ADVICE TO OBAMACARE OPPONENTS FROM MEGAN MCARDLE: “If they want to make sure this victory means what they think it means, they’d probably better stop popping champagne corks and start dialing their congressmen.”
UPDATE: Related: Poll Analysis: Dems To 52 Senate Seats If Elections Held Today. Plus this: “In another item, the GOP leads nationally on the economy 48/37.”
CLIMATE CHANGE AUTHORITY ADMITS MISTAKE: The use of news reports as sources calls a key finding into question. “The mistake has called into question the credibility of the IPCC, which has been considered an authoritative source for information about climate change because of its policy of carefully reviewing and analyzing hundreds and even thousands of published, peer-reviewed scientific studies.” Remember when they were saying it was all about the “peer-reviewed science?” But don’t worry. They’re assuring us that this was just an isolated incident.
PATRICK MCILHERAN: The Bonfire of Sanity.
SHOCKER: JOBLESS CLAIMS RISE “UNEXPECTEDLY” — AGAIN! And yet, every time it happens, it’s “unexpected.” Maybe it’s time to adjust the expectations. . . ?
But how can it be “unexpected” if it’s just due to an administrative backlog?
The jump was due to an “administrative” accumulation from late December and early January holidays, and did not reflect “economic” reasons, a Labor Department spokesman said.
Wouldn’t you know about these things piling up? I mean, the holidays come around every year, and you ought to know that if you’re doing your job and tracking data and stuff. . . .
UPDATE: Reader Leo Jiang writes: “It’s probably unexpected because the first person to admit it’s expected gets fired.”
And reader James Somers writes:
Glenn, it doesn’t sound like you’re surprised by the rise in jobless claims. Neither am I. Three weeks of increase in that number may be statistical noise, especially at this time of year. But what’s really scary is that despite a moribund economy, in an effort to improve poll numbers, Obama is leaning toward a full-out, torches-up-the-hill march against business. That should sufficiently scare the hell out of business so as to completely scotch any chance of a recovery.
Maybe he should do something that actually helps create jobs. Unfortunately, that would require acting inconsistently with his treasured ideological beliefs. And they say Bush was stubborn?
Indeed.
CHARLIE MARTIN: Climategate: The End of the Beginning.
GAY MARRIAGE UPDATE: Cindy McCain Joins Campaign in Favor of Gay Marriage.
CYNTHIA YOCKEY: Kevin Dujan of Hill Buzz is NOT a racist and he needs our help.
MICKEY KAUS: Blame Orszag First! Let’s Go to the Numbers. “Isn’t Question 32 in the NBC/WSJ poll pretty close to a verdict on the success or failure of Orszagism as a means of selling health care reform? The verdict would be failure.”
NEW YORK POST: TEA TIME:
Besides Sen.-elect Scott Brown, the big winner from Tuesday’s stunning upset victory in Massachusetts is the so-called Tea Party movement — grassroots activism sparked by out-of-control federal spending. Tea Parties popped up around the country last spring, bringing together ordinary folks appalled by the fiscal profligacy on display in Washington. At first, the mainstream media largely ignored the Tea Party gatherings. Then came the laughter and the smarmy epithet, “teabaggers.”
Next, liberals attacked Tea Party-goers as extremists or racists or neo-Nazis. While all this went on, the Tea Party folks kept on organizing.
So far it’s worked out pretty well. . . .
PATRICK HYNES: N.H. Dems could see same fate as their Bay State brethren. “If a fellow like Scott Brown can get elected in Massachusetts, Democrats in New Hampshire need to be very afraid.”
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Wonder why the Pentagon’s Fort Hood report doesn’t mention Islamic extremism?
Plus: What’s Togo West worried about? The wrong thing. No surprise.
LOOKING AT VIRGINIA REP. JIM MORAN’S EARMARKS.
BIG JOURNALISM: Rethinking Bush: Why Didn’t The President Fight Back Against the MSM?
UPDATE: Related: America Betrayed President Bush. Plus this: “One year after taking office however, Obama has done a total reversal on his isolationist, non-interventionist foreign policy, and is now pushing President Bush’s neo-conservative philosophy as a justification for starting a new war in Afghanistan. What the Democratic Party once criticized as an over-simplified good vs. evil argument has become the cornerstone of Obama’s reasoning. . . . As Obama continues to make decisions that mirror the Bush doctrine, it is becoming apparent that the former president was not ignorant or irrational in his foreign policy decisions despite the harsh criticism and disloyalty he endured. He was in fact, ahead of his time, a visionary who understood politics and warfare in the modern age of terrorism. That is why Obama is now following his lead.”
“HOPE AND CHANGE: Miss Bush Yet?”
HOW’S THAT HOPEYCHANGITUDE WORKING OUT FOR YOU, KIDS? Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum.
CHARGES OF photo distortion at the New York Times.
UPDATE: More here. Making fun of cancer victims!
WHAT OBAMA SHOULD SAY about last night’s election. Sounds quite eloquent!
HEALTH CARE: What is Barney Frank up to?
RESTITUTION: Judge: Ex-Detroit mayor owes $300K within 90 days.
MASSACHUSETTS FALLOUT: Reader Jennifer Clippard reports from the Cincinnati Tea Party’s meeting tonight: “Glenn, We have 106 attending tonight. We doubled our size from previous month’s meetings. It seems that MA’s Senate race has an influence on tonight’s turnout.”
UPDATE: Reader Brendon Carr writes: “Paul Krugman’s pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, the flim-flam man? That’s nice. But I have to say, I already gave up on Paul Krugman, and I suspect rather a lot of other people already have too. Ta-ta, Paul.”
WITHOUT A HINT OF IRONY: President Obama Blocks ‘Tax Cheats’ From Government Work. “President Obama today issued a presidential memorandum directing the Office of Management and Budget, the Treasury Department, and other federal agencies to block contractors who are delinquent on their taxes from receiving new government contracts. The memorandum also directs the IRS to review the accuracy of companies’ tax delinquency claims and asks Congress to enact enforecement tools.”
UPDATE: Reader Robert Belle writes: “Wow! It’s almost as if Taxes are for the little people, or something…”
ANOTHER UPDATE: From Skippy: You’re all working for nobody but me.
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