PERHAPS IF he had called it a 'green' house....

NOT COMING TO AMERICA --YET: Children under eight can't blow up balloons.

WILL OBAMA throw Attorney General Eric Holder under the bus? Nope; too crowded under there. There's a limit to the number of people under the bus before it stalls -- I think the limit's been reached.

JAMES TARANTO'S Best of the Web is great today. It includes Peggy Noonan on the 'Democratic narrative' and more proof that Ezra Klein and his Washington Post editors still find the Constitution 'too difficult' to read.

EVERYTHING you need to know about green jobs.

A PATH TOO FAR? Wireless Health Care:

In the future, diseases such as cancer won’t sneak up on people, becoming evident only when it’s too late to intervene. That’s because you won’t visit your doctor for an annual checkup. Wireless devices in your home will keep tabs on your medical status every day, as you go about your daily routine. The technologies necessary for producing devices such as a smart medicine cabinet or a smart toilet—wireless connectivity, personal cellular devices, pervasive sensing technologies, social networks, and data analytics—are mature enough. A high-tech medicine cabinet envisioned by researchers would track medications, warn about potential drug interactions, reorder prescriptions, and check expiration dates. It could also interact with other devices such as digestible computer chips with built-in wireless transmitters and blood pressure and glucose monitors to indicate whether your current prescriptions are effective. This type of intervention, says the New England Healthcare Institute, will result in improved health for patients, plus an annual savings of up to US $290 billion—the cost of drug-related complications.

Thanks, but I have no desire to be a wired automaton controlled by 'health care professionals'.

COMPROMISING? Democrats Scramble for Votes on Jobs Bill, May Split Legislation Into Pieces.

MILTON R. WOLF: It's the math, stupid. If you aren't depressed yet, you will be after reading this.

MORE GREEN TURNS BROWN: Ford pulls the plug on compact hybrid SUV.

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING: Aimless Obama Walks Alone.

SURPRISE! "President Obama over-promised and under-delivered on the single most important challenge of his Presidency ...."

HAVE THE DEMOCRATS GONE FREAKIN' NUTS? Do they really want to be associated with what is essentially mob rule? I don't think working America is going to take this lightly.

REENGINEERING AFGHANISTAN:

[O]ne of the most serious problems, according to analysts, officials, and engineers interviewed in Afghanistan and the United States, is the incompetence of USAID, an independent U.S. government agency that receives guidance from the Secretary of State. It is the dominant development organization in Afghanistan, and it has, according to these observers and even its own internal documents, made major missteps in every significant electrical construction project it has undertaken in the country.

This is a long, detailed article, but the one thing that stands out seems to be true of all 'do-good' organizations.