Breakfast Scramble (Wednesday)

Lurch Left, John Kerry lurchs to the left, from Pete Kasperowicz, Hill:

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) warned incoming Republicans Tuesday morning against cutting back the size of government so much that it cannot contribute to U.S. productivity.

“Do

What’s scarier: a 9.6 percent unemployment rate and $13 trillion debt? Or the Tea Party?

Mary Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard

Dumbo just isn’t all into the spill, RCP:

A review of the president’s schedule since the rig sank finds that while the oil spill has been a regular part of the agenda, other priorities — and some extended periods

Where’s the civility, I ask you? Was it not just this weekend that former President Bill Clinton warned that words have power, and that in voicing dissent, we should be careful not to get out of hand? And yet, here

I count seventeen persons in the picture, fifteen criminals, one widow of a dead criminal, and one prop, to wit Macelas Owens.    The moron in chief kept repeating the health care reform was  need for the children.   Yet the only

I gotta give Mary Katherine Ham credit.   Making sport of a clueless idiot is demeaning work, but somebody has to do it.    Bobby Gibbs continues to make Baghdad Bob look  credible.

Can You Imagine if, 5 Years ago, People Had

When you’ve got the Helen Thomas, the NYT, and The Nation lining up against you, it’s time to admit defeat, boys. But alas, Axelrod and Emanuel can’t help themselves.

Mary Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard.

The thing I like about

[Obama] called the idea that he’s gotten an easy ride from the press “very hard to swallow.” Delusional and totally graceless for a man who’s gotten the journalistic tongue bath he’s received from so many outlets (with the notable exceptions

The one has decreed a new holiday”Cuatro de Cinco.”   Mary Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard, quips:

So, Obama, I will not turn your tendency to mispeak (and, then reprimand your Teleprompter) into an international incident, but I will note it

I think it’s fair to say that belief in Geithner’s mishandling is now officially unideological:

Mary Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard, quiped after Ann Coulter and Bill Maher agree.

Mary Katherine Ham writes in Weekly Standard:

The House just passed the stimulus package with no Republican support, and eight “no” votes from Democrats.
Rep. Aaron Schock, whose llinois district is home to Caterpillar, spoke on the floor about

From the New York Slimes:

Mr. Obama called Ms. Collins and Mr. Specter, as well as Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, another Republican expected to support the deal, to acknowledge they were acting against pressure from their party

A 20-year association with a radically leftist, anti-American, racist preacher whom Obama referred to as a spiritual adviser meant absolutely nothing about Obama’s judgment or philosophy, and illustrated only the bigotry of those who dared criticize it.

A 20-minute association

This is not the Mary Katherine Ham I remember from Townhall.. Ham on BO:

Maybe women voters—considered a battleground demographic— would be interested in what the Hope ‘n’ Change ticket might wish to do with their children’s education, and

Can Mrs. Clinton cry her way back into the White House? Jason George, Swamp:

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Sen. Hillary Clinton teared up this morning at an event at the Yale Child Study Center, where she worked while in