THEY'RE BELOW ZERO? Surprise: Olbermann's ratings hit new low.

A LOOK THROUGH THE WAYBACK MACHINE: I just noticed that I have now been blogging over 5 years. Here's my first post from August 4, 2006. My webmistress, Daisy, is now approaching middle (cat) age, as feisty as ever.

It took a bit over 2-1/2 years to reach my 350th post, on March 28, 2009.

This post is my 6,271st, a number I still find hard to believe.

"I'LL BE LAYING OUT MORE PROPOSALS IN THE DAYS AHEAD." But Obama did not spell out any new initiatives beyond renewing his call for Congress to extend a payroll tax cut, advance trade pacts with South Korea, Panama and Colombia, and deliver patent reform.

As I wrote earlier, Obama is a broken record.

JUST GO.

Mr. Obama is the most arrogant, self-absorbed and self-obsessed president in U.S. history. Nothing is ever his fault. He blames everyone and everything for America’s economic woes - Tea Partyers, Wall Street, Japanese earthquakes, insurance executives, oil companies, millionaires and corporate jet owners. He lashes out at imaginary enemies without ever taking personal responsibility. In his mind, he is - and always will be - the Anointed One.

As Instapundit has repeatedly pointed out, a Carter-like presidency is a best-case scenario.

SPIRITED DEBATE leaves the Republican field unaltered. Agreed. It was a good debate, but I left without it altering my tentative candidate preferences.

More links to debate opinion here.

GOVERNMENT PRICE CONTROLS produce cancer drug shortages. And shortages produce rationing, which in turn causes drug prices to go up. What a surprise.

LINDA CHAVEZ: Ingratitude, Insolence and Entitlement -- Brought to You by the Welfare State.

THIS IS GOING TO GET VERY UGLY.

IF YOU THOUGHT GOVERNMENT WAS TOO BIG, here's why.

TURN OUT THE LIGHT; the party's over. It may be turned on again after the 2012 election.

THE 'BROKEN RECORD' RETURNS: taxes on millionaires, billionaires, corporate jet owners, and oil companies. Won't dumBO ever learn?

LIVING IN THE GOVERNMENT ZOO:

[W]hat if a man were born in a zoo? Like a baby tiger born in a zoo, he would not see the zoo as a trap. His needs for food, shelter and even procreation would be satisfied.

However, he would not learn how to build himself a shelter because he would have a temperature-regulated exhibit area. He would not learn to defend himself because there would be nothing threatening in his artificial environment. He would not learn to hunt and prepare his own meals because zookeepers would bring dishes of food to him. He would never learn to work. He would own nothing and be responsible for nothing. If he had children, the zoo would provide for them also.

He would learn to scratch at the walls and howl when he wanted his zookeepers. He would learn sloth.

Sound familiar?

THE LAW can't make everyone love you.

IS THE TEA PARTY OVER? Nope; it's just begun.

SO A GARDENING BROADCAST would be 'inappropriate' in New York City?

HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATIONS becoming unavoidable and quasi-governmental. Yes. Unavoidable in large part because the government permitting process makes it almost a developer requirement in order to protect his investment until the housing development matures. And supra-governmental rather than quasi-governmental in that there are not the checks and balances that restrict government action.

WHY NOT IN 2012?

HAVE YOU NO SHAME? No, I'm a liberal.

BUMPER STICKER. I saw this one on a car in Manassas the other day.

ONE NATION
Under Surveillance

The bumper sticker was tongue-in-cheek (I hope), but since it was just after MSNBC's faux apology for leaving out the phrase "under God" in a Pledge of Allegiance during the U.S. Open, the bumper sticker got me thinking. One might see a bumper sticker reading

ONE NATION
Under God

and reasonably infer that its owner was conservative in nature. The other, though somewhat sarcastic, seems to me as one that leans left. It strikes me that both are essentially religious in nature, with only the deity changing -- the Left's god being an omniscient government.

OBAMASHARE



[Added thought]: I just coined the word "ObamaShare" to caption the cartoon, but thinking about it, ObamaShare is to the President's tax "redistribution" policies as Sarah Palin's "death panels" was to ObamaCare.