DRAMATIC PLUNGE. President Obama's approval index dropped like the proverbial rock over the weekend, from a negative12 on Friday to a negative 19 today.


Is it Copenhagen? Or the fact that Congress is closing in on an Obamacare bill? Or just a statistical outlier?

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree and think 25 to life would be appropriate.
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America needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.
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Q: Have you heard about McDonalds new Obama Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.
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Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?
A: A fund raiser.
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Q: What's the difference between Obama's cabinet and a penitentiary?
A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners.
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Q: What's the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?
A: Bo has papers.
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PRESENT COMPANY EXCEPTED, OF COURSE: "’The whole world needs to adopt China's one-child policy,’ writes Canadian journalist Diane Francis, mother of two.”

Thinking is clearly foreign to the Politically Correct.

WHY PUBLIC EDUCATION SHOULD BE STARVED: A branch of the University of Minnesota may require all education students at the school to understand and accept that they are either privileged or oppressed and that they be well-versed in issues like "white privilege," "institutional racism” and the "myth of meritocracy in the United States."

AL GORE TALKS about global warming:

[T]he sooner we switch away from carbon-based fuel and start relying on renewable energy sources available in the United States, the sooner we will grow our economy by creating the millions of new jobs that will come from retrofitting homes and businesses, building smart grids, renewable energy systems and planting trees and all the rest. We need to create a lot of jobs that can't be outsourced.

Well, I’ll give Al some credit - the jobs in italics can’t be outsourced. But money spent essentially repairing broken windows is money not spend growing the economy.

MAYBE FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS should oversee school lunch programs. I’m sure the kids would prefer McDonalds on Monday, KFC on Tuesday, etc.

Score another point for free enterprise; the government’s still at zero.

Instapundit says not to worry, though, the government will still do ”a bangup job on healthcare.”

GARLIC MILK: fighting global warming.

EVEN THE WASHINGTON POST recognizes single-payer healthcare when they see it.

My only surprise is that they are capable of admitting it.

THE ARROGANCE OF OBAMACARE:

It restricts our choice of which insurance to buy and pushes us into more expensive plans. At the same time, it destroys the economic incentive to purchase insurance in the first place and replaces insurance with a free-floating tax on one's very existence.

That's the kind of government arrogance that has to be smacked down hard, and that alone is reason to demand that your senator reject this vicious bill in its entirety.

Read it all.

Via Hot Air.

MIXED MESSAGES: First it was coffee, then it was beer. Now we find that coffee increases drunkeness.

Hmm. Maybe the correct message is that drunkenness decreases a man’s risk of prostate cancer ....

DON’T LET THE CLIMATE DOUBTERS FOOL YOU:

In April, 1994 -- long after scientists had clearly demonstrated the addictive quality and devastating health impacts of cigarette smoking -- seven chief executives of major tobacco companies denied the evidence, swearing under oath that nicotine was not addictive.

And this has to do with doubting global warming how?

The public and policymakers should not be confused by a few private e-mails that are being selectively publicized and, in any case, remain irrelevant to the broad body of diverse evidence on climate change. Selected language in the messages has been interpreted by some to suggest unethical actions such as data manipulation or suppression.

Aha! ... the link. But in “Cigarette-Gate” it was the scientists who outed the evil chief executives; it “Climate-Gate” wasn’t it the scientists who were themselves cooking the books?

Doubters insist that the earth is not warming. This is in stark contrast to the consensus of 18 of the world's most respected scientific organizations, who strongly stated in an Oct. 21 letter to the U.S. Senate that human-induced climate change is real.

The 18 “most respected scientific organizations” don’t include the IEEE and AIAA, both of which I am a member.

[D]oubters try to leverage any remaining points of scientific uncertainty about the details of warming trends to cast doubt on the overall conclusions shared by traditionally cautious, decidedly non-radical science organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which represents an estimated 10 million individual scientists through 262 affiliated societies.

I just checked the web site of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, of which author Alan I. Leshner is the CEO. As best as I can tell, the only requirement for Professional Membership is an email address, credit card, and $146.

EVEN THE WASHINGTON POST recognizes single-payer when they see it.

My only surprise is that they are capable of admitting it.

CASH FOR CAULKERS: President Obama proposed a new program Tuesday that would reimburse homeowners for energy-efficient appliances and insulation, up to $12,000.

Let’s see: New insulated windows? (check!) New insulated doors? (check!) New refrigerator? (check!) New kitchen stove? (check!) High efficiency air conditioner? (check!) Solar hot water heater? (check!) Wind turbine? (check!)

When can I pick up my check?

THE INHERITED DEFICIT FALLACY: Read it all, but there are two points worth repeating.

ONE: Congress controls spending. The Democrats took control of Congress in 2007 and the White House in 2009, so the deficits in 2008 ($400 billion), 2009 ($1.8 trillion), 2010 ($1.4 trillion), 2011 ($900 billion (estimated)), etc., weren’t inherited.

TWO: When you’re $1.8 trillion in debt, more borrowing is not an option. Cutting the size and cost of government is.

MEMO TO CONGRESS: When you lose Instapundit, you’ve lost America. “This [ObamaCare] bill stinks. Kill it dead, and bury it at the crossroads with a stake through its heart.”

HOW TO MAKE A ROBOT OPEN THE DOOR: When I taught introductory programming back in the Dark Ages (late 1960's), opening the door was always my first class lecture.

How time flies ....

OBAMA’S ECONOMY: the new Obama dollar.


Scanned from the December 8th Washington Times editorial page.

THE FIRST SIGN OF CORRUPTION in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. – Georges Bernanos

I have always wondered how intellectually serious liberals can reconcile this with their desire to increase the power of the State.

I suspect the answer lies in the belief that this new crop of statists will be honest, unlike all the generations before them. This is a dangerous delusion.

Read it all.

ADVICE TO THE MEDIA: “[G]ive up your jobs and go into prostitution. It’s definitely a more honorable profession than yours.”

JIM GERAGHTY at NRO takes note of the obvious: ”[A]dministration officials are arguing that the nation's 15.4 million unemployed need an extension of jobless benefits.”

“Actually, what they really need are jobs.”