Obama is mean.

Update: Krugman: Democracy is not always civil.

Is Rand Paul an arrogant blowhard, or what?

To reach a deal in Congress over the national debt, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said both political parties need to make concessions, excluding higher tax rates.

Some concession.

“The compromise is for conservatives to admit that the military budget’s going to have to be cut,” Paul said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Liberals will have to compromise and will have to cut domestic welfare.”

“The compromise is where we cut, not where we raise taxes,” he added.

Maybe Son of Ron doesn’t know what the word concession means.

While the baggers are pushing to eliminate environmental protection at both the federal and state level, we read what happens when the environment is not regulated —

Oil and gas companies injected hundreds of millions of gallons of hazardous or carcinogenic chemicals into wells in more than 13 states from 2005 to 2009, according to an investigation by Congressional Democrats.

I take it the contamination came about because of a relatively new process, not specifically covered by regulations, for extracting natural gas out of the ground.

Among other things, the process is injecting huge amounts of benzene — nasty stuff — into groundwater and rivers. The article even mentions radioactive material.