California ought to be ashamed and embarrased that they're sending this lightweight twit to Congress. Just ashamed!

There's a lot of that going on. As commenter pointed out at Q&O, a cooking grease -- scorn quotes -- "crisis" in Arkansas might very well be lessened by proper maintenance of sewer lines. But, of course, infrastructure isn't sexy and doesn't get rent-seeking parasites re-elected to public office, so the money taxed away from more-productive sorts to pay for infrastructure maintenance and improvement get stolen to pay for more popular pet projects. And sewerage "crises" engender afafronts to liberty and common sense, such as is reported in the above-linked post.

Which his how you get potholes. Or the thirty-foot breakers in the right turn lane at Marburg and Erie. You know the ones I mean -- make your SUV buck like a Conestoga running from the Sioux.

And, as regulars here know, I never voice a complaint without offering up a solution, here's mine: Stop politicians from looting any pile of money not nailed down.

And quite a few that are -- witness the highway trust fund.

Good point, Dolly.

Make any incoming legislator post a financial responsibility bond. He can't propose or vote in support of any bill that has financial consequences greater than his bond. And, then, when he leaves office, instead of the golden parachute they have now, they forfeit the bond.

Yeah. That'll work. Until some bright boy figures out how to get around it.

Um. Also a good point. OK. We treat subversion as being a crime on a scale from bad faith intent to treason, depending on the jury's reaction to the perfidy involved. How's that? Think it would discourave people from becoming legislators?

Then who would do the People's business?

That question assumes that "The People" (collectively) HAVE any legitimate business to get up to.

There is that.

And, shame of shames, John Kasich has been among those voicing this fact the loudest.

So let me put it to you here first.

What it means -- and the landslide proportions of the win -- is that when conserv... er, excuse me ... when American ideals are put forth boldly, without fear or caveat, they win. Every. Time.

Remember that. You, as an American, are in the majority in this country. You need not despair that your singleton vote will go unrequited.

Help out. The FLOTUS wants your questions.

And these kack-handed wannabe tyrants want us to believe they're capable of running a country, let alone the lives of its citizens?

Get. Real.

Maybe you should say, "Allegedly."

Yeah. That word. Means, "Somebody said it," but always sounds like "Guilty as sin."

Dunnit just?

Right. Like Ayers and Wright and Dohrn and Pfleger and Alinsky and Clinton and Jones and Sunnstein ...

We'll get right on that. Rebuke away, Mittens!

Hell, he could rebuke from now 'til November and never touch a Republican.

If the fact that he's not a legal resident of the state he purports to represent doesn't do it, how about the fact that he's making war on the Constitution through his support of the blatantly anti-American War -- er -- Law of the Sea Treaty.

Well, if they try to implement that treaty, there will be a war, so maybe your name is more appropriate.

Sort of like Kellogg-Briand practically guaranteed WWII?

Sort of. Yeah.

So the new brand for the Right -- for those in favor of liberty, of low taxes, smaller government, fiscal responsibility, free markets -- is American. Truth in advertising.

And, of course, those on the Left, when they catch on, will try to claim that they're Americans, too. Which gives us the perfect opening: "Not with those political notions you're not."

Make it go, Rev! Make it go!

This is how a republic looks in practice. Good bye, Senator. You and Orrin Hatch can toddle off and spend your sunset years double-dipping on K Street.

And not just street-corner "spare change?"-ing. We're talking GIMME A DOLLAR MOTHERFUCKER and following you down the block cursing your ancestry and threatening your descendants in a parade-ground voice.

THAT kind of question-begging. Really beligerant and more than a little dangerous and transgressive.

As Michael Barone observed, Warren grew up in Oklahoma, where Cherokee ancestry is common and no big deal. OK, so she gamed the system to gain personal advantage. That's not, according to the adolescent cri de couer, it's not fair.

It's also beside the point. The real issue about Elizabeth Warren is that she's a despicable human being. She's a collectivist statist with some really toxic views about how the power of the state ought to be used to oppress its citizens. This is not a person you want in elective office.

Bin the Indian nonsense. Don't fall for the sleight of hand. Keep your eye on the ball.

But for awhile there, it was possible to imagine that somebody was taken umbrage at what Kris has been saying about the odious business practice of "traditional" publishing conglomerates and their myrmidons and other sundry hangers-on.

Which makes the post in question -- to which it appeared the attack was a reaction -- doubly worth the read. It's being mirrored all over the blogosphere. But I read Sarah, which habit I apparently have in common with Glenn Reynolds, so I've linked to her echo of the post.

Of course, all the twitter is about the context of the attack and not the substance of the post. But I suspect that will be up next on the agenda here in a day or so.

If you vote for Obama, you are, as the masthead slug says, a moron, and there's no reasoning with you. And your vote probably won't matter anyway. He's going down. The knives are out. The real miracle is whether he survives to the election.

You don't think so? All those Democrats who've made trips to enemy capitals, who've had truck with virulent opponents? For a party that's all about loyalty and solidarity, they're really good at betayal. A lot of Democrats have got to be running really scared -- even if they won't admit it in public -- because, even if Obama does win, a lot of elected Deomcrats beside him are going down.

And it's not as though they wouldn't use extreme measures to remove the threat to their personal fortunes. It's practically in the Left's DNA. While there may be doubts about -- say -- Vince Foster, it's pretty sure that the Soviets wound Oswald up and put him on the table. What he did when they turned him loose was almost foreordained. You don't think Putin or Hu don't already have somebody on a string, ready to go? You're more naive than you look.

No... Clean or dirty, Romney is the next President of the United States. You don't have to like it. I don't. All you can say is he's not Obama. And, this time -- this time -- it has to be enough.

--from the trailer for some art film that actually looks interesting

Gotta translate that into Dollish

The hagiographers in the partisan legacy media argue that there was no real intent to deceive. Obama (or Ayers -- whichever) was merely "compressing" women for dramatic effect or something. A -- scorn quotes -- "non-fiction" book, apparently, is not required to hew to the same dictum as fiction that it actually make sense.

Which brings to mind the question: Does not "Not intended to be factual" equal "intended to deceive?"

And isn't compressing women rather dehumanizing. Doesn't it kind of objectify them? Make cardboard cutouts of them, rather than allowing them to be real, flesh-and-blood people?

And, how creepy is the exchange, "I Love You," "Thank you."

Or did he say, "Thank me"?

And then there's poor Julia. Talk about cardboard cutouts!

And a note to the Obama campaign? The whole "tax cuts for the rich" wheeze is getting a bit tired and threadbare. And, frankly, sounds kinda desperate. Can we come up with a new one?

For some clever use of social media, take a cue from Monty Python?

Whatever. You guys do need -- seriously -- some help. How can you run the most powerful country in the world if you can't even -- ever -- get Twitter right. What is it, now, The American People 6 and The White House zip?