SEEN ON CHURCH MESSAGE BOARDS during a recent day trip around Virginia:

Prayer – the original wireless

Eternity is a long time to pay for a mistake

I would only add that in politics, 2 years is an eternity.

I DO THINK, at some point, you’ve done enough damage.

THE SHARKS ARE CIRCLING: ”What's clear right now is that the president who claimed to be the personification of a world-historical moment has clearly misread his mandate, the mood and the moment. He's lost at sea, and not even a bigger boat will save him.”

THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE until the market improves.

DOES ANYBODY IN WASHINGTON DC have a lick of common sense?



The PowerLine post is here.

UPDATE: Read the PowerLine post. I think the answer has to be no common sense, but plenty of vindictiveness.

IT IS NOW SAFE TO SAY that the average New York Times columnist is not as smart as the average American.

IS IT MY IMAGINATION, or does Lisa Murkowski look like she feels entitled to be Senator in the news photos?

ILLEGAL ALIENS are now “probationary citizens.” Actually I think it would be more accurate to describe them as “probationary Democrats.”

EMPHASIS ON “WAS” -- but it will change back to "is" starting in November.

DAY TRIP: We took a day trip through Virginia’s northern neck between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers from Fredericksburg to the Chesapeake Bay. The area is rural; small towns, farming, and fishing. Along the way we saw these signs: “Remember the Tea Party” along the highway. “Please watch Glenn Beck” in someone’s front yard. And in the small town of Lively, “Tea Party meets second and fourth Sundays every month” were posted around the community center in the center of town. Returning home, a "November is coming" sign appeared on the Prince William Parkway near our home.

Virginia, particularly rural Virginia, is unhappy. I suspect that many voters are beginning to realize that the “stimulus” was directed to urban America – “inside the Beltway” as it were.

USED CAR PRICES skyrocket a year after Cash for Clunkers. “[T]he White House spent $3 billion to make used cars more expensive for working-class families. Nice work.”

I knew I was right not to turn in my truck.

WHY DOESN’T THE MEDIA report on liberal talk show lunacy?

Easy. No one listens to liberal talk shows.

INCOMPETENCE: the change you were hoping for.

AND THIS GUY’S ON OUR SIDE? "We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims," said Imam Fiesal Abdul Rauf ....

YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT au pair (nanny).

MORE VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: America - compared to what?

'WE’RE NOT THE OTHER GUYS' isn't good enough this year. “Today, most Americans are ready as never before to shrink government and stop the spending madness.”

I RECOMMEND a hammer.

SIX-MONTH GULF DRILLING MORATORIUM was necessary “because the MMS [Minerals & Mining Service, the Interior Department regulatory agency] cannot be trusted to regulate.”

IF YOU DON’T TEAR UP, you aren’t human.