Voters are being orphaned as country-club Republicans link up with Democratic ruling class. “Country class [non-ruling class] Americans have but to glance at the Media to hear themselves insulted from on high as greedy, racist, violent, ignorant extremists. Yet far has it been from the Republican leadership to defend them. Whenever possible, the Republican Establishment has chosen candidates for office… who have ignored, soft-pedaled or given mere lip service to their voters’ identities and concerns.” We need a new party because the donkeys and the elephants are actually the same animal… the jackasses.

Joe Biden’s self-defense advice could land you in jail. Biden says he told his wife “Jill, if there’s ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony … take that double-barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house.” “Time and time and time again, homeowners have been arrested tried, and convicted of felonies for doing precisely what the Vice President advises… Is [Biden] remotely competent to be driving national gun policy?” We wonder if he’s competent, remotely or not.

Poll: Majority of U.S. citizens say illegal immigrants should be deported. “The online survey shows resistance to easing immigration laws despite the biggest push for reform in Congress since 2007.” But as the ObamaCare fiasco shows, Congress no longer does what the voters want, Congress does what it wants.

Woman “shot” and wounded after bullets left in her OVEN explode. Guess it’s time for a national conversation about ovens. As a certain Colorado Dem pol might suggest, this is why we have McDonalds and Pizza Huts because when you turn on an oven you don’t know who you’re gonna be shooting at.

New book just comes straight out with it: “Against Autonomy: The Case for Collective Paternalism”. “…when government makes (some) decisions for us, we gain not only in personal welfare but also in autonomy, if only because our time is freed up to deal with what most concerns us….” Yep, the mask is off now. It’s for your own good!

Kerry gives first Foreign Policy speech … on Climate Change. US foreign policy goes from “What difference does it make?” to “WTF?” If there’s one thing that can make the Hagel Defense pick look almost not awful, it’s Kerry at State.

Britain’s NHS pays out £1million in compensation to men who have had the wrong TESTICLE removed. “In most cases the men didn’t need surgery at all and in others surgeons also had to remove the second testicle.” What was that Obama said about US doctors lopping off arms and legs because they’re greedy? Sounds like gubbermint-run healthcare will fix that problem okey-dokey.

About that surprise California budget “surplus”: There’s no surprise and no surplus either. “Today we learn the ‘surprise’ $5-billion bump in revenue in January is likely an accounting anomaly as a result of tax changes.” Should we ask if the pols spent the “surplus” already and are now even deeper in the hole? Or maybe let it be another “surprise”.

Politico wonders: Has Obama’s media strategy made government more powerful? According to Politico, it’s not because journ0lists are liberals or anything, but because “Obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating media coverage of himself and his White House.” Yeah, we’re sure that having a media so anxioius to be limited, shaped and manipulated has nothing to do with it.

Labor unions that pushed Obamacare through want out. “Major unions like the AFL-CIO and the Teamsters are now demanding that they be allowed to stay on their current health care plans and receive government subsidies to cover the increased costs some of Obamacare’s provisions will impose on lower-income workers.” In other words, another bunch of lefties all in favor of sharing the wealth until it’s their wealth that gets shared. Interesting.

New “alcohol busting” drug that sobers you up in seconds being developed by MIT scientists. “Researchers have developed a cocktail of alcohol metabolizing enzymes that speedily reduces blood alcohol levels in drunk mice.” The bad news is that is doesn’t work on mice that are drunk on power.

UK Muslim preacher is secretly filmed urging followers to take benefits from the state to fund a holy war. “…mocking non-Muslims for working in 9-5 jobs their whole lives, and told followers that some revered Islamic figures had only ever worked one or two days a year. ‘The rest of the year they were busy with jihad [holy war]… the normal situation is for you to take money from the kuffar [non-believers]… We are going to take England — the Muslims are coming.’”

Press corps expresses “frustration” over lack of access to Obama. It’s not that the Sun King doesn’t diegn to speak with them, it’s just that when reporters’ lips are fixed firmly to someone’s butt, it tends to muffle the sound of their voices.

The Age of Bernanke. “Obamaism [is] a front for the big-money interests who benefit from the Federal Reserve’s largesse and interest rate policies; progressive rhetoric serves as the beard for royalist results.” Echos of the decline of Rome: “The masses get bread (food stamps) and circuses, with virtually all of Hollywood and much of the media ready to perform on cue. The majority, losers in the Bernanke economy, lack the will and, maybe, the attention span to realize what is happening to them.” Babbling about “assualt weapons” serves to distract them.

ERISA expert on ObamaCare: “It has become very clear to everyone involved who is analytical and not ideological that the rational strategy, for both large and small firms, is to cease providing health care insurance to employees.” “The people who really know the law, and who have been following the avalanche of regulations, have already figured this out. It will take a while for this specialized knowledge to seep downward, because right now only $800+ an hour ERISA attorneys… understand how Obamacare really works.” More correctly, they understand it won’t work. More here.

Kirsten Powers and panel hit media hard on SOTU: They fawn over “every stupid idea Barack Obama has”. “…reactions to Obama’s speeches are becoming just as predictable as the speeches themselves.” Obama’s “gravity” is a myth – the reality is the media sucks.

The one thing Barack Obama is good at… “Barack Obama has mastered very few things in his life. His vaunted oratorical prowess is a sham… His grasp of geopolitics is laughable, as is his knowledge of economics and finance. But he has mastered one thing all too well: He manipulates the Republican party extremely effectively.” With a little lot of help from the media flacks, of course… not to mention the GOP itself. It’s almost as if all our politics is one big sham, ain’t it?

It wasn’t just redistricting that gave Republicans their House majority. Michael Barone notes Democrat voters tend to be clustered in urban areas while GOP voters are more evenly distributed. If the US were divided into 50 equal population states as illustrated by this Electoral Reform Map, Romney would’ve won 58% of the electoral votes. Yeah, we know, it ain’t really a “reform” if it doesn’t help the Demoturds gain power.

Soros said to make $1 billion since November on Yen bet. He bet against the yen, the same way he made a billion in the early 90s betting against the British pound. Yeah, so he’s profiting from the loss of purchasing power on the part of millions of ninety-nine percenters, but at least he didn’t give anybody’s wife cancer like Mitt Romney. Hey, he’s a liberal, they get a pass.

Germany, Spain set to pull the plug on green energy. Because green energy costs too much and does too little, a luxury that the contracting economies in the EU can no longer afford. Are you listening, Barack? Of course not.

European GDP Takes a NoseDive. “In 2012, they didn’t have a single quarter of growth.” “The multiplier effect of government spending is 0.” Well, if the Keynesian stuff isn’t working, the EU will just have to adjust the meaning of “working”.

Sen. Rand Paul: State of the Union Response. “President Obama believes government is the solution: More government, more taxes, more debt,” Paul said. “What the president fails to grasp is that the American system that rewards hard work is what made America so prosperous.” BTW, the “legitimate” media didn’t see fit to broadcast it. Shocking.

Caught on camera: Joe Biden admits gun control will not stop mass shootings or save lives. Another “Biden gaffe”… in other words, he inadvertently let the truth slip out again.

State lacks doctors to meet demand of national healthcare law. “Lawmakers [in California] are working on proposals that would enable physician assistants, nurse practitioners, optometrists and pharmacists to diagnose, treat and manage some illnesses.” And you people were worried this awesome plan was gonna fall apart like some federally-funded green energy project.

Boehner’s new strategy: The Senate goes first. “This ‘Senate first’ strategy allows a divided House to sit back and watch Majority Leader Reid (D-NV) struggle to wrangle votes in a chamber filled with vulnerable Democrats up for reelection in 2014.” The Democrooks control the Senate and Obama is president, the biggest bullsh*t bully pulpit of all. Make them put their cards on the table.