DEMOCRATS VOTE to let tax rates rise. More here.

SO TELL US WHAT YOU REALLY THINK. “These people are idiots. Idiots who’ve been entrusted with nuclear weapons, and their economic equivalents.”

ALFONZO RACHEL GOES TO BELL (CA) to find out what its residents get in exchange for awarding their representatives with obscenely high salaries and huge property taxes.

Link via Instapundit.

THE VIEW FROM MY WINDOW


A Saturday afternoon drive through the unspoiled Virginia countryside.

HMMM. Government Motors donates government money to government employees.

Makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over ....

SWEET REVENGE.

It is election night, 2012. The polls have closed. State by state, the votes are being counted, and gradually it becomes clear, to the bottomless horror of some voters and the unbridled delight of others, that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican presidential nominee, has bested President Barack Obama in the popular vote nationwide.

In Massachusetts, where Obama crushed Palin by a landslide of 79 percent -- the most lopsidedly anti-Palin vote of any state -- "bottomless horror" doesn't begin to describe the political reaction. For in 2010, Massachusetts joined the National Popular Vote compact, making a commitment to cast all of its electoral votes for the presidential candidate receiving the most votes nationally, regardless of the results in Massachusetts. The compact took effect in December 2011, when California became the 15th state to join, thereby combining enough states to control a majority of the Electoral College. Now Massachusetts, the bluest of the blue states, must award its presidential electors to a candidate Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly opposed.

The peril of getting what you asked for.

"YOU HAVE A PERFECT ECONOMIC STORM that's hit our middle class directly in every region, every segment of this country." Its name is Obama.

"THERE’S CERTAINLY A LINK between recent stock market gains and improvement of Republicans at the polls."

PLAN? WHAT PLAN? Sarah Palin fact-checks the fact-checkers.

PolitiFact doesn’t dispute the $3.8 trillion estimate of the cost of repeal of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. It admits that “Palin’s estimate of $3.8 trillion over 10 years is within a reasonable range, if you’re talking about all taxpayers.” And yet somehow it continues to argue that I’m wrong, based on a proposal it admits doesn’t exist which in turn is based on a phantom campaign pledge which Democrats have already broken anyway.

Like Breitbart, she’ll punch back twice as hard.

WHICH ONE is the party of the rich?

Read the comments too.

RIGHT NOW, I’d put journalists below Congress (but without raising the approval rating of Congress).

SMART GRID UPDATE

Xcel Energy's SmartGridCity experiment in Boulder, Colorado ... appears now to have been a failure. [Edison Electric Institute president Thomas] Kuhn ... said it appears the problem in Boulder was that the target population was just too affluent: Despite the known green-mindedness of Boulderites, a major factor in Xcel's selecting the small city for its smart grid test run, it seems most of them do not care all that much about the modest monetary savings they stand to make from paying attention to electricity usage signals.

It looks like it’s not just those dumb Red State yokels who are going against their best interests.

Actually the consumers are going against the greenie’s perception of what the consumer’s best interest should be ... exactly the same mistake Thomas Franks made with his book What’s the Matter With Kansas?.