Politics and other nightmares

This is kind of a pointless exercise:

For Mitt Romney, the 2012 election was held about a year too early.

Romney would hold a slight lead on President Obama if the 2012 election were replayed today, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

A politician who probably achieved more honesty than he was really trying for:

South Carolina Democratic congressman James Clyburn was forthright in laying out the motivation behind Obamacare: “If we were to look at what we were attempting to do with the Affordable Health Care Act [sic], you will know that what we’re trying to do is change a values system in our country.”

Speaking of delusions, The New York times (naturally) gives a forum to Marshall "scholar" James McAuley to spread a particularly vile one:

Hey, President Obama said it, not me:

Wow. I've seen some embarrassing retractions before and even had to make a painful one myself (taking back our endorsement of Bill Clinton), but this one from the folks at Patriot-News in Pennsulvania is a doozy:

Thanks for the analogy, Joe. Letting it die exactly like gun control seems like a pretty good idea:

Vice President Joe Biden’s message to immigration reform advocates: Don’t let your issue die like gun control did.

I'm still guilty of beating a dead horse or two, but there is at least one I've walked away from:

Is Obama's "administrative fix" to Obamacare even legal?

Charles Krauthammer gets the award for Conservative Wishful Thinker of the Day:

Look, what we have as you mentioned in the opening, we have not just Obamacare unraveling, not just the Obama administration unraveling, not just the Democratic majority in the Senate [unraveling] — but we could be looking at the collapse of American liberalism.

I find myself in agreement with a Washington Post editorial:

I suppose some zealous constitutional nuts will object to this on civil liberties grounds: