DEMOCRATS: ObamaCare really stinks, doesn't it?

Running away as fast as their little legs will carry them....

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. As a matter of law, isn't my house - by the fact of being lit by ObamaBulbs -- a hazardous waste site subject to EPA regulation? Or is it only after the bulbs burn out?

CAN THE GOP WIN THE SENATE? "Yes, [but] a GOP win has to be beyond the margin of fraud or votes will be found, as with Al Franken." I wonder. With Democrats progressives, is there such a thing as a 'margin of fraud'? Or will they go to the ends of the Earth? I suspect the latter.

FEMINIST ALERT: "When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail male."

BOB GATES: "[W]hen the government tries to build something really big and really complicated especially in the technical world, it almost always fails."

It's also true when the government tries to build something small and simple; it's just that 'small and simple' doesn't cost the taxpayers as much.

WHAT'S IN Congress' $1.1 trillion spending bill? The better question is "What's not in Congress' $1.1 trillion spending bill?" And the answer to that is 'very little'.

HEH: "The elderly [and hence more likely to have health problems] are packing into the exchange plans as though they've found the last train to Medicare."

US OFFICIALS: China Tested Hypersonic Missile Vehicle.

Movin' on up....

POPULATION DECLINING in states with relatively high dependence on government. Without a host (taxpayers), leeches die off.

REMEMBER, KIDS, you voted to make us rich.

NASA MISSION to Psyche proposed. The asteroid, not the mind.

MORNING EXAMINER: Data show false premises of gun-control advocates.

MEME ALERT: What's good for women is what's good for men. Because, after all, men are just women with penises.

A GLIMMER OF HOPE for the incandescent light bulb. I'm stocking up anyway. Particularly for 3-way bulbs, which are in nearly every room in my house.

CAL THOMAS: British experience with NHS reveals ills of government health care programs like Obamacare. Money quote: "If it's a question of dogma vs. experience, experience should prevail."

Except where the Left is concerned; then the converse is always true.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The rural American way.

OBAMACARE'S SEX PROBLEM: his favorite demographic 'victim' group is signing up in too-great numbers.

ANDREW KLAVAN on gun controllers:

But in fact, neither Dianne Feinstein nor any other leftist really wants to ban guns. Not at all. They merely want to prevent private citizens from owning them. You can bet the official officers of the state will still be allowed to carry them, no matter what happens. Which makes one suspicious given the, you know, facts. If guns protect the little guy from the powers that be, and if leftists are, in effect, the powers that be, it seems likely that all Feinstein and Bloomberg and Schumer and their ilk are really trying to do is make sure that the state and only the state has the power to defend itself.

It's harder to ignore the protestations of the citizenry when the citizenry is armed.

BOTH: Zoning out or cashing in? My sense is that Americans - to the extent possible - are simply ignoring the diktats of the Obama administration and going on with their lives. I'm also seeing some evidence of the Right beginning to take advantage of the Left's favorite weapon: lawfare.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane: It's a good thing for the federal deficit that Air Force One isn't leased; even under the most generous lease agreement, surely the Obama administration would be paying a mileage charge by this point in his administration.