Let this be a lesson to Pubs everywhere: exhibit some cajones and the Freedom-Haters have no choice but to cave

The MEC bows - and that's AP's term - to Boehner and reschedules his jobs prattle for Sept. 8, the opening night of the NFL season.

There is truly nothing I wouldn't put past this steaming chunk of dog vomit

The MEC schedules his prattle about jobs before a joint session of Congress - at the exact same time as the next Pub prez candidates' debate.

Race-card vulgarity - today's edition

Indianapolis is a great city with a lot of things to recommend it, but the scumbag who represents it in the House is not one of them.

There are risks inherent in clinging to a failed and delusional ideology

So that if the MEC wants to tout a California solar-panel company as the wave of the future and representative of the best of America and have the federal government prop it up with loan guarantees, there is the chance that it might go belly up and make you look like a fool and a wastrel.

The latest on the Arab "Spring"

The top Libyan rebel leader and defacto military commander in Tripoli is well-known to Western intelligence agencies and is affiliated with al-Qaeda.

Now, will the green delusion go off and quietly die?

Great Investors Business Daily editorial on the CERN experiment that demonstrated that the sun is the overhwelmingly primary influence on Earth's climate patterns.

Colin Powell has squandered any honor he ever had

He will not publicly apologize to Scooter Libby for remaining silent while standing next to the president when the president asked who leaked Valerie Plame's status to Robert Novak, knowledge which he had at the time.

Bus tour, my a--

The Most Equal Comrade is a reprehensible phony.  He flew in to each stop on his recent bus tour.

They wanted decline, and they got it

Bernanke counts himself among those who still see the continuing economic malaise as unexpected.  His term is "weak recovery."  He ought to hang with the MEC more.  He'd see that everything's right on schedule.

Consumer confidence is at its lowest point in more than two years.

Craig Steiner at Townhall likens our current juncture to that moment when the Titanic's stern shot straight up in the air and the remaining passengers on deck looked at each other during the pregnant pause, thinking, How long before the final submerging?

The FHer plan to bring America to its knees begging for its daily bowl of rice is right on track.

Great intellect, he ain't

Lots of other bloggers have linked to this, but let's go ahead and do so here as well.  Jack Cashill at the American Thinker on a letter the MEC wrote to the Harvard Law Review in 1990.

The Cash for Clunkers principle applied to the jobs situation

That's what the MEC's big plan is going to have as its centerpiece, and it will have the same pathetic results.
Read the whole link and you'll see that Eric Cantor is offering something entirely different that would actually work.

Where in the hell does the MEC regime get off . . .

. . . issuing "guidelines" for 9/11 commemorations?  And what's with this caution that any such commemorations should be sure to indicate that lots of countries have been terrorizes by "extremists"?

And then the Freedom-Haters wonder why decent human beings throw up at the mere thought of them.

LITD's cool person of the day . . .

. . . is Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.  She has put forth a bill to force major changes at the United Nations, an objective she's had in her sights since even before she became chair of the House Foreign Relations Committtee.

He digs the idea of a consumption tax (not fair tax, mind you, but a consumption tax above and beyond the income tax) and he tells doozies about the minimum wage

James Pethokoukis on Alan Kreuger, the east-coast pointy-head with no real-world experience who will succeed Austan Goolsbee as the MEC's economic advisor.

The obligatory Irene post

Yawn.

Another inconsequential hurricane that sputters and comes apart upon coming ashore.

May all the flooded roads and downed power lines get fixed quickly.

Seriously, I don't mean to sound flip, but the big story here - and even that has been covered ad nauseum elsewhere - is that our postmodern 24-hour-news-cycle reporting media have a vested interest in making anything they possibly can into the story of the century and milking it until the cows come home (couldn't resist).

Well, you might say, how are Drudge and Breitbart and even a rightie blogger such as myself exempt from the charge that they are driven by cheap zeal for the eye-popping headline?

I'll confess that even truly big-deal natural disasters and accidents such as plane crashes (that are caused by mechanical failures, as distinguished from those caused by jihadists) only hold my interest for so long.  Unless there are larger trends or principles to be gleaned from them, they quickly devolve into ain't-that-awful voyeurism or, worse, excuses to wallow in feeeeeeelings. Toward the end of his CNN run, Larry King used to relish opportunities to line up guests who'd been through an ain't-that-awful experience and spend his entire hour asking them "What were you feeling when . . . "

Now, the stuff that, say, Drudge generally considers radar-worthy is of a different sort.  It has an ideological charge.  It is chosen for the front page because it has good guys and bad guys.  It has implications for freedom, prosperity, the prospects for common sense.  Statistically necessary occurences in which no human will was a factor come and go.  Virtue and vision and their opposites, on the other hand, create ripple effects in our civilization for good or ill.  They have ongoing impact.  And the most savvy of those who bring us the real stories know they are helping us, citizens who wish to be not only informed but truly sharp and guided by core principles, to cultivate an instant sense of what such a story is likely to mean.

Back to Irene, there is that ridiculous series of photographs of the MEC holding forth at his "command center," but that is by definition a forgettable by-product of the whole episode as well.

Shameful in the extreme

NYC mayor Bloomberg's decision to not invite any clergy or first responders to the ten-year 9/11 commemoration, that is.