Mr. Obama has his opinion; now let him render it.

Would it be too cynical to call it State of the (dis)Union?  I’ll be taking notes.  I’m looking forward to Governor McDonnell’s response and the post-game analysis by my fellow esteemed SA bloggers who are all a lot smarter than me.  Live blog here if you wish. I’ll bring the popcorn.

Anita Dunn is the latest casualty in the belated vetting process.  HT Drudge

I’ve got so used to my lefty friends not being able to speak plain English without their perversions of it, that I’ll call Fox News “Faux News” just to get it over with.

It’s now 10 PM Eastern, 7 PM Pacific, and the results are rolling in on Election Day 2009.

Republicans have already enjoyed a landslide for the top 3 offices in Virginia, a 2008 “swing state.”

Faux News has their anchor Shepard Smith up front, followed by Bret Baier, both of whom anchor straight news shows, not opinion shows like O’Reilly’s, Hannity’s or Beck’s.

MSNBC is running opinionator Keith Olbermann’s Countdown, with highly partisan Lawrence O’Donnell reading the returns. At least MSNBC has abandoned the pretense that Olbermann can serve as an even-handed anchor—as they pretended until halfway through the 2008 Democratic convention, when even MSNBC execs couldn’t keep a straight face about it anymore.

FLASH—As I write this, Faux News has just projected Republican Chris Christie defeating Democrat Jon Corzine for New Jersey governor.

A flick back over to MSNBC had Lawrence O’Donnell finishing an interview with Howard Fineman and promising Keith will return.

After returning from commercial, Olbermann has just begun his promised attack on Joe Lieberman over the health care bill. No election coverage forthcoming. In the lower corner, I see a check mark next to Christie’s name over Corzine. Oh.

The White House has declared that Fox News isn’t news, but recently the President met with Rachel Maddow, Eugene Robinson, E.J. Dionne, Ron Brownstein, John Dickerson, Frank Rich, Jerry Seib, Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert, Gloria Borger, and Gwen Ifill.

Oh, and Keith Olbermann. Frequent MSNBC viewers will recognize most of those names as resident or visiting experts.

Meanwhile, those of us interested in election news will have to thumb the remote back on Fox. Or that other cable news network that few watch anymore.

Late add: It’s 10:42 EST as I finish this, and Olbermann is talking about baseball. [Praising the Yankees, natch.] Back over at the Fox News Channel, O’Reilly, Hannity and Back are nowhere in sight. FNC is, however, analyzing the election returns, you know, like they were news or something.

Last add: Democrat ex-Gov. Jon Corzine is now making his concession speech on FNC. Olbermann and MSNBC are still doing baseball…

THE NEW CONSTITUTION

1st Amendment
Congress shall make no law. It is General Zod who gives orders.

2nd Amendment
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, no longer has a purpose.

3rd Amendment
No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, who shall decide “yes, in the name of General Zod”.

4rd Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in the persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. If my administration has a need to search your belongings, it is reasonable, is it not?

5th Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous, crime, except to General Zod.

6rd Amendment
The accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial in a proper kangaroo court.

7th Amendment
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy is significant, the property shall be bequeathed to the state in tribute to General Zod.

8th Amendment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted, unless by the new government.

9th Amendment
The enumeration in the constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage those that serve General Zod.

10th Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution rest with General Zod.

HT: Zod

Doug Kmiec, a law professor, pro-life advocate, former Reagan Administration official, and evangelical-Catholic-whatever, took a lot of heat from us usual suspects for endorsing Barack Obama, perhaps the most pro-choice major candidate ever.

“A black man; a caring man; a talented man. A man different from conservative self and yet calling me to find the best of that self.”

Professor Kmiec has now been appointed by President Obama as America’s new ambassador to Malta.

A scene from A Man for All Seasons comes to mind, where Thomas More confronts his betrayer, Richard Rich:

There is one question I would like to ask the witness.

But for Wales?

Or Malta.

Drop what you are doing and start repairing doors for the Federal Government!

This has been blogged on several sites, but you simply can’t miss it. Obama gave Queen Elizabeth an iPod, evidently because they don’t have such high-falutin’ technology in Great Britain (not just “England,” Oh Gaffemaster). What was loaded on that iPod? Well, just so the queen wouldn’t miss out on Obama’s greatness, he included a heapin’ helpin’ of his speeches. Yes, really.

But that’s not surprising, nor ironic. What’s ironic is the list of songs that were included on the iPod. Jake Tapper provides the whole list, but I picked out a few that made me giggle.

“There’s No Business Like Show Business.” How apt for a man who has to take 12 teleprompters with him.

“Everything’s Coming Up Roses.” Yeah. Okay.

“If Ever I Would Leave You.” Left unsaid is the follow-up, “it would be over international security, because I’m just not down with this whole ‘defending the good guys against the bad guys’ thing.”

“Getting to Know You.” If he knew the queen, he’d know not to grab both her hands in greeting, and Michelle would know to curtsey and not to put her hand on the queen’s back. Aren’t you glad we’re shed of that Texas bumpkin, and have some really classy people in the White House?

But the best one, as Jammie Wearing Fool points out, is this: “Send in the Clowns.” JWF nails it when he says, “Sadly, 53% of the American people did just that in November.”

I’m a native of Samson, Alabama, where nine of the victims of Tuesday’s shootings were killed. I went to high school with one of the victims, was a distant relative to another, and am friends with the state trooper who was shot but is okay. I have friends and relatives all along the 25-mile stretch of highway where the killings took place, and I hear from them that the whole community is in shock. Ten killings and one suicide as a result of the killings will do that to a closeknit rural area. Now, it’s Thursday afternoon, and I have yet to hear any statement from the White House on the tragedy. I went to whitehouse.gov, where I found a salute to Ted Kennedy on his birthday, and the announcement of the creation of the White House Council on Women and Girls, but no condolences, no announement of sympathy, no boilerplate “At times like these, blah blah blah,” not even the stereotypical (and fatuous) call for gun control.

Evidently, President Hopenchange doesn’t care for Red State residents.