SIXTEEN QUESTIONS for politial candidates.

The post is interesting, but the meat is in the comments. Of the two sides, sensible v. stupid, I lean toward sensible for the simple reason that the questions tend to give some insight into the candidate's character.

Link from Instapundit.

IF OBAMA REAUTHORIZES THE PATRIOT ACT and the New York Times doesn't cover it, does it make a sound?

IT’S JUST A SIGN CHANGE ... Move along, now.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Who says “No” in a government-funded health care system? Three guesses, but “patient” isn’t one of them.

IN ABOUT 10 MONTHS I’ll get a bright, shiny, new Medicare insurance card. Will there be any doctors left to accept it?

END THE RECESSION: Move Congress to Detroit.

IMAGINE IF ... “politicians were personally held to the incredibly high level of scrutiny that includes civil and financial liability for any unintended consequence of their decisions. Imagine if they were forced to spend tens of thousands of dollars each year on malpractice insurance and still faced the threat of multimillion-dollar lawsuits with every single decision they made. If so, a government takeover ... would be the furthest thing from their minds.”

Maybe that’s the key to taking back government from the politicians.

OBAMA’S GREATEST GIFT: rehabilitating former President George W. Bush. “In six months Bush will poll better than Obama, and liberal Bush-hating columnists (most of whom were for the Iraq war in 2003) will oh so insidiously begin to triangulate and show appreciation for the war on terror, Iraq, Afghanistan, and our relations with Europe overseas — and this is a best case scenario for Obama if he avoids a real blowup with Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, Venezuela, etc. in 1979 Jimmy Carter fashion.”

If he avoids a real blowup. He won’t.

HE GROPED, but not inappropriately. There’s an appropriate way to grope?

REALITY STRIKES THE ‘REALITY-BASED’ COMMUNITY.

[White House senior advisor David] Axelrod said he accepts some blame for what he called “communication failures,” though he acknowledges bafflement that the administration’s efforts to stimulate the economy in a crisis, overhaul health care and prosecute two wars have been so routinely framed by opponents as the handiwork of a big-government, soft-on-terrorism, politics-of-the-past ideologue.

Um, perhaps it’s because the administration’s efforts are the handiwork of a big-government, soft-on-terrorism, politics-of-the-past ideology?