This week's Watchers Council nominations are up. It hasn't been the best week for Obama and the vast new health care bureaucracy - aka the permanent Big Government Democratic constituency - that he wants to create. The Colossus of Rhodey ran down ObamaCare's financial and social costs, the administration's unblinking denials to the contrary. In the same context The Glittering Eye outlined the health care reforms we need and why ObamaCare's entire approach is misguided.

Of course you don't actually need new bureaucracies to throw more government money at Democratic constituents. My own post described how California Democrats hiked the salaries of their personal staff and tried to cover it up. Or, more ominously, The Provocateur - digging into mind numbing tax records - did genuine investigative work proving that the federal government is shoveling millions into ACORN's coffers.

Joshuapundit and Right Truth's both dealt with the many layers of stupidity involved in Holder's CIA witch hunt, with Joshuapundit focusing more on the institutional impacts and Right Truth going after Obama's motives. The reflexive liberal sympathy for terrorist prisoners - a sensibility usually justified with gestures toward the rule of law or toward "our values" - extends all the way into freeing filthbags like Megrahi and coddling rogues like Iran and its proxies. See Soccer Dad's post on that.

Bookworm Room described sitting through Julie & Julia. Liberal filmmakers seem to believe they get extra credit for slipping gratuitous anti-conservative stereotypes into their works (they used to in cinema school - old habits die hard). This self-satisfied sneering is a particularly charming aspect of Blue State cocoons, though to get the full experience you really need to go to Broadway. Those tools are still slipping unscripted anti-Bush references into their songs, much to the delight of their aren't-we-oh-so-liberal-together audiences.

But for some reason, per Rhymes With Right, even a whiff of conservative group think is enought to cause liberal journalists to wet themselves.

As always this a great collection of Council posts. Feel free to sound off about any of them under this post on Mere Rhetoric's Facebook page.

References and previously after the jump...