Resting up .. so I'll be with you at 10:00 Eastern. Herman Cain will take good care of you until then.

Oh .. and I would like to open the Nuze by welcoming to this world one Sarah Jacklynn _________. That would be my brand new 8 lb. 3 oz. 21 inch granddaughter. She was delivered at 3:37 yesterday afternoon and she and her mother (my daughter) are in wonderful shape ... though her father looked a little frazzled when I left the hospital last night.

Pictures? Yup, you bet. But they don't get posted here without the parent's permission. So stay tuned. And a big happy actual Happy Birthday to Sarah!

This Friday the House is going to vote to ban corporate pay practices at financial firms. What kind of pay practices? Anything that the government deems to be an "inappropriate risk." What exactly is considered an "inappropriate risk." Well that is for the government - that means bureaucrats -- to decide. People like Barney Frank or other government hacks will suddenly be in charge of determining what pay practices are appropriate for financial firms in this country. This is a prime example of our imperial federal government run amuck. We are talking about unprecedented power in the hands of the federal government. This is power that would have our Founding Fathers spinning around like they were on a rotisserie.

Slobbering Barney says, "If the risk pays off, you make money .. and if the risk doesn't, you suffer no penalties. Heads you win, tails you break even. It's like selling lottery tickets that only cost you money if they pay off." Yep. That's the man who is going to be in charge of regulating corporate pay for our financial system. His bill would ban any "risky" compensation that could threaten the "safety and soundness" of our economy.

Also, I think that Barney also managed to include in the bill a provision that would require financial companies to disclose to federal regulators any details on "incentive-based" compensation. Any details on ALL incentive-based compensation? We are talking about any and all bonuses paid out by the financial sector.

Oh and you will love this comment. This comes from one of my favorite Representatives. You people in Central Florida should be ashamed. Rep. Alan Grayson says that any attempts to water down this bill would only help "irresponsible managers who loot their companies.". Yep, because that is exactly what these financial institutions are all about.

Here's what this all boils down to: Government hacks who probably would have a tough time making it in the private sector are going to be telling business owners and managers what they can and what they cannot do in the operations of their businesses. This is a wholesale attack on economic liberty and free enterprise, and it is exactly what you would expect of the Democrat party and a president who, in writing, professed his affinity for Communism and Marxism.

You folks with the Obama bumper stickers? Thanks a pantload.

Why is the Republican Party losing voters? Why is the Republican Party lacking in popularity while polls show that more Americans consider themselves conservative? Well according to Republican Senator George Voinovich of Ohio, it has nothing to do with the fact that the Republicans lack any original ideas. It has nothing to do with the fact that they are completely impotent. It has nothing to do with their general obsession with a woman's womb. According to George Voinovich, it has everything to do with Southerners. Yep .. Southerners are to blame for the Republicans' lagging popularity.

Voinovich told the Columbus dispatch that the Senate is filled with too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns. He says, It's the Southerners ... They get on TV and go 'errrr, errrrr ... People hear them and say, 'These people, they're Southerners. The party's being taken over by Southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?'"

Anti-South bias. Nothing new to me. There are radio stations out there who refuse to run my program for no other reason than that it originates in Atlanta, Georgia. The bias is real ... but I'll just say that I'm damned glad I don't live in Ohio or New Jersey. I'll just take Atlanta and Naples and be more than thrilled.

This lovely bible carrying case was spotted by a friend of the show. Oh, for those of you that think this is photoshopped, you can get your own here.

A blogger by the name of Keith Hennessey has done a great analysis of how the Congressional Budget Office has virtually destroyed the House Democrat healthcare plan. Take a look at the first conclusion and then explain to me why there are still people in this country who buy into this government healthcare scam.

Conclusion: CBO says that because the proposed new health spending would grow faster than the proposed new income tax increases, the House health bill would increase the long-term deficit. Since the President has said he would not sign a bill that increases the long-term deficit, the bill is dead in its current form. Any tax increase that would grow more slowly than the proposed new spending faces the same irreconcilable problem. The only way to solve this problem and meet the President's long-term goal is to cut health spending or tax employer-provided health insurance.

The whole thing is worth a read.

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Sonia Sotomayor officially cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The Obama administration will "require" health insurance plans to cover some weight loss programs to help fight obesity. I still like my idea better .. a FAT tax.

This is not good news for Barack Obama. A majority of Americans believe exactly the opposite of what he is preaching about healthcare: it is going to increase costs and hurt the quality of care.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed says that the Senate Finance Committee would wrap up its work on the health care reform bill before the end of next week.

Okay, so Republican representatives may know more about the Democrat healthcare bill than Democrat representatives. Here's an idea. Why don't the Republicans come up with some darn ideas for themselves. Hell, I could write a better bill in ten minutes.

Politicians are trying really hard to convince you that this economic stimulus plan is working. For example, they will count a job as being created by the economic stimulus ... even if it only 3 hours worth of work.

The Government Accountability Office is expected to add the Postal Service to its list of "high risk" government operations.

The government can't properly decide what cars would qualify for its own stimulus program.

Now that George Bush is out of office, who are the Democrats going to blame when things don't go their way?

Rep. Jeff Flake isn't making any friends in the House Rules Committee right now. Good for him.

Chicago is experiencing the coldest July in 67 years. Must be all that global warming.

The British government published a 20-page report on how to Twitter. Wait, 20 pages?

Can you be sued for a Tweet? Apparently the answer is yes.

This story out of Atlanta is getting national attention. An Atlanta police officer shot and killed a family dog while investigating a house call.

The traffic at the official White House Web site--whitehouse.gov--has fallen from a post-Inauguration peak to nearly the same level it was toward the end of the Bush administration.

Which conservative commentators are NOT on the birther bandwagon?