The Ramble for 12-19-11: Tebow; Hitch; Iraq Not Over; Role Reversals; Oil And It’s Future, More

Carlisle, PA--After three highly unusual weeks of running to the west it appears as though I will be spending the remainder of this year running east.  That’s a bit more normal for this truck line.  Frankly, we’re experiencing a

The Playboy Bunny better known as Gloria Steinem defending B.J. Clinton:

“The truth is that even if the allegations are true, the President is not guilty of sexual harassment. He is accused of having made a gross, dumb and

The Herminator, b/k/a Herman Cain plays the race card on Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama, and he dose it with a smile and in style, and without a teleprompter video:

Hat tip video: Alan Colmes

I note that Cain has a

Dayton, NJ– I’m taking a rest break. From here I’ll head to Queens, NY, Scranton, PA and Albany,NY. Cooler the last few days, and nice driving weather. Missing my wife and kids, though.

• Banned for having a firm grip on

This economy is lost, from Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard:

For President Obama, with job growth stuck near zero, the simplest question is a domestic one. How do you think jobs are created?

This has never been asked of

Tapper is the new Russert, Jake Tapper plays one man tag team on White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, Tapper asks a simple, A or B question, and can not get a straight answer, from ABC News:

Which

Somewhere the Sun is shining, from Scott Wong, Politico:

And Palin turned to an extended ship metaphor to make her point that the country needs to “shift gears and change course” from Obama’s economic policies of bigger government,

Brooklyn, NY–

I’m in Brooklyn as this is posted. I ran from Rochester to Carlisle, PA last night, arriving there about 1am, and then to here.  Rain the whole way, and there’s some flooding going on in the northeast. Made

Mountaintop, PA– I’m here at the Quaker Oats facility in Mountaintop.  After weeks of rain, we’ve got some serious sunshine, and it’s a welcome thing. We’ll see middle 60’s around here today. I’ll be in New Jersey, tonight.

Got the

The Trump Principal, don’t accept your opponent’s narrative at face value.

Palin plays Trump card, Sarah Palin demonstrates that you don’t have to named Donald Trump to play the Trump Card, from Clay Barbour and Doug Erickson, Madison.com

Playing the Trump card,

Kyle-Anne Shiver, thinks Donald Trump has a plan, or well two plans, from American Thinker:

Now that we can pretty well assume Mr. Trump is running for president, it’s obvious that he has done

The John McCain card is the surest way for a conservative to get favorably cited by the LSM.  That is  to bash a fellow conservative.  Matt Labash, of the Weekly Standard, ties to get his fifteen minutes of fame, from

Keith Olbermann, Eric opined:

David has been rightly chiming in on the Keith Olbermann business. It’s kinda like observing a train wreck.

But I have to tell you that I look at this situation and have to wonder if

It is the incompetence stupid , Eugene Robinson, Washington Post plays the race card and tries to argue that the Teat Party movement is somehow racists:

I have to wonder what it is about Obama that provokes and sustains all

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. directed a major political fund-raiser to offer former Gov. Rod Blagojevich millions of dollars in campaign cash in return for an appointment to the U.S. Senate, sources said the fund-raiser has told federal authorities.

The allegation