Paul Ryan on Reconciliation

National Review "If reconciliation happens, Ryan predicts that the Democrats will still have a hard time pulling it off. “There are Blue Dog Democrats out there who are more survivalist than ideologues. One or two switches could be a game changer. The question is whether Democrats will continue to follow Pelosi off the cliff. After Massachusetts, the Democrats are quickly realizing that even if the president comes in to stump, and you get all the union support you need, it’s still not enough to get you elected.”

Which Do You Believe?

Mark Shannon "Seems as though we have a mother out there who is in need of some help. So she has come to the right guy - the High Priest of the Church of the Painful Truth. Here's the set up: Cary has an 11 year old daughter and she is trying to teach her daughter the difference between the political parties. Maybe we can have some fun with this on the air today." (Neal Boortz )

Can Obama change and save his presidency?

American Thinker "We'll know next week when he gives the annual State of the Union address. By then he will have had time to digest the election results and formulate a response. If he bows to the will of the people, puts health care on the back burner and takes viable measures to deal constructively with national security, economic and foreign policy issues without violating the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and general democratic principles his presidency might well be saved. If not, it won't."

The Fall of the House of Kennedy

Daniel Henninger, WSJ "Enter the Obama administration, the first one born and raised inside this public bubble, with zero private-sector Cabinet members. Act one: a $787 billion stimulus bill, which they brag mainly saved state and local jobs. Then came the six-month odyssey for Obama's $1 trillion health-care bill, dripping with taxes. Independent voters felt like everything was being sucked into a public-sector vortex." H/t to Rush Limbaugh.

System Failure by Stephen Hayes

Weekly Standard "Four top counterterrorism officials testified before a congressional committee that they were not consulted about how to handle the interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the al Qaeda operative who attempted to blow up Flight 253 on December 25, 2008. " Mr. Hayes is a frequent panel Member on Fox News Special Report with Brett Baier.

Rethinking Bush: A Year Later, How the MSM Cracked Up

Big Journalism "At times consciously and even triumphally, the media increasingly abused the traditional journalistic standards of independence and neutrality in favor of functioning as a virtual arm of the liberal Democratic Party. They took on, in effect, a new and disturbing identity. So consumed by politics, power and status did the MSM become during this period that bashing the former president became standard media fare. This death by a thousand cuts proceeded unabashedly, unabatedly, and largely without challenge by Bush and his staff during his presidencies."

With a Brown Win, Both the MSM and Obama Are Repudiated

Big Journalism "Scott Brown’s victory merely scratches the surface of America’s revulsion at the sting, the con, that Obama has been perpetrating. Everything Obama campaigned on, everything he said, was a lie — from Afghanistan to Israel, from healthcare to taxation. Everything. As a nation, we’re used to hollow campaign promises. But this is altogether different. This was a kind of media-sponsored coup, and the people are letting Washington know that they’re on to them."

Crazy Fool at MSNBC Continues to Smear Scott Brown (Video)

Gateway Pundit "What he lacks in logic he makes up for in fury." Factcheck: Olbermann Repeats Incorrect Anti-Scott Brown Claims of Racism & Vulgarity, Insists He's Correct "But there’s no reason to expect Olbermann to check into the context of why the circumstances of Obama’s birth were brought into the conversation by Brown since doing so might contradict the MSNBC host’s perpetual quest to find racism in every Republican’s shadow."

Political Cartoons by Glenn Foden

Townhall

MIke Ramirez on the Massachusetts election

Investors.com

Obama Gets It Right

Roger Kimball, Pajamas Media "All eyes have been focused on the proposed bills to transform the way health care is managed, delivered, and paid for in the United States. The Democrats scored a rhetorical triumph by getting everyone, opponents as well as supporters, to refer to this proposed government takeover of medicine as “health care reform.” “Reform”? What is being proposed is “health care reform” in approximately the sense that Stalin’s collectivization of agriculture in the late 1920s was “agricultural reform.” "

Democrats’ Plan for Election 2010: Cheat

Sarah Durand, Pajamas Media "Destroying the integrity of U.S. elections has been a longtime project for the far left. For over a decade, elected Democrats have manipulated the American people into believing their counterfeit altruistic intentions to enable more citizens to vote. Though largely flying under the radar, they’ve been looking for ways to use our legislative system to trump up fraudulent votes and their subterfuge knows no boundaries. In 1993 Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act, commonly called “motor voter.” Under the deception that it would boost voter turnout, the bill laid the foundation for much of the voter fraud we’ve seen over the last 15 years."