So this is entirely on the Senate to fail to come up with an adjournment motion. Jeff Sessions planned to block unanimous consent. And while seeking cloture would have had them sitting around a couple days, Democrats may have figured they couldn’t get 7 Republicans to agree to adjourn. Or maybe Harry Reid just wanted to go home. So Reid never even made the motion.

Chuck Todd improperly called signing the PATRIOT Act with an autopen “robosigning.” They’re not actually the same thing. Robosigning as currently used is when a poorly paid live person signs a name to a document (though maybe not the one whose name gets signed), claiming to attest to the accuracy of documents without actually doing so. By ordering that PATRIOT be signed using his autopen, Obama gave the law the full weight of law, yet without actually signing the document.

Look, if one of our female soldiers gets pregnant as a result of rape — it’s her fault. She should’ve planned ahead.

The manner in which we justify bombing “bad people” as we define them does seem to get ever more circular in its logic.

Jeff Beck — Beck’s Bolero, Immigrant Song (with Jimmie Page), and The Peter Gunn Theme, at Beck’s 2009 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Why does Mr. O hate our civil liberties?

It is telling that Gadhafi is not even mentioned in the document at all. And certainly, this does not hew to the demands of the Libyan rebels that Gadhafi leave the country and go into exile. But I would say it offers a framework to ease the current regime from the scene and install a more democratic structure. Obviously Gadhafi hasn’t backed up prior agreements with actions.

Right now, opposition to PATRIOT excesses is still mostly a Democratic issue (though Rand Paul definitely took the leadership role Russ Feingold would have had in the past). Until more Republicans join Paul, Heller, and Lee in opposing PATRIOT, it’ll remain on the books, particularly so long as we have a Democratic President whom Democratic Senators are happy to have wielding such power.

I think the economists are making it all up as they go along. I’m not sure any group of people can be so consistently wrong on so many levels.

Massachusetts is still struggling with controlling health care costs since it decided to embrace health care reform by just expanding our broken private insurance system to cover more people. A problem in Massachusetts, which is common around the country, is that there are huge variances in what is paid for the same procedure.