From today’s CPAC-dominated Morning Jolt:

The Best CPAC Ever!
This is not a subdued CPAC crowd, but I think it’s a serious-minded one. Sure, the applause lines still work, but I think the attendees are hungry for more.
Conservatives worked hard in 2014 to elect a Republican U.S. Senate and strengthen a GOP House . . . in hopes of putting the brakes on the Obama agenda. The country was moving in the wrong direction. The president was out of control.
And now . . . there’s no coherent plan to stop the executive-order amnesty. There’s not a clear sense of what the GOP Congress should do if the Supreme Court throws a monkey-wrench into Obamacare in King v. Burwell. Obama vetoed the Keystone pipeline with the unhinged claim that the bill somehow interfered with his executive authority, and not enough Democrats will vote to override his veto. The Right pummeled the Left up and down the ballot in 2014, and somehow they’ve managed to make the election results irrelevant by simply ignoring them. It’s as if we’re being governed by the comments section of a liberal blog.
A midterm election result aiming to rein in President Obama’s increasingly radical agenda has instead only driven him to reach even more — President Bulworth has adopted the slogan of “YOPO” — “You’re only president once.” By winning the presidency and controlling the regulatory bureaucracy, the radical Left is now dictating terms to the rest of America.
So the usual CPAC applause lines of “I’m certain our best days are ahead of us” and “I believe in freedom” are a little less than the moment requires. Attendees are looking for a fighter — a particular challenge for a former Florida governor who’s been quiet on the political scene for much of the Obama era — and a strategist, someone who can out-think and out-maneuver a political opponent that is fearless and determined in its efforts to enact its agenda . . .
Give the NR Podcasts from CPAC a Listen!
The NationalReview.com/Ricochet podcast interview with Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal can be found here, and with Senator Ted Cruz here.
Elsewhere, our Jay Nordlinger interviews Representative Bill Flores of Texas and former U.S. attorney general Michael Mukasey and chats with Herbert London of the London Center for Policy Research,
Jay, Charlie Cooke, and I offer a short wrap-up of our observations of the first day. My favorite part was when Jay lamented that no one has written a good, recent book about the relationship between conservatives and libertarians.

In other news, Texas governor Rick Perry joins me in sellout-RINO-squishhood.