HEALTH CARE EGO-TRIP

Robert J. Samuelson in the Washington Post:

What's driving the great health debate of 2009 is not a popular clamor for universal insurance.... The underlying driver is politicians' psychological quest for glory.

I’m afraid he’s right.

HEALTH CARE FOR ILLEGALS

Liberals Seek Health Care Access for Illegals.

I’m all for it. They should be required to purchase healthcare - in their native countries.

STILL WHINING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

Bill Clinton said a vast, right-wing conspiracy that once targeted him is now focusing on President Obama.

Funny, I don’t recall George W. Bush whining about a (half)-vast left-wing conspiracy targeting him for eight years ....

More proof that Democrats are adolescent whiners in need of parental discipline (a hockey mom, perhaps?).

OBAMALYMPICS

Obama Heading to Denmark in Olympic Appeal.

I’m of two minds on this one.

On the one hand, what the hell is Obama doing? He’s the President of the United States , for Christ’s sake, not a Chicago snake-oil salesman.

On the other hand, maybe it’s a good idea -- the more involved with trivia he is, the less damage he can do to America’s real national interests.

PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY

Commenting on his newspaper’s coverage - or rather its lack thereof - of the ACORN scandal, Clark Hoyt, "public editor" of the New York Times, writes that

[Jill Abramson, the NYT managing editor for news] and Bill Keller, the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies. Keller declined to identify the editor, saying he wanted to spare that person "a bombardment of e-mails and excoriation in the blogosphere."

Somehow, I think that the refusal to identify the editor is to protect him/her (and the New York Times) from being “bombarded” with facts, tips, research, stories, leads, etc., from the right side of the blogosphere. It’s hard to maintain plausible deniability of knowledge of a story when a hundred bloggers can post “Hey, I sent you a tip on ... and here’s the email to prove it.”

MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY

No more business for "Nobama" salesman. Mall officials met with [the owner of the mall kiosk] and told him to take down the anti-Obama items on display by closing time or face immediate eviction. And it wasn't political.

Oh, no. Absolutely. Not. Political.

Via Instapundit.