Moe Lane

…will show up.  The stuff that comes out today is going to be polling before the Democrats finally passed the health care debacle; and the signing of said debacle won’t be until tomorrow.  Working on the assumption that this will translate into at least a temporary boost in popularity (safe guess), we should see a bump tomorrow, probably a bigger one on Wednesday, and… well.  Guessing how long the White House can milk a party-line vote on health care rationing is going to be a popular sport for Beltway types over the next few days.

As you might have guessed, I’m not expecting the bump to last for very long.

“Liberal caucus leader will introduce new public option bill” (H/T: @thebcast) A quick question:

Q. Out of curiosity, Rep. Woolsey: if you are so enthusiastic about a robust public option, then why didn’t you take advantage of reconciliation’s simple majority to ensure that it was inserted into the current health care bill?
A. YOU SHUT UP!!!!! YOU JUST SHUT UP NOW YOU EVIL RACIST REPUG SEXIST FASCIST HOMOPHOBIC DEMON REPUG FILTHY BADTHINKING REPUG HATER!!!11!!!!!!1!!1!

Ah. Of course.

Carry on.

Moe Lane

Fineman, on Obama (via Althouse):

He staked everything on this and, like the long distance runners from his fatherland, he made it (barely) across the finish line.

I was under the impression that the ‘fatherland’ of Barack Obama was the United States of America.

UPDATE: I was expecting pushback on this to show up earlier.  Here’s the original screenshot: note the failure to indicate a correction.

I saw this while trying to find out if the fourth and last Planetary collection had hit softcover yet (no). Ignition City Volume 1 is the sort of thing that I might buy: is it any good?

The Corner (via Instapundit):

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Luke Russert just said that one member who voted for the legislation last night told him (this may be a slight paraphrase): I’m glad I don’t have to go back to my district and talk about this again.

Heh.
Ha.
Ha-hah.
Ha-ha-ha.
Ha-ha-hah-hAH!
HAHA-HA-HA-HA-HAAH!
MWBHWAH-HA-HAH-HA-HAHH!!!!!

I’ll be doing Fausta’s show at 11 AM (it says 11:15 AM right now, but the real life thing I had delaying it isn’t, anymore).  The topic will be 18th century British fishing policy… HA!  No, it’ll be on health care.

Before we did them.

[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers.

OK, time to start rolling this monstrosity of a health care soon-to-be-law back… what’s that I’m being told? It can’t be done? We’re stuck with it forever? Can’t cut entitlements in this country, at all, at all? Well, that’s very interesting: being told that we can’t do something, that is. Shall I tell you some of the other things that I’ve been told, over the last year and a half? (more…)

Cheeky of me, I know.

Songs of the Civil War, Vol 1: Battlefields and Campfires, 97th Regimental String Band

Mostly because I wasn’t aware that The Hobbit was 70 years old this year. How this is more significant than, say, 54 or 87 years old is left as an exercise for the interested student; suffice it to say I look forward to my kids being old enough for me to read them this book.

And so, farewell to The Trade of Queens: Book Six of the Merchant Princes.

I think that it’s safe to say that Tom Garcia is unhappy about Suzanne Kosmas licking the hand that’s beating their district:

…Normally, I’d quibble about the ‘Marxist’ thing, mostly because the people staffing this administration aren’t smart enough to be Marxists (not a compliment: Marxism is intellectualism for stupid people*), but we’ll forgive the hyperbole this one time. After all, that fact that the President used FL-24′s space job situation as a flail with which to bring back safely into line a too-’independent’ Congresswoman must stick in the man’s craw.

Anyway: donations here. Don’t get mad; get even.

Moe Lane

PS: Note that Garcia called Kosmas’ flip a day before it happened.

*How hard is it to farm? I mean, illiterate Copper-age Sumerians who plowed with sticks managed it! And yet those people couldn’t manage to keep an agricultural system running to save their lives. Often literally.

Crossposted to RedState.

A triumphal progression for the Democratic party, this ain’t.

The scene above of Republican Congressmen recognizing the will of the Sovereign People of the United States absolutely infuriated Rep. Barney Frank, in that special blustering whiny way that he has. I get the impression that the poor fellow is somewhat unused to actual populism. And is also perhaps perturbed at the way that actual populism makes the ersatz kind that his party peddles look, well, chintzy…

Moe Lane

PS: Reconsider that vote, Rep. Frank. Because if you manage to push this debacle across the finish line tonight, you’ll be looking back fondly on this afternoon as being the last quiet, carefree day of the 111th Congress.

Crossposted to RedState.

…if events today are putting you to the point where everything tastes metallic and you can’t see anything without a pink tinge: go outside. Eat a sandwich. Play a video game. Watch this.

If you’re enjoying it, of course, then by all means keep going.