Article I, Section 9, clause 3...

No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

For those unclear on the term, a Bill of Attainder is,

BILL OF ATTAINDER - An act of the legislature by which one or more persons are declared to be attainted, and their property confiscated.

Outrage

Elections have consequences. This is the consequence of electing the dishonorable junior senator from Illinois to be the President.

The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.

Got that? If you're in the military and get hurt on duty, Obama wants your private insurance to cover the cost of making you whole (or as close to whole as possible) again. This is why the Democrats must loose Congress in 2010, and this piece of slime needs to be chucked out on his ear come 2012.

The charm offensive continues...

...and it continues to make the Somme look like Desert Storm in comparison. Seriously, how do you blow a translation like this?

And they say Bush was terrible at diplomacy?

I don't recall Bush ever showing such an utter lack of class to the leader of one of our closest allies. With all due respect to Baldilocks, I have to go with my mother-in-law's theory that the guy is just tacky. (Not that the two theories are mutually exclusive...)

Most ethical congress ever, ever!

So ethical, in fact, that we don't need to know what sort of footsie they've been playing with lobbyists.

One to support...

Blue Dog Opposes Obama Budget

What I'm reading

I just finished Von Neumann's War by Ringo & Taylor. A pretty good read. Doc Taylor wrote the book on defending against an alien invasion. (No, seriously...) It suffers a little bit from Doc Taylor's patented "Hey y'all, hold my beer and watch this!" approach to engineering, but that may just be my personal tastes on the subject.

Added bonus: the book turned me on to a group called The Cruxshadows. Here is the song mentioned in "Von Neumann's War". Citidel