Former Clinton aide Lanny Davis says the Obama White House threatened his newspaper. Davis says his editor “received a phone call from a senior Obama WH official who didn’t like some of my columns, even though I’m a supporter of Obama. I couldn’t imagine why this call was made.” Don’t know what the big deal is, this kind of thing happened all the time during the Nixon years.

CNN’s Chile affiliate: “Hugo Chavez esta muerto”. Google translation of the CNN Chile lead: “Guillermo Cochez Panamanian politician says the president of Venezuela is deceased. Contact with CNN Chile’s former ambassador said that since last December 30 President Chavez declared brain dead in Cuba, with which he returned to Venezuela in that state, and therefore it could not be visited by the various leaders who have visited, questioned and denied as the last picture that was published between Chavez and his daughters.”

Woodward says a “very senior” White House person warned me I’d “regret” what I’m doing. Bob, don’t take it personally… you know how the Obamunists like to drone on and on…

Donna Brazille tweets: Why did my health care premiums go up? Like you said, Tweety, #healthcareworks… but what they forgot to mention was #nofreelunch.

White House blames Immigration Dept for release of illegals. “This was a decision made by career officials at ICE without any input from the White House, as a result of fiscal uncertainty over the continuing resolution, as well as possible sequestration,” said the Carney barker. So what he’s trying to say is that if you force him to cut the budget, he’ll have to fire some incompetent fools who act without orders? Go for it.

Is the U.S. building an unsustainable welfare support system? The plethora of welfare programs can “…lead to a greater and greater incentive to not produce for others. This means that the very same thing which brought the Soviet Union to its knees (an incentive not to produce), is now in motion in the U.S. economy. If not arrested, this trend might well produce the same result in the U.S.” Hey, wonder if Barack can see the Soviet Union from his house?

French unemployment highest since 1997. Progressive policies again work as expected, unexpectedly!

Woodward: Obama is showing “a kind of madness I haven’t seen in a long time”. Regarding Obama’s sequester kabuki dance decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf because of budget concerns. Well Bob, as we keep telling you media-ocrities about Obama, a waste is a terrible thing to mind.

CT Dem sponsors “hoarder’s tax”. “Rep. Betsy Ritter, a Waterford Democrat… has also proposed a hoarder’s tax. This would place a levy on liquid assets – companies with a lot of money in the bank – and dedicate the proceeds to job creation programs.” When is there going to be a “stupid legislation” tax?

Fla Man arrested for… releasing helium balloon with his girlfriend. “Anthony Brasfield saw romance when he released a dozen heart-shaped balloons into the sky over Dania Beach with his sweetie. Also watching the romantic gesture: an FHP trooper, who instead noted probable cause for an environmental crime.” Can we get much more stupid? YES WE CAN!

DOJ admits Aaron Swartz prosecution was political. Another unicorn vanishes: “This is making me angrier than almost anything I’ve heard since Aaron died. I finally figured out why: Because I worked my ass off to elect the Obama administration in 2008. I helped these people get in power. And then they drove the man I loved to suicide because they didn’t like something he said once.”

Illegal immigrants set free from detention centers as sequester approaches. The most cynical move yet in Prince Obama’s “don’t blame me for my idea” sequester kabuki dance. “The move is proving controversial. Immigrant-rights groups say it shows the administration was detaining folks it never should have gone after in the first place, while Republicans questioned the decision-making.”

OFA selling WH access to donors? “The New York Times reported over the weekend that donors who contribute and raise $500,000 for President Obama’s Organizing for Action will get special access to the President. That’s right. They’re selling access to the President.” “This just looks bad,” says MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. Or as Captain Renault might say, “I’m shocked, shocked to learn that prostitutes perform sex acts for money…”

“Loud Groans” heard in Academy Awards media room when Michelle Obama announced as surprise presenter. “When Michelle Obama was introduced by Jack Nicholson most of the reporters in the media room groaned….loudly.” Overexposed? Wait ’till she turns up as a Redskins cheerleader, a visiting DC detective on “CSI” and first violin on “Live from the Met”. What about “pinch hitting for Albert Pujols”? Would you believe she wrote this post?

John Kerry invents country of Kyrzakhstan. “John Kerry has suffered his first gaffe as the new US secretary of state, inventing the nation of ‘Kyrzakhstan’.” New SoS Herman Munster is just trying his hand at some nation building. Wonder how ‘Kyrzakhstan’ feels about climate change? We’re sure they’re for it.

Bob Menendez plays race card, blames conservatives for scandals. “Democratic Senator Bob Menendez blamed conservatives for his ethics scandals, framing them as a racial attack on him because of his Hispanic heritage.” To tell the truth, he could pass for one of the media’s “white hispanics”, a term the MSM coined to abet their demonization of George Zimmerman. Or maybe he just said he was a minority because he wanted to make friends, as did Fauxchahontas Warren.

MSNBC almost “A bona fide organ of state propaganda”. “The cable channel that flies under the banner of NBC News is now all but a bona fide organ of state propaganda, an information channel that speaks in the same dominant voice as the folks running the government–and tries to mask what it is up to.” The word “almost” was never used so hilariously.

Florida doesn’t have enough doctors for Medicaid expansion says Fla Med Assoc. Interesting is that this “news” paper alludes to the FMA as a “lobby group” in its headline. What are the odds if pro-ObamaCare advocates announced “New health bill is AWESOME!” the group saying same would be labelled with an appellation sure to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the conclusion? Maybe they more likely be called something neutral like “consumer group”? Just askin’.

Bloomberg’s soda ban prohibits 2-liter bottles with your pizza. “Typically, a pizzeria charges $3 for a 2-liter bottle of Coke. But under the ban, customers would have to buy six 12-ounce cans at a total cost of $7.50 to get an equivalent amount of soda. ‘I really feel bad for the customers,’ said Lupe Balbuena of World Pie.” Elections have consequences, especially when you elect self-righteous jerks.

Juan Williams: Liberal media will “shut you down, stab you, kill you, fire you” if you disagree. “I always thought it was… the right wingers of world, who were more resistant and more closed-minded about hearing the other side,” he said. “In fact, what I have learned… is that it is big media institutions who are identifiably more liberal to left-leaning who will shut you down, stab you and kill you, fire you, if they perceive that you are not telling the story in the way that they want it told.” Yeah, that’s just their tolerance and diversity showing.

Do we need IQ tests for juries? “…the jurors had presented [the chief justice] with a list of ten questions which revealed that they simply did not have a clue about what they had heard as evidence, what they had been told by himself or indeed what they were supposed to be doing there at all.” From the UK but undoubtedly not peculiar to them. Someone once quipped a defendant in a jury trial will be judged by 12 people who weren’t clever enough to get out of jury duty.

CMS slashes Medicare Advantage; “Disarray for many seniors”. “Though Democrats denied it during the 2012 campaign, Obamacare cut Medicare by $716 billion [to fund] $1.9 trillion in new entitlement spending over the next 10 years. A big chunk of those Medicare cuts came from the… Medicare Advantage program. …the Obama administration postponed the Medicare Advantage cuts until after the election, so as to persuade seniors that everything would be just fine. But the election is over. ” If you like your health insurance, well tough sh*t.

Bob Menendez co-sponsoring “comprehensive” sex-education legislation. Well, underage hookers gotta start somewhere.

Companies are dropping health coverage for spouses to cut costs. “By denying coverage to spouses, employers not only save the annual premiums, but also the new fees that went into effect as part of the Affordable Care Act.” If you like your health insurance you can keep it – or you can keep your spouse. Hey, at last the Democrooks are offering you a choice!

Gas prices rise 34 straight days – media idiots blame “speculators”. Refineries are closing, the Fed is diluting the currency (while conveniently excluding fuel prices from their inflation calculations) and like a stopped, brain-dead clock, the media predictably blames “speculators.” Maybe they mean “Bain Capital”?