"What messages did our president's bait-and-switch speech just send?

"To our troops: Risk your lives for a mission I've written off.

"To our allies: Race you to the exit ramp.

"To the Taliban: Allah is merciful, your prayers will soon be answered.

"To Afghan leaders: Get your stolen wealth out of the country.

"To Pakistan: Renew your Taliban friendships now (and be nice to al Qaeda)."

"Here is a math problem for you: Assume that the legislation establishing government control of medical care is passed and that it 'brings down the cost of medical care.' You pay $500 a year less for your medical care, but the new costs put on employers is passed on to consumers, so that you pay $300 a year more for groceries and $200 a year more for gasoline, while the new mandates put on insurance companies raise your premiums by $300 a year, how much money have you saved?"

"The economy wants to heal itself. But the president keeps heaping burdens upon it. His job approval has tumbled as Americans recoil from the taxes and spending proposed in Obamacare and cap and trade, and from the massive debt he's piling up.

"For the economy to grow, government must shrink. But the president and Congress are rushing pell mell in the opposite direction."

"[T]he combined total [for Thanksgiving dinner for U.S. forces overseas]: 267,399 pounds of turkey; 63,776 pounds of ham; 61, 813 pounds of stuffing; 65,329 pounds of potatoes; 51,652 pies. These numbers don't include the burgeoning figures for the rest of the menu: roast beef, shrimp, cranberry sauce, corn, green beans, sweet potatoes and cake. 

"The mind reels. But the heart is warmed."

"No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems -- of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind."

“If ObamaCare passes with its expansion of Medicaid benefits -- but with no federal funding of the extra spending -- it is [state governors] and their legislatures that will have to bite the bullet and pass new taxes to pay for it.

"Since states are already facing mammoth financial problems as a result of dwindling revenues and swelling expenditures in the recession, these additional burdens could be politically fatal. Unless Democratic governors want to avoid the fate of one of their late brethren, former Gov. Jon Corzine of New Jersey, whose political career was ended in a blaze of new taxes, they might want to call their buddies in Congress and ask them to lay off the unfunded mandates, particularly during this recession.”

"A climate crisis of worldwide proportions is unfolding right before our eyes, and not even the most powerful world leaders can do anything to stop it. It looks like 2009 may very well turn out to be the fourth straight year of declining global temperatures at a time when carbon dioxide levels continue to rise - the opposite of what was predicted by vaunted climate models...

"For now, continuous falling temperatures are truly a global crisis, coming at a time when some very powerful people will soon be meeting in Copenhagen to remedy increasing temperatures. World leaders should stay home and enjoy the weather. Unless, of course, they're not as concerned about changing climate as they are about redistributing wealth."

“[T]his whole discussion [of jobs created or saved by the stimulus] has had an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ quality from the very beginning. You can't measure saved jobs. Arguing over the precision or imprecision of the numbers, which are fictional at the beginning, is like arguing that there are [not] 12 angels on the head of a pin but only ten, one of them is a leprechaun and the other flew away on Wednesday. This whole thing has a bizarre quality about it.

"And when you hear these reports, as we're hearing now with the fictional congressional districts, what the risk for the administration is that it becomes an object of ridicule. And once that happens, it's hard to actually stop.”

"President Barack Obama's job approval rating is under 50% for the first time, according to a new national survey from Quinnipiac University. The survey, conducted November 9-16 among 2,518 registered voters, shows 48% approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president, while 42% disapprove. That is a slight decline from Quinnipiac's last poll in early October, which showed 50% approval and 41% disapproval."

"In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes."