Politics and other nightmares

Om CBS's "60 Minutes," Sunday, President Obama responded to Steve Kroft's mention that the national debt has climbed 60 percent on the president's watch by claiming that the defict increase is only 10 percent his fault: "When I came into office, I inherited the biggest deficit in our history. And over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90% of that is as a consequence of two wars that weren't paid for, as a consequence of tax cuts that weren't paid for, a prescription drug plan that was not paid for, and then the worst economic crisis since the Great Depressi

Some things are just so breathtakingly stupefying that it's hard to even know what to say:

In remarks this morning to the Clinton Global Initiative, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proposed a radical idea: a global tax on elites around the world.

Today's "funny old world" entry:

France is set to ban the words "mother" and "father" from all official documents under controversial plans to legalise gay marriage.

A daring, brilliant idea that should have happened here instead of Honduras:

Small government and free-market capitalism are about to get put to the test in Honduras, where the government has agreed to let an investment group build an experimental city with no taxes on income, capital gains or sales.

Can't I leave you people alone at all? I'm gone just a week and return to find the 1st Amendment about to be chucked. First, there's this clown:

I think CBS News President David Rhodes was just denying the obvious when he told a conference he was attending that CBS isn't biased, that CBS is indeed a "beacon of unbiased news." He says he consideres it a great day when CBS "takes incoming from both sides" about they handled a story, which is the kind of nonsense we've always spouted in the media to show how "fair" we are. Hey, everybody hates us, so we must be balanced. Or maybe we're just worthy of being hated.

Hey, we can play bipartisan "Gotcha!" in accusing politicians of improperly using their office. First up is everybody's favorite anti-smoking legislator, State Rep. Charlie Brown, D-Gary, who accuses Gov. Mitch Daniels of "overstepping his role" by sending out a statement about his upcoming role as Purde president from the governor's office and using the governor's staff:

Wow. How many ways can Obama be like Carter?

Gov. Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later,” President Obama said in a CBS interview last night, criticizing Romney’s reaction to the embassy attack in Cairo. Romney criticized the Obama administration’s ‘apology’ in response to the attacks on the embassy and subsequent failure to condemn the attacks right away.

Is he out of his mind?

If Washington really wants to help businesses, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that politicians need to stop obsessing so much over tax rates.

Last week's Democratic National Convention, in a nutshell: