It is Ronald Reagan's 100th Birthday

And from the looks of things, the poor senile bastard is well on his way to Public Sainthood.

Maybe they ought to name a reliable high end brand of men's hair coloring after him or rouge one or the other.
Pundits love occasions like this because it allows them the opportunity to indulge in their favorite sport the generation of rhetorical questions. Lou Cannon for example is quoted in Today's Boston Globe wondering "if" Ronald Reagan would be comfortable with "today's GOP"?
My guess is, the late President would be fine with it.
First and foremost Reagan was an A-List opportunistic windbag, most of the four myths of modern conservatism (those being Christian Politics, Rugged Individualism, the Virtue of Small Government and myth of Conservative Grievance) were all forged at one time or another by Reagan.
If his heirs seek to make corrupt mockery of his commandments or use them to make a hash of the US Constitution, well the man has been measured for his harp and cannot enforce order among his political progeny even if he was ever so inclined.
No...What Lou Cannon is really asking is, "can today's pundit ever be comfortable with the modern GOP?"
I mean lord knows they do bend over backwards for hopelessly inane dingbats like John Boehner and Newt Gingrich...and what does it get them?
Bupkiss that what they get.
Otherwise the base screams for pundit blood when the news runs bad for the Republicans while the so called leadership chuckle and make veiled threats against "The Liberal Media".
Twenty years of bending over backwards for this rabble hasn't done much good for the punditariat, hence their ambivalence.
That doesn't stop them from toadying on and on...but it does give them qualms.
None of which is the case when the democrats are in power, the media demonstrates it's even handedness by carpet bombing the liberals every time.
My advise to the democrats is simple, you can't make nice to lackey's and expect them to "man up" any time soon, cut them dead and see if the shock does em' any good sex Humble Elias.

Y'know I like

Barney Frank and a part of me is rotten glad he is running for re-election come-what-may.
The man is a fighter and he gives no quarter, we need someone like him in our congressional delegation.
But th' reality is, we are losing a seat in the US House next year and we are waaa-ay past due for a "come to Jesus" moment among our congresspersons...One of them needs to retire, an ambassadorship could be easily secured or a nice comfy office in the Kennedy School.
Something...anything.
I think Governor Patrick and Speaker DeLeo and Senate President Murray all need to quietly come up with a plan and avoid a ruinous primary fight...Hope them three read this blog.
Doubtful but a guy can hope nonethless.

As much as we decry the

mounting chaos in Egypt (which includes savage attacks on journalists, mostly from Pro-Mubarek thuggees) it is important to note that this same template worked like gangbusters in Iran when it came time for Mahmoud Achmadinejad to crack down hard on his opponents.
On the other hand, busting heads is a desperate strategy if you don't have the army to back you up 100%, when DeGaulle was faced with widespread street protests in 1968 he had the armed forces' backing from the git go...this doesn't seem to be the case for Mubarek, the Egyptian military seems to be trying to referee the whole mishaugas.
I suspect in the absence of a sudden break in Mubarek's favor that course of action is gonna get old quickly.

I'm not so sure if

Jeff Jacoby should be shaking his pom-poms in glee about the impending ouster of Hosni Mubarek and the vindication of GWB's "Freedom Agenda" in Egypt.

I mean some of those demonstrators aren't exactly contributing members of the ADL.
And why is Jeff still alibi-ing for George Bush??

Charlotte North Carolina?

when it comes to siting the 2012 Democratic National Convention I'd pick Manchester New Hampshire before Charlotte...That is until someone reminded me that Obama carried North Carolina in 2008 and the last three Governors of that state have been democrats.
I thought we were "dished diddled and done" in Dixie?
Seems like there is still some snap left in those garters.
Of course who knows if we can hold onto North Carolina in 2012, a Palin-Romney ticket might be our best bet at this point.

John Kerry is at the end of the day,

a team player.
So if he is calling for Hosni Mubarek's resignation it would have to be with the tacit consent of Obama Administration.
So I'd say the bell is tolling for the House of Mubarek.

Meanwhile, Romney is also calling for Mubarek to resign, and if Hosni skeedaddles tonight or tomorrow, Mitt will spend the rest of the winter telling the Epsom NH Republican Town Committee he personally deposed the President of Egypt.

To quote the late great Billy Bunter

Hosni Mubarek is "Dished, Diddled and DONE!"

If the Egyptian army is publicly swearing off the use of force against the demonstrators, then with what hold does Mubarek have over the pending negotiation process?
None.
Sounds like the High Command superceded his sick old self, likely they are already casting around for a suitably vigorous & legitimate successor.
One thing is for sure, it ain't gonna be Mubarek's ne'er do well eldest son.
Egypt has its problems but at least it isn't Syria with it's Supreme Opthalmalocrat,AKA  the surviving Son of the Late President for Life Hafez El Assad.
So it is no accident that the Muslim Brotherhood has suddenly hit the streets, the coast is clear so to speak...
I give Mubarek a week before he is bundled onto a jetliner and flow into exile in say...Madrid.
Up until yesterday he still had a chance at a "DeGaulle moment" but that depended on picking off the loyalty or at least the fear of the Egyptian middle class and holding club of the army over the proceedings...Both axes of his policy are busted up good at this point.
My only question is, how big a playa will the army be in the succession negotiations? Can they get another General in there or will the demonstrators be able to force the issue?
We will soon find out.