EPA official who pushed CO2 regulation resigns"We will know more when Obama appoints Heinzerling’s successor. If the next appointee is an advocate of aggressive regulatory expansion, then Heinzerling’s departure won’t have been an olive branch at all."
Mort Zuckerman: America's Love Affair With Obama Is Over "He came across as a young man in a grown-up's game—impressive but not presidential. A politician but not a leader, managing American policy at home and American power abroad with disturbing amateurishness. Indeed, there was a growing perception of the inability to run the machinery of government and to find the right people to manage it. A man who was once seen as a talented and even charismatic rhetorician is now seen as lacking real experience or even the ability to stop America's decline."
Hitler learns the Republicans have taken both the House and Obama’s Senate seat You knew this one was coming, didn't you?
Obama Doesn’t Rule Out Bypassing Congress and Using EPA Regulations to Cap Carbon Emissions "During his Tuesday press conference, Obama initially conceded that Republicans had run for Congress in this election expressly opposing cap-and-trade and that therefore it would be unlikely that cap-and-trade global warming legislation could pass in the upcoming Congress."
Top Blue Dog calls for Pelosi to quit ""When you're in the worst economic downturn since the Depression, the Top Three issues should have been jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy and jobs and the economy," Matheson said. "The agenda got off on other things like cap and trade in the House." "
"The "cap and trade" energy legislation was Pelosi's baby, and it has been blamed for the loss of Democratic seats in moderate and coal-producing districts."
The Shellacking that Hubris* Wrought "“Public opinion is the lord of the universe,” Thomas Jefferson said. The Obama Democrats governed in blatant defiance of it and didn’t care to notice the trends that should have been a flashing red light on their ambitions."
Rich Lowry, National Review
*Hubris: pride: excessive pride or arrogance/ excessive ambition: ...Synonyms: strutting, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, arrogant, conceited, hubristic. Bing Dictionary
Election Question: How Can We Tell the Stupid People From the Smart Ones? "The problem is that these people just think they’re really smart but are in fact less than useless — less than useless in that they can’t do anything useful themselves. They become things like politicians and get in the way of actual smart people. In fact, they’ve developed a complex network of morons — the media, journalists, academics, NPR — to prop up each other as smart and call everyone who actually does useful things dumb. And if you try to explain how they’re actually just getting in the way, they get angry, since dumb people get angry when you explain things to them that they can’t understand."
Will Pelosi be minority leader? "Incredibly, liberals seem to be perfectly satisfied with Pelosi, for the most part. They think they lost because the party didn't fight hard enough for liberal reforms the last two years and they're not going to blame Pelosi for that.
"Let's hope such delusional thinking lasts beyond 2012."
Arab News "The recently foiled terror plot that uncovered two bombs aboard airplanes headed for Chicago underscores Al-Qaeda's ongoing determination to strike at American targets. How the plot was discovered reflects an equally important reality: Saudi Arabia has emerged as one of Washington's most important allies in the war on terror, a vital player in the worldwide fight against Islamic extremists."
Slate "We've got to end the threats of the excessive government regulations," Senator-elect Pat Toomey, R.-Pa., said in his acceptance speech. Rep. Eric Cantor, R.-Va., who will likely be House majority leader, wants to conduct "an immediate and comprehensive review of proposed government rules, regulations, and statutes." The phrase "job-killing" is back in vogue as an adjective to describe government regulation."
