1. Waterloo — Barack Obama Intends to Break the Back of the American People

2. Desperation from the White House on Health Reform: the DNC Targets Democrats with TV Ads

3. Postal Service at risk at not making payroll?

4. Indiana budget in surplus

5. WH Official: Porkulus Transparency Will Cause ‘Kerfuffle

6. A Small Victory For Justice

1. Waterloo — Barack Obama Intends to Break the Back of the American People

Jim DeMint, on a conference call the other day, said healthcare is Barack Obama’s Waterloo. If healthcare fails, Obama is broken.

Jake Tapper reports the White House intends to use that comment to rally its troops in the healthcare fight.

Officials will say the people being “broken” are the American people going bankrupt paying for health insurance premiums that increase 10 percent every year, the source says, and that those who want to use this issue to break the president are doing nothing but working for insurance companies and insurance executives.

Um, actually Barry and Rahm, the American people are broke now because of your spending. And we cannot afford more.

It is laughably outrageous that Barack Obama would dare say health insurance is driving Americans to bankruptcy when the very plan he proposes would bankrupt the entire country.

Irony with Barack Obama knows no bounds.

Just the other day, Barack Obama said , “I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade. And by helping improve quality and efficiency, the reforms we make will help bring our deficits under control in the long term.”

Yet, every single Democrat proposal compounds the deficit to such a massive degree that the CBO has not had time to do all the math and its latest numbers are subject to further change.

See, for example, this press report:

“The $1 trillion plan, which was unveiled on Tuesday, “would result in a net increase in the federal budget deficit of $239 billion over the 2010-2019 period,” according to a report submitted to Congress by the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation.”

The American people are broke. It is not the insurance companies that did. It’s Obama’s out of control spending.

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2. Desperation from the White House on Health Reform: the DNC Targets Democrats with TV Ads

WE INTERRUPT THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED WAR BETWEEN THE REPUBLICANS AND THE DEMOCRATS TO BRING YOU MORE DEMOCRAT ON DEMOCRAT POLITICAL VIOLENCE. RECENT TRENDS POINT TO INCREASED INCIDENTS AND INTENSITY OF SUCH VIOLENCE. GENERALS DEAN AND OBAMA HAVE BEEN QUOTED AS SAYING THAT NO COST IS TOO HIGH TO ACHIEVE VICTORY IN THE HEALTH CARE WAR AND FRIENDLY FIRE CAUSALITIES ARE A UNFORTUNATE BUT NECESSARY COST OF BATTLE.

Once you’ve wrapped your mind around that piece of news, you should know that the DEM on DEM TV ATTACKS are not being carried out by just the DNC. RollCall reports that President Obama’s campaign operation turned advocacy group is also running attack ads against their own party members.

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S COMPLETE AGREEMENT WITH MOVEON.ORG ON THE GOVERNMENT PLAN OPTION EXTENDS ALSO TO ATTACKING HIS OWN PARTY MEMBERS, JUST AS THE MOVEON.ORG TV ADS ATTACKED DEMOCRATS.

Pure and simple, it’s desperation.

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3. Postal Service at risk at not making payroll?

Back last month, House Minority Leader John Boehner made the following comment about government-run health care options:

“Listen, if you like going to the DMV and you think they do a great job, or you like going to the post office and think it’s the most efficient thing you’ve run into, then you’ll love the government-run health care system that they’re proposing because that’s basically what you’re going to have,”

…to which a variety of people who do, indeed, love the DMV/Post Office as examples of government-run agencies reacted in various levels of reflexively sardonic befuddlement. The DMV comparison was usually skipped over, in favor of the USPS: after all, what’s wrong with them? 44 cents for a stamp, send it out, gets where it’s going. Great, right?

Sure. Until they can’t make payroll.

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4. Indiana budget in surplus

Most state budgets are in crisis. The Big Picture’s Barry Ritholtz notes that state tax revenue has fallen sharply the last two quarters. The left wing Center for Budget and Policy Priorities notes that “[a]t least 48 states addressed or are facing shortfalls in their budgets for the upcoming year.”

Not Indiana. Under Mitch Daniels’ leadership the state reported a $1.3b surplus. The State Auditor Tim Berry noted that they even raised school funding.

The Louisville paper notes that tax revenue was even down $1.2b below projections.

Mitch Daniels is a Republican.

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5. WH Official: Porkulus Transparency Will Cause ‘Kerfuffle

For Congressional Democrats, it never rains, but it pours. If they thought their votes for the ’stimulus’ bill might look better with time, the White House has some bad news.

National Journal has posted a transcript of its interview with ’stimulus’ overseer Earl Devaney. If you opposed porkulus, the interview is as frustrating and entertaining as you’d expect. If you voted for it, you might want to brush up that resume and look for new opportunities.

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6. A Small Victory For Justice

Spain’s National Court has taken a significant step in recapturing the Spanish judicial system from the grasp of a modern day Javert by quashing the indictments against three American soldiers accused of murder in the deaths of a Spanish journalist and Ukrainian national employed as a cameraman by Reuters. The Spanish prosecutor in question, Santiago Pedraz, has exhibited something of a monomania in his attempts to criminalize legitimate, if unfortunate, acts of war. He has had an arrest warrant issued in 2005 and a 2007 indictment quashed but he had recently reinstated the indictments yet again.

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