Time for Thorns

No one seems to know,  or be willing to say,  why His Oneness has turned the White House lawn into a massive construction pit.  Judi McLeod  may be right…

Bill Clinton has retracted his  previous statement  on debt default after being scolded by a panicky White House.   A spokesman said the former president  “inadvertently misspoke”   when he said a few days of default would not be calamitous.   How predictable…

The White House  has banned  a Boston Herald reporter,  claiming that the paper has not reported  “fairly.”    The apparent cause of Obama-pique was that the Herald  didn’t give sufficient coverage of the visit of His Oneness while granting front page space for a Mitt Romney op-ed.

This follows on the heels of the White House last month threatening to bar Hearst reporters from pool duty after a Chronicle reporter shot video of protesters mocking Obama at a fund-raiser.

The Herald is now having a fine time reporting to the fullest on the dust-up and dipping its barbs in  quality satire  before flinging them back at the White House.   Yeah,  I’m enjoying the hell out of this.

What’s the old warning about not picking a fight with anybody who buys ink by the barrel?

The White House  has invited  a Chicago rapper who uses the stage name Common,  and is defending the invitation vigorously because,  hey,  it’s art!   Never mind that the rapper is a follower of Rev.  Jeremiah Wright  — remember him?

Like most rappers,  he “sings” and writes “poetry”   degrading women,  and praising a cop-killing Black Panther member.   The latter has drawn fire from the union representing New Jersey police.

Personally,  I think Common’s artistic endeavors fall far short of what the White House standard should be,  but I’m not at all surprised that His Oneness and Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction selected him.   He is crude,  rude,  and as my mother used to say,  dirt common.   He certainly seems a perfect match for the Chicago common current occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The White House is proclaiming its new flexibility for states on ObamaCare,  but it’s utterly fraudulent,  as the Wall Street Journal astutely notes  here.

Senators John Barrasso and Lindsey Graham have a much better idea  –  free states  to innovate.

Battle ’10 has a concise   explanation of the Crist/Meek/Clinton/White House mess.   I caught On The Record and Crist  was evasive and whiny and just kept repeating Rubio was too extreme for Florida.

We know Bill Clinton is a liar,  we know Crist is,  and we know Obama and the White House are as well.   If you disagree on that, you must conclude that Meek is the liar.   Gee,  does this help anybody but Marco Rubio?

UPDATE:  An aide to Slick Willie  is confirming Clinton asked Meek to drop out.

There’s a nearby planet which could support life?   Possibly,  though your concept of  “near”  and “life” may need  some adjustment.  Astronauts really do  have it rough,   or at least their hands do.

The Brits and the European Space Agency are going in search of a specific life form  — bacteria,  but only in the stratosphere.  Our own NASA is less ambitious,  merely launching a  new system that will allow scientists to monitor the impact of climate change in the Himalayas.

Meanwhile,  His oneness is trying to appease the eco-Nazis by using taxpayer money to install some  solar panels at the White House.   Why didn’t he and Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction just pay for carbon credits to offset her extremely expensive vacation? pockets?   As IBD observes,  this is just  more style over substance.

And from Australia,  check out this  marvelous photograph of an airplane flying in front of the moon.

has  no tolerance for a kid dressed in shorts and a T-shirt bearing his grandfather’s likeness with the invited family group.   Tone-deaf,  absolutely intolerant,  and just plain stupid.

It’s in perfect pitch with the Federal Highway Administration’s mandates on signage,  isn’t it?

Of course,  it’s also idiotic to  call voters stupid,  along with condescending to your most  radical supporters.

UPDATE:  After excusing itself for its own failures,  the White House has invited the family back.

FOX News  got the seat because it routinely blows everyone else out of the water.   Somewhere at the White House,  His Oneness was  grinding his teeth,  and the Gibblet crying in his imported beer,  because it will not only be harder to ignore Major Garrett,  but the camera will have a better view when he asks one of those questions the Press Secretary absolutely hates and has no intention of actually,  you know,  ANSWERING!

UPDATE:   It’s too bad Major  Garrett is leaving FOX for the National Journal,  but he’ll be just as good a straight reporter in print as he has been on air,  and  Wendell Goler and Mike Emanuel will do fine at the White House.