The coolest things about a blog is that any passing thought that may occur to you eventually gets fleshed out by someone who is paid to research, think, and report about such things.

As an example I was pondering a post called They're Called Stereotypes For a Reason wherein I recognize how perfectly President Obama fits the old "Democrats-are-big-governmnet-tax-and-spend-liberals-who-are-weak-on-defense" stereotype.   

The list of support for that assertion is growing by the hour, almost to the point where even those who "don't follow politics" are beginnig to notice.  

Anyway, for a great expansion on that passing thought I direct you to a piece by Real Clear Politics columnist  David Paul Kuhn Dems Haunted by Revived Stereotypes.  
h/t instapundit

But, Friday is Krauthammer Day here at the murmur:

the nub:
This being a democracy, don't the Democrats see that clinging to this agenda will march them over a cliff? Don't they understand Massachusetts?

Well, they understand it through a prism of two cherished axioms: (1) The people are stupid and (2) Republicans are bad. Result? The dim, led by the malicious, vote incorrectly.

The line I wish I'd written:
For liberals, the observation that "the peasants are revolting" is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism.

The brilliance of brevity.

to RTWT: Charles Krauthammer: The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010

In other business...

I got the following, much to my consternation, for the second time today.  This time it pissed me off because it seems to have legs.  Perhaps you've seen it...
     
There recently was an article in the St. Petersburg Fl. Times. The

Business Section asked readers for ideas on: "How Would
You Fix the Economy?"

 I think this guy nailed it!
 _____

Dear Mr. President,

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 's economy. Instead
of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the
 money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
 You can call it the "Patriotic
 Retirement Plan":

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them
 $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a new American CAR. Forty million cars ordered – Auto Industry fixed..

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage – Housing
 Crisis fixed.

It can't get any easier than that!!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their
taxes....

Mr. President, while you're at it, make Congress retire on Social
Security and Medicare. I'll bet both programs would be fixed pronto!

If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know.

If not, please disregard.

I got this once, heard Rush actually read on air and ALMOST posted it here.  Problem is I hope to be taken seriously, I like to defy and frustrate random fact-checkers by citing a source or verifiable stat.  So before posting this the first time I got it I did a little math. 

Here's the problem: 1 million x 40 million = 40 TRILLION!!!

So instead of "if you think this would work, please forward....", buy a fucking calculator, use it, and think again.  This isn't a common sense solution to our economic problems, it's a sure recipe for planetary financial collapse.

Rather than a conservative who knows what he's talking about the author of this letter is more likely a frustrated liberal whose only question is never whether to throw more money at a problem but only how much.   

It's disheartening to see something like this get traction in conservative circles.  It makes us look as out to lunch on fiscal sanity as the left.   

Seriously people, when you get stuff like this give it a smell test.  (it's pretty easy really, test my math now, google "how much is 40 million X 1 million") The fundamental ineptitude at basic arithmetic is a big part of the problem.  Shit like this proves the point and doesn't help, which in a cynical way, sort of explains how it got by the editors at the St. Petersburg Times.