 20 years, it was a government environmental regulator. Ronnie Schreiber explains.
• That splatting noise: Biden under the bus?
• Caption this:BitsBlogger YetAnotherJohn gets a third at OTB’s Caption Contest.
• All Fired Up: Billy mentions the wildfires Down Under.  Wasn’t it just a few days ago I saw references to Islamic crazies threatening setting such fires here in the ‘states??
• I remarked earlier today about the Government Healthcare items they snuck into the suppsoed ‘stimulus’ bill… how we’re now being told that the government can choose if you live or die based on how much it;s going to cost them.  Consider how well Giethner’s statement today meshes with that attitide: “Access to government resources is privilege not right… ” Do you even begin to understand the consequences of  the government taking that kind of power to itself??