The Ship is Sinking: Quick, Add Water:

Let’s imagine that President Obama decides to go help out in Fargo, N.D., where they are experiencing floods. Mr. Obama enters the home of a flooded family. The water is already six inches high in the living room. The president produces a fire hose and begins to douse the room with even more water. “What are you doing?” cry the anguished homeowners. The president fixes them with one of his impatient looks, and explains “May I remind you that I inherited this flood?”

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Holder Overrode Ruling That Measure Is Unconstitutional:

On the ‘Democrats Doing Everything Humanly Possible To Shore Up Their Constituency And Increase Their Base, The Law And The Constitution Be Damned” front, we have the following the Washington Post:

“Justice Department lawyers concluded in an unpublished opinion earlier this year that the historic D.C. voting rights bill pending in Congress is unconstitutional, according to sources briefed on the issue. But Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who supports the measure, ordered up a second opinion from other lawyers in his department and determined that the legislation would pass muster.”

Imagine that. The Attorney General of the United States willing to circumvent the Constitution - a seemingly recurrent theme of this administration -  to give the overwhelmingly democrat Washington DC seats in the House.

Full story: A Split At Justice On D.C. Vote Bill
Some additional commentary from Ed Whelan at National Review
More still from Ed Morrissey at Hot Air

Michelle Malkin: Cap-and-trade, “reconciliation,” and the death of deliberation:

“The Democrats want to rig the game so you don’t have time to figure out this latest act of collective thievery before it’s perpetrated. They have been colluding on a plan to circumvent the Senate’s 60-vote threshold and amendment process by attaching their massive green tax scheme to a special budget legislative maneuver (“budget reconciliation” in the parlance of the Washington sausage-makers).”

Full story here: The Shut Up and Swallow Congress

-Cnation