Results for this week's Watchers Council contest have been posted under the title "Cash for Clunkers Failure: How Long Until Obama Blames Bush?" Given the increasingly salient point that C4C quite literally destroys wealth, I'd say two weeks. Max:

Rarely do you encounter a wealth-destroying green measure that literally destroys wealth but this is an exception and therefore a sweet, sweet metaphor for Obamanomics. I think some people are under the impression that C4C is just a trade-in program, where the dealer gets to keep the buyer's old ride and sell it for parts or to a used-car dealer, etc. Not so. The whole point is to get fuel-inefficient vehicles off the road, which means the engines -- the most valuable part -- have to be destroyed. The Examiner's Bill Dupray is horrified at the sheer inefficiency of it all.

Between Congressional foot dragging on health care and Obama's moronic comments on Gates - the latter unpacked at length by Council runner up Joshuapundit - it wasn't the best week for the White House. Luckily for them they don't have much to worry about. As Council winner The Razor explained, they're just better at destroying the other side:

Yet another ethics complaint against Sarah Palin has been dismissed. The particular complaint filed by Anchorage resident Andree McLeod* alleged that Palin's acceptance of her governor's salary while running as McCain's VP candidate was illegal. McLeod's sixth (and final) complaint was filed a week before Palin's resignation and charged the governor with failure to disclose gifts in a timely manner. Palin cited the strain and cost of fighting these ethics complaints as some of the reasons behind her resignation.

The ethics charges against Palin displays the power of lawfare... the tactics used by the Left abetted by "Republican" (as late as 2002 McCleod listed herself as "non-partisan") Andree McCleod worked. Palin is out of office - at least temporarily, and her martyrdom at the hands of the leftist press stands as an example of what can befall other women who refuse to pursue power as anything but liberal Democrats.

The post ends by calling on conservatives to fight fire with fire. That's one idea. A different idea is to obsess about Obama's birth certificate. Per non-Council runner up Heretical Ideas, that's borderline incoherent. So naturally it's exactly what a nontrivial sub-section of the right is embracing. Because why not?

Certainly it's a much more important topic than how the Taliban smuggle opium out of Afghanistan, which non-Council winner Michael Yon painstakingly documented. Obviously his incredible photojournalism is much less compelling than enlarged, heavily pixelated scans of photocopies of old documents. So let's do that.

References and previously after the jump...