7-6-2009

C. Edmund Wright: Palin v. the pundits demonstrates a profound disconnect that explains not only how and why the pundit class remains so incapable of understanding her (and much of America), it is a decent microcosm of the bigger political debate going on in this country.

Mark Steyn…Great moments in Socialized Medicine: First we get “A search for the source of a maggot infestation at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Aberdeen will continue over the weekend.” Over in another part of the system: Maggots are a feature not a bug: The cancer did not kill her, but a bedsore did…The treatment for the cancer appeared to be working, but the bedsore continued to get worse despite attempts to treat it with “maggot therapy” in which maggots are used to clean out the wound.

Jules Crittenden: We thought this might happen. We call it The Biden Option. It is the ultimate in deniability.

TigerHawk: What stopped the “newspaper of record” from writing about this last year?

Palin-O-Mania at InstaPundit: If she were a loon, she’d be going to Idaho and into the mountains. But she’s not. She’s going to Simi Valley on August 8th to address the 50th Anniversary of the Simi Valley Women’s Republican Club. Seats are $150.00 a ticket for non-members. This is her roll-out speech. I bet the tickets are being snapped up so fast that not even Arnold can get one. This is not the action of one who wants to go Ross Perot. It is the action of one who’s gone Galt on her own party and has decided to play the game her way.

Ed Morrissey: The Tax Foundation offers this didactic ditty to explain exactly who benefits from the cap-and-trade system that the House barely passed a week ago. It’s not the environment, and it’s certainly not the poor. It’s that guy in the tall hat:

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