COMPLETELY NUTS

Andrew Sullivan, of Trig birther fame, has completely lost whatever tenuous hold on sanity he ever had with his latest outburst of Palin hatred.

Either that or someone has been tinkering with his meds.

CRADLE TO GRAVE

Chris Muir understands ObamaCare.

The whole cartoon is here.

RIGHT WING, LEFT WING

Sarah Palin, WWE star.

One has to marvel at the insularity - and arrogance - of the "progressive" Left.

Link via Hot Air.

WHO'S UNEMPLOYED?

Democrats and unaffiliateds are more likely to be unemployed than Republicans. Well, yes. Republicans have to work for a living.

Via Instapundit.

CLOTURE PASSES

Well, the Senate got the 60 votes it needed to continue the debate on healthcare.



Now it's our turn.

WHERE'S THE BENEFIT?

Most Americans want health care reform if it will bring cost down and maintain quality.

So our president and his Democratic allies - possibly in another teaching moment - filled our news media and Congressional Budget Office with a pile of proposals. And because Americans are optimistic, we jumped in and started digging through the pile, even though that pile looked and smelled like manure. But we figured that with all that manure, there had to be a pony in there somewhere.

We kept digging through the Democrat proposals in search of the pony. But there was no pony.

But the good news is that there's plenty of manure.

SAVE $155 MILLION ANNUALLY

And the suck-up award winner is ... the National Endowment for the Arts.

There is a new president and a new NEA. The president first. This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept the premise, and I do, that the United States is the most powerful country in the world, then Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar. That has to be good for American artists.

Why is this hosanna appearing on an official government website? Has it become the job of the NEA to communicate how wonderful our Dear Leader is?

Why are America's taxpayers funding this tripe to the tune of $155 million annually?

Mark Steyn piles on.

MSM FACT-CHECKING

From the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web (scroll down to Accountability Journalism):

An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We'd like to compare this dispatch to the AP's dispatch earlier this week "fact checking" Sarah Palin's new book. Here goes:

Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
• ObamaCare bills: 2
• Palin book: 11

Number of pages in document being covered:
• ObamaCare bills: 4,064
• Palin book: 432

Number of pages per AP reporter:
• ObamaCare bill: 2,032
• Palin book: 39.3

On a per-page basis, that is, the AP devoted 52 times as much manpower to the memoir of a former Republican officeholder as to a piece of legislation that will cost trillions of dollars and an untold number of lives. That's what they call accountability journalism.

And the AP also created a ”word cloud” of Going Rogue, which presumably means ... some of the 11(!) AP researchers had too much time on their hands.