Nightly Ramble Friday

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• STUPAK RETIRES: To the shock of nobody that was actually watching the thing, a retirement announcement today from MI congresscritter  Bart Stupak.

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• IT’S LAW, ALREADY….SO WHY ARE THEY STILL TRYING TO SELL OBAMACARE? That’s a question that a reader asked me in email just

Obama administration stuck on stupid, Jackson Diehl, Washington Post:

Obama has added more poison to a U.S.-Israeli relationship that already was at its lowest point in two decades. Tuesday night the White House refused to allow non-official photographers

Of course, the White House anticipates that the American people will learn to love this bill[Obama Care] so much that repeal will soon become politically impossible. In their view, seniors will learn to love the cuts to Medicare, small business

Bart even more Stup(id)ak than thought, from Fox News:

President Obama signed the Senate health care bill into law Tuesday. He did not sign the executive order on abortion negotiated with Michigan Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak in an

Israel attacked, from Haaretz:

A Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck an open field in a kibbutz near Ashkelon on Sunday, just three days after a foreign worker was killed by a rocket in the northern

The end of Hope as we know it, Benjamin Domenech, CBS News:

Over the past week, in backroom conversations with members of Congress, Obama changed his negotiation tone from demanding to desperate. He told progressives that the outcome

Eric Holder’s double standard, Leftist Propaganda Machine:

“Those who reaffirm our nation’s most essential and enduring values do not deserve to have their own values questioned,” Holder told a group of lawyers who offer “pro bono,” or voluntary,

Sometimes haplessness can provoke sympathy. But [Eric] Holder mixes ineptness with self-righteousness. Critics of his questionable choices, he says, “cower.” They lack “confidence in the American system of justice.”

But there is another possibility. Perhaps Holder’s critics — in Congress,

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• NO MODERATION HERE: Jennifer Rubin of Commentary opines:
  

  David Brooks says he’s out on the ledge, morose, and about to have

White House flood of misinformation, Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review:

Talking Points Memo, living up to its name, is providing the White House’s talking points on health care. Obamacare is to be voted on amid a final orgy

Alas poor Dirty Harry, Jay Newton-Small, Time:

Both Dick Durbin of Illinois and Chuck Schumer of New York say they firmly believe Reid will be reelected, but for several months the number two and three Democrats in the Senate

Denial is a river that runs through the White House.

Noemie Emery, Washington Examiner.

Fred Phelps and Phree Speech, ok Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church are loud vulgar, but political, bunch.   But if the First Amendment does not protect loud and vulgar political speech, what good is it.   From, Chris Weigant,

What ever happened to Separation of Church and State?

The White House on Friday announced a “summit on entrepreneurship” to build economic ties with the Islamic world, part of President Barack Obama’s outreach to Muslims.

The White House said it