Breakfast Scramble: Debt Crisis

Throwing Granny under the bus, from James Taranto, Wall Street Jourmal:

President Obama is pulling out the big guns and pointing them straight at your grandmother. “Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their

Horseheads,NY– This is one of those places you wonder “How’d  they come up with that name?” Cooler and windy today, with Showers on and off. One more trip I think, then to the house. Gotta get the camper ready for

Dumbo’s Economics, how bad are Barack Obama’s economic policies?  So bad that his own chief of staff, Bill Daley has trouble defending them, from Matthew Boyle, Daily Caller:

White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley took heat from

Dumbo’s Economics, more on yesterday’s Scramble theme of Barack Obama’s economic ignorance.  First up, from Robert R. Baker, American Thinker:

[President Franklin] Roosevelt responded to the recession he inherited with a combination of massive spending on new government

Weiner Roasted, from Robert Stacy McCain, Other McCain:

Smoke, fire.  Kettle, black. Weiner, roasted. Career, toasted.

Comment by Dandapant, McCain reader.

Literally, from New York Daily News:

Anthony’s weiner never tasted so good.

A Brooklyn sausage joint is

Demographics and demagogues,  maybe Outside the Beltway is what a site run by college professors would be expected to be,  that one which favors political correctness over logic.  An Oklahoma legislator Sally Kern as reported by  Tulsa World:

Geraghty’s Law Redux,  Jim Geraghty, the author law o eponymous law wins yet another convert,  from Micheal A. Walsh, New York Post:

After weeks of warning of the apocalypse, the leader of the Democratic Party, who never met

Dumbo gets distracted, a lot, Debra Saunder argues that President Barack Obama, a/k/a Dumbo, seems to view to process of actually governing as a mere distraction, from RCP:

President Obama has dedicated his time in office to soaking

Obama to screw the troops, by a simple stroke of the pen, President Barack Obama could assure that our soldiers get paid, even if the government would shut down.  That is Obama could, but he won’t from Jeff Poor,

Carlisle, PA– I’m at the truck stop in Carlisle as I write this.

Getting comfortable in the new truck I’ve been assigned is an effort that has taken weeks… as I suspected it would. There’s still work to be done

So much for the new tone, civility and all that.  Representative Charles Rangel (NY – 15) has, in so many words, called President Barack Obama, a/k/a Dumbo, a slave master, from Jordan Fabian, Hill:-

State governments taking

Scott Walker for President, from George Will, Journal Sentinel:

[Wisconsin Governor Scott] Walker’s calm comportment in this crisis is reminiscent of President Ronald Reagan’s during his 1981 stand against the illegal strike by air traffic controllers, and Margaret

Rush is Right, as usual, from Keach Hagey, Politico:

Glenn Beck and his colleagues on Fox News may have been complimentary of President Obama’s speech last night, but Rush Limbaugh sure wasn’t.
He criticized the timing of the

‘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

To Kill a constitution, one does not have to truly brain dead to post for the Puffington Post, but it seems to help.  Amanda Terkel, link:

WASHINGTON — The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the