WHILE BARACK OBAMA has taken the undisputed lead in the race for the Worst President Ever, Jimmy Carter can take solace in the fact that he will continue to be known as the Worst President of the 20th Century.

FIRST, DO NO HARM. Second, sue the government. A group of nearly 5,000 American physicians is filing suit to stop the mammoth new law dead in its tracks.

When you’ve lost the doctors, you’ve lost health care reform.

EVEN THOUGH - in a mere 14 months - President Obama has clearly taken an overwhelming lead in the race to be the the worst President ever, Jimmy Carter can take solace in knowing that his ranking as the worst President of the 20th century will go unchallenged.

EVERY OBAMA STATEMENT COMES WITH AN EXPIRATION DATE. Here’s the list. Warning: it’s lengthy.

HOPE’nCRINGE? The basic issue of health care reform was simple: Who decides? The Democrats' answer: The government.

During the Clinton health care debate, Wall Street analyst Kenneth Abramowitz opined: "Right now, health care is purchased by 250 million morons called U.S. citizens." It was necessary to "move them out, reduce their influence, and let smart professionals buy it on our behalf."

Yep. We’re morons. And we are governed by lesser morons (known as idiots).

MALLARD FILLMORE comments on my education post.

THE OBAMACARE “BOUNCE” fell flat. Here’s the data from the Rasmussen Obama Approval Index polling. This first chart shows the “bounce” in approval following passage of the health care reform legislation. It didn’t last, but there was a 10 point rise in the president’s (dis)approval index.

More interesting is the second chart, where the bounce is dissected in the inset. Note that President Obama’s strong disapproval numbers (red line) hardly changed. What happened was that almost all the bounce came from the disengaged – those voters who either mildly approve or mildly disapprove the president’s performance.

Hardly a strong showing for ObamaCare.

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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) administer a program called “Communities Putting Prevention To Work" (CPPW). The program gives out “stimulus” grants to states and local communities which have outlined how they plan to engage in a handful of “evidence-based” prevention strategies dubbed MAPPS, short for “Media, Access, Point of purchase/promotion, Price, and Social support and services.” In all honesty, however, “MAPPS” might as well mean “Make the American People Pay for our Schemes.”

While descriptions for some of the latest projects funded under the program sound almost laughable -- what exactly do you think they mean when they talk about “increasing point-of-decision health prompts at stairwells and elevators in public venues”? -- it becomes abundantly clear that this is a concerted effort to advance government control over our consumption decisions when reviewing the CDC’s guideline document for grantees.

Strategies listed range from outright product bans, over zoning, to media and advertising restrictions for “unhealthy” foods and drinks and tobacco products. And when Delaware receives more than $1 million to “educate leaders and decision-makers about the benefits of increasing the price on other tobacco products,” Oregon receives $3 million to “support a policy proposal to increase tobacco price,” your “stimulus” dollars are likely going towards hiring lobbyists to promote tax increases (which by the way would seem to violate one of CDC’s own lobbying restrictions).

And we’re paying stimulus money for this!

FALLEN STAR: Fifteen phony products won the “Energy Star” label from the U.S. government certifying them as energy efficient. Among them: a gasoline-powered alarm clock and a space heater with an “air room cleaner” that was actually a space heater with a feather duster and fly strips attached.

Soon to come – ratings for medical devices. Would you be comforted knowing your heart’s pacemaker was “Energy Star” rated?