Congress has voted in favor of the “stimulus” bill and Obama will certainly sign it into law within the next couple of days.  The federal deficit for 2009 was already going to be $1.2 trillion.  Throw in the “stimulus” spending and the deficit will be nearing $2 trillion and 13.5% of the US economy.  Many […]

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During the election campaign, Obama kept harmmering away about how the Bush administration had neglected the middle class.  It was a major theme of the campaign.  Everywhere Obama campaigned, he brought up that tax cuts for the wealthy was a failed philosophy and that he truly did care about working people.  Campaigning in Las Vegas, […]

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While campaiging for his “stimulus” plan, Obama said that “only government can shake the country out of recession.”  There is no historical basis for the statement.  History shows that government has a dismal record of ending economic downturns. Economists at UCLA recently concluded that the New Deal policies of FDR extended the depression by at […]

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Michelle Malkin has posted some video of NY Senator Chuck Schumer lecturing the American People about the right way to feel about this gigantic waste of money we don’t have.
He must be taking lessons from Obama.
 

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Since the bailout bill made its way through congress last year, there have been several high profile news stories of excessive spending by the bailed out companies.  Obama has proposed capping executive pay at $500,000 a year for banks that receive bailout funds.
Obama said, “This is America.  We don’t disparage wealth. We don’t begrudge anybody […]

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If there’s nothing more annoying than a President that is never forced to answer a single tough question in 6 years of public service, it’s a President who then goes out and badmouths those few conservatives in Congress who have the guts to say, “Which part of your Stimulus is actually going to stimulate the […]

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I was checking out Instapundit, and was pointed to this article that claims that the current stimulus package probably does not have enough support to pass in the Senate.
Media reports suggest Senate Republicans have become a key focus of stimulus talks, an acknowledgement that they appear to hold the balance of power in that chamber […]

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Bill Clinton won the 1992 election by focusing on the bad economy.  By the time Clinton took office, the economy was in fine shape.  Clinton was never one to “waste a crisis” and he pushed hard for an economic stimulus package.  He droned on and on about how necessary it was and how the economy […]

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Saddling up and singing to protest gas prices
I love this particular fellow:
Dozens of Alabama students are bicycling up to 10 miles each way to their rural high school. An Indiana man was arrested for belting out a protest song, “Price Gouge’n,” from the roof of a convenience store.
I can only imagine its lyrics included the […]

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You just have to love this election cycle. These people have picked two of the biggest egos (which is tough to distinguish in the Democratic Party, you know they have a separate 10-ft wide door in the Senate chambers so that their heads may pass through) to try to get this nomination. It’s been a […]

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