The American Spectator

I believe a winning theme for Conservatives and Republicans in coming elections is that representatives will take the same medicine they give us. That would include health care, social security, and the same financial disclosure and ethics regulations the rest of us abide by. 
— David Weiss

Thanks, Ben. Put some more eyedrops in. Once again, you, Peggy Noonan, George Will, and the rest of the “Conservatives” that are part of the Washington Inner Circle are a year late and a trillion dollars short.
— John Taylor

OUT OF MANY, THE ONE
Re: The Prowler’s Profiling Obama:

“One of the recommendations, according to sources: American officials shouldn’t identify themselves as representatives of the United States. Rather…they should identify themselves as a ‘representative of President Barack Obama.’” Sure, why not? It worked well for Louis XIV, King George III, and more recently for Stalin, Hitler, Peron and Chavez.

America is not one person. Remember it is E Pluribus Unum and never the reverse.
— I.M. Kessel

“‘The President chose action, in part because we saw this story eclipsing other issues and narratives that we needed front and center for August,’ says the White House source.”

Translation: Barack Obama would’ve done and would do nothing but for at least a couple of actualities. One, the nightmare of Obamacare and the specter of Waxman-Markey, coupled with the failure of Porkulus I, are causing Obama’s popularity to nose-dive. Two, essentially, there is mass public rejection of Obama’s ideology and what appears to be a revolt within the Democrat Party over the no-longer-can-be-hidden socialist anti-American agenda of the president and Democrat Party leadership.

One wonders: Absent an apology from Obama, why is the police officer actually going to meet with two men who appear to be racial discord incarnate waiting to express itself—and two men who appear to have no grasp what a true “teachable” moment is?

One also wonders: Have Obama and Gates, both whom seem to carry huge racial chips on their shoulders, ever heard that old saw: Give a man a hammer and everything looks like a nail?
— C. Kenna Amos Jr.
Princeton , W.Va. 24740

ACTING STUPIDLY
Re: Robert M. Goldberg’s Questions I Never Asked Obama:

Illegals should not be getting anything. They are illegal. We sure are stupid aren’t we?
— Granville D. Ray

TAXPAYER FUNDED DANCING AND BONDING
Re: Ben Stein’s No Meetings on the Table:

Ben has an uncanny ability to put most things into perspective, perhaps unusually for an economist but maybe not for a trained and experienced lawyer. As a former director of a federally funded state agency, I participated in a number of remotely located training sessions both in Michigan and in other states. These were usually successful training tools and always good for employee morale. Unfortunately, some had elements of the “dancing” exercises that were I guess designed to help managers bond. I cringed when these occurred and finally told our HR people to nix them in future meetings. At the end of the day, the sessions were worthwhile but I had hoped the trendy embarrassing elements were no longer used by the HR professionals, obviously I was wrong.
— Jack Wheatley
Royal Oak, Michigan

EXEMPTING THE WALK
Re: David Catron’s How Much Is a Year of Your Life Worth?:

There are continued references to Kennedy and his continued health care under the new bill. One must remember that, above all things, Kennedy is a messiah vote in the Senate, even if an ambulance is required to bus him in to cast that vote! His health care is guaranteed, along with anyone else who votes yes for the bill nobody reads.