Quote of the Day

From Megan McArdle, on the magic unicorn delay falling popularity that has hit the new administration, so soon in its tenure:

Everyone is more likeable when they're promising you stuff, especially when they tell you that the stuff they're promising has few costs. Then they start actually trying to dispense the stuff, and it's, y'know, complicated, and it turns out that you're not in magical fairy ponyland where beautiful gifts fall out of the sky--you're in the grim wasteland of real bills that the CBO will tell people are more expensive than you've been claiming, and involve actual real live people giving something up.

Now, I have it on good authority that the Unicorns who pee high-test into your tank won't be showing up. The reason is that they fart rainbows, and rainbows have been classified a Greenhouse Gas by Obama's EPA.