Dig, Dug

Pity Harry Reid.

He’s craven. He’s criminally negligent. He’s been living on a fixed income. He’s less commanding than a cardigan-clad Mr. Rogers. He’s less rooted in reality than a cardigan-clad Mr. Rogers chillin’ with King Friday in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. And yesterday, fighting for his political life, he endured the greatest indignity of all: a Nevada campaign appearance by The ‘Rack. Said the Smoker-in-Chief to the assembled throng at Orr Middle School:

Harry . . . → Read More: Dig, Dug

Ovewweguwation? Don’t Be Widicuwous!

Here is an interesting factoid brought to you by the founder of the Elmer J. Fudd Society for Enunciative Excellence. For those of you too lazy to make the jump, in the video Barney Frank (D-MA) had this to say:

The genewaw feaw that the banking membew and others have issued, that we’we going to ovewweguwate on behalf of consumews is a fantasy unwewated to any human expewience. The federaw govewnment has nevew done . . . → Read More: Ovewweguwation? Don’t Be Widicuwous!

Numbers Racket

The Wall Street Journal has a concise and infuriating summation of the multi-thousand page financial regulatory sham that Christopher Dodd was blubbering about on Friday. Read it and weep. And be sure to call the offices of Dodd, and his co-conspirator in the House, that master of elocution, Barney Frank, to congratulate them on their hard-fought tribute to criminal absurdity.

There’s no way to accurately analogize this; but, imagine a team of surgeons leave a . . . → Read More: Numbers Racket