THE DAILY BLADE: Dispatch From Bizzaroland
For those who believe that not engaging in commerce by not buying health insurance is really engaging in commerce by not buying health insurance, that you have to pass a bill before you can find out what’s in it and that the federal government is exercising its control over our borders by declining to control our borders, this McClatchy Newspapers article is for you:
Obama says the government has to fix Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to avoid fiscal disaster. He just doesn't think he should be the first one to say how. …
Where leaders such as FDR and LBJ once could send specific legislation to Congress and see it enacted, things changed in recent decades. Bill Clinton proposed a detailed health care plan in 1993 - and cartoonists had a field day lampooning it, lobbyists ganged up against it and Congress gave up on it. George W. Bush tried to propose major changes in Social Security in 2005, and Democrats ripped his plan to pieces.
Now comes the Obama model. He never sent specific health care legislation to Congress, yet managed to enact sweeping changes in a law that his party had sought since Harry Truman. He proposed only broad principles for financial regulation, and got what's arguably the most ambitious regulation of Wall Street since the 1930s.
Changing entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security will be harder: He faces a Republican-led House of Representatives on this one. And he'll eventually have to offer more specifics to drive the debate, analysts say. But he's clearly trying to forge a new model of presidential leadership adapted to a new age. [Emphasis, The Stiletto.]
Get that? Obama is leading by not leading.
The Stiletto Scoops Rush Limbaugh
The media has taken to gushing about the “buff arms” of our First-Lady-To-Be, but what about her huge hips, thighs and butt? Lest anyone cry “racism” this ain’t a black thing, it’s a butt thing (see comments) and proportionality requires an ample bosom to balance a big butt - you know Blackwell would have said so had he been alive to see Michelle Obama in That Hideous Dress. Which is why the MSM’s comparisons of Michelle O to the ever-slim and elegant Jackie-O are laughable ...
- Your Butt Will Look Good In These Jeans, The Stiletto Blog, November 21, 2008
Good news for soon-to-be First Lady Michelle Obama: A mouse study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Metabolism suggests that buttock and hip fat may protect against type 2 (adult onset) diabetes.
- Update to Your Butt Will Look Good In These Jeans, The Stiletto Blog, January 14, 2009
[D]esigner Isabel Toledo – who outfitted Michelle Obama for the swearing in ceremony - tactfully describes her first impression (“I hugged her and thought ‘Let me see … what size?’ She’s got an amazing torso and long, beautiful arms. She’s like a spider.”). Toledo chose not to be blunt about Mrs. Obama having large hips, thighs and buttocks. But rather than be dishonest or fawning, the designer subtly made her point by comparing Mrs. Obama’s figure to an insect that tends to have skinny arms and a bulbous lower body.
- Update to Your Butt Will Look Good In These Jeans, The Stiletto Blog, February 4, 2009
"The problem is—and dare I say this—it doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice."
- The Rush Limbaugh Show, February 21, 2011
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