YA THINK? Alan Greenspan says too much government is preventing economic recovery.

Read the comments. Greenspan is catching a lot more criticism than I would have thought.

GOVERNMENT IS TOO BIG. We know how to get around the earmark ban.

Jim Moran is a Virginia congress(hypo)critter - not my district, unfortunately. It’s time for him to go.

CLOWN CITY: another profile in Congresscritter idiocy.

We already know that Sheila Jackson Lee thinks her constituents are dumb (many of them voted for Sheila Jackson Lee, so that’s tough to argue against), but she also ... accuses her staffers of being sub-stupid.

Read it all; then follow this link.

WHAT IS the ‘Obama doctrine’? If the Bush doctrine was preemptive war, then the Obama doctrine is preemptive surrender.

Frankly I prefer the Reagan doctrine - preemptive victory.

IF I CAN’T HAVE IT MY WAY, I’ll take your football and flee.

THE OBAMAS’ PERSONAL TRAINER flies to DC from Chicago weekly for fitness training.

And the Obamas are too damn cheap to buy indulgences carbon offsets; instead they exhort the rest of us to walk, bicycle, carpool, or take the Metro to offset their extravagance.

I repeat myself, but “it’s all about control.”

IT’S TIME TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH: Tea Partiers to clean-up mess left by union protesters in Wisconsisn.

Today, at 1 pm. Will any union protestors show up?

NOW APPEARING in Ring 2 of the three-ring circus we laughingly call Washington D.C.

ROCKET CARRYING GLOBAL WARMING SATELITE crashes into Pacific Ocean ... again.

Before too long you’ll be able to walk across the Pacific all the way from Al Gore’s seaside California mansion to Japan without getting wet by only stepping on global warming satellite and rocket wreckage.

Do you think maybe Nature is trying to tell the environmental movement something?

SO TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL: ”I would vote for a syphilitic camel over Barack Obama in 2012 ....”

LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST ALARMIST prepares for climate Armageddon by buying a shotgun, replacing the locks on his doors, and raising tomatoes and lettuce behind barred basement windows in case Iowa becomes a dust bowl by the end of the century.

Arlington resident John Doyle responds (third letter):

That August thunderstorm that so frightened Mike Tidwell that he ordered his wife to "Go to the basement now!" impressed me, too. When I saw that monster barreling in, I ran to the top of the basement stairs and shouted down to my daughters to "Get up here now! You're not going to believe this storm!" The three of us stood on the porch, completely drenched, watching an absolutely glorious display of nature's power.

The Earth's climate is changing, just as it has for 4 billion years. The question is: How are you going to greet that change - holed up in your basement, windows barred, clutching your shotgun, or out in the front yard with your kids, stomping in enormous puddles?

I’m with John Doyle.

CAT NAP

THIS OUGHT TO BE THE HEADLINE: "Global Warming Kills Dolphins."

AN INCONVENIENT QUESTION: "Is it just me, or is the notion that guns are especially dangerous on university campuses because they’re lawless and full of alcohol and drugs one of those arguments that “proves too much?” If campuses are really that bad, isn’t the problem, you know, bigger than just whether someone with a permit has a gun there?"

HOW ABOUT THAT? John Galt is Irish.

OBAMA JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: We'll enforce DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) but not defend it because we think it's unconstitutional. Uh, hold on there. Isn't an act, passed by Congress and signed by the President, presumed to be constitutional unless the Supreme Court decides otherwise?

Or can our next President just declare ObamaCare to be unconstitutional and just refuse to defend/enforce it?

Instapundit comments: "You take an oath to enforce the Constitution. This may give the President the authority to enforce the Constitution as he sees it, but it surely doesn’t give the President the authority to choose not to enforce the Constitution as he sees it."

MARK STEYN on the Wisconsin public union kerfuffle:

That's what "collective bargaining" is about: It enables unions rather than citizens to set the price of government. It is, thus, a direct assault on republican democracy, and it needs to be destroyed. Unlovely as they are, the Greek rioters and the snarling thugs of Madison are the logical end point of the advanced social democratic state: not an oppressed underclass, but a spoiled overclass, rioting in defense of its privileges and insisting on more subsidy, more benefits, more featherbedding, more government.

Correct.

HOW DID YOUR CONGRESSMAN vote on HR1 (the budget bill)? My congresscritter, Frank Wolf (VA-10) didn't do so well. He's going to hear from me and I'll be looking for a replacement in 2012.

DONALD RUMSFELD flummoxes MSNBC interviewer Andrea Mitchell. This is why I like Rumsfeld.

MORE: I saw Rumsfeld on O'Reilly last night. He had O'Reilly on the defensive as well. Here are three exerpts from the interview.

DEMOCRATS just don't understand the new populism.