ERIC HOLDER: Pay No Attention To My Boss; He Doesn’t Know Anything About This Stuff. “Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged Wednesday that the ‘courts have final say,’ and said his department would respond formally to an appeals court order to explain whether the Obama administration believes judges in fact have the power to overturn federal laws.”

Now, what about those impeachment threats?

UPDATE: Reader Andy Kohl writes: “Remember how during the 2010 elections, the Republicans promoted ‘Constitutional Authority Statements,’ proposing that all proposed legislation include a citation to some specific constitutional authority? Remember how the Democrats heaped ridicule on that idea, saying that decisions on the constitutionality of legislation was the sole domain of the Supreme Court? Just sayin’.”

FAUSTA WERTZ: Monday’s North American summit: Just how bad was it?

IS IT THE END OF ENVIROPIG?

ELECTRIC-CAR UPDATE: You Want Heat with That? “Fully charged on a brisk March morning, the all-electric Mitsubishi i’s range meter estimated that the battery pack had enough energy to travel 56 miles. That’s plenty, I thought, for the several-stop route I planned to a neighboring town and back. But as I pulled out into traffic, I flicked on the heat and watched the range meter recalibrate, dropping the estimated range down to 37. I did a quick mental calibration: A few miles to the first stop, 12 miles on the highway, 12 to return, another five to the next location, and so on. I then had a choice to make: Either shiver in the car or risk getting stranded. I chose the former.”

WHAT DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS drive. “Notice, no one is buying Government Motors cars or Chryslers.”

DECLARING PREEMPTIVE WAR ON THE JUDICIARY: Impeach the Supreme Court Justices If They Overturn Health-Care Law. These people really are losing it. And I thought they were against preemptive war . . . .

Related: The Week Obama Jumped The Shark.

UPDATE: Is striking down the individual mandate like stopping Congress from banning child labor? “It seems to me that younger, healthier individuals are being swept in to accumulate an immense fund that will be used to cover the expenses of older, sicker folks. It’s the exploitation of the young, ironically. But Koppelman doesn’t want you think precisely about what the legislation does, and who’s really being required to pay for what. He’d like to roll you up into a big ball of emotion where you visualize poor little children.” That’s what you do when you don’t have an actual argument. It’s for the children!

More on Koppelman’s emotional appeal here.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Ken Lightcap writes: “I remember growing up in the fifties and early sixties and seeing lots of ‘Impeach Earl Warren’ billboards throughout rural America. If my memory serves me there were more of them south of the Mason-Dixon Line but I know they were in rural Pennsylvania too. That was pretty effective, wasn’t it?”

Even the segregationists waited until after the Court had ruled, though.

MORE: Judicial Review, Chicago Style.

MORE STILL: A reminder from reader Kevin Patrick: “Note those ‘Impeach Earl Warren’ billboard protests were from Democrats then and Democrats again today. Both times Republicans have been on the correct side of history.” Ouch.

And another reader emails: “Rather hilariously, David Dow, the author of the Newsweek piece calling for the impeachment of the Supreme Court if they overturn the health care law, is the author of America’s Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great.” Only the right sort of judicial activism. Impeach the rest!

Only Dow’s impeachment piece is even more embarrassing than that. Reader Eric Fettmann writes to point out:

He’s not even writing about the right justice.

Samuel Chase is the justice who was impeached in 1805. Salmon Chase was the chief justice appointed by Abraham Lincoln in 1864.

Heh; I should have noticed that, but was so floored by the basic concept that I didn’t. So it’s a fail at all levels. Really, for a party/movement that’s allegedly led by a super-smart professor of constitutional law, I’m not seeing any particular evidence of brilliance here . . . .

And Prof. Stephen Clark writes: “Looks like the Democrat’s war against the Court is going about as well as the Sandra Fluke stunt.” At least people aren’t talking about gas prices.

STILL MORE: Reader DRJ writes: “Did Dow’s article initially say Salmon Chase instead of Samuel Chase? Because it says Samuel now and there isn’t a correction noted.”

Yes, it did. Here’s a screenshot, for any doubters.

The error was also noticed here.

FINALLY: DRJ emails: “The Correction is on page 2 at the end of the article. Maybe I read the article just as the correction was being made.” Maybe.

JOHN ELLIS: What Romney Has To Do To Win: “The key to a Romney victory is not to defeat President Obama; that would be a byproduct. The key is to make the case that the Blue Social Model is truly dead, that a new model is urgently needed and to present the first rough draft of what the new model might look like. Points one and two are an open-and-shut case. Point three is much riskier, obviously, but will (over time and with repetition) sharpen the points of difference.”

AND YET: Canada has oil, the U.S. needs oil. You’d think it would be easy from there. With a competent Administration, yes.

UPDATE: Treasury Officials Given a Day to Review U.S. Solyndra Loan. “The U.S. Treasury Department was given one day to review Solyndra LLC’s $535 million U.S. loan guarantee after learning the Energy Department was ready to announce the award publicly, according to a Treasury audit.” Contrast that to the interminable time set aside for the Keystone “review.” (Via Donnie Baseball.)

WE ALREADY KNEW IT WAS BAD FOR MEN: Can Bicycling Affect a Woman’s Sexual Health?

Spending time on a bicycle seat, which has been linked to erectile dysfunction in men, may also be a hazard to a woman’s sexual health, a new study shows.

Many women who cycle or take spin classes are familiar with the numbness that sometimes can occur from sitting on a traditional bike seat. Bike seats are designed in such a way that body weight typically rests on the nose of the seat, which can compress nerves and blood vessels in the genital area. In men, this raises the risk of erectile dysfunction, something that has been documented in studies of male police officers on bicycle patrol.

But female cyclists have not been studied as closely. A study by Yale researchers in 2006 found that female cyclists had less genital sensation compared with a control group of female runners. As a result, some scientists believe that female cyclists probably are at similar risk for sexual problems as male riders.

And yet the traditional seat design persists.

UPDATE: Prof. Joseph Olson recommends the Moon Saddle bike seat: “I’ve got 10,000 miles on a group of these. I can ride with nylon shorts without greasy chamois.”

MICKEY KAUS: “And here I thought there was just no more room to cut discretionary spending. Ezra Klein told me the discretionary budget had been combed over so often it was already neat and trim like a well-tended lawn!”

Plus: “What’s worse, the idea that Obama is pretending to be surprised at routine government overspending, or the possibility that he actually is surprised? Put this down next to him learning that there is ‘no such thing as shovel ready projects.’”

UPDATE: Okay, also this: “Yes, I know the big money is in entitlements, not in the discretionary budget. But before you cut grandma’s Social Security check, or her Medicare–and before you raise taxes–you have to convince voters you’ve really gotten the message to the GS-13s and 14s that we are in austere times and they can’t waste a dime. It’s serious! No funny business! … This is a message Obama has pointedly failed to get across. Go to Washington–it’s still Fat City and people are living like it’s Fat City, in part because they know D.C.-based columnists will always argue ‘the money’s in entitlements’ and defend them against cuts.”

Yes, you can really see that in the packed, expensive restaurants in the Capital. It doesn’t look like the rest of the country. It looks like the rest of the country pre-2007, only fancier. Here’s a pic I snapped when I was there with Roger Simon last fall. Roger remarked that you used to see this kind of thing in Hollywood restaurants, but not so much any more.

D.C. — now not just “Hollywood for ugly people,” but “Hollywood for ugly people who party on your dime!”

MORE: Reader Rick Giovanelli writes: “Hmm, packed, expensive restaurants in the Capitol? People there spending lavishly and being out of touch with the rest of the country which is toughing out rough economic conditions? Pretty sure my daughter just saw a movie about this. Can’t think of the name of it, though. If only it had gotten some publicity recently.”

AT AMAZON, 20% off Rosetta Stone Language Software.

Also, today only: Garmin Forerunner 410 GPS Sport Watch with Heart-Rate Monitor.

CHANGE: “In a move that threatens to further inflame concerns about the rationing of medical care, the nation’s leading association of cancer physicians issued a list on Wednesday of five common tests and treatments that doctors should stop offering to cancer patients. . . . Although the task force emphasized that its recommendations — winnowed from about 10 suggestions by oncologists — were driven by medical considerations, the report makes clear that expense was a major factor.”

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Why Is Obama So Rattled?

UPDATE: Nikki Haley: Amazing What A Bully Obama Has Become.

“What is amazing is what a bully President Obama has suddenly become,” South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said on Wednesday.

The man who took office on a promise of ‘hope and change’ is now bullying people to get his way, Haley told Fox & Friends. “He’s bullying his way on Paul Ryan, saying he’s not coming up with an adequate budget. Now he’s bullying the Supreme Court, saying no, they won’t reverse (the health care law) — they won’t go against us on this.

“That’s not how things work,” Haley said. “He has to lead. He’s shown no sort of leadership when it comes to balancing a budget. He’s shown no leadership when it comes to allowing the states to do the will of the people. He continues to say no to everything.”

He knows he’s in over his head, and he’s lashing out.

ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader who probably doesn’t want his name used emails: “I’m having flashbacks of Captain Queeg on the witness stand in The Caine Mutiny, rattling steel balls in his hand and prattling on about strawberries. Yikes.”

SO WITH OBAMA CRITICIZING DECISIONS BY “UNELECTED OFFICIALS,” LET’S REVISIT SOME OTHERS:

MICHAEL BARONE: Colleges skimp on science, spend big on diversity.

HOW’S THAT SMART DIPLOMACY WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Obama Alienates Canada And Mexico At Three Amigos.

Energy has become a searing rift between the U.S. and Canada and threatens to leave the U.S. without its top energy supplier.

The Winnipeg Free Press reported that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned Obama the U.S. will have to pay market prices for its Canadian oil after Obama’s de facto veto of the Keystone XL pipeline. Canada is preparing to sell its oil to China.

Until now, NAFTA had shielded the U.S. from having to pay global prices for Canadian oil. That’s about to change.

Canada has also all but gone public about something trade watchers have known for a long time: that the U.S. has blocked Canada’s entry to the eight-way free trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an alliance of the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Peru, Chile, and Singapore. Both Canada and Mexico want to join and would benefit immensely. . . .

Things were even worse, if you read the Mexican press accounts of the meeting.

Excelsior of Mexico City reported that President Felipe Calderon bitterly brought up Operation Fast and Furious, a U.S. government operation that permitted Mexican drug cartels to smuggle thousands of weapons into drug-war-torn Mexico. This blunder has wrought mayhem on Mexico and cost thousands of lives.

The mainstream U.S. press has kept those questions out of the official press conferences, while Obama has feigned ignorance to the Mexicans and hasn’t even apologized.

In short, the summit was a diplomatic disaster for the U.S. and its relations with its neighbors north and south.

It should have been the easiest, most no-brainer diplomatic task Obama faces.

Sadly, maybe it was.

IN BRITAIN, free speech loses out to multiculturalism and political correctness.

P.J. O’ROURKE: Candidates in Orbit: The late, great U.S. space program. “The surprise about the space policies of Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and (to the extent they have any) Rick Santorum and Ron Paul is how alike they are. Obama’s space policy doesn’t differ much from George W. Bush’s. There always was going to be a long gap between the end of the shuttle and the beginning of something new. Both presidents were stingy with cash and vague with objectives, though Bush’s vagueness was more stirring.”

SUMMARY: NBC: We deeply regret our error that made George Zimmerman sound like a racist, and now you should leave us alone. Not so much an “error” as a deliberate falsehood, I’d say.

INSPECTOR GENERAL: IRS Is Not Monitoring 34% of its Servers, Putting Taxpayer Data at Risk.

JUDICIAL REVIEW: Federal court tosses Colorado’s Amazon tax.

JAMES TARANTO: The Man Who Knew Too Little: President Obama’s stunning ignorance of constitutional law. “It’s appalling that any president would have the effrontery to lecture the Supreme Court about a pending case. It’s astounding that this president, who was once a professor of constitutional law at an elite university, would do so in such an ignorant fashion.”

Like a two-year-old, he only knows one thing: I WANNNTTT!

DAN MITCHELL: President Obama Accuses Bill Clinton of “Thinly Veiled Social Darwinism.”

Actually, Bill Clinton must be something even worse than a social Darwinist. That’s because the title of this post is wrong. Obama said that Paul Ryan’s plan (which allows spending to grow by an average of 3.1 percent per year over the next decade) is a form of “social Darwinism.”

But the proposal from the House Budget Committee Chairman only reduces the burden of federal spending to 20.25 percent of GDP by the year 2023.

Yet when Bill Clinton left office in 2001, following several years of spending restraint, the federal government was consuming 18.2 percent of economic output.

And by the President’s reasoning, this must make Clinton something worse than a Darwinist. Perhaps Marquis de Sade or Hannibal Lecter.

Maybe we need some social Darwinism.

GUERRILLA STREET ART: Reader George Warner emails: “Saw this on a gas pump in Pennsylvania. So, I went inside and purchased a gift card with Tim Geithner bills stamped ‘Tax Cheat.’ Heh.” Click on the pic to see it full-size.

UPDATE: Reader Steven Walker writes that this seems to be the source of the image.