Why are taxpayers taking such a huge loss on GM?

Because the MEC regime made sure that the UAW got a better deal than it would have under normal bankruptcy proceedings.

Another one of those off-teleprompter utterings, like "you didn't build that" or "I have to deal with him every day," that the MEC will probably come to regret

Tells a Council Bluffs,Iowa crowd that the 2 % most successful Americans got where they are through luck.

Freedom-Haters: long on intense feelings, real short on logic

Take the French people, for instance.  They elect Hollande, a socialist, as president, and a few short months later his poll numbers are in the tank.

It's pretty clear which faction came out on top in this one

Since Morsi's election as Egypt's president, speculation over whether the Muslim Brotherhood or the army had the upper hand has been ramped up.  Now that Morsi has sacked Field Marshall Tantawi and other top generals, an answer begins to emerge.

He'd put it on a market footing

Yuval Levin at NRO concisely explains how the Ryan-Wyden plan for Medicare would work.  (Ron Wyden, co-author of the plan, is a liberal Dem Senator from Oregon.) 

The government would provide a premium-support payment equal to the second-lowest bid for a package of health-care insurance benefits to a senior in a given region of the country.  All competing insurance companies would know what the package of benefits the government was saying it would pay for were.  If the senior chooses that second-lowest bid, voila, the package is paid for.  If the senior chooses the lowest bid, he pockets the difference. If he chooses a higher bid, which he or she might do for any number of reasons, such as being more comfortable with that insurance company's track record of providing maximum value, or wanting features from a health-insurance policy above and beyond what the government is willing to pay for, he pays the difference. 

It still involves the government, of course, but the free market is setting the prices and encouraging competition.  Costs could be driven down to the point at which government involvement would wither away from no longer being necesary.

Obviously the right pick

The crowd quickly achieved overflow status in North Carolina.

Paul Ryan: Hiding Spending Doesn't Reduce Spending

Let's rerun this FHer classic often and everywhere

The regime is not going to like having Tim Geithner's "We don't have a definitive solution to the debt crisis, we just don't like yours" remarks to the next vice president replayed everywhere for the rest of the campaign season.

Now we can wage this war for America's soul with our best weapon - our clearly articulated ideas and principles

It's official as of this morning.  Mitt selects one of the modern political world's most formidable champions of freedom, Paul Ryan.

Maybe Mitt read Charles Krauthammer's great NRO piece yesterday saying that there are two ways to run against the MEC - either focus on the stewardship angle, that is, hammer home the numbers on unemployment and the debt and deficit, thereby painting the MEC as a failure at what a president ought to do, or go the ideological route, that is, stress loudly and repeatedly that the current morass is a direct result of who the MEC is.  Krauthammer says to go the latter route.

The MEC and the FHers will be helpful in making the iedological case for us with the inevitable howling about the supposed injustice of Ryan's vision for restoring fiscal sanity.

"A dependent population is an obedient population"

Today's required reading: an Investors Business Daily editorial with a ltany of stats for such things as the number of Americans receiving some sort of welfare, the number that have filed for Social Security disability, the number who die with less than $10,000 in assets.

You bet it's on purpose.

Now, that's how you wage war against Freedom-Haters

New RNC ad featuring Cutter's denial of knowing the details of the Joe Soptic situation, followed by audio file of the conference call she participated in with him.

When the agendas of various types of FHers get in each others' way

Victor Davis Hanson on why politically correct exemption from charges of bigotry is doomed.  With all the poisonous rhetoric out there, too many groups claiming Most Aggrieved status are getting their toes stepped on - by fellow aggrieved groups.

Stephanie Cutter has dog vomit where her soul should be

Oh, yes you did know the details about Soptic's story.  And America now knows that you, and because you are the embodiment of what the Democrat party is now, FHers generally, are morally rotten from the core outward.

Yes, I have to back him because of the grim alternative, but he still spooks the pee out of me

Andrea Saul, Romney campaign spokesperson, when asked about the lie-based Priorities USA ad, instead of blasting it for the spititually rotten dog vomit that it is, went into some unhelpful goop about how if the lady with the cancer had been in Massachussetts, she would have been covered by he state's health care program.

The other threat to our freedom, and indeed our ability to maintain a standard of living above that of medieval serfs, besides Democrats, Communists and jihadists, is those afflicted with Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome.

And our presidential candidate and those he has chosen to surround himself with exhibit worrying symptoms way too often.

Socialism and what the encounter with the delivery person on your porch will now set you back

Papa John's CEO says the cost of the company's pizzas is going to increase due to FHer-care.

The FHers are counting on moral sewage to be a winner on the campaign trail

Sandra Fluke introduces the MEC at a Denver appearance.