New York: Virginia

Well, it's official, NY is bucking the national trend to an extent. In Virginia and New Jersey, independent voters broke heavily for the Republicans, leading to one expected and one surprising victory in gubernatorial races. But in New York, good old liberal New York, Democrats voted for Democrats, independents voted for Democrats, and even Republicans voted for Democrats. New York remains liberal Democratic.

I said it after the 2008 election and after the Murphy special election...can we PLEASE stop lying about how upstate is "heavily Republican". It is NOT TRUE anymore, no matter what the old enrollments say. It's not brain surgery or rocket science.

I can't figure it out. First the press is claiming that attacking Obama is hurting the GOP, but then they're claiming that attacking conservatives is hurting Obama. It's almost as if they're just making carp up and don't actually have a clue what's going on or something. ;)

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A White House effort to undermine conservative critics is generating a backlash on Capitol Hill — and not just from Republicans.

“It’s a mistake,” said Rep. Jason Altmire, a moderate Democrat from western Pennsylvania. “I think it’s beneath the White House to get into a tit for tat with news organizations.”

Altmire was talking about the Obama administration’s efforts to undercut Fox News.

Ann Coulter with more lies about socializing health care:
(9) If you like Medicare, you'll love national health care, which will just extend Medicare's benefits to everyone.

...Not only is Medicare bankrupt, but it is extremely limited in whom and what it covers. If Medicare were a private insurer, it would be illegal in many states for failing to cover hearing aids, podiatry, acupuncture, chiropractic care, marriage counseling, aromatherapy and gender reassignment surgery.

Moreover, Medicare payments aren't enough to pay the true cost of those medical services it does cover. With Medicare undercutting payments to hospitals and doctors for patients 65 and older, what keeps the American medical system afloat are private individuals who are not covered by Medicare paying full freight (and then some).

Another long Saturday post for you this week. So long that a lot of it is becoming your random Sunday. Go ahead and read it in bites because blogging will be light this upcoming week. Another long post tomorrow that may make some sort of sense and fill the gap, also.

IBD on the bleak economy (you remember 'the economy', don't you? it's that thing that was showing signs of recovery before the Democrats and Obama started spending trillions we don't have while planning to take over and/or tax to death free enterprise?), this one's long, but still trimmed a lot, and it's worth it:
At this point in a normal downturn lasting 11 months, the economy should be booming — with big jumps in GDP and 300,000 new jobs each month coming mostly from the private sector.