Another week where it was difficult to determine if we were
supposed to laugh, or pound our palms into our foreheads. We saw more of the
Obamacare unravel, the 60 Minutes retraction, and Mr. Boehner saying, “No need
for immigration reform, or for ending employment discrimination for gays, or
for filling vacancies in the judiciary.” Use this faux Mark Twain quote to
write a homily that fits this week into the cosmos:
Mr. Obama gets a few helping hands:
Will Obamacare run with a little bailing wire and chewing gum?
Rule #1 in governing (and everywhere else): Don’t announce that something important will work, then have it spectacularly fail, and expect to go on your merry way. In the long run, Obamacare is likely to be as popular and permanent as Medicare, but, in the short term, it is the worst political crisis of Mr. Obama’s presidency.
Lara Logan channels her inner Andy Rooney:
Benghazi Bites CBS and the Truthers:
Party of “No” fails to see the connection:
Congress must love Vets; since it creates so many of them: