No Runny Eggs

I wanted to finish Michelle Malkin’s latest book, Culture of Corruption, before I went off canoeing. Instead, various things intruded, and I made it to Ray LaHood, Earmark Man. Still, I highly recommend you heading over to Amazon or your favorite local bookstore, and ordering it while I’m on vacation.

She chronicles many of the players in the most-corrupt beginning of an administration in recent memory, starting with describing Obama Nominee Withdrawal Syndrome, going through the Bitter Half, blasting through Plugs, skewering the members of the Cabinet that didn’t withdraw, dances through the czars (or more properly, the commissars), runs down the Mad Money Men, hunts the union label, pops some ObamACORN, and closes with some fresher Clinton stuff.

Some random quotes to whet your appetite:

• (Following a list of those “Achievatrons” who withdrew their nominations after problems) – And those were just some of the bodies thrown under the bus before the 100-day mark. Heckuvajob, Obama vetters!
• You never get a second chance to make a first post-inaugural impression. Less than three weeks into his first 100 days, Barack Obama left indelible marks on his nascent presidency: the marks of incompetence and hubris.
• (A subtitle in the chapter on “The other Michelle”) – Earmarks and Edifice Complex
• (A ditty to the tune of something from Sesame Street at the end of that chapter) – Oh, these are cronies in Michelle and Barry’s neighborhood.
  They’re the people that they met (and did business with, and socialized with, and traded favors with) each day,…. (note; we need to get The Ventilators back together)
• Like the Naked Emperor of Hope and Change in the Oval Office, the Court Jester of Reform in the vice president’s office has no clothes.

There will be a test when I finally get back in normal comms (just kidding, I think). I could cheat and speed-read in the couple hours I’ll be conscious between the canoe trip and RightOnline, but I definitely will be taking it with me to Pittsburgh.