SNAFU=government is in charge

  So Nancy Pelosi says Democrats care about fiscal responsibility.
  Stop laughing.
  She was serious.
  Plus she thinks you're stupid and didn't notice that $6 billion is squat compared to trillions spent on incredibly stupid #@$!. You probably even think $6 billion is real money, because you're stupid. Plus you pay your bills so, you think $6 billion is a lot of money.
  Maybe she oughta tell Miami voters that $6 billion isn't real money.
  Interesting that even, EVEN Miami voters think that taxes matter, fiscal responsibility matters, so much so that they voted to recall their mayor because he raised taxes to pay for increases for government employees. From NBC Miami:

Alvarez was the main target of the voter revolt, which was spearheaded by billionaire car dealer Norman Braman.

The long-time mayor was criticized for pushing for to use public money to build a new stadium for the Florida Marlins, but sealed his fate when he voted to increase taxes to cover an $80 million budget hole.

  In a blog post entitled, "People are starting to notice," Powerline thinks it's part of a trend:

Recent poll data suggest that Americans have woken up to the fact that Barack Obama is an empty suit, and the Democrats have nothing to offer in terms of policy solutions. First, President Obama.

Today's Rasmussen Reports finds that among likely voters, President Obama has matched his lowest standing ever. He now ranks at -22 on the Approval Index, defined as the difference between those who strongly approve and strongly disapprove of his performance: 

  And, har har har, San Francisco is actually starting to notice too, as NBC Los Angeles remarks that a new party within a party may be starting in San Francisco:

What binds Adachi and Parks together is their critique of public sector workers and their shared sense of alarm at the long-term threats to their cities' fiscal viability. Each argues that public employee perks must be reined in -- not in the name of lowering taxes or other right-wing ideological gains -- but so that there's enough money to protect progressive programs that benefit the public at large. 

  Meanwhile, back at the ranch, even the world isn't buying The One's shtick, noting that the teleprompter told him to say the same phrase when referring to Denmark, the same phrase he used for 3 or 4 other countries, something about "punching above their weight."
   This is so clever, to point out how small your, uh, country is in an attempt to compliment them.
  At any rate, the world is disappointed.
  Director Blue has a rundown called "Legacy media wakes up and notices that President Obama is far more energized by Motown and Wisconsin's unions than global calamities."
  Just not interested in global, local or national calamities, are we? 
  Facing such events is tedious and requires that we take another vacation to relieve the ennui of having to deal with such distractions from happiness.
  Kristinn at Free Republic comments:

While American ally Japan faces the world's worst nuclear power disaster in decades on top of a 9.0 earthquake and apocalyptic tsunami, the Middle East is in flames and the U.S. facing bankruptcy, Barack Obama is trying yet again to take his daughters on a taxpayer funded Spring Break trip overseas.

Last year, Obama scheduled a family trip with no diplomatic importance to Indonesia and Australia timed to his daughters' Spring Break from the elite Sidwell Friends School. That trip was cancelled at the last minute, which still cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in squandered advance planning expenditures, when Obama was pressured by Democrats to stay in Washington for the healthcare bill debate in Congress and then cancel the trip again to deal with the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico months later.

  The fat doctor in charge of our weight says run out and stock up on iodide tablets.
  So, naturally, a run goes on iodide tablets. 
  Oh, and we have such confidence in the smarties in our government that we never trusted those da#n back scatter scanners at airports. Now they say, oops, we miscalculated. Wired:

“It would appear that the emissions are 10 times higher. We understand it as a calculation error,” TSA spokesman Sarah Horowitz said in a telephone interview.

The snafu involves tests conducted on the roughly 250 backscatter X-ray machines produced by Rapiscan of Los Angeles, which has a contract to deliver another 250 machines at a cost of about $180,000 each. About 250 millimeter-wave technology machines produced by L-3 Communications of New York were not part of the bungled results.

  Everyone together now: do we believe this? 
  Reminder: snafu stands for situation normal all effed up. 
  Meaning the government was in charge.
  But, hey, we gotta vacation to go on.
  And we got our own plane, so let's go.
  I heard there's a hell of a good universe next door.