Bits’ Greatest Hits: Grabbing the Wheel

I’d like to offer up a re-post of mine from a tenth of 2009. I post this with an eye toward the argument over the debt ceiling limit. I submit to the reader that had we not been holding the

Fast and Furious, from Michael A. Walsh, New York Post:

Don’t look now, but the real action in Washington this week isn’t the parti san wrangling over the debt ceiling but something — literally — even more incendiary:

More Warmist bunk, from Richard Black, BBC News:

The lull in global warming from 1998 to 2008 was mainly caused by a sharp rise in China’s coal use, a study suggests.

The absence of a temperature rise over that

Ronald Reagan goes to Londontown, from Daniel Hannan, Telegraph(UK):

Ronald Reagan assumes his lapidary place in Grosvenor Square today, alongside Franklin D Roosevelt and Dwight D Eisenhower. All three presidents stood with Britain in war; yet Reagan –

Jon Huntsman, stalking horse, Jennifer Rubin explains why the newly launched Jon Huntsman campaign so  hyped by the media, and so dead in the water, from Washington Post:

From the mainstream media’s standpoint, he is the McCain 1980.

Middle Village, NYC, NY– I’m back in Middle Village, awaiting an unload.  Hot down here today.

I should explain my absence the last few days of last week; My truck broke down, and they had to put a new transmission

Obama the Sensitive, what a winning combination for a President, a thick skull and thin skin, from Michelle:

And now, the Boston Herald has been spanked by the White House for…running a front-page op-ed by Mitt Romney:

Noted in passing, I see that the Dope from Hope. b/k/a Mike Huckabee is not running for President.  If Mr Huckabee wants to be President, he should run as what he is, a democrat.  Good riddens

Meanwhile, Dumbo, b/k/a Barack

Me at OTB just now:

Consider the scenario of capturing UBL alive.
The administration is faced with a choice;

They can either…

a) Go through the process of a civilian trial because that was what they wanted to employ for

Why Dumbo will be a one term President, from Jedediah Bila, Daily Caller:

(3) As reported by The Hill this week, “The high gas prices limited gross domestic product growth in the first quarter, and have taken a

Nice Deb on Harry Alford:

Harry Alford is the president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, and he’s a lot of fun to listen to. (You may remember his acrimonious confrontation with Barbara Boxer, at a

Pattersonville, NY, along I-90–

Took a break to deal with a few issues and drop a note on the blog. Rain and fog here today, and some serious thunderstorms threatening. I’m cooking some lunch after which, I’ll be heading to

Altoona,PA– The last several times I’ve come down to this Central PA town,  it was to visit the rail lines running through here. The place is famous for “Horseshoe Curve, and it’s true this is the biggest attraction for

Dumbo Lost, Barack Obama clueless, from Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal:

It all seems rather mad, doesn’t it? The decision to become involved militarily in the Libyan civil war couldn’t take place within a less hospitable context. The

Geraghty’s Law:  either the Constitution changed between the time that Barack Hussien Obama was a candidate for president and when took the oath of office, or more likely  Geraghty’s Law remains in effect.   Obama Question and Answer by Charlie