Away this weekend, but here are a few links I want to get out there first:
It's better to be tall. I always wanted to be 6'3, and now I see why. I blame my parents.
Academic Groupthink.
I'm bipolar. Cut me a break.
Missed this: The Pope on Love in Truth.
The O's fate depends on Perot voters
Why should our tax dollars be going for stuff like this?
Civil war: Black Caucus vs. Blue Dogs. Where does the Irish Caucus stand?
Gov. Pawlenty: This was a joke on the American people
If Bush made this sort of factual error. What a phoney, as Holden Caulfield would say.
Gov. Perry of Texas, standing up to The Man. That is an American thing to do.
The Krautman on why Obamacare is sinking. One quote:
...the greatest waste is the hidden cost of defensive medicine: tests and procedures that doctors order for no good reason other than to protect themselves from lawsuits. Every doctor knows, as I did when I practiced years ago, how much unnecessary medical cost is incurred with an eye not on medicine but on the law.
Tort reform would yield tens of billions in savings. Yet you cannot find it in the Democratic bills. And Obama breathed not a word about it in the full hour of his health-care news conference. Why? No mystery. The Democrats are parasitically dependent on huge donations from trial lawyers.
Related: How the O stumbled. WSJ
Related: Medical care? Few care all that much.
Just for laughs, I want to hear these tapes. Related: If he's so smart, how come the Prof doesn't know these basic facts?.
Related, from Rush: "The only racial profiling in Cambridge Massachusetts is in the Admissions Office of Harvard University."
Watch for the OFA to come knockin' on your door
VDH on how the O could have done things right.
The O's problem: Glibness. Powerline:
(he) continues to overestimate his verbal skills. All his life, he has been rewarded for assuming a certain pose and offering up platitudes in a reasonably glib fashion. These are minor talents at best, but they got Obama elected President, notwithstanding his lack of original insight into any issue of public policy. Now that he is President, however, these limitations are starting to haunt him. Obama's foolish and entirely needless assertion that Cambridge policeman James Crowley "acted stupidly" when he arrested Harvard professor Henry Gates is beginning to turn into a political issue that will hurt Obama with broad sectors of the electorate.
Driscoll reported this, and it sounds right to me:
Carol Platt Liebau (Harvard Law Review), February 20th [Tom Pirelli] did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then hed leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done.
The guy likes to slide over the surface. That is a character trait.
How to pay for the O's plans? It is beyond parody. Related, from Willisms, below:
