DEMOCRAT FLACK ED SCHULTZ: Let’s pass a “decency law” to regulate speech. Well, if it were strictly enforced (heh), it would sure as hell shut the Democrats up.

HOW DARE YOU! It's your fault we went out of business: "Don Otto’s Market wants to say we had few customers that understood customer loyalty and its importance to our business... If you came in only for baguettes, the occasional piece of cheese, the occasional dinner ... you can not tell yourself you were a supporter of our market."

The liberal entitlement mentality strikes again -- the customers are too stupid to realize they owe us. Un-friggin-believable.

SARAH PALIN: An Open Letter to Republican Freshmen Members of Congress.

But it's not really a letter to the freshmen congresscritters - it's a warning to the Establishment congresscritters, Republicans John Boehner and Mitch McConnell in particular, to pay attention or prepare for new employment opportunities.

CALIFORNIA GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER (R) defended his decision to reduce legal liability for personal marijuana use in the Golden State in a late-night TV appearance Monday. "No one cares if you smoke a joint or not."

But just try smoking a cigarette....

THEY STILL DON'T GET IT: Big Green is welcome in the Tea Party bus, but they don't get the keys.

PAINFUL TO WHOM? Mostly those who live on government largess. As I look at the recommendations of the debt commission, I'm struck that they're more about entitlement pain than actual pain.

WHAT A NOVEL IDEA: "[T]he best course of action is nonetheless for everyone to work as though their efforts actually mattered. And the best way to ensure that they will do so is to allow their efforts, whenever possible, to matter."

Read the whole thing, just to be sure I'm not funnin' with ya.

OOPS! Grumpy white elders did not swing the 2010 election.

GOVERNMENT BROWNIES: I've seen this one before, but now that San Francisco is regulating Happy Meals, it's worth a revisit.

Your world, coming soon.

UH-OH. STEVEN DEN BESTE'S take on the 2008 (yes, 2008) election. After two years, he's proved remarkably accurate.

My only quibble is that his "it's going to be amusing to watch" comment about the probable implosion of the Obama administration should have been "it's going to be frightening to watch."

My hope is that Den Beste's predictions that haven't yet come true -- don't.

Linked from Instapundit.

THERE'S WASTE - and then there's stimulus waste.

By the way, it's called the RAT board.

DEMOCRATS extol facts and science but act on ideology.

Surprise, surprise.

DEFICIT PANEL presents us some hard, but clear choices about our nations fiscal future: "Enough of the right people hate it and enough love it to make me instinctively like the proposal. And it merits much of the positive attention it’s received so far, while much of the dismay over increased retirement age and the like (including wild exaggerations about a war on the New Deal) is little better than melodrama."

ANYONE THINK this can have a good ending?

Austin, TX, is in the same boat. Unfortunately, it has the rest of Texas to bail it out.

HE HAD TO SURRENDER TO SOMEBODY, and the Taliban wasn't returning his calls.

Note: from the comments.

FRED THOMPSON on the Deficit Commission proposal. I haven't read the proposal in depth - yet - but my feeling is similar: "Finally! Something real to discuss."

That said, this comment by rightwingyahoo is revealing of the discussions to come: "The geezers can yell all they want, but the cuts are coming…."

That's a bad assumption, and there are plenty of bad assumptions on both sides of the political divide. I'm a "geezer" - 66, starting social security and Medicare - and I'm "yelling" because I desperately want Medicare/social security cut/reformed. Not for me - it's way too late to improve my lot - but for my kids and grandkids. Without reform, they will be buried in irrecoverable debt.

CAR METAPHORS: bipartisan agreement.

WE, THE PEOPLE, simply can't be trusted.

FACTS? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' FACTS. Ideology trumps science - every time.

THE ARMED LIBERAL on Veterans Day 2010.

Linked from Instapundit.