A telling quote from today's NYT article on the woes of being David Axelrod these days, about the administration's 'perception problem': Chris Lehane, a former top aide to Vice President Al Gore , says the administration should tell a clearer story. “They have been enormously capable in dealing with the day-to-day challenges of the government,” Mr. Lehane said. “But they don’t seem to get the credit they deserve for that because they’ve communicated no over...

Who can possibly dispute his utter contempt for the Constitution now?  What chutzpa and disrespect, with the members of SCOTUS sitting right in front of him.  I knew he had an ego, but this went so far beyond the pale I'm having trouble believing what my eyes saw and my ears heard.  And for the Dems to give him a standing O for it was breathtaking. Absolutely disgusting.  Maybe not the last nail in the coffin, but close.

The irony of CNN deriding her 'death panel' comment as 'Lie of the Year' during the same week that the Senate healthcare bill itself confirms the truth of her accusation is just too rich. The IMAB will be real, unelected, unaccountable, unassailable - and forever untouchable if Reid has his way.  Not that you'd ever know from reading the NYT or watching NBC/ABC/CBS.  So confident in the merits of the idea are the Senate Dems that they are trying to immunize it against future repeal....

I apologize for the length of this article but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to brevity. There has been a lot of back and forth about 'death panels' in the course of the healthcare reform debate and those who've raised concerns about the likelihood of faceless government bureaucrats making individual patient care decisions have been dismissed as right-wing kooks, haters, uncaring, venal, mean, etc.  (Many of you will recognize the foregoing as a classic Obama rhetorical tic, but ...

H1N1 will largely have been here and gone by the time any meaningful number of people get vaccinated. That fact has been met mostly with yawns, which I happen to think is the appropriate response, though now it's a Federal Emergency, after a fashion. Wasn't always so . Ah, the good old days.

From a reply in a thread @ HotAir on the just-released Finance Committee Healthcare Reform Bill: Liberalism is immoral. Liberalism at its core is coercion and force. For all the moral preening the Left does about how much they care and how heartless we conservatives are the truth is quite the opposite. There is nothing kind about using the force of government to compel ostensibly free citizens to surrender significant portions of their labor and property (income) to the state to serve th...

Knowing that achieving his objective from within would be much more difficult, if not impossible, he's adopted a world-first strategy, allowing him to eventually argue that the US has no choice but to stifle dissenting points of view.  Since everything is religious to Muslims, anything that offends, or might offend , Muslims will become prohibited. This man is evil.

The juiciest tidbit: "One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century." Gonna love hearing the spin on this.

Instead of thanking the Customs/Security folks for doing their jobs, this jerk whines about his 'humiliating mistreatment.'  OMG, a one hour delay!!  And then his government gets in on the whining act. And what does our Ambassador do?  Gets on his knees and sucks d**k apologizes.  Disgusting. No wonder Hollywood/Bollywood types are so overwhelming supportive of legislators who so assiduously assure they are not subject to so many of the laws they write.  They bel...

Too well-done to not share. Enjoy!

Some of you know I'm a practicing physician. I have, until last week anyway, tolerated representatives of the pharmaceutical industry (drug reps) as a necessary evil in order to make available sample medications to patients, both to help defray their costs and as initial trials to be sure a particular medication both works and is well-tolerated before a patient has to incur cost.  Despite the widespread belief that doctors are in the pockets of the drug companies, the truth of the matter...

Alright, everybody - let's rally in support of John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, a guy with a whole lot of common sense, which the lefty granola crowd apparently finds offensive and worthy of a boycott.  They actually believe that he should be a slave to the political views of some of his customers, like he owes them because they choose to shop there. So.  Go buy some healthy food, today, and help stimulate the economy.  We should adopt Whole Foods as our official 'Grocer to the...

At least they're consistent - I vividly remember all those articles fearing for the welfare of President Bush.

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Can't wait for the Couric interview!