The Washington Post is complaining about the “maddening strategy” of Social Security supporters in an editorial that may lead readers to believe they have gone off the deep end.

Professional lefting is hard work.

Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater has become the latest hero to those who are fed up with their lack of dignity on the job — or the equally large number of people who are fed up with the lack of dignity when flying.

Here’s the Pulitzer Prize winner, explaining why the First Lady’s vacation in Spain is so tasteless and unBush-like.

I guess Michael Bennet won his primary in Colorado yesterday, but his winning total of votes came in under both GOP contenders. The Connecticut Governor’s primary featured just 20% Democratic turnout. While I’ve seen a lot of talk about the positive results for Democrats in last night’s primaries, it seems to me the story is about the lack of participation on the Democratic side.

John Hickenlooper, Mayor of Denver and Democratic nominee for Governor of Colorado, may be the single luckiest Democrat running for office this year. Only a few months ago, it looked like he was going to face a very tough election against a solid Republican candidate, Scott McInnis, in a bad political climate for Democrats. Polling [...]

Fiscal policy is stuck, the product of a deficit-obsessed political class. They managed to get $26.1 billion through the Congress yesterday in state fiscal aid, but it’s offset (at least some of it is offset correctly, a few years down the road, so that the immediate effect is stimulative), and anything beyond that would be near impossible, at least for the rest of the year. The White House has a few options – they’re still sitting on close to $50 billion from the HAMP program – but given the political environment, they aren’t likely to do much at this time.

House progressives, angered by the continued chipping away of the federal food stamp program as a pay-for in various bills, are taking a stand with the child nutrition bill, which the Senate passed before leaving for their August recess. That bill paid for increases to the federal school lunch program with food stamp cuts, essentially cutting a child’s dinner to pay for their lunch.

Watching the flap with Robert Gibbs and his “inartful” comments that lashed out at the Left because of cable news talking points spewed by the Right made two words leap to my mind: displaced anger.

• Obama’s guy wins in CO.
• The Quitter’s gal fails to win in GA.
• Arizona Teabaggers rally for more government.
• Uh, Governor Patterson? Not helping.
• When do we commence the war on dogs?