The Ramble for 5/9/11

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

Westbury Long Island, NY–

David points out in this morning’s Scramble:

…three years after Mrs. Clinton raised the issues and after months of the media claiming that it was legally impossible, Barack Obama finally  releases his long form certificate of

Dumbo relents, three years after Mrs. Clinton raised the issues and after months of the media claiming that it was legally impossible, Barack Obama finally  releases his long form certificate of live birth, from William Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

First, some great news to pass along. I’ve been assigned a new (to me) truck… and boy it’s a beauty. I had the chance to drive it for a day last summer and fell in love.  Never figured I’d get

Ok, maybe more like brunch, a very late brunch.

WTF Congressman, Jim Moran (Dumb VA –  8) opens mouth and inserts foot, from Fox News:

Virginia Democratic Rep. Jim Moran is blaming his party’s losses last November

‘Pubs to Holder: It is the jobs stupid, from Byron York, Washington Examiner:

There are many areas in which Republicans and [Attorney General Eric] Holder are likely to disagree, but the most contentious could be immigration, starting with

An Obama Hate Machine, from David Corn, Politics Daily:

The OHM [Obama Hate Machine] — led by a wide-ranging collection of conservative media outfits, right-wing bloggers, and GOP partisans — has already effectively undermined Obama’s presidency by propagating

Dumbo throws ‘rate underneath the bus, Barack Obama and congressional repubolicans agree to extend Bush era tax rates, from Shailagh Murray
Washington Post:

President Obama and congressional Republicans agreed Monday to a tentative deal that would extend for

It is the economy stupid, from Mary Beth Schneider, Indy Star:

The same slogan that Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign made famous in 1992 is driving this year’s election: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

No issue is more important to

NPR can either go partisan or public, Michael Meyers, New York Daily News, is lost in the weeds with respect to National Public Radio:

Juan Williams is right; NPR was way off base firing him for having expressed

From Gas2, comes the news of what the Obama Misadministration is now pushing:

The Natural Resources Defense Council issued a statement that the EPA and DOT plan to push through regulation that demands automakers get a fleet-wide fuel economy average 

Dumbo is Delusional.  Alas too many cocaine parties and not enough sober study.  Proof that the Obama administration is demented.  Barack Obama had called Fox News destructive, but his administration has lauded the clowns Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow

The Rajun Cajun, James Carville made famous the quip, “It’s the economy, stupid!”  Well some eighteen years later, Carville’s quip may come back to bite the ‘Rats as the Obama economy continues to flounder.

However, inspired by Carville,

What Americans do not need, we don’t need any more elite bastards that somehow thinks the money you earn belongs to the government, from Richard H. Thaler,  New York Slimes:

WANT to give affluent households a present worth

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

Mary Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard