Republicans Don't Understand Their Own Legislation, Elizabeth Warren Should Go Home, WSJ Editorial Tortures Logic . . .

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In a surprise development today Mitt Romney announced that he is going to announce that he will announce that his announcement that announces that he is announcing his candidacy for the Presidency will take place in New Hampshire early next month.  The “surprise” referred to in the first sentence was that this was a surprise to several cloistered monks in Tibet.

Politico reports that Republicans have had to cancel a scheduled vote on a law to change unemployment benefits because Republican freshmen and rank-and-file members alike . . . didn’t want to vote for a bill they didn’t understand.  This is odd, since lack of understanding of what is in a bill has never stopped Republicans or Democrats from voting on it before.

Elizabeth Warren needs to go home, to Massachusetts that is and run for the U. S. Senate against Scott Brown.  Ms. Warren  is in line to head the new consumer protection agency that was created in the financial reform process, but for reasons not clear she has become the bane of the Republicans, the symbol of all that they are against.  She will never gain approval, and she needs to stop portraying a target for the Conservatives.  A Senate run should put the seat in play, and joining the Senate is the best revenge for Mr. Warren.

The Wall Street Journal editorial tortures logic again (we understand that they are in favor of torture, but really what has logic ever done to them except contradict their positions).  They take up the case of Paul Wolfowitz who was forced out as head of the World Bank many years ago after the world learned that he had used his position to promote and increase the compensation of his girlfriend, who was employed at the World Bank.  The WSJ editorial claim is that the Dominique Strauss-Kahn situation at the IMF clears Mr. Wolfowitz of improper behavior at the World bank years earlier.  Anyone who can follow the logic here is entitled to a post-doc in Philosophy at a third rate University.

A Federal Judge in Virginia has ruled that the restriction on direct campaign contributions by Corporations is not valid because of the Supreme Court’s ruling that Corporations are people last year and have rights under the Constitution.  Didn’t everyone see that coming?

From the Los Angeles Times comes an explanation of why the public hates government and politicians.

California's highest-paid public pensioner will continue receiving his roughly $500,000 annual retirement despite his guilty plea Thursday to misusing public funds

This is just wrong in so many ways.