Breakfast Scramble (Friday)

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.

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

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

Dumbo forced to clean up his own mess, rather that hole in roof, Barack Obama seems to prefer mopping the floor, from USA Today:

President Obama is engaging in some post-WikiLeaks diplomacy.

In phone calls Saturday to the

Dumbo proves PIAPS right, Barack Obama proves that even Mrs. Clinton can not be wrong all the time, from Jonah Goldberg, New York Post:

But even some of Obama’s biggest fans admitted that his devotion to the magical

Worst press conference — ever

I don’t mean just for Obama. I mean any president. Or head of state. When I wrote this morning that he doesn’t do well in defeat, you didn’t know how right I was, huh? Let’s

Dumbo on Wiki: Grab a mop, the Obama administration is leaking information like a thatch rook, in a gale.  So do the Obami shut down the leakers?  No the Obami order low-level government workers not to read the leaked

Welcome to December, from 13WHAM:

Rochester, N.Y.— The first day of the December brought some more holiday-like weather as the Rochester area saw the first major snow accumulation of the winter season. Early Wednesday morning rain caused several

Obama the bully, from Kyle Smith, New York Post:

One staffer was conspicuously overweight. The president, in an incident that Wolffe believes proves how caring the man is, took it upon himself to present the aide with a

Jimmy Carter has the Norks all wrong, former and disgraced President Jimmy Carter wants to appease North Korea for their recent temper tantrum, from the Washington Post:

No one can completely understand the motivations of the North Koreans,

Putting the security back in air travel, by Muchael J. Totten, New York Post:

Security officials should pay less attention to objects, and more attention to people.

The Israelis do. They are, out of dreadful necessity, the world’s

Et tu Keith, William Kristol, comes to laud the suspended Keith Olbermann, from Weekly Standard:

Perhaps Olbermann violated NBC News “policy and standards.” But NBC doesn’t have real news standards for MSNBC—otherwise the channel wouldn’t exist. It’s a

The Obama method, by Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media:

[Barack] Obama, who was always himself given something (take your pick—Harvard admission, Harvard Law Review billet, Chicago Law School tenure offer, Noble Peace Prize, etc.) without requisite achievement, is

Thought for the Day I, from Michelle:

Take Your Olive Branch and Shove It, Democrats

I don’t necessarily agree with Michelle, but I understand her frustration Mrs. Pelosi locked the republicans out of the process and Obama demonized them.