The Deal Looks Bad And Smells Worse.

The Truly Bold Thing For Obama To Do Would Be To Tell The Panic-mongers And Boondoggle-seekers To Shove It, And To Tell Taxpayers To Ride Out The Rest Of The Tough Times While He Gets Washington's Own Economic House In Order.

Here Is The Operating Motto Of The Obama White House: 'so Let It Be Written, So Let It Be Done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses Character In Cecil B. Demille's 'the Ten Commandments,' The Demander In Chief Stands With Arms Akimbo Issuing Daily Edicts To His Constitution-subverting Minions.

Bean-counting Government Bureaucrats Are Free To Take Race, Ethnicity And Gender Into Account When Doling Out Public Funds To Non-white-male Contractors. But God Help Law Enforcement Officers, Air Marshals And Border Agents Who Try To Use Those Same Factors To Combat Terrorism And Protect American Lives.

In The 1970s, 'the Boys On The Bus' Exposed How A Clubby Pack Of Male Political Reporters Ruled The Road To The White House And Shaped The News. Four Decades Later, An Outsider Gal From Alaska Has Commandeered The 2012 Media Bus - And Left Beltway Journalism Insiders Eating Her Dust.

Let There Be No Doubt: Democrats Are The Party With Two Ideas: Borrow And Spend. The Only Vigorous Internal Debate On The Left Revolves Around Two Questions: How Much And How Much More?