A RATHER ANGRY AMERICA? Victor Davis Hanson comments.

We see the arrested adolescence and hypocrisy that come from that sermonizing generation, whether in Al Franken’s puerile face-making, the ideologically driven suicide at Newsweek, the steady destruction of the New York Times, John Kerry’s tax-avoiding yacht, the Great Gatsby Clinton wedding, Michelle on the Costa del Sol, Nancy Pelosi’s jet, Tim Geithner’s tax skipping, or the constant race-card playing of a Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters. Yes, one walk across the Yale or Stanford campus circa 1975, and one could see pretty clearly what sort of culture that bunch would create when it came of age and was handed power.

In sum: “Law? There is no law other than a mandated equality of result.”

ANN COULTER: The scandal in Bell (Ca) isn't a scandal at all for the Democrats; it’s the governing strategy of the Democratic Party. Elected Democratic officials bestow ludicrous salaries and benefits packages on government employees, and, in return, public employee unions make sure the Democrats keep getting re-elected.

Sound familiar?

HUGH HEWITT: Worst President Ever?

Yes.

MICHAEL LEDEEN on Peggy Noonan on the American spirit. Ledeen summarizes thusly:

[O]ur intellectual and political leaders have no sense of the mood of the country. But that is not new. The new thing is that such types have now acquired an outrageous amount of power, and they are doing their damnedest to make us pay for our lack of adulation.

Read both articles. The national mood is not good.

WHY I’M NOW UNEMPLOYED: I didn’t have an Obama sticker on my car ....

CALIFORNIA DREAMING DYING: the Golden State’s war on itself. Everything you ever wanted to know about progressive politics in just 4 charts.

This quote from the comments is the damning indictment – and not just about California: “What were they getting for these new and higher taxes? Fewer police, more indifferent schools, but a larger group of state officials interested in annoying everyone about everything.”

Read it all. Link from Instapundit.

HE’S BAAACK: Dave Weigel, recently fired from the Washington Post for his JournoList emails, returns with ”Five myths about the ‘tea party’.” Despite his JournoList rantings, his “five myths” article is reasonably fair.

”[A] LARGELY CONSERVATIVE ELECTORATE has always wanted lower taxes, smaller but more competent government, fewer overseas commitments, honest government, and officials who live like the public they represent — and it can’t seem to find that package in any party or candidate being presented to it. Indeed, the Obama medicine is now seen as worse than the Bush disease, in that he less competently oversaw the war in Afghanistan, blew apart the budget, and lives more royally than any Republican.”

Victor Davis Hanson, warning Republicans and Democrats alike. Are they wise enough to take heed?

ONE CLASS ACT: George W. Bush makes surprise visit to U.S. troops. Pictures here.

Link from Instapundit.

REAL ETHNIC PROFILING: Fox’s Dr. Manny Alvarez responds to Harry Reid. Sarcasm drips from every line.