Obama On Brink Of Crackup

Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard "One of the important tests of a president, especially a relatively new one like Obama, is how he deals with a serious setback. Does he respond rationally and realistically? In Obama’s case, the answer is no."...."This was the language of a rattled president in search of enemies to scapegoat. Obama didn’t mention that all but one of the major banks have paid back the bailout money with interest. There’s a word for this kind of rhetoric: Unpresidential."

ABC, CBS, NBC Skip Pro-Life March; NPR Airs Abortionist Calling Pro-Lifers Terrorists

Newsbusters- "NPR's Martin demonstrated balance in her booking but not in her questioning. Carhart's late-term "work" is uniquely controversial, and his rhetoric is harsh. But Martin sounded more like a fan-club president than a skeptical questioner."

Krauthammer Responds To Obama's 'Great One-Term President':

Breitbart TV "Krauthammer: Obama Forgot Option Three – ‘Mediocre One-Term President’ "

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee urges quick offensive for 2010

Politico "Showing that they’ve learned the lesson of Massachusetts, Menendez and his staff will distribute a memo Tuesday advising Democratic campaign managers to frame their opponents early — and to drive a wedge between moderate voters and tea-party-style conservatives." Please, TEA Partiers-NO THIRD PARTY! And: Blueprint for the Democratic counter-attack "This story in Politico about how the Democrats are going to go after Republicans is fascinating. It shows how far removed from ordinary people Democrats are and what voters think is important:"

The Worst Failure Isn’t Health Care

Jennifer Rubin "...Well the mullahs got time to consolidate their grip on the throats of the Iranian people while gaining some international legitimacy. The Iranian protesters got their funding cut and saw the United States go practically mute when it might have mattered the most. The U.S. seems only to have frittered away its moral standing in the world. What we got was another year in which Iran moved closer to membership in the international nuclear-arms club."

Shot heard ’round the world

Dick Morris "If Scott Brown wins the Senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy, it means that any Republican can win at any time in any place. Such are the fortunes to which the Democratic Party has fallen under the ministrations of President Barack Obama."...."You can’t beat somebody with nobody. And the Republican Party has a candidate shortage."

Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel

Townhall

It Begins: NY Times Suggests Sexism a Factor in Martha Coakley's Mass. Loss

Newsbusters "Not mentioned in the laundry list of accusations of "macho" politics: The womanizing and worse committed by the late liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy. " Good grief; first we're racist and now we're sexist.

The Centuries-Old Bond Between America and the Jews

John Podhoretz, Commentary "More on Levy’s astonishing life, including his six courts-martial and how his purchase of Monticello proved to be the salvation of Thomas Jefferson’s home, can be found here. It demonstrates that the course of true friendship between America and the Jews was not a simple upward arc."

CNN poll: 70% glad that Dems no longer have 60 votes

Hot Air "The way they phrased the question guaranteed that only the most robotic Democratic partisans would say they’re not glad (imagine if it had been framed in terms of greater Republican power to “obstruct”), but consider this evidence that the “party of no” label hasn’t exactly brought the GOP to its knees. And that ain’t all:"

Astroturfers For Obama Caught in Fake Letter-to-the-Editor Campaign

American Glob "It seems there are a lot of people named Ellie Light in the United States. Not only do they have the same name, but they live in different places all over the country and – would you believe it – they all wrote nearly identical letters to newspapers in various cities."

Public Employee Unions Are Sinking California

WSJ "An old friend of mine has a saying, "Even the worm learns." Prod one several hundred times, he says, and it will learn to avoid the prodder. As California enters its annual budget drama, I can't help but wonder if the wisdom of the elected politicians here in the state capital equals that of the earthworm. "