We could sure use a lot less Jane Harmon out here on the westside . . . hmmmm, one never knows ’cause as Ace reminds us, “. . . the basic operating theory this election: Virtually no Democrat is safe.”

From his keyboard to . . .

Philly requiring bloggers to pay $300 for a business license — Wow! That’s not anything we like to hear — hope it doesn’t become a trend. Wonder if it’s really for revenue generation or just a new means to control freedom of speech?

Mark Tapscott presents a quick list of facts to help us ward off the Democrat meme of how terrible the cost of the Iraq war has been and sure — it’s all Bush’s fault. Yawn.

* Obama’s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War — more than $100 billion (15%) more.

* Just the first two years of Obama’s stimulus cost more than the entire cost of the Iraq War under President Bush, or six years of that war.

* Iraq War spending accounted for just 3.2% of all federal spending while it lasted.

Plenty more facts there so go and read it. In another piece, Mark highlights this little piece of financial terror:

* By 2020, half of all income tax revenues will go toward paying interest on a $23 trillion national debt.

Over at the Telegraph, they are discussing whether Obama believes that he’s bigger than the Presidency.

They might also be a glimpse of the future. For Obama, the crowning moment of his presidency have been speeches abroad – the statement in Strasbourg that America had been “dismissive and arrogant”, the address to the Muslim world from Cairo, the acceptance in Oslo of the Nobel Peace Prize.

In Berlin in 2008, Obama cast himself as a “citizen of the world”. He has dismissed the bedrock notion of American exceptionalism by describing it, also in Strasbourg, as little more than narrow patriotism. Elite opinion among liberal Ivy League types – of which Obama is the embodiment – holds that we are already living in a post-American world.

There are few Americans who see themselves as bigger than the presidency but Obama could well be one of them.

Uh . . . oh goody, another speech coming. Bated breath, not.

At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey drops this bomb:

Remember in December when the White House said it would make a “hard pivot” from health care to jobs? That “hard pivot” didn’t materialize until months later, and in a completely different form than one might have assumed. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Obama administration’s moratorium on drilling in the Gulf cost Americans 23,000 jobs — and that Barack Obama knew it when he ordered it:

Michelle Malkin has more on that, along with this quote from the Chamber of Commerce about another one of Obama’s pet projects:

U.S. Chamber of Commerce economist Martin Regalia on Monday said the tax increases advocated by President Obama would essentially kill any chance for an economic rebound.

“That’s what you’re suggesting, is a corporate bullet in the head,” Regalia said. “That is going to be a bullet in the head for an awful lot of people that are going to be laid off and an awful lot of people who are hoping to get their jobs back.”

Hang on tight kiddies . . . it’s a gonna be a wild one!

My dear friend Jack sent me the link to this one, thanks Jack!

On a related note:

CBO BOMB: 'Deficits will cause debt to rise to unsupportable levels'...

Cost of debt skyrocketing...

Defense Dept. can't account for $8.7 billion...

Mass. Legislature approves plan to bypass Electoral College...

And, if that weren’t enough, the next time some lefty in your midst starts ranting about the GOP being the party of the rich and disconnected, remind them of these:

$11,000 cake for Chelsea's $5 million wedding...

Sen. Kerry to pay $500K tax on yacht.

We have a primary out here in La La Land today, along with several other states including Nevada and Arkansas. Over at The Kitchen Cabinet they have prepared a list of critical Senate races and are tracking the primaries, and in the fall, will cover the general election.

Keep one thing in mind if you are not feeling the current zeitgeist of our Obama/Pelosi/Reid-controlled federal government:

VOTE REPUBLICAN!

Every race. And, if there are multiple candidates in the primary, vote for the Republican that is most likely to win — even if he/she isn’t ideologically “pure”. Putting up a weak candidate against the Democrat opponent is a vote for that Democrat — and also a vote to keep Pelosi in control of the House and Reid in control of the Senate (should he survive, and his chances of that are greater if the Tea Party candidate is elected to run against him!)

House cleaning can come later — this time it’s gotta be in it, to win it!

Failing that, get ready for more bowing and scraping to our enemies, dissing of our allies, a nuclear armed Iran, Cap & Tax, more federal takeovers of private enterprise, illegal immigrant amnesty, and ever-more-expanding government employment instead of increases in private-sector employment — along with an entitlement express train run amok!

VOTE! The futures of your children and their children depend upon it!