From Erik:

Really glad I remembered to get my Olympic Fever shots this year.

From Dave Weigel:

Obama admin should stop releasing economic reports, explaining that they’d just be SPOILERS for election results.

From MJ:

It’s great when Olympic commentators say “She really wants to take home the gold today” because it really helps me understand the sport.

We got 1.5% growth in GDP this last quarter — basically nothing. So what’s happened? Hasn’t Obama built more roads and bridges so businesses would magically spring up? But don’t worry, Obama has a big tax hike planned on the rich which will help business by taking more money out of it. It’s basically the bloodletting theory of economics — you know, you bleed a person out to make him feel better. Similarly, we’re going to tax people to economic health.

If we reelect Obama, we’re not really taking this whole “having a country” thing very seriously.

Newsweek, which is still around for like a week or two longer, is trying the wimp attack on Romney, because what’s the job of the press but to try out new attacks in benefit of Obama? Anyway, the solution to this is pretty simple. Get the Newsweek reporter, Michael Tomasky, to ask about the “wimp factor” directly to Romney, and then Romney just needs to punch Tomasky really hard in the face, knocking him to the ground (it’s like a long time ago when John Stossel asked if wrestling was fake). Then Romney can be the bigger man and toss a few hundreds to Tomasky saying, “Go clean yourself up.” And then Romney should ride off on a motorcycle while wielding a sawed off shotgun. Then hopefully he won’t seem like a wimp, though if it comes up again, during the debates he can headbutt Obama until he gets Obama to bow to him.

Just a reminder to Romney, I’m still available as a campaign adviser and I’m very expensive.

So you know the “You didn’t build that!” comments from Obama are really hurting him since he’s working so hard to counteract them. He keeps claiming they’re out of context — the “that” refers ungrammatically to “roads and bridges” instead of one’s business — but the problem is it sounds horrible no matter what the context. The fact is, he’s not shouting “You didn’t build that!” at business owners out of respect; he chastising them as if they don’t know where roads and businesses come from. It’s a useless twit who has never worked an actual job in his life lecturing people who risked everything to make their own businesses about things they already know. Plus, it’s a backwards understanding of the relation of government and business. The government doesn’t make roads and bridges to allow people to create businesses; the tax revenue from business is what gives the government money to make those roads and bridges.

Anyway, the whole argument over Obama’s “You didn’t build that!” statement has now jumped the shark as Jonathan Chait argues the anger over it is all about racism. See, for this speech, Obama was using “black dialect.” I didn’t detect it, no one else I know heard black dialect, but Chait sure heard it. While the rest of us were hearing anti-success liberal tripe ala-Elizabeth Warren, Chait instead saw an angry scary black man yelling in crazy black man speech. And that means everyone other than him is a racist. I don’t know what you even say to this anymore except, “Here is a ball, Chait. Perhaps you’d like to bounce it.”