Quickies

More quick notes, offered with little or no commentary:

Of all of Obama’s broken campaign promises, does this one now look silliest? "The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president of the United States."

Obama’s power grab is unmatched since at least FDR.

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Eric Cantor on the same subject: “The president has embarked on an end-run around the legislative branch of historic proportions. To be sure, the appointment of a few special officers to play a constructive role in a given administration is nothing new. What is new is the elevation of so many czars, with so much authority on endless policy fronts. Vesting such broad authority in the hands of people not subjected to Senate confirmation and congressional oversight poses a grave threat to our system of checks and balances.”

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Rep. John Conyers (D-MI): "I love these members that get up and say, 'Read the bill!' Well, what good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you've read the bill?"

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Thoroughly unshocking stat: Tax burden of top 1% now exceeds that of bottom 95%.

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Other unshocking news: Organic food is no healthier.

Jeff Stier of the American Council on Science and Health: “It’s like playing a game of whack-a-mole. It was already proven that people aren’t getting sick from pesticides on food, so the organic crowd claimed their food was more nutritious. Now that that has been disproved, they’re going back to the pesticides thing.”

I’ll remind you that bullshit is organic.

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Politicizing justice: Obama Political Appointees Reportedly Overruled Career Justice Officials In Dropping Charges Against New Black Panther Party for Voter Intimidation

Protecting voter intimidation…change we can believe in!

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Dan Rather: not a fan of a free and independent press.

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Our “47 million uninsured” at a glance

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John Hinderaker: “[I]f a bill is too vast for a Congressman to read and understand, it is too big to pass.”

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Condescension runs in the family.

Gates’s daughter gets catty about Crowley’s daughter: “she was wearing an appropriately heavy and charmingly untrained amount of green eyeliner.”

But they’re enlightened haters!

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Did they paint each other’s toenails afterwards? Obama Hosting Senate Dems for Pep Rally, Cake?