Another weekend, another scramble to bring your attention to the last round of great Watchers Council posts before the next one goes live. Kennedy's death was obviously the most topical subject, with sentiments running about the way you'd expect. Rhymes With Right actually titled her post Arlington National Cemetery Desecrated By Burial Of Traitor, which is harsh but not entirely untrue. Joshuapundit's extremely long post ran through Kennedy's legislative and public record, making the case that the Senator was something less than a force for good.

The Glittering Eye discussed the incoherence of treating health care as one of the sources for its inevitable failure. My post addressed the same issue tangentially, in an interview with an auto industry insider. The Obama administration - which wants to enforce said health care right by taking control of 15% of the US economy - managed to screw up a simple car rebate program in a genuinely impressive number of ways. Though given the myopic radicals that The Colossus of Rhodey convincingly argues are in charge of White House policy, that's hardly a surprise.

In the past the Obama administration's incompetence might have been successfully suppressed - at least for a time - by a worshipful media (cf. media blackout, Van Jones controversy). But in an environment where fiscal conservatives are able to go viral, per The Provocateur's post, gatekeepers have a much harder time deciding what people should get to hear.

Speaking of Obama worship, Bookworm Room extended her thoughts from the previous week about the reflexive anti-Americanism and denigration of conservatives that runs through Hollywood. Hollywood's denizens have latched onto a myriad of obnoxious tropes, from sneering anti-conservative contempt to faux-sophisticated anti-imperialism to repetitive smears of our military. Presumably they think these hack jobs earn them extra credit with critics because by traditional metrics like "do they make money" they're failures.

Shifting gears, it's still not peace in the Middle East. Soccer Dad suggested the situation might have something to do with the Palestinian refusal to accept the right of Jews to be alive in a Jewish State, but it could be anything really. Politically-inspired Islamic terrorism also came in the context of Right Truth's post on the disgraceful release of the Lockerbie bomber, which from one side looks like base appeasement but from another angle seems like a huge misunderstanding. There's a lot of that going around.

References and previously after the jump...