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I think the Washington Press Corps is afraid to ask the President a serious question, lest he mock or humiliate them. And, what about the New York Times’ softball questions?

So much for hard-hitting journalism.

Looks like celebrity press coverage for “The One.”

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The Day By Day Archive

Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would not recommend taking any commercial flight or riding in a subway car “at this point” because swine flu virus can spread “in confined places.”

““I would not be, at this point – if they had another way of transportation – suggesting they ride the subway,” Biden said on NBC’s “Today” show.

That contradicted more restrained advice from President Barack Obama and the federal government, and could hurt tourism during a recession.

The administration said a clarifying statement is forthcoming.

Good ol’ Joe.

Out of the mouth of babes………comes the truth – not Obama Administration spin.

Flap bets there is a clarifying statement as the airlines and hotel industry start to crash.

Here is the video:

With Iran pressing ahead with its nuclear program and North Korea on Wednesday threatening more test-firings of intercontinental ballistic missiles, it’s little wonder that Americans across the board say it’s important that the U.S. get a missile defense system up and running as soon as possible. That was obvious from the latest IBD/TIPP Poll, which found Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, and 78% in between affirming the importance of such a system. Yet President Obama has said he will “cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.”

The Poll:

Yet, President Obama, despite wide-spread support by Americans will be cutting the national missile defense program by $1.4 Billion this year.

Mr. President, in light of North Korea’s actions and most recent threats, re-evaluate your position on the national missile defense program. To make the budget cuts you are recommending is negligence in the highest order.

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Obama Dodges And Plays Word Games With America’s National Missile Defense

Folly of the Day: Obama Cuts Missile Defense

The Missile Defense Archive

Jim Geraghty does the analysis.

Discussing the 2010 elections for the House of Representatives with David Freddoso and Mark Hemingway earlier today, we noticed that the “the Republican Party is becoming a regional party” argument is nonsense — even though it’s widely repeated.

The AP, today: “With Sen. Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democrats, the Republican Party is increasingly at risk of being viewed as a mostly Southern and solidly conservative party, an identity that might take years to overcome.”

Er, no. The South amounts to 44 percent of the Republican House delegation, which means 56 percent has to come from somewhere else.

And that’s just looking at House districts. Examine these charts from CQ. McCain won 193 of the nation’s 435 congressional districts, including 49 that split their tickets to elect Democrats to the U.S. House. There are currently 178 Republicans in the House of Representatives. So a total of 227 House districts voted for either McCain, or a Republican House member, or both — in what everyone would agree was a fantastic year for Democrats.

Even if Republicans won every House seat in the South they would only have 131 seats — leaving 96 other districts across the country.

Even in their shrunken minority, Republicans hold 19 House seats in California, eight in Ohio, seven in Michigan, seven in Illinois, seven in Pennsylvania, five in New Jersey, five in Missouri, three in Minnesota, three in New York, three in Washington state, and the one seat in Delaware.

And it works in the reverse, too — Democrats actually represent more House seats in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Virginia and North Carolina than Republicans. Neither party is as regional as conventional wisdom suggests.

Let’s look at Flap’s Congressional district that was won by Obama last November:

Yet, long-time incumbent GOP Represenative Elton Gallegly won by a comfortable 16 points in a down GOP year.

The LEFT and Democrats like to blow smoke and hope it catches fire.

Now, the GOP does have a New York and New England problem but not one that marginalizes the national party.

Sorry, Democrats.

The U.S. economy shrank at an annual pace of 6.1% in the first quarter — almost as much as it did in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to a government report Wednesday.

The drop was much worse than expected. According to economists surveyed by Briefing.com, expectations were for a drop of 4.7% in gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation’s economic activity.

The first quarter decline was the second biggest drop recorded in 26 years, behind only the fourth quarter reading. GDP fell 6.3% in the last three months of last year.

The analyses of the economy are all over the place. But, after massive amounts of government spending and debt by the Obama Administration, there appears to be little improvement.