There are days for sunny morning walks in the garden, where dew-bejeweled roses release their fragrance on the light breeze.
These are not those days. These are days of harsh realities demanding sharp answers. This is now … time for thorns.

How low can he go?

His Oneness has an  approval rating of 44%,  his lowest to date,  versus a 47% disapproval rating.

Since it was conducted by Marist College we will be spared the weary claim that independent pollster Scott Rasmussen is a Republican shill.    Oh wait —  Rasmussen Reports has issued the results of a  telephone survey which shows that 75% of likely voters now say they are at least somewhat angry at the government’s current policies,  including 45% who are Very Angry,  both increases over last fall.   It does not include the 11% who are Not Very Angry.

Dear me,  the White House spin doctors will be working overtime this week.

Jack Murtha gone…

Democrats have already begun using Rep.  John Murtha’s death from complications of gall bladder surgery as a reason to avoid tort reform, much as they tried to use Ted Kennedy’s death to push their hideous health reform bills through Congress.

So Pelosi has lost not merely her best bully,  but also  another vote for health reform in the House.    I have nothing good to say about Murtha.   I’m old enough to remember the Abscam scandal,  which Murtha spent two decades lying about,  but what truly reduced him to subhuman level for me was his careless condemnation of the Haditha marines,  all the more disgusting because he was once a Marine himself.

I have known a good many Marines,  and  Murtha was the only ex-Marine amongst them,  proving the exception to the  “Once a Marine,  always a Marine”  saying.   I will shed no more tears for him than I did for Ted Kennedy.    Two powerful and powerfully corrupt men are gone.    Good riddance.

For all the chickens…

This will be great news for those who dread the high-pitched whine of the dentist drill,  even if they can’t feel its effects.

2010 Super Bowl ads…

For those of you who were without power for the big Sunday smashup,  or whose viewing was interrupted by real life,  the ads are:  here,   here, here, here, and   here.

The only question now remaining,  is whether the Saints will play better ball going forward,  or whether they will return to sloppy ways again.

UPDATE:  If you’re having trouble, try the ads  here.

And go  here for a look at the 20 highest-rated ads from past Super Bowls.

Palin delivers…

…much more than a speech,  which you can watch  here.

You won’t be surprised that she was a huge hit at the Tea Party Convention.  Mark Tapscott  examines what Palin does.  Matthew Continetti also liked  the speech a lot,  as  did Grant Swank.

And now we can all go prepare splendid arrays of delicious not-so-good-for-you food for the Super Bowl!

Reagan remembered…

Lucianne.com has put up some wonderful video of Reagan,  here.

Edwin Meese  remembers his friend.   American Thinker has a nice piece focusing on Reagan’s belief in  American exceptionalism.  The Gipper’s son Michael has a  lovely tribute,  including a video.

Paul Kengor chimes in with a  sweet tale and you simply must have a look at the  “Time for Choosing” speech which was the first time many people saw Reagan.

It’s hard to believe Ronald Reagan has been dead for only five years  — it seems so much longer.

Poor Paul Kirk…

The Boston Globe snivels into its  crying towel because no Republicans attended the farewell speech of Sen. Paul Kirk,  the placeholder for the Kennedy seat.   Yet the piece admits that the Republicans didn’t appear to get a timely heads-up.

And in a wonderful throwaway line says that “more than a dozen” Dems attended.   Presumably his own party members did receive ample notice,  and only 13 showed?   That’s what — 20%?   Let’s be generous and assume the number was 15,  so they had a whole one-quarter of their caucus.

How can anyone imagine that these people are adults?   My under-eight great-nephews don’t whine and complain over manufactured and imagined slights this much.

And it probably won’t soothe Kennedy-lover feathers any to read about this poll showing  Patches is in trouble in Rhode Island.

So many rights…

Not content with trying to frame health care as a “right”,  Education Secretary Duncan is now calling  education the “civil rights issue of our generation”.

That is what progressives do,  endlessly try to create rights so people can be persuaded to demand those rights.   Would someone tell me how little intelligence it takes to observe that the wealthy have had more educational choices?    The wealthy have more choices in everything,  and they always will,  because progressives are quite careful not to subject their own to the rules and regulations they want to force the rest of us to live under.

Soros land…

If you haven’t read this  stunning piece by Joy Tiz,  do so.

Do I think Soros runs His Oneness?   I actually lean more towards the Maurice Strong theory because he has been able to use the U.N. for so long,  but if anyone has a better theory,  I’m open to it.

Suffice it to say that both Soros and Strong are nasty pieces of work who have never for a single instant had the welfare of America at heart,  much less its citizens.

And now that Hillary and His Oneness  have signed on to the U.N.’s Small Arms Treaty,  you’re in danger of losing a primary means of preventing Soros and Strong from achieving their goals.   Call your senators and ask how they plan to vote on the ratification of that treaty.   If they don’t yell “AGAINST!”,  let ‘em have a large piece of your mind.

Here’s the link for one petition to stop this,  but there are plenty of others popping up.  Please do your part!

Colorful dinos…

More news on the what did dinosaurs look like front,  this time extrapolated from a much larger sample selection.

It’s quite interesting,  even if you are into old bones and such.