THE DIET begins in November.

PURE GENIUS


And, yes, I know Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen. But I think one can make a strong case that he is a cultural immigrant for many Americans.

SENATE PANEL NEAR AGREEMENT on bill to roll back NASA changes. "Obama has finally forged some bipartisan consensus in Washington through this issue. Both sides oppose him."

Heh.

NASA's MUSLIM OUTREACH: Al Jazeera told first.

The Obama administration: stupid, arrogant, and tone-deaf.

CATS AND DOORS: we have three doors leading out of our house, and three cats. Each uses it’s own door. The front porch belongs to Daisy, the back porch to Shadow, and the garage entrance is Diamond’s. Rarely will one cat go out the other cat’s door.

DRUG LOBBY showers money on its hero Harry Reid. “No scalp would be as treasured by Republicans this fall as that of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. And no incumbent is receiving as much air support from the drug industry as is Reid, who championed a health care bill that pads drug company profits.”

MUST BE THAT TEA PARTY VIOLENCE the media keeps harping on. Oil executive targeted with shoebox bomb.

WASHINGTON POST HAILS the arrival of "One Nation," a liberal version of the Tea Party.

That might be a poor choice of name, as an astute Instapundit reader noted: “Though this also pops to mind: Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Nation, ein Führer.”

OBAMA PRESSES BP to recover more oil. The Obama administration has sent BP a letter telling the company to fix the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico fast and to start collecting more of the oil that has already spilled into the ocean.

Well, I guess now that it’s in writing…

AMERICANS RELATE TO FOUNDERS, not progressives. Obviously Glenn Beck is to blame.

FROM MY EMAIL

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al:

We have stuck together since the late 1950's for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.

Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.

Here is a model separation agreement:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.

We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar and biodiesel. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.

We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies and illegal aliens. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.

You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and
hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters.
When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.

We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill.

We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.

You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem." I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya" or "We Are the World".

We'll practice trickle down economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.

Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag.

Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,
An American

P.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbara Streisand, & Jane Fonda with you.

P.P.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.

Heh.

SOFT ON OIL?

Less than four months after President Barack Obama took office, his new administration received a forceful warning about the dangers of offshore oil drilling.

The alarm was rung by a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., which found that the government was unprepared for a major spill at sea, relying on an "irrational" environmental analysis of the risks of offshore drilling.

The April 2009 ruling stunned both the administration and the oil industry, and threatened to delay or cancel dozens of offshore projects in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.

Despite its pro-environment pledges, the Obama administration urged the court to revisit the decision. Politically, it needed to push ahead with conventional oil production while it expanded support for renewable energy.

Another reason: money. In its arguments to the court, the government said that the loss of royalties on the oil, estimated at almost $10 billion, "may have significant financial consequences for the federal government."

Or just greedy?

DEMOCRATS SHAPING BATTLE PLAN against Republicans for November elections - committing political suicide (fourth item).

Sssh! Don’t tell them.

PELOSI: Unemployment benefits create more jobs than any other initiative.

Well, yes, if you mean by “more jobs” you mean more government jobs ministering to the needs of the forever unemployed.

HOW MANY PEOPLE have left the workforce? Well, add one more.

WHY AREN’T BUSINESSES HIRING? “Uncertainty: there has been a tremendous amount of change over the last 12 months. Businesses are still trying to figure out what that means for their own bottom line. Until there are firm answers, they will freeze hiring.”

WHAT DO DEMOCRATS LOVE MORE: benefits for the unemployed or Keynesian deficit spending (third item)?

Given the chance to keep 23-month unemployment benefits rolling by giving up $17 billion of stimulus spending, Democrats refused and spiked the legislation.

Republicans mostly oppose the idea of two-year benefits on the grounds that it has become substitute welfare and actually harms the job market by allowing people to stay out of work for so long, lose their skills and become essentially unemployable by anyone but the government.

But after getting a lot of scorching form Dems about being callous to the needs of the little man, some GOPers are willing to go along with another extension, but not if it’s all deficit spending. But Dems are so protective of their pork, they will not go for offsetting cuts or even allow any of the stimulus slush to be used.

Of course.

COULOMB TECHNOLOGIES HAS ANNOUNCED that it will set up nearly 5,000 electric vehicle charging stations in nine U.S. metropolitan areas: Austin, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Sacramento, San Jose/San Francisco, Redmond, Wash., and Washington, D.C. The $37 million project [will draw] on $15 million courtesy of the stimulus bill.

I could live with the $15 million cost if it would confine progressives to those nine metro areas.

A RECENT GALLUP POLL found Obama's support among Hispanics dropped from 69 percent in January to 64 percent in February and 57 percent in May. So what did President Obama do? He issued a strong new call for an overhaul of the nation's immigration system.

No politics here. Nope. None. Move along now.

WHITE HOUSE promotes rain power.

It hurts when I laugh too hard....

I THINK THE PRESIDENCY was always sort of a warm-up, a preparation for worldwide messiah-in-chief.

BIG GOVERNMENT IN PRACTICE is actually the best argument against big government in theory.

[Liberal comedian Jon] Stewart challenged top Obama adviser David Axelrod on whether or not the administration is capable of doing any of the big things it’s promised, an argument long made by conservatives and libertarians wary of government encroachment.

“It’s clear that this administration believes that government can have a stronger hand in regulating Wall Street, in regulating energy, in doing these things. But has government during this time proved itself competent?” Stewart asked.

Axelrod defended his colleagues and argued ... that the administration’s response to the H1N1 flu is proof that it is up to the task of big government.

Oh?