Geraghty gets real:

There’s no point in getting the GOP to nominate my ideal candidate — say, the mind of Friedrich Hayek in the body of Salma Hayek

Dems to Big O: Don’t give us no stinkin’ compromise talk.

If you think Rush Limbaugh paints conservatism with too wide a brush, consider this from a major conservative think tank. You may be surprised.

Later:  Too narrow a brush?   Too blunt an instrument?  What say, verbally precise reader?

Next day: Yesterday Rush L. responded, essentially declaring the criticism irrelevant to the current situation.

Pope Leo’s encyclical and today’s unions:

[T]his weekend’s rhetoric [Hoffa and his "war on Republicans" etc.] is a vivid reminder that most labor organizations have moved far beyond their proper and defensible role.

Though “the condition of the working classes” is much different now than it was when Pope Leo XIII wrote Rerum Novarum in 1891, the document provides a strong justification of labor unions and their position in society.

This is done in the context of a response to the advances of socialism on one hand and atheistic individualism on the other. It would be inflammatory, perhaps even violent, to identify the labor leaders of today with Leo’s socialists, and it would be a stretch to say that Hoffa & co. advocate state-owned means of production, but their contribution to political discourse is remarkably similar to Leo’s characterization of socialist tactics [italics added]:

Etc.

A movie, yessss! About Media Matters for America, a watchdog group with an eye for barbarians at the gate. A trailer. No wonder we need defenders of the way things used to be like Jimmy Hoffa Jr.

Don’t you wish you were a Democrat. You could just change the names of things that bother you, and they would go away. Far awayyyyyyyyyyyyy.

So many rules to enforce, so little time. Do not fear, Obama’s apparatchiki are here.

The voice of labor.

Sermons too long, too personal, disorganized.

This phrase may have legs in the months to come.