We Live In A Different Era Now.

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.

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?

As An Early-and-often Chronicler Of Chicago-on-the-potomac, I Am Amazed At The Stubborn And Clingy Persistence Of President Barack Obama's Snowblowers In The Media. See No Scandal, Hear No Scandal, Speak No Scandal.

It's Not Just That Miers Has Zero Judicial Experience. It's That She's So Transparently A Crony/"diversity" Pick While So Many Other Vastly More Qualified And Impressive Candidates Went To Waste. If This Is President Bush's Bright Idea To Buck Up His Sagging Popularity--among Conservatives As Well As The Nation At Large--one Wonders Whom He Would Have Picked In Rosier Times. Shudder.

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.