American Thinker: Doing the Obama Hustle

Cap and trade, which sounds more like sports lingo, now only enjoys a half-life. If it's stymied in the Senate, it's one stillbirth that won't be lamented.

Democrats want to cap industrial emissions, drive up the cost of energy, and with higher costs, cap energy consumption. The "trade" part falls squarely on the shoulders of most every American not considered elite.

Americans are expected to trade prosperity and their standards of living for the satisfaction of helping 1) restore the Garden of Eden; or 2) return to the Dark Ages, or some approximation thereof. Democrats aren't very choosy, but they are quite nostalgic.

American Thinker: Two Hundred Days of Hope and Change

The president convenes federal legislators, as if they were his employees and not our protectors from executive abuses and tell them to come up with plans to submit to him. His floor leaders present unreadable and unread bills and twist arms to get congressmen and senators to vote for the bills -- how this is intended to mimic a legislative process is not clear: Why not just ask for a vote on Obama's Four Year Plan, details to come later?

Appeasing the Corn God - John Stossel's Take

So if we do get ObamaCare, don't worry. The Corn God will still be appeased.

Obama Campaigns With Candidate for Virginia Governor - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

The event marked the first public meeting of the men since Mr. Deeds came from behind to clinch the nomination in June. Mr. Deeds’s choice not to appear with the president during two visits to the state by Mr. Obama in July fueled speculation that he wanted to distance himself from the president’s controversial health care and climate change proposals.