WHY REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE solicitation calls go unanswered at my house. Candidates who promote or join a Tea Party caucus – and mean it – I’ll consider funding.

But not the Republican establishment.

THE LAW MEANS WHAT IT SAYS – except when it doesn’t.

After reading this, one necessarily thinks of pretzels ....

TO DEAL WITH DEBT, we have to stop lying about it. Reason’s Veronique de Rugy has some guidance for the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Obama’s deficit commission) in assessing the quality of the solutions it puts forward.

Do the recommendations really cut spending rather than focus on cutting the deficit?

Do the recommendations allow for political carve-outs?

Do the recommendations fix the budget gimmicks?

Will the debt commission have the guts to face reality? In a word, no. They’re politicians.

EASY CREDIT, hard landing.

Longish, but worth the read.

A DANGEROUS DISAFFECTION. John Hinderaker from PowerLine:

I think [there is] a growing conviction that America is governed by a political class that has its own agenda, involving its own enrichment as well as the endless expansion of its own power, and that this political class is contemptuous of the opinions of ordinary Americans and is determined to impose its will regardless of how Americans vote. I think this perception is in fact true.

To support that contention, Hinderaker’s prime exhibit is the historyy of federal spending, reproduced below.


Hinderaker comments: “You can vote for limited government, but you can't get it; the political class won't let you.” Or, as Alabama Governor George Wallace, running for President in 1968 said, "There is not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties!"

I didn’t believe him then. I do now.

YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH! That's the federal government's message to Americans seeking to learn the content of their own DNA.

More here.

NO NEW TAXES: White House will argue ObamaCare mandate is a tax.

This particular Obama promise has been broken so many times it looks like the Gulf beach sand before the tar balls arrived.

A VETERAN puts Elena Kagan to shame. Kagan should not be confirmed to the Supreme Court. Presidents’ choices should be given some deference, but not this time.

TAX BREAKS ARE FOR ME, NOT FOR THEE: Will the Obama administration give trial lawyers a $1.6 billion tax break?

Why not? It’s only our money.

RATIONING IS FOR THEE, NOT FOR ME: In special deal, charity gives rationing advocate [Dr. Donald] Berwick health coverage for life. Berwick was recess-appointed by President Obama to head Medicare and Medicaid.

Just my (bad) luck to be going on Medicare in four months.

FOULED BY THE TAX MAN: LeBron James saved roughly $12 million dollars in state taxes by signing with the Miami Heat as opposed to the New York Knicks. The privilege of working in midtown Manhattan apparently isn’t worth $12 million dollars.

[Rush] Limbaugh drolly asked his audience whether James should take the Knicks' offer "and pay the additional taxes to show his 'compassion,'" or sign with Miami and "use the additional money for his own economic stimulus."

Heh. Read it all; even the extremely wealthy are voting with their feet.

MICHAEL BARONE is no fan of unionization.

And he’s right.

DEMOCRATS revive global warming legislation.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to bring a comprehensive energy and climate bill to the Senate floor by the end of the month that will include a cap on carbon emissions produced by the nation's utilities.

Reid ... wants to introduce the bill, which has not yet been written, the week of July 26.

Reid was vague on details ....

With ObamaCare, it was “pass the bill; then we’ll read it.” Now, it’s “pass the bill; then we’ll write it.”

BREAKING NEWS


The 2010 Democratic Party campaign theme ....