The ONLY thing.....

Mr. Obama's in a hurry, so it ought to be pretty easy to set an agenda for the Sotomayor Supreme Court confirmation hearings. I'm very grateful already for one thing she's said: that the appeals courts make public policy in this country. This has been nothing but obvious for some decades now, but it's like the skeleton at the feast that no one wishes to acknowledge.

Sotomayor has brought it into the open that our elected representatives no longer make the laws, instead they ratify what they know the Federal Judiciary will approve. If I ever heard a more appropriate subject for debate, I can't remember it. Forget all the yapping about her being a "reverse racist." Let's talk about restoring representative government to this nation.

Just do it. Now.

Seen on the news streamer this morning (does it really matter the channel?): "Government says recession will be over by the end of the year. Recovery to take longer."

So- if we translate from the WhiteHousese, this means "We can't wait three or four years for the economy to bounce back, so we're going to declare the recession over in our New Years' message, even though those millions will still be unemployed and the Dow remains hovering in the low 8K. It'll come back.....sometime. In the meantime, we can get down to the serious business of spending more and more obscene amounts of money in a recession-free atmosphere."

To those responsible: Go lick a dog's ass 'till it bleeds.

Now put some spin on that......

Cut to the Chase.....

I really think this says all that needs be discussed Re: incipient pandemics.
(Again, thanks to xkcd.)