THE KINGSTON TRIO PERFORM ZOMBIE JAMBOREE.

Beware the inevitable zombie uprising, and do not let the musical antics of their sympathizers lull you into complacency!

OBAMA’S competence gap. “We’ve heard the cliché: there is a difference between campaigning and governing. But in the last few weeks the contrast between the two could not have been more stark. And the gap between President Obama’s effectiveness at the former and shakiness at the latter is coming into focus.”

HA HA: David Axelrod tries to make you forget that Obama’s position on gay marriage is less liberal than Carrie Prejeans’s.

WHAT OBAMA ACTUALLY SAID to graduates at Notre Dame.

ANN ALTHOUSE: God Watch Over Our Troops.

Plus, the dangers of thrown unicorns.

CAR LUST: Remembering the 1989 Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am.

THE VIEW FROM MY WINDOW.

JULES CRITTENDEN: Getting Cheney.

TOM SMITH:

It’s also very ironic that just as we are on the verge of really stunning advances in biotechnology, we are fixing to destroy innovation in our health care industry. And just as I (and a bunch of other boomers) are about to need it too. Here’s a proposal. Let’s wait until those with the mean age of Obama voters reach an age where they really need health care, to “reform” it.

Perhaps the Chinese will take over on the pharmaceutical innovation front. After all, they’re taking over on everything else.

PLUS, IT’LL BE YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY TO SMOKE DOPE AND SLEEP WITH HOOKERS: Nick Gillespie offers Obama advice on how to solve his budget crisis.

VIDEO: Protesters interrupt Obama at Notre Dame. Like a “Code Pink” attack?

THE AGE OF FAILED DREAMS: What if the Singularity doesn’t happen?

POLITICO: Some on left souring on Obama. “A few, like MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, have even hurled the left’s ultimate epithet – suggesting that Obama’s turning into George W. Bush. . . . Maddow accused Obama of doing a ‘blatant 180′ on military commissions. On issues like the wiretapping suits, some critics have suggested Obama is even worse than Bush.”

A RIFLE IN ONE HAND, A LAPTOP IN THE OTHER: The Christian Science Monitor interviews some gunbloggers. Money quote:

But here’s the real news: In the press box, bloggers outnumbered national reporters by a good margin. And officially, nearly 50 bloggers — compared to 100 mainstream print journalists — were accredited by the NRA press office to attend the 138th annual convention.

And here’s another:

“If you compare the pro-gun activity in the blogosphere versus the pro-gun-control activity, the scales have just tipped tremendously in their favor,” says Josh Sugarmann, founder of the Violence Policy Center in Washington, which advocates for more gun control in the US. “There’s much more engagement, more involvement, and they clearly have more free time than people on our side of the issue do.”

In the process, gun bloggers are taking on issues like gun control preemption laws in Philadelphia and putting pressure on firearms firms for their choice of spokesmen. And while their reach can be argued, their rise appears to mirror polling data showing that Americans, sometimes by double-digit gains, increasingly favor more gun freedoms, not gun control.

Read the whole thing. Meanwhile, here’s my report from last year’s NRA convention.

NO WORD ABOUT THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, THOUGH: Woo hoo! “Dollhouse,” “Castle,” “Better Off Ted” Aren’t Canceled!

AS SEEN ON TV: Testing out the Stick ‘n’ Click.

BUSINESS WEEK: How The Mighty Fall: A Primer on the Warning Signs. (Via NewsAlert).

A MONTHLY CONTRACEPTIVE FOR MEN? Downside — be not the first on whom the new is tried. Upside: Testosterone peed into the water supply may offset the female hormones already peed into the water supply by female birth-control pill users!

VIRTUAL MEDICAL VISITS work as well as real ones?

IN THE MAIL: LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay. Looks quite interesting.

MICHAEL S. MALONE: Technology Through Young Eyes.

THERE’S A SHOCKER: OECD: High Taxes Make People Happy. Coming next, a report from the candy industry: Sugar Really Satisfies!

GOOD QUESTION: Craigslist CEO asks why SC AG targets his site.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster pointed out Saturday there are plenty of places in South Carolina other than his Web site to find prostitution ads and obscene photos, saying in a blog that he wants to know why the state’s top prosecutor is targeting his company.

South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster has threatened to prosecute Craigslist executives for aiding and abetting prostitution if an ad on the Web site leads to a prostitution case in South Carolina.

In the post on his company’s blog, Buckmaster linked to a publication in Greenville he said has a larger number of adult ads and more explicit content than his Web site. He later updated the post to point out a publication in Charleston that listed 19 adult ads on Friday.

In contrast, Buckmaster said the Greenville “adult services” portion of his site has had one ad for the past three days with a photograph of a completely clothed person, while the recently closed “erotic services” section had eight ads, none of which had obscene texts or nude pictures.

Read the whole thing, especially if you live in South Carolina.

AN L.A. TEA PARTY PROTEST, today at 3 in Westwood.

TOM BARNETT: Seven Reasons Why Obama’s Nuke-Free Utopia Won’t Work.

COOL PHOTOS: Stealth bomber breaks sound barrier. Plus, Space Shuttle silhouetted against sun.

UPDATE: A correction from reader Ken Gage: “You will probably get more than a few of these from aerodynamicists like me, but I can assure you that the B-2 bomber did not break the sound barrier. If you look at the linked article closely, you will see that the article, which is actually pretty well written, does not make such a claim. It only says the aircraft is traveling at high subsonic speed. This is yet another example of the headline writer sensationalizing without regard to the facts.” He’s right, and I should have caught that.

VICTORIA TOENSING: Critics Still Haven’t Read the “Torture” Memos.

WHO RUNS WIKIPEDIA?

TOM VANDERBILT on a technology that’s gotten worse since the 1920s. “I have recently been poring over a number of prewar train timetables—not surprisingly, available on eBay. They are fascinating, filled with evocations of that fabled “golden era” of train travel. “You travel with friends on The Milwaukee Road,” reads an ad in one, showing an avuncular conductor genially conversing with a jaunty, smartly dressed couple, the man on the verge of lighting a pipe. . . . But the most striking aspect of these antiquated documents is found in the tiny agate columns of arrivals and destinations. It is here that one sees the wheels of progress actually running backward. The aforementioned Montreal Limited, for example, circa 1942, would pull out of New York’s Grand Central Station at 11:15 p.m., arriving at Montreal’s (now defunct) Windsor Station at 8:25 a.m., a little more than nine hours later. To make that journey today, from New York’s Penn Station on the Adirondack, requires a nearly 12-hour ride. The trip from Chicago to Minneapolis via the Olympian Hiawatha in the 1950s took about four and a half hours; today, via Amtrak’s Empire Builder, the journey is more than eight hours. Going from Brattleboro, Vt., to New York City on the Boston and Maine Railroad’s Washingtonian took less than five hours in 1938; today, Amtrak’s Vermonter (the only option) takes six hours—if it’s on time, which it isn’t, nearly 75 percent of the time. . . . Obama’s bold vision obscures a simple fact: 220 mph would be phenomenal, but we would also do well to simply get trains back up to the speeds they traveled at during the Harding administration.”

AN AIRLINE THAT’S actually making money.

OBAMA IS LIKE BUSH: “I’m laughing at Obama, but I’m also thanking him for doing the right thing and reasonably tolerant of the way he’s tried to save face by pretending he’s not doing exactly the same thing Bush did.”

Plus, “I underestimated his willingness to lie.” Always a mistake!

And this: “Meanwhile, what does it say that the Administration has resurrected or maintained the core elements of so many Bush Administration national security policies while OLC nominee Dawn Johnsen sits in limbo? And would the Administration’s policies be any different were she already confirmed?” That’s already been explained . . . .

HMM: Republicans ‘Begging’ Eric Erickson to Shut Down Facebook Protest of NRSC.

CHRIS DODD HOLDS A MEETING — and family and press cameras show up!

Not much of anyone else, though, it appears . . . But note how much more impressive a photo editor can make it look!

Patrick Ruffini notes that the top photo led the story this morning, but by this afternoon it had switched to the bottom photo. But to be fair, the story does refer to “a small group of supporters.” And this is small!

UPDATE: Reader C.J. Burch emails: “I almost feel sorry for Dodd. Almost.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Seeing cracks in the Obama facade.

IS THAT THE SAME CHRIS OFFUTT? Back when I was a wee sprout (well, an undergraduate), I had a beer with Chris’s dad Andy Offutt at the Old College Inn. He was a nice guy, and I’ve enjoyed his work since.

MARK STEYN, CARACAS ON THE POTOMAC AND MORE, on this week’s PJM Political.

RANDY NEAL COMPARES the new Toyota Prius and Honda Insight.

HAS THE GAY-FRIENDLY OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WEIGHED IN? Moscow police violently break up gay pride rally. “Riot police violently broke up several gay rights demonstrations in Moscow on Saturday, hauling away scores of protesters hours before the Russian capital hosted a major international pop music competition. City officials had warned they would not tolerate marches or rallies supporting the rights of gays and lesbians.”

REMEMBERING President Palin’s First Hundred Days. Heh.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: What’s behind graphene’s extraordinary properties.

LOVE LAND: China to open first sex-themed theme park.

BITES FROM THE APPLE: All kinds of Apple news. And video.

PJTV: How America is vulnerable to bio-attacks.

HEADED FOR AUCTION: A 1948 Tucker.

DAVID HARSANYI favors hookers over censors.

15 TIME-MANAGEMENT TOOLS.

FROM BUST TO BOOM: Selling barbecue with fake boobs. Really fake boobs. Video at the link.

IN THE MAIL: Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press.

SO APPARENTLY TERMINATOR ROBOTS ARE ALREADY AMONG US:

Full photo is here. Really, quite amazing.

HEADLINE OF THE WEEK: 43 stun-gunned at prisons’ Take Your Kids to Work Day.

UPDATE: Jim Meigs emails: “Like I keep saying, it’s better to PUT your kids to work than to TAKE your kids to work….”

OBAMA’S LEGACY? China’s yuan ‘set to usurp US dollar’ as world’s reserve currency.

Hmm. How could that possibly happen?

AND I’M LAME FOR NOT TRYING IT OUT: Reader Rachel B emailed a while back about the Flip Mino HD camcorder:

I bought the Flip Mino HD a couple of weeks ago, and I haven’t put the thing down. With a 3 and 1 year old, I needed something small that I could access quickly. It’s the size of a cell phone, is easy to use (only a few buttons) and downloading is a snap. I was concerned that the size would make for shaky video, but the picture is very steady and very clear. The unit charges when you connect to your pc, so no hassle with batteries, and the software is very user friendly. There is a quick and simple movie maker that lets you add titles and background music. I love this thing. My husband has been serving in Afghanistan since October, so I’ve been emailing videos every night since I bought it. He loves it. Just tonight I captured our one-year olds first steps, made a quick movie, and emailed it to family and friends. I really love this thing! I just wish I bought it sooner.

I’ve got one and I’ve been meaning to review it. I actually bought it as a backup when we covered the Tea Party protest, but since all the high-tech stuff we used worked perfectly I never got it out, and I haven’t done anything beyond a few minutes of out-of-the-box fiddlining with it. Ditto the local protest in Knoxville. But I’ll try to give it a proper tryout soon and report.

WSJ: Obama’s Military Tribunals: Another Friday, another bow to Bush’s antiterror legacy. “In any event, Mr. Obama deserves credit for accepting that the civilian courts are largely unsuited for the realities of the war on terror. He has now decided to preserve a tribunal process that will be identical in every material way to the one favored by Dick Cheney — and which, contrary to the narrative that Democrats promulgated for years, will be the fairest and most open war-crimes trials in U.S. history. Meanwhile, friends should keep certain newspaper editors away from sharp objects. Their champion has repudiated them once again.”

Meanwhile, some snark from Prof. Julian Ku: I Can’t Wait to See Neal Katyal’s Argument In Defense of Military Commissions. “The ACLU has vowed to litigate this, no matter what, so there will be at least one argument somewhere. If that’s the case, it would be really cool if the OLC memo on the legality of the new military commissions was drafted by blogger extraordinaire Marty Lederman (whose appointment was hailed as a strong signal that things were really going to change), and (even better), that Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal ends up defending the new commissions in court! If that happens, I really hope someone reminds Neal of his 2007 Slate article.“

HOPE! G.M. Notifying 1,100 Dealers That They Will Be Dropped. As in, I hope there’s not much more news like this . . . .

So do the folks at the newspapers that have just lost a lot of advertisers.

Plus, more change! GM to import cars from China! “As thousands of General Motors workers await word on more U.S. plant closures, reports that the company plans to import Chinese-made vehicles to the U.S. have created a political problem for the automaker and the White House.” This bailout is really saving jobs. Hurray!

A NEW ANGLE ON PELOSI’S FLIPFLOPS, from reader Doug Welsh: “I’m amazed at how Nancy Pelosi’s current circumstances are similar to the Democrats’ accusations that Bush lied us into the Iraq war. They saw the same intelligence that Bush (and Clinton before him) saw, indicating that Saddam had WMD. Few if any questioned the validity of the information. Most voted for the war. But when the war became unpopular they turned and claimed they had been misled by Bush. This was all a lie and political posturing, but it was effective then. I’m glad to see the Republicans are a little smarter this time and are countering more effectively. I wonder if it is possible to tie the Dems current hypocrisy to the earlier event.”

Plus, Pelosi in a Pickle: “Even Richard Nixon didn’t have this much trouble explaining what he knew and when he knew it.” And this:

Pelosi wouldn’t be in such trouble if she’d just acknowledge that she didn’t object to waterboarding because, in the aftermath of 9/11, protecting America was Job One — and Washington didn’t care what it took to get the job done.

As New York’s Sen. Chuck Schumer told a Senate hearing in 2004:

“I think there are probably very few people in this room or in America who would say that torture should never, ever be used, particularly if thousands of lives are at stake.”

“It’s easy to sit back in the armchair and say that torture can never be used,” he added. “But when you’re in the foxhole, it’s a very different deal.”

Another pro-torture Democrat. There used to be a lot of ‘em. Now it’s their logic that’s tortured.

CHANGE: Islamists linked to al-Qaeda on verge of toppling Somali government. “More than 135 people have died and 34,000 have fled their homes in the city, leading to warnings from Western security agencies that al-Qaeda could regain a key strategic toehold on the Horn of Africa.”

TIM GEITHNER: “Secretary Loophole?” (Via NewsAlert).

DENVER POST: Dems red-faced over veteran imposter. “He spoke at a Barack Obama veterans rally in front of the Capitol in July, co-hosted several events with then- congressional candidate Jared Polis and attacked Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer in a TV ad paid for by the national group Votevets.org. And the mostly Democratic candidates he supported — looking for credibility on veterans issues and the war — lapped it up appreciatively. Now, politicians are dealing with news that the man they believed to be a former Marine and war veteran wounded in Iraq by a roadside bomb, in fact, never served in the military — but did spend time in a mental hospital.”

Doesn’t really matter. Election’s over, and he served his purpose. Meanwhile, advice for the future: If an antiwar “veteran” appears, do a background check. There have been so many fakes — Micah Wright, Jesse Macbeth, etc. — that you can’t just take their word for it.

CHANGE! Coal, Electric Industries Big Winners in Climate Bill Deal.

IMAGINARY MONEY, NEVER LETS YOU DOWN: About That Down Payment for Healthcare Reform (Missing Money Edition). Oh, wait, that was imaginary lovers. Never mind.

STEPHEN GREEN: Caracas On The Potomac.

The numbers would be bleak if they weren’t so scary. A budget deficit four times bigger than last year’s record red ink. One year’s debt equal to 13% of GDP. A record $3,550,000,000,000 budget. And 46% of that spending will be “paid” for by new borrowing.

But wait — there’s less!

There have been 5.7 million jobs lost since December. A lousy Treasury bond auction last week signals slower growth and higher inflation. And retail sales just dropped for the second straight month.

Read the whole thing.

A ROUNDUP OF THIS WEEK’S interesting new gadgets.

JON CORZINE’S financial wizardry.

GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE — A SNAPSHOT: VA doc: Other possible equipment errors reported. “Federal officials have been warning thousands of former patients they might have been exposed to infection at three Veterans Affairs facilities, yet other VA patients are not being warned about less serious mistakes with the same equipment at more than a dozen other VA centers. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ chief patient safety officer declined to identify those facilities. Dr. Jim Bagian (Bay-gin) said those instances did not involve an infection risk.” With bonus transparency.

STIMULUS! Obama’s Defense Cuts Cost St. Louis 30,000 Jobs.

UPDATE: Related: Stimulus Ignites Job-Killing Trade War With Canada.

PRESIDENT OBAMA WARNS ABOUT DEBT, and James Taranto comments:

Uh, what do you mean “we,” kemo sabe? Two weeks ago New York’s Daily News ran an op-ed by “an elected official in California”–not Nancy Pelosi, we’d guess–writing under the pseudonym Richard Henry Lee. “Lee” evaluated Obama’s personal finances and found that for several years the future president lived just the way he decried in Tempe.

Hell, he’s living that way now. Or rather, he’s governing that way. . . .

VIDEO: White House Dodges Question About Pelosi.

ENCOUNTERING NEMESIS.

The problem is that between 2003-2008 there was such hysterical antagonism to Bush that the combatants never worried about the often vicious means they used to achieve their supposedly lofty ends, and so now, finding themselves in a position of responsibility, are infuriated that anyone, well, would even conceive of playing hardball as they once did.

The striking thing about the sudden wounded-fawn Democratic syndrome is that Cheney is far milder than Gore was, that the CIA is not the firebrand Pelosi has been, and Bush has been silent about Obama in a way that even Clinton was not about Bush. If this softball stuff excites such outrage, what will happen if politics really get rough, say, as it was around 2007?

I expect we’ll find out.

CHANGE! Obama revives terror tribunals, dismaying liberals. “‘This is the best way to protect our country, while upholding our deeply held values,’ Obama said.”

DAWN JOHNSEN’S PROBLEMS WITH DEMOCRATS, EXPLAINED: “The thought going through my mind is that Dawn Johnsen was chosen to please some people — but she’s not supposed to get in. Looking at the way Obama’s going for some Bush era crap I have to wonder if he’d actually welcome someone like her in that position.” It’s all making sense, now . . . .

WAS THE STIMULUS irrelevant? To recovery, maybe. To the debt-bomb — definitely not!

YOU F*CKED UP — YOU TRUSTED US! Gov’t pressuring Bank of America board change. “A report Friday said federal officials are pressuring Bank of America Corp. to revamp its board and bring in directors with more banking experience. The story in The Wall Street Journal called the regulators’ move ‘unusual’ as the government does not own a stake in the company, and most of the bank’s problems are the result of its purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co., which was advised by regulators.”

WHY NOT? Audit The Fed.

MEMORY HOLE: New York Times wipes journalist’s online corpus.

WE’RE ALL IN the same gang.

I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO USE FOR THIS CAR, but it sure looks cool.

WHERE WAS THIS STUFF WHEN I WAS A KID? Some amazing backyard waterslides that I would have killed for. “This personal water park has three slides and inflates in less than 3 minutes.”

UPDATE: A warning from reader Matt Locke that captures the difference between having kids and being one:

Just saw your post on the backyard slides…we bought one 2 summers ago when it was about 98 degrees and humid. I have 4 kids and they love it. The downside…trying to put it away. I easily spend 1 hour trying to fold it and get it into a Rubbermaid container I bought especially for it (forget trying to get it into the bag it came with) and that’s after dragging it to the driveway where I leave inflated for hours to dry off cause if you don’t it kills the grass, and flip it over and over to try and get the water out of the inside as it gets water in there too. I wouldn’t take another one if you gave it to me…but if I was kid, I’d be all over it.

Ugh. Yeah, I see the downside.

THE HILL: Panetta Fires Back at Pelosi. (Via John in North Carolina).

UPDATE: Bill Quick: “Hmm. Panetta is Obama’s guy, installed to prevent the CIA from launching attacks on the president. So this can mean only one thing: Nancy Pelosi is being given a taste of the White House Whipping Stick. Hey, you got any more popcorn over there?”

TAXPROF: Would Obama be fired for audit threats if he worked for the IRS? Obama: “President Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS.”

That’s not really funny, and it’s not as if Obama has done much to enhance the credibility of the tax system so far. . . .

UPDATE: Reader Jay Stannard writes:

I want Obama to threaten me with a tax audit. Please! Because if he does, the IRS will never audit me. I’ll claim it’s politically motivated.

Not as good as Geithner’s protection, but I’ll take it.

Let me know how things work out.

ANN ALTHOUSE ON MILITARY COMMISSIONS, Obama is like Bush. More from Jon Stewart.

CLAUDIA ROSETT: A world sliding into danger.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: A nanorod breakthrough.

BUT WILL SOCIALIZED MEDICINE PAY FOR THEM? Tiny implants for treating chronic pain. “A tiny injectable implant, smaller than a grain of rice, might one day take the place of large neural stimulators used to treat chronic pain and other neurological disorders. The novel device, under development by MicroTransponder, a Dallas-based startup, owes its small size to the use of RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology like that used to tag clothes to prevent shoplifting.”

JIM GERAGHTY: Will Panetta Respond to Pelosi’s Accusation That the CIA ‘Misleads Us All the Time’?

TALKING POINTS MEMO: In Limbo: Dawn Johnsen’s Nomination Stalls Thanks to Democrats. So I guess my efforts to explain to Republicans why they shouldn’t block her have been kind of beside the point . . . .

FASTER, PLEASE: More on prospects for a Star Trek-style warp drive.

HOW ABOUT THAT? Health Care Leaders Say Obama Overstated Their Promise to Control Costs. It’s like you just can’t trust this guy or something.

WHAT DOES “UNSUSTAINABLE” LOOK LIKE?

HALF SIGMA: It’s cheaper to own a car than to use mass transit. Conclusion: “A walkable neighborhood, or an entirely walkable city like Manhattan, is a luxury good for rich people (a luxury good that I personally have been willing to pay for) and not an affordable alternative for regular middle class people, and especially not for regular middle class people with children.”

LIKE A 100 MPG CROC: Foam car to enter Automotive X-Prize competition.

IN THE MAIL: From Ed Husain, The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left.

MICKEY KAUS on the latest immigration developments.

THAT NORMAN HSU Hsure got around. I like the Obama picture. Plus this: “Hsu’s 1,700-square-foot apartment on Wooster Street also boasted a massive, stainless-steel wine cooler in the living room. The walls were hung with photos of a beaming Hsu alongside top-tier Dems, including then-candidate Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy. Hsu, who has confessed to running a Ponzi scheme, is being tried in Manhattan federal court for allegedly channeling illegal campaign contributions through other people.” I guess he’s one of those greedy “speculators” the Obama Administration is warning us about. . . .

UPDATE: Link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!

THE HILL: Reinventing Sen. Chris Dodd:

The Chris Dodd reclamation project is in full swing, but even Dodd admits it’s an iffy proposition. Facing all-time low approval ratings as he heads into the 2010 election, Sen. Dodd (D-Conn.) is reinventing himself to the voters he’s represented for almost 30 years.

The old Chris Dodd would have been on all the cable news and Sunday morning talk shows and shaking hands at glitzy D.C. events. The new Chris Dodd is doing more local events, keeping a low national profile and hoping that he has enough time to recover before Election Day. But he also candidly admits it could be too little, too late. He acknowledges he’s been beaten down pretty hard, and while others say the party is rallying around him, Dodd said he hasn’t made significant progress yet with Connecticut’s voters.

I hope a lot of Connecticut “Tea Party” folks start showing up at those local events.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE: Obama’s what? “In what meaningful sense has any aspect of Obama’s systematic dismantling of capitalism been conservative?” I’m gobsmacked that anyone would even make that claim.

THE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIALIZES ON JOHN MURTHA’S SHADY CONNECTIONS: “Mr. Murtha and two subcommittee colleagues, Peter Visclosky of Indiana and James Moran of Virginia, received more than $4 million in campaign contributions from contract hungry PMA Group clients, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In two recent budgets alone, the three earmarked $137 million for PMA Group clients. It is time to follow the money — all of it.”

CHARLES BABINGTON: Obama’s barbed words worry corporate world. “Relations between President Barack Obama and U.S. corporate leaders have grown tense in recent weeks, with business groups bristling over his sharp rebukes of lenders and multinational companies in particular. Executives and trade groups that praised Obama’s outreach during his post-election transition period say they have felt less welcome since he took office in January.”

Maybe a little due diligence before making all those donations and endorsements would have been a good idea? . . . .

ARE WE HEADING FOR “OBAMALAISE?”

I prefer baconnaise!

BUREAUCRATICS KILLING ASTHMATICS with new CFC-free inhalers. But they’re environmentally friendly!

HEH: Pelosi First Heard of 9/11 Attacks in Late 2003.