Lois Gets A Pass.

I'm Shocked. Shocked!

OK, not really.

She may have, y'know, broken the law, but she did it for the right reasons. And besides, nobody really cares if it hurt some anti-government, teabadgger, Christianists in flyover-country. It wasn't like they wanted someone to bake them a wedding cake....

"Hey, Craig Fugate!"

"Now that you've run FEMA, one of the most incompetent and bureaucratically inept branches of the Federal government that has consistently screwed Louisiana since August 2005, what are you going to do now?"

"I'm going to be Secretary of Homeland Security!"

Not if David Vitter (D-LA) has anything to say about it.

Only in Washington, DC, can the Peter Principle be exceeded.

We're Doomed.

Parenting in the era of Hope and Change:

It’s easy to mock a “30 year old who lives with is parents.” My son is almost 29 and he’s been home with us since he graduated. Unfortunately the job market isn’t the greatest (maybe you hadn’t heard) and I’m not going to let him starve on the street. He has a college education, it’s pointless for him to be out working in a retail store or some other menial job. I will be here for him until he is able to get the job he deserves.

Read it all, including Matt Walsh's response. We are raising a generation of layabout, dependent child-men. No wonder Obama won.

I'm Shocked. Shocked!

OK, not really. Seems lots of folks in Obama's housing bailout program are defaulting again:

Nearly 1.2 million mortgage modifications have been completed since the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) was first launched four years ago. Yet more than 306,000 borrowers have re-defaulted on their loans and more than 88,000 are at risk of following suit, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) found in its quarterly report to Congress.

I'm not sure what the problem is here. The Democrats have - to their credit - succeeded in creating lots of "affordable" housing. Take Detroit, for example.

Tweet Of The Day.

Smackdown. Defined.

Intolerent, Know-Nothing Dickheads.

Hey, all you hip, with it, upper-middle class kiddies who think they know everything because you have an iPad and taken a class or two, Pat Condell has a few words for you. Listen closely. It's called freedom of speech.

Our Colorblind Senator.

Senator Mary Landrieu (D-DC) on the electorate in Louisiana:

“I think it’s a purple state, it can go Democrat or Republican. I’ve just tried to be independent for Louisiana and I think that’s what’s sustained me over time.”

Purple? Really? We just amended our Constitution with strongest language about the right to keep and bear arms in the nation, something our good Senator talks about but consistently votes against. On things like immigration, the environment, and the the Obama Agenda, Mary is almost always at odds with the wishes of the majority of Louisiana voters.

Independent? If you define "independent" as "Harry Reid's reliable bitch", then yes, Mary is... independent. Mary has only won by slim margins against weak candidates, and in '08 only because of the Obama surge. She will have neither in '14, but she will have a lot of a lot of people who remember her voting against her constituents, and for Obamacare, after Harry Reid made the infamous 'Louisiana Purchase'. The one color Mary Landrieu can always see is green.

Call Me Cynical...

...But I ain't buying it. 'Ging-Giss' John Kerry, our part-time Secretary of State, has taken some heat recently for focusing on his yachting skills while Egypt burns. Now, suddenly, this:

"Teresa Heinz Kerry, leading philanthropist and wife of US Secretary of State John F. Kerry, was at Massachusetts General Hospital tonight after being rushed this afternoon to Nantucket Cottage Hospital, where a hospital spokesman had said she was in critical but stable condition.

Heinz Kerry, 74, was stricken with an unspecified medical condition this afternoon and taken by ambulance to the local hospital, accompanied by her husband, according to Glen Johnson, spokesman for Kerry.

Noah Brown, public information officer for Nantucket Cottage Hospital, verified that Heinz Kerry arrived at the hospital this afternoon, but said he could not disclose the nature of her illness.

Sorry, Dear Readers, but my Massachusetts political cynicism is going off big-time. When we lived up there, every time Ted Kennedy got caught with his hand (or other body parts) in the cookie jar, Mother Rose would have some sort of medical issue and Ted would be seen wheeling her round in a staged photo-op. Distraction, accomplished. I think John's problems will vanish quickly from from the headlines now.

If We Had A Republican Administration...

...this would be big-time news.  Or maybe if they burgled her psychiatrist's office instead.

Secretary Of The Estate.

What was John Kerry, our current Secretary of State, doing today as secular Egypt was throwing off Obama's Islamist buddies in the Muslim Brotherhood?  Apparently, 'ol Ging-Giss John was here.

Very best of hands, dear readers.  Very best of hands.