Bob Beckel’s crudely determinative analysis

.. beats Mr. Rot's oh so sophisticated hard analysis. Welcome to Habsburgian America.

The Sandra Fluke America

...a nation staggering around with a giant condom rolled over its collective head.

Mann not happy with Steyn

And the lights all went out in Massachusetts the day I left her standing on her own

If America were as centrally governed as France, it would have broken up long ago. But hey, that’s no reason not to try it!

Soaring through the slough of despond

Steyn recaps the four stages of Pepean grief

Glick's view.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains

And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

Frantically kicking the can down the road

..even as the leg becomes too wizened, clotted and arthritic to nudge it more than another inch or two.

Going downhill

A Zacharias and Elisabeth world

Our finances are better than those of Greece. And Italy. And, er, Zimbabwe. Probably.

A Gormy, sleepy Versailles

Bankrolling American debauchery

America is a moat, and it’s filled with government spendaholics. You could toss a poor alligator in there, but they’d pick him clean in seconds, and leave what was left for Nancy Pelosi’s shoes.