Pope refuses to condemn Ugandan bill proposing execution of gays.

Could it be that Glenn Beck has a point?

Then Beck played a clip of Obama:

"Success has many fathers while failure is an orphan."

Or something like that. It looks like there is a growing number of parentless Obama White House aides, both current and former. Rahm Emanuel is looking more and more beleaguered, despite Dana Milbank's best efforts to rehabilitate him. The NYT:

John Hawkins has five ugly truths, and they are:

(1) Entitlements must be cut.
(2) Our military is going to weaken.
(3) Taxes are going up.
(4) Economic growth is going to stagnate.
(5) We will have a world where the United States isn't a super power.

I take issue on #5, because I think we'll have a world where the US isn't the only super power. The first four sound about right.

Not that it matters at this point.

He's sort of like an Obama. But with experience. And he might throw his hat in for a 2012 presidential run.

Governor Paterson of NY has "decided"(like he had any other realistic choice) not to run for reelection.

With him, the last remnants of this disastrous term started by Eliot Spitzer will be gone. This is easily the most failed administration of any executive I have ever voted for. Together, Spit and Pat made Republican George Pataki look like a wise statesman, though in truth he was rather mediocre, on a good day.

Here's the situation. You have a high school that sucks and an economy that sucks, so what do you do when you have to choose the least worst out of four tough choices? If you're a teacher's labor union, you play hardball in negotiations (thus leaving the school district no other option but to fire all of the teachers in the high school), then mount really loud protests about the unfairness of it all. The essence here:

Guess not. Scott Brown was the most famous GOP vote, but there were four others (Snowe, Collins, Voinovich, Bond), allowing the beleaguered Ben Nelson to vote "nay" without consequence. In this environment, it's enough to call it bipartisan. All those Republicans, bad faith in every one of them.

So, Harley asked me to come up with some White House actions and rhetoric which has been unduly harsh on Progressives and unduly praising of right wingers as part of the Health Care Debate.