Headline in the WSJ today: “Experts See Another Global Dip Ahead”. Well, we know that Obama is going to be President for the next three years, and we’re not quite past him yet, and obviously he’s still got a lot more yet to come.

So let’s thank the WSJ for being Masters of the Obvious.

Many of you have been wondering. What kind of woman would have sexual intercourse with John Edwards while his wife was back home wasting away with cancer? According Andrew Young’s new tell-all; a crzay one. The WSJ dishes below:

Hunter’s pregnancy: According to Young, Hunter called him in May 2007 to say she was pregnant. ….Young says that Edwards asked him for help persuading Hunter to have an abortion. Young writes that Hunter believed the baby to be “some kind of golden child, the reincarnated spirit of a Buddhist monk who was going to help save the world.”

Always classy, that John Edwards…

From their website listing supporting organizations…

National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance

Gee, I’d think maybe dieting would do more to improve the health of those folks. But then again, I am a racist. Or whatever…

I’m sorry.

I’m so terribly, terribly sorry.

SFW Gawker link.

Forgive me.

Please forgive me.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

Conrad Black is more studious than I. If were blogging this topic w/o his work, it would been. He lives. He breathes. He hasn’t resigned yet. Mr. Black’s more professional evaluation follows below….

The president has three principal problems. He is well to the left of the public and of what he promised the voters in 2008, and his is an old, passé leftism — one that is authoritarian and deviously presented, and was discredited in this country decades ago; it featured the sort of nostrums that caused Bill Clinton and others to become “New Democrats.” Obama is increasingly perceived as having credibility problems and of being cold, cocksure, narcissistic, and intoxicated by what he modestly called “the gift” of his own articulateness. And, as president, he has been quite, and quite surprisingly, incompetent.

Yep, that would be a good postmortem for his failure come 2012.

It seems the bloggers at Baseline Scenario are no fans of Helicopter Ben. Fair enough. Some reasonable reportage follows below.

The case for Ben Bernanke’s reappointment was weak to start with, weakened with his hearings, and is now held together by string and some phone calls from the White House……The support for Bernanke in the Senate hangs by a thread – with Harry Reid providing a message of support, albeit lukewarm, after the markets close. The White House is telling people that if Bernanke is not reconfirmed there will be chaos in the markets and the economic recovery will be derailed. This is incorrect.

Then they uncork an idea that explains why nobody trusts the Internet. Hey! Let’s replace Big Spending Ben with Paul Krugman. I kid you not - they claim Stalin of The Econ Faculty Lounge will decrease uncertainty. Stuff that I wish was imaginary follows below.

The danger here is uncertainty – the markets fear a prolonged policy vacuum. Fortunately, there is a way to address this. Ben Bernanke should withdraw and the president should nominate Paul Krugman to take his place.

Yep, that’s it. Let’s get America’s foremost Left Keynesian in cahrge of the Fed. That should prevent the Kulacks from feeling any further uncertainty regarding Barack Obama’s agenda whatsoever.

Now the first person in the article is a Democrat and you know when the AP neglects to mention party affiliation it just gets your antennae up When will politicians go back to being just about the people and not themselves?

” WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — After a six-year run in the NFL, Greg Skrepenak came home to Pennsylvania and parlayed his name recognition and hometown popularity into a seat on the Luzerne County Board of Commissioners.

He’d campaigned as a reformer. It turns out he was anything but: Prosecutors charged him last month with accepting $5,000 in gifts from a developer seeking public financing of a condominium project. He is scheduled to plead guilty on Tuesday.

Another day, another fallen politician in the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania, where FBI agents and federal prosecutors have spent the past year rooting out government corruption in a hardscrabble region known for its pay-to-play politics, suspicion of outsiders and resistance to political change.

Twenty-three people in Luzerne County - including a school superintendent, three county judges, four courthouse officials, and five school board members - have been charged so far in a variety of unrelated schemes.”

If there are any Republicans in there they are as DISGUSTING as the Democrats however when the AP LIES by omission it is usually well ALWAYS Democrats who are caught up in the corruption!

The TSA promised to get serious about security after the latest fiasco with the holiday underwear bomber… that is just as soon as they finish playing jokes.

PHILADELPHIA — A college student returning to school after the winter break fell victim to a prank at Philadelphia’s airport by a Transportation Security Administration worker who pretended to plant a plastic bag of white powder in her carryon luggage. ~ Fox News

Comes from Matt Welch over at Reason (although he wrote it for CNN), and it should serve as a useful answer for everybody who wants to play “Let’s try to scare the right-wing by talking about scaaaaaaary foreign corporations:”

“Let’s boil it down to the essential words: Political documentary, banned, government.”

You can safely assume that anybody not taking the point is probably not going to. One way, or the other.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

Jules Crittenden, on John Kerry, and the way he’s been (and will keep being) upstaged by Scott Brown:

It’s like a weird and terrible destiny. Not quite a Kennedy, not much as a senator, not quite president, and now, when his party holds White House, House and Senate, and he’s racked up all the seniority, not quite relevant.

There is something malignant about the way that karma keeps catching up with the now-senior Senator for Massachusetts… or, maybe there’s not.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.