9-17-2009

Barack Obama surrenders to Russia on Missile Defense

GreyHawk at Mudville Gazette: Is birther the new gay?

Peter Wehner: We’re only eight months into the Age of Obama—the period in which he promised to unite our divided country, heal our wounds, and bind up our divisions—and Obama’s critics are now routinely labeled as unpatriotic, racists, liars, mobsters, evil mongers, practitioners of un-American tactics, and more. As Obama’s failures mount up, it will only get worse. The volume will only get louder. And the charges will only get more desperate and incendiary…It will be an ugly and sad thing to witness. Nervous breakdowns often are.

Tom Maguire: I should admit that I have a bit of empathy for the guy – he really hates ducking questions, since he knows all answers to everything and really just wants to share his wisdom with lesser mortals; as a crazed blogger, I know the feeling. Reporters will prep their steaming cow pies; let’s see where Obama steps.

WSJ: His (BaucusCare) plan remains a public option by other means, imposing vast new national insurance regulation, huge new subsidies to pay for the higher insurance costs this regulation will require and all financed by new taxes and penalties on businesses, individuals and health-care providers. Other than that, Hippocrates, the plan does no harm.

How many folks went to the TEA PARTY in DC: The latest sourced information on the 9/12 crowd points to a lower bound of at least half a million…there is now a high-resolution photo from FreedomWorks, which you can see in the poster here.

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