IT'S OBAMA'S FAULT: "I'd guess we're about 36 hours away from a Beltway call for 'wise men.'"

The problem, of course, is that using "Democrat" and "wise man" in the same sentence is an oxymoron.

ELLIE LIGHT, call your office.

And yes, I did see the letter in the Washington Times. It was so obviously an Obama apologia that I paid it scant attention. I guess I should have known ....

Via Instapundit.

[Update] Wow. Ellie is a busy lady. Follow the comment stream.

[Update & bump} Ellie Light has been found! Via Instapundit.

THE NUTS VS THE CREEPS: sounds like gang warfare.

“Speaking broadly: In the 2006 and 2008 elections, and at some point during the past decade, the ancestral war between Democrats and the Republicans began to take on a new look. If you were a normal human sitting at home having a beer and watching national politics peripherally, as normal people do until they focus on an election, chances are pretty good you came to see the two major parties not as the Dems versus the Reps, or the blue versus the red, but as the Nuts versus the Creeps. The Nuts were for high spending and taxing and the expansion of government no matter what. The Creeps were hypocrites who talked one thing and did another, who went along on the spending spree while lecturing on fiscal solvency."

“In 2008, the voters went for Mr. Obama thinking he was not a Nut but a cool and sober moderate of the center-left sort. In 2009 and 2010, they looked at his general governing attitudes as reflected in his preoccupations—health care, cap and trade—and their hidden, potential and obvious costs, and thought, ‘Uh-oh, he’s a Nut!’…
“Which meant they were left with the Creeps.”

From Peggy Noonan's Declarations in the Wall Street Journal.

It reminds me of the "I may be fat, but you're ugly - and I can diet" jibe. The only question is who's ugly and who's fat.

THE WEEK THAT WAS: Krauthammer doesn't miss a beat.