Maybe all those injections into her lips, or the pressure of being Speaker of the House but allow me to suggest that it is time to call those nice men to with the special jackets. You know the ones with

Robert Reich comes up short, from Puffington Post:
Public servants are convenient scapegoats. Republicans would rather deflect attention from corporate executive pay that continues to rise as corporate profits soar, even as corporations refuse to hire more workers.

Speaker Tablecloth’s Promise, Nancy Pelosi’s predictions were about as good as her fashion sense, to wit poor, from Fredrickburg.com:
FAMOUS LAST WORDS: “After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay

To Kill a constitution, one does not have to truly brain dead to post for the Puffington Post, but it seems to help. Amanda Terkel, link:
WASHINGTON — The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the
The United States Navy screws up, from Steve Szkotak:

The KKK is gone, the Kennedy Kongressional Klan is gone. Free at last, free at last.
Class envy, from James Carroll, Boston Globe:
If a just society is defined by the relationship between the well off and

US Navy does raunchy:
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Navy said Sunday it will investigate “clearly inappropriate” videos broadcast to the crew of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in which a top officer of the ship used gay

Mario IV, some states just never learn. Mario Cuomo sworn in for fourth term as governor, from Nick Reisman, Politics on the Hudson:
But Gov. Andrew Cuomo did take some time to enjoy being back in an old

An Obama Hate Machine, from David Corn, Politics Daily:
The OHM [Obama Hate Machine] — led by a wide-ranging collection of conservative media outfits, right-wing bloggers, and GOP partisans — has already effectively undermined Obama’s presidency by propagating
It is that time of year again – time for the Bitsblog Snark of the Year:
Worst press conference — ever
I don’t mean just for Obama. I mean any president. Or head of state. When I wrote this morning
Atheists crisis of faith, frmo Amanda Knief, Secular:
Atheists Excluded from Mayor-Elect Gray’s Inauguration Humanist Celebrant Denied Equal Time at Ecumenical Prayer Service Atheists, agnostics, humanists, and other nontheistic Washington, D.C. residents will have no representation at Mayor-Elect Vincent
Does anyone remember Valarie Plame?
Of course you do. You will recall the left was having kittens over the mere suggestion that someone might have leaked her name to the press. There were calls for life imprisonment, etc., from the

Ain’t no free lunch, from Thomas Sowell, RCP:
Once you buy the idea that the government should be a sort of year-around Santa Claus, you have bought the kinds of consequences that follow.
The results are not pretty,

Why the War on Barbour? From Alex Pareene, Slate:
Corpulent unreconstructed good ol’ boy Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour apparently has a “state plane” that he uses to fly to football games with corporate executives, Politco reports today. Barbour, a
When the Fat Lady Sings, Fred Hiatt wonders how obesity became a partisan issue, from Washington Post:
That’s why obesity is not a Democratic or Republican issue. Obama has merely extended and amplified a campaign that began under

