http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-now-selling-appeals-court-judgeships-health-care-votes

Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson’s brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Let’s see if Mr. Matheson rubs Barry’s back in return.

They don’t even care how it looks anymore. There’s either some kind of Democrat suicide pact in effect, or the fix is already in and voters won’t matter.

Sometimes I feel like I’m just waiting for Palpatine to dissolve the Senate, now.

OK, seriously? You don’t need to bow to the mayor of Tampa just because she’s Asian.

FAIL.

And today:

President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul has "run into a bit of a buzz saw" and acknowledges the process is looking ugly. Nonetheless he says he’ll keep working to finish sweeping legislation. 

Obama on the Pantybomber

"This was a screw up that could have been disastrous," the president said during a meeting in the White House situation room, according to the White House media office. "We dodged a bullet but just barely. It was averted by brave individuals not because the system worked and that is not acceptable. While there will be a tendency for finger pointing, I will not tolerate it."

First of all, he "will not tolerate" any "finger-pointing" but he’s pointed out that it was an intelligence failure, which means he himself is pointing fingers at the CIA. Sure, the CIA fucked up, but what’s wrong with the rest of us saying so? The idiot makes no sense.

Secondly, like all liberals, he has again expressed his over-reliance and faith in a "system" rather than individuals. Liberals believe we need a new health care "system" because they don’t think individuals should be responsible for their own choices. We need security "systems" rather than creatively thinking people with good judgment. We need global "systems" of governance to control what people make and emit and buy and sell and build and burn. The strengths and abilities and God-given capacity for reason are more effective, but less governable, and therefore their exercise, even in positive ways, isn’t as desirable as a top-down infrastructure operated by ivy-league intellectuals and one-worlders.

The amazing part is that not once in human history has a centrally-controlled oligarchy produced a society based on freedom, prosperity and personal property. And yet this kind of intellectual, elitist arrogance persists.