. . . with Dem senators.

Best laid plans scenario here (going wrong). O. had his club with which to beat Republicans. A two-edged club?

Very interesting commentary on how the case will pan out.

Quite a kettle boiling in Catholic pro-life matters.

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig . . .

In this time of record debt, I question whether the government is qualified to act as a venture capitalist, picking winners and losers in speculative ventures and shelling out billions of taxpayer dollars to keep them afloat, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said Wednesday during a subcommittee hearing on the Solyndra loan guarantee.

. . . Home again, home again, market is done. And maybe, maybe, somewhere over the rainbow is an end of federal subsidy of pet “green” (as in money) enterprises.

(Apologies to nursery rhymers everywhere.)

Has it ever occurred to you that when Dems get their heart’s desires, they then lose support?

Keys to understanding O’s jobs proposal:

. . . [money to be raised] primarily through tax increases . . . . [Repub
spokesman:]”. . . this tax increase on job creators is the kind of proposal both parties have opposed in the past” . . . .

[O] intends to campaign against Congress and Republicans in 2012 if they don’t pass the bill[:]

“Do we keep tax loopholes for oil companies, or do we put teachers back to work? Should we keep tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, or should we invest in education and technology and infrastructure?”

The mantras are in place. Jobs, oil companies, millionaires and billionaires, infrastructure. It’s politics on the model of Pavlov’s dog.

Following up on the immediately previous item (scrolling down):

BY BONDWOOLEY on 09/12/2011 at 13:38
How does taking money from businesses help them create jobs?

Say what? This bill was supposed to put Repubs in a bind, but it’s heavy enough on new taxes to cut them out of it.

Isn’t Big O. giving them a way out?

Right here, click and read.

. . . for him. Why so?

* It puts nickels and dimes directly into voters’ pockets.

* It’s a piecemeal small thing that does not interfere with his grand plans.

* It puts (some) Republicans in a bind.

* It gives him cover for campaigning around the country.

More, I’m sure, but those are all that come right to mind.

In any case, it’s coming, we are told.