Breakfast Scramble (Wednesday)

Jimmy Carter: Putz, from Jennifer Epstein, Politico:

Former President Jimmy Carter says his biggest failure during his term in the White House was that he didn’t get to spend another four years there.

“I guess my biggest failure

Jimmy Carter has the Norks all wrong, former and disgraced President Jimmy Carter wants to appease North Korea for their recent temper tantrum, from the Washington Post:

No one can completely understand the motivations of the North Koreans,

I blogged yesterday:

Consider this closely, now;  The Democrats have had an overwhelming majority in both houses of Congress, and had the White House as well.  Yet, they claim that one of the reasons for their slow “progress” to the

Obama Care breeds the World’s fastest chickens.William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

Obamacare’s Chickens Coming Home To Roost Already

Numerous companies already have announced enormous financial write-downs related to Obamacare’s cutback of subsidies for prescription drug benefit programs for

David Reilly

Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama is starting to look like the second coming of Jimmy Carter. If he’s going to avoid that fate, the president had better take radical action — and fast.

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• MLK: Yes, today is Martin Luther King’s birthday, or at least when we celebrate it. David’s thoughts from 2007 are still potent

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• NOW WE”RE BACK TO GLOBAL COOLING: So says the Daily Mail. The amazing thing is the AGW crowd still hasn’t admitted

Barack Obama is making history.   He has achieved the greatest presidential communication failure since Jimmy Carter’s malaise speech.

Video:

Charles Krauthammer,  Washington Post:

Any government can through laxity let someone slip through the cracks. But a government that refuses

Biology is not a mortal sin.    We can not be held to account over those actions for which we have no control.   I that light, I reject the Jimmy Carter standard that it is a sin to have lust in

The natural trait of a politician is to hedge his bets, to obscure his positions, to hide his true beliefs.   Obama has mastered the political.    As opposed to mere a politician, a leader needs take a stand, be clear about

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• BRUCE JENNER: ... clearly has a grip on reality, and apparently still has the testicular mass to say the truth

Steve Benen:

WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT?…. Yesterday’s White House press briefing was pretty lively, with, as one might imagine, plenty of questions about the Nobel Peace Prize. CBS News’ Chip Reid’s interests stood out, but not in

At least when Jimmy Carter uttered his unintended, but instantly infamous,  tag line for his administration, malaise, he used a word befitting a graduate of the United States Naval Academy.   Alas poor Barack Obama has no such luck.   Obama has

Professor Ann Althouse plays Sigmound Freud.   The professor  parses Barack Obama with a very fine toothed  comb and offers an interesting suggestion, Ann Althouse:

Obama’s use of the word is a little off. I think “jigger into” is unidiomatic

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• Principle?  In fairness, Billy,(And Martin)  Sowell’s wording in your quote suggests he