Breakfast Scramble: Beauty And the Beast

How dumb is Dumbo, from Monty Pelerin, American Thinker:

Two hypotheses are often cited to explain why things have gotten so much worse:

1. Obama is incompetent.
2. Obama knows what he is doing and is deliberately destroying the country.

Fact checking the Fat Lady, Wordsmith compares and contrast this FLOTUS, b/k/a Michelle Obams, quote with the real world, from Flopping Aces:

“See, what you all need to know about the President you helped to elect is that

Jon Huntsman, stalking horse, Jennifer Rubin explains why the newly launched Jon Huntsman campaign so  hyped by the media, and so dead in the water, from Washington Post:

From the mainstream media’s standpoint, he is the McCain 1980.

The election in black and white. Barack Obama’s inept economic policies have hit the black population hard, from Michelle Miller, CBS News:

The economy and jobs will be big issues in Washington again this coming week.

While unemployment

Dumbo asks for, then ignores legal advice, from Tiger Hawk:

Long-standing fans of the back-and-forth will remember the enormous grief that the Bush administration got for following the opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel, particularly on the

Dumbo’s Economics, how bad are Barack Obama’s economic policies?  So bad that his own chief of staff, Bill Daley has trouble defending them, from Matthew Boyle, Daily Caller:

White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley took heat from

Dumbo isn’t all there, from Victor Davis Hanson, National Review:

In the world of Barack Obama, inflating tires and “tuning up” modern car engines precludes off-shore drilling. Four-dollar-a-gallon gas prices can be ameliorated by having the average consumer

FLOTUS lies, the Fat Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama tells lies about her husband, from Politico:

First lady Michelle Obama on Monday told a fundraiser in Southern California of the toll the presidency has taken on

Dumbo’s Economics, more on yesterday’s Scramble theme of Barack Obama’s economic ignorance.  First up, from Robert R. Baker, American Thinker:

[President Franklin] Roosevelt responded to the recession he inherited with a combination of massive spending on new government

Brooklyn, NY– I’m at a store, waiting for an offload. I often forget how crowded it gets down here. All it takes is five minutes worth of driving here to remind me.

• Obama: The latest example of how socialism

Dumbo does not do economics, more evidence that Barack Obama lacks any understanding of economics, from Fox News:

It was explained to Obama that the permitting process can delay projects for “months to years … and in many

Very interesting, from Toby Harnden, Telegraph(UK):

Whether or not she[Sarah Palin] runs for the White House – and the solid consensus among Republican leaders is that she won’t – the scramble over the Palin emails confirms her status as

Revenge from beyond the grave, Lying Lizzis strikes out at her  ex, from Mail (UK):

In a final act of revenge, Elizabeth Edwards secretly recorded a testimony in her dying days that helped prosecutors indict husband John last week,

Leaders lead, Dumbo shucks, from Daily Caller:

A cascade of bad economic and political news knocked President Barack Obama off his game today, and prompted him to revive his 2008-style criticism of his predecessor, and also to suggest

The O-conomy, from Jim Geraghty, National Review:

Since January 2009, American businesses have faced at least three big potential risks to their bottom line besides the lingering effects of the 2008 crash: A) the possibility of tax hikes