For cryin’ out loud! I thought I was making a joke with my, “No word yet on whether any Tea Partiers were involved” comment regarding the arrest of Faisal Shahzad for the attempted bombing in Times Square. Yet here is video of an MSNBC analyst stating that the attempted bombing will strengthen – are you ready? – the Tea Party.

Are liberal analysts really so incapable of thinking?

No, I’m not referring to the Arizona immigration law (that does not impose any new documentation requirements).  I’m talking about a national, biometric ID card.  Liberals are shocked — SHOCKED — that this is being proposed by Democrats.

But this conservative is not surprised at all.  In Georgia, they digitize your fingerprint and print it on your driver’s license.  This was passed, on a party line vote, when Democrats controlled the state.  Having committed no crime, your fingerprint is in the database.  And now Democrats on the national level are essentially doing the same thing.

This is a freedom thing, and it meshes with the idea of the state taking all control over your life, from what health care you buy to obtaining your fingerprint without charges.  More government control.  That’s the direction Democrats want to take us.

Good morning.

1. Hopefully he did more than “confront” his daughter.
2. Willing ignorance by the left. One might wonder in the wake of CMU and the hocky stick lies how the notion that the willingness to sell off fact for partisan causes is not strictly on one side of the aisle. Perhaps agnotology is the word for that?
3. Having blamed Bush and global warming on any number of natural occurrences which were clearly not at fault, some on the left are curious why the right is not as dumb. 
4. I guess redefining the problem away hasn’t fixed things.
5. I for one, wish the “under the bus” phrase would just go away and die quietly.
6. Couture. 
7. Our small President.
8. Mr Gore’s example setting.
9. A gentleman’s questions on Arizona.
10. Another book reading/blogging project.
11. Physics links.
12. That shouldn’t have had to be stated.
13. Open immigration at odds with the welfare state.
14. For the Ms Palin fans.

Or maybe not.

Via HotAir, NY mayor, and staunch anti-gun proponent, Michael Bloomberg recently speculated* that the bomber was someone upset about the healthcare [sic] bill. From the article,

Law enforcement officials don’t know who left the Nissan Pathfinder behind, but at this point the Mayor believes the suspect acted alone.

“If I had to guess, twenty five cents, this would be exactly that,” Bloomberg said. “Homegrown maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.”

Yet word comes in that Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American citizen recently returned from a trip to Pakistan, has been arrested after he attempted to flee to Dubai.

No word yet on whether any Tea Partiers were involved.

* actually, “speculate” is too generous.