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By Greg Pierce

CELEBRITIES

"Don't look now, but the unlikeliest people are being restocked as celebrity inventory: politicians," Wall Street Journal columnist writes.

"Barack Obama made Forbes' Top 100 celebrities this year, the first sitting head of state ever. Obama is now the country's main celebrity. The cameras are on him, all the time. He gives speeches. That's his main act, most of the time," Mr. Henninger said.

"Barack and Michelle. Nancy, Sarah. Arnie. Eliot. Joe. Huck. Mark. Barney.

"It makes sense. Their supply is capped by elections. South Carolina and New York can have only one deranged governor. Mass marketing can't produce politicians and cheapen them further. Most of the time they don't do much of anything, just like celebrities. Meet Senator [Al] Franken.

"It may not last. A poll in the last election found that most people think they could do a better job than their own member of Congress. So I expect that TV will soon create a reality Congress show. Average people could pretend to run a whole country, just like the celebrities who are pretending to run Washington."

ROADKILL

"The rubber hit the road in Congress last Friday, but it wasn't a transportation bill or a car-company bailout. It was the House vote on 'climate change,' which would still be known as 'global warming' if average temperatures had not inconveniently failed to go up over the past 11 years," former Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

"Everyone, of course, wants to be a good steward of our planet. No one wants to be responsible for destroying the rain forests or polar bears. And no one wants his fingerprints on the thermostat if the Earth is warming," Mr. Santorum said.

"But everything changes when politicians pull the trigger on a program that increases taxes and kills our economy, jobs, and standard of living. The rubber hits the road.