As I’m busy organizing a first-night Seder, I will alas not have much time to blog as I had hoped. Instead, let me offer the results of the latest Watcher of Weasels Council considerations. Taking home the Council laurels this week is Joshuapundit for his piece, Silent Scream;The Sudan Ethnically Cleanses Its Christians Meanwhile the non-Council winner is Victor Davis Hanson with The New Anti-Semitism.

Rounding out the Council balloting we have:

• Second place with 2 1/3 votes – The Right Planet Revenge of the ‘Birthers’
• Third place *t* with 1 vote – Bookworm Room-Barack Obama to supporters: Give me the money, dammit!
• Third place *t* with 1 vote – The Razor-The Insidious Nature of Student Loan Debt
• Third place *t* with 1 vote – Gay Patriot-Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, Jury Duty And The Press
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Mellow Jihadi-The Cunning Muslim Bro’s Candidate
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Noisy Room-American Bolsheviks – The Second Act
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey – The Epitome of the “Limousine Liberal”
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – VA Right! – Upholding Obamacare Would Be the Ultimate and Final Act of Judicial Activism and Render the Constitution Moot
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Rhymes With Right –Some Observations On Michael Kinsley’s Column On ObamaCare’s Constitutionality
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Glittering Eye – How Did They Get It So Wrong?
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Simply Jews – “Anti-Zionism” and naivety

The remainder of the Non-Council competition are as follows: (more…)

Although one recent poll showed that Mitt Romney was not doing as well with women as he was with men, Obama’s internal polls must show that his support among women is quite soft.  And his team is doing everything it can to play to women’s fears about the horrible, no good and very bad things that might happen if the Republicans and their diabolical social conservative henchmen came to power next January.

Over at the Daily Caller (via Instapundit), Jeff Poor reports on how Charles Krauthammer took apart the White House claim that its upcoming “National Women’s Issues Conference” is anything but a political stunt; that sage pundit called “White House spokesman Jay Carney’s response to a question about conference posed by Fox News Channel’s White House correspondent, Ed Henry, . . .’shameless and over-the-top’”:

“According to Jay Carney, it has nothing at all to do with the election,” Krauthammer said. “They actually think they can say that and do it with a straight face and get away with it. I mean, all the administrations use taxpayer money to promote themselves in an election year. But this is pretty shameless and over-the-top.”

He said that this conference stemmed from the recent contraception debate that was given birth by the media.

“Notice how when the president said, ‘This is about a wide range of issues. It isn’t just about’ — and what’s the one thing he named immediately? Contraception. Of course it is about contraception,” Krauthammer said. “It’s because of the way it was handled and the media covered it — it became all of a sudden a war on the women, which is a complete invention.”

Krauthammer later points out how the media have collaborated in inventing this war on women.  Just read the whole thing to see what it means.

Perhaps now we should be grateful for George Stephanopolous’s question about contraception during the WMUR debate back in January.  The likely Republican nominee didn’t take the former Clinton aide’s bait and offered a response which should assure all but the most politicized women that he has no intention to make an issue of contraception.  Instead of his words becoming a sound byte for the Democratic offense against the GOP; they should instead serve as defense against an outrageous and dishonest claims that Republicans have declared war on women.

Krauthammer is right.  It is shameless how politicized this administration has become.

UPDATE (from Bruce):  Glenn Reynolds reports about another front in Obama’s #WarOnWomen:

“Obama played 23 rounds of golf between January and October of 2009 before inviting a single woman to his foursome, the New York Times reported. This was emblematic of broader concerns over the president’s preference for the company and advice of men.”