Dennis Kucinich had his day on the House floor today. The debate on his doomed bill to demand that Obama remove our troops from Afghanistan was full of the usual suspects making their usual arguments. I can’t help but wonder, if George Bush were still president, would there have been more than 60 votes of support from Democrats?
Ron Paul took his five minutes to continue his lifelong demonstration called, “How to follow the Constitution”.

...when it comes to federal deficit spending that is, with
February's coming in at $220 billion vs. a yearly deficit for 2007
of $161 billion. This is 14 percent higher than the previous
monthly record deficit, set just last February.

In her latest Forbes column, Reason Foundation Senior
Analyst Shikha Dalmia notes: "Pushing ObamaCare was an astonishing
misjudgment, the domestic policy equivalent of President Bush
launching a full-scale preemptive strike against Iran after
embroiling the country in Iraq and Afghanistan. But why don't
progressives get that this is terrible economic timing?"

Now this–this is a good
lede:

Among many conservatives, the rule is: Being
American means never having to say you're sorry. But as Steve
Chapman explains, Obama no more deserves condemnation for
recognizing our dark moments than does George W. Bush, who traveled
to Latvia to publicly disavow the post-World War II deal that
consigned it to the loving embrace of Josef Stalin. No government
is perfect, Chapman writes, and no nation is exempt from the
temptations of self-interest and hypocrisy. View this article.