It's gonna be a "no" from me, dawg

SCOTUSblog: "Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan gets cold reception from conservative justices."

If you recall, dear reader, the Biden administration kept changing the rules on this scheme to avoid standing so this case would never arrive at the Supreme Court.  Now that it's there, it looks like dead meat.

As predicted, the Wise Latina settled on the answer she wanted and worked backwards to find the legal justification.  

Listening to oral arguments on student loan case

The student loan forgiveness case - Biden v. Nebraska - was before the Supreme Court today and better legal minds than mine will have commentary later.

But expect to hear a lot about the lawn care kid.

Chief Justice Roberts presented a hypothetical where two brothers went to college: one of them took federal loans and the other took a loan to start a lawn care business to save and/or pay off his tuition.  Justice Roberts asked why the lawn care kid shouldn't have his loans forgiven.

The Biden Administration's position is: oh, that kid is SOL.

Regrets, they have a few

Say, anybody heard from Glenn Kessler recently?

Yesterday's conspiracy theories

Wall Street Journal: "U.S. Energy Department Report Says Lab Leak Most Likely Source of Global Coronavirus Pandemic."

Now - now - the truth can be told that virtually everything said about Covid was wrong.  We should set up a betting pool to see when it's revealed the vaccine contained tracking microchips? 

Extra - Jonathan Turley: "COVID lab leak is a scandal of media and government censorship." 

Inflation rises again

Wall Street Journal: "Battle of the Inflation Bulge - The PCE price rebound in January supports the view of the Federal Reserve’s hawks."

You knew the inflation report was bad because Biden didn't rush out and add a speech to his daily schedule.  Instead he just flew to Delaware for the weekend. 

He's useless

Fox News: "Jordan questions Biden's hiring of Pete Buttigieg amid East Palestine fallout: 'no transportation experience'." 

"The president can't do it—so that's not even a discussion"

So said Nancy Pelosi back in 2021 before she decided - tada! - never mind.  Reason: "No, the HEROES Act Doesn't Let Biden Forgive Student Loans - "If it was an emergency, why wait three years to provide the forgiveness? Why present it in a political framework, as fulfilling a campaign promise?" said one higher education expert."

My feeling is that this effort to disappear obligations to the government is so wildly unconstitutional that only Sotomayor could possibly vote for it.

Yeah, I've noticed

Hot Air: "401Krushed: Bidenomics and retirement are not good bedfellows." - "Retirees lost 23% of their 401(k) savings in 2022, Fidelity says." 

It's a mystery why trust in the media keeps plunging

Ace: "Andrea Mitchell Lies, Claiming Ron DeSantis Demands That "Slavery and the Aftermath of Slavery Should Not Be Taught to Florida Schoolchildren"."

We can no longer treat them respectfully. We can no longer treat them with dignity.

We can no longer treat them with tolerance.

Tolerance and respect are a two-way street -- and when one side refuses to grant it, the other side must refuse to grant it back.

Andrea Mitchell later submitted a completely horses--t "apology" to try to address the backlash but the damage was done.  I know I've said this before but it's long past time that Republicans push back on the Chuck Todds of the media (essentially everyone) who have no interest in fairness and objectivity.

Every conservative/Republican should show up on the Sunday talk shows with the absolutely reasonable assumption that the host is an enemy.  They need to confronted on previous statements and the disparity in questions depending on political persuasion.  This is required homework: there should be no expectation that the mainstream media will be fair. 

Extra - Being in the mainstream media means never having to say you're sorry.  

10% for the big guy

Shot: "Biden's 'Buy American' Promise Is a Lot More Complicated and Bureaucratic Than It Seems."

Chaser: "Biden's Climate Bill Was Meant To Combat China. Now a Chinese Firm Is Poised To Cash In." 

Confirming what we already knew

Surprise: the New York Times is a hive mind of would-be Madame Defarges, ready to condemn those who would oppose the Establishment.

Hot Air: "Ex-NY Times staffer: 'It was like a Maoist struggle session'."  

Haha - I *just* used that metaphor!

Twitchy: "LOL: The Left eating the Left is on the menu as Code Pink crashes Biden’s DC dinner."

Biden and his party encouraged this kind of public harassment. They've refused to enforce laws to stop it when the targets are conservative Supreme Court justices. They laughed at Rand Paul and Ted Cruz being mobbed.

This is the alligator eating the one who fed it. https://t.co/WfYCxbkpPk

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) February 19, 2023

The crocodile eats you last

NY Post: "Radical left turns on woke New York Times." - "After abandoning standards of fairness to push a crazy woke agenda, they are suddenly discovering that appeasing the far left is impossible." 

Call it the Buttigieg threshold

How bad do you have to be at your job before you get fired?  Federalist: "Why Is Pete Buttigieg Allowed To Keep Failing Upward?" 

Not a joke: we're going broke

Issues & Insights: "The CBO Exposes Biden’s $5.45 Trillion Lie." - "While spending the country into ruin, President Joe Biden likes to portray himself as a fiscal conservative who has cut the deficit in half in the past two years. But a new report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office shows just how big a lie this is — a 5 1/2 trillion dollar lie, to be exact." 

Gaslighting in action

Legal Insurrection: "Gallup/Knight Survey: Half of Americans Believe “News Organizations Intend to Mislead Them”."

Great job, guys, great job.  You burned it all down.

Today's feel-good story in 3 acts

Wokester: "You're a Nazi, J.K. Rowling!"

The second richest woman in England: "I think I'll contact my lawyer."

Wokester: "I abjectly apologize."

Entirely predictable because of math

Hot Air: "CBO: Deficits will rise to $2 trillion per year over the next decade."

Unsurprisingly, these deficits will be driven by entitlement spending, a fiscal reckoning that has been known for decades.  We're now in a political standoff where nobody is willing to make necessary changes and both Medicare and Social Security will run out of cash.  Gradual changes that could have been made years ago will now lead to crashing tidal waves of forced reform.

The important thing is that we didn't profile

Legal Insurrection: "Police Knew About MSU Shooter, Progressive Prosecutor’s Soft-on-Crime Approach Kept Him on the Street" - “The initial charge was a felony that carried a potential penalty of five years in prison, according to the records.”

There's a lot of competition

Hot Air: "Is this the dumbest NPR headline ever?"