STALL, BABY, STALL: “The administration’s sudden interest in offshore drilling is little more than political posturing designed to gain support for job-killing energy legislation soon to come down the pike.”

OOPSIE! Indicted militia member a registered Democrat.

Link via Instapundit.

NOW WE KNOW: Obamacare is mainly aimed at redistributing wealth.

Translation: we, the Democrat Congressional Leadership, aren’t “earning” our fair share, so we’re going to steal it.

THE FOLLY OF OBAMANOMICS
(with apologies to the Wizard of Id)

AS PREDICTABLE AS THE SUN IS RISING. To transmogrify a center-right country into a liberal utopia, certain things follow:

• higher taxes on the better-off to bring “fairness” to society;
• increased government coercion to force the reluctant to conform;
• a growing constituency to administer and receive entitlements;
• a public relations campaign to demonize the skeptical as enemies of civil society;
• a new neutralist foreign policy;
• a highly educated, urban technocracy not subject to its own new protocols; and
• a new euphemism in language.

Read it all.

MORE “TEA PARTY” VIOLENCE. The Left, of course, is outraged.



The You Tube link is here.

THE POLITICAL BATTLE TO COME: “Taxpayer dollars fund public salaries, which fund public union dues, which fund campaigns that elect candidates who promise more lavish pay and benefits for public workers ... that cycle has ruined California and is now pushing cities and countries across the country to the brink.”

We certainly live in “interesting times”.

GOOD NEWS: After almost two weeks of a media bounce on health care, Democrats are still sinking with voters.

Republicans aren’t doing much better, so there’s a fair chance we may be able to throw all the bums out.

RUN AGAINST WALL STREET? Michael Barone thinks the Republicans should “run against Wall Street” in the November elections.

I don’t agree - at least in part. It’s not a matter of lax regulation or tight regulation as Barone describes it; it’s a matter of regulation at all. Republicans should run against “too big to fail”. Let companies - big or small - fail and let market forces pick up the pieces.

To use a sports analogy, government’s responsibility is to maintain the playing field and enforce the agreed-upon rules. It is not responsibile for picking winners and losers.

THE BIG GOVERNMENT WHO CRIED “WOLF”: more than 70 million doses of H1N1 vaccine may have to be discarded. And government officials said they are “satisfied with the effort.”

Do you think there may be a lesson to be learned in this? [Umm, yes.] Do you think government officials will learn it? [Er, no.]

DEMOCRATS GET PARANOID - more so than usual.

To read the news, you might assume that there is a militiaman under every rock and that every tea party is a front for the Aryan Nation.

Will Sarah Palin's "targeting" of House Democrats incite assassins? Is "kill the bill" really a call to violence? Are there links between the Republican Party and nine nuts shooting guns outside a southern Michigan doublewide?

It is usually those out of power who are drawn to paranoid conspiracies, but Democrats sound like a pack of John Birchers talking about a shadowy conspiracy that is plotting against them.

Read it all.

A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF LIBERAL HATE SPEECH. Following the Tea Party protest on the Capitol steps on March 20, the Washington Post reported “'Tea party' protesters accused of spitting on lawmaker, using slurs,”

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus said that racial epithets were hurled at them Saturday by angry protesters who had gathered at the Capitol to protest health-care legislation, and one congressman said he was spit upon. The most high-profile openly gay congressman, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), was heckled with anti-gay chants. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) issued a statement late Saturday saying that he was spit upon while walking to the Capitol to cast a vote ....

Hmm. Here’s the Washington Post’s own photo gallery of the protest. Where are the “angry protestors”?

On March 23, the Post’s Colbert I. King responded to the protest with this appallingly ignorant, vile commentary on WTOP (“commentary from all sides”) radio, proving he couldn’t have possibly have attended the Tea Party protest. [Maybe he mistakenly attended the Left’s pro-ObamaCare rally at Lafayette Square across from the White House - the Secret Service had to close off part of the Ellipse during that rally.]

Then on the following March 26, King published this astonishingly venomous, hateful Op-Ed piece in the Post’s editorial/commentary section accusing the Tea Partiers of ... well, read it yourself, but be prepared to wash your hands of the spittle still clinging to every word.

And they call us hateful, racist, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals ....

It should be noted that the spitting and epithet-shouting incidents referred to have never been independently verified. Probably because they never happened.

For “as it happened” blog reporting, see this Instapundit link.

DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC VIOLENCE. Democrats believe dissent is patriotic, but only when they’re the ones dissenting.

THOSE TEA PARTIERS sure are a frightening group of people.

Link from The Right Coast.

A SPARTACUS MOMENT. I can’t think of a nicer gift for Rep. Waxman.