How a Bill REALLY Becomes Law

[A/N: Another old one, this one from March 2010. So if you remember all the garbage the Democrats were up to last year (and who doesn't?) then you'll know the context that this post was set in.]

I found this on IMAO the other day, and thought this was priceless. I've written out the lyrics as best as I can for people who might have trouble hearing the words over the music.




It seems like any punk bill can get through this capital joint up here in Washington
Well I wonder who that bad (mo-po) scrap of paper is

I'm just a bill, yo I'm only a bill
and spending me will be a mad thrill
For all them politicians sitting pretty
it won't take long to force me through committee
Then I'll be here to stay, you'll be taxed and pay against your will
But today I'm still just a bill.

Yo!

Gee, bill, you certainly don't give a crap about the American people.

Naw, nor do politicians.
When I started, I wasn't even a bill. I was just a bad idea.
Some peeps in the hood, they wanted that creepy hand coming out of the ground to stop
So they hollered at their local congressman, and he said,
"The hand stays, and you're gonna pay for it."
Then he sat down and wrote me up and he sent me to Congress
And I became a bill no one wants,
And I'll remain a bill no one wants until they force me through as a law no one wants

I'm just a bill, yo I'm only a bill
And my price just rose in a backroom deal
Soon they'll force me through committee with no delay
The head Congressman witholds debate
And they'll hide how I became a law
Then I'll be here to stay, you'll be taxed and pay against your will
But today I'm still just a bill. Yow!

Just listen to them speaking in Chinese, Bill. Is all that China stuff about you?

Oh, sure, I'm a spending bill. They ain't.
So when I'm passed, we'll owe all our debt to foreigners
And you'll pay back the debt, Tommy, before you die.

Die?!

Word! Debt before you die.
Woah! Look's like you're in trouble Tommy
To the House! And my girl Pelosi's up in there!

When they vote yes, what happens?

Then off to the Senate, where my boy Reid's at.

Oh snap!

Oh snap!

I'm just a bill, yo I'm only a bill
and I'm pushin' debt to $14 tril'

The White House won't even bat an eye
To pass me with other mad expensive bills to sign
When he signs me I'll become a law
You'll be taxed and pay against your will
But today I'm still just a bill
Yo!

So even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the president can still say no?

But he won't, so you get debt! Don't you get it?
This isn't what they teach you in school. This is D.C., baby.
Passin' laws with other people's dough.

So I won't have any more money, bill?

No! You'll be taxed and pay against your will
But today I'm still just a bill.

It worked bill! He signed you, and now you're a law.
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Enough said.

We'll Need A Crane

Hello everyone, I hope you had a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year to everyone.

I guess Congress must have finally gone home, and not a moment too soon. In fact, I wish they had gone a little bit sooner. I have no idea how much damage they managed to cause before they left, and I'm half afraid to ask. I was travelling over Christmas, so I missed a bunch of news. I do know, however, that when I got up on the 26th someone had turned the TV to FOX news and the newscaster was asking about whether Obama would be able to complete his agenda with the new Congress that was coming in. And right before I changed the channel, I thought to myself, you know, I had wanted Odummer to get his agenda through, I wouldn't have gone out and voted for the Republicans.

But I digress. Tonight I was thinking about a song that I haven't listened to in awhile. It's by a group called "They Might Be Giants" and the song is called "They'll Need A Crane."

Now the song itself talks about a couple's relationship, that it fell apart, and how they'll need a crane to pick the pieces up and put them back together again.

And I thought to myself, you know, we're going to need a crane to break down what the Dems have already built and then pick up the pieces of our freedoms and put them back together.

Here's the song:





There was Obamacare, and Don't Ask Don't Tell got repealed, "Quantitative Easing," all the money Odummer managed to wrack up on his constant vacations/parties/what have you (by the way, did you hear that his vacation to Hawaii is going to cost taxpayers over one million dollars? And this comes not that long after his trip to India, when he took thirty-four warships with him), the Pigford slave reparations, and these are just the ones that I can think of off the top of my head. not to mention that fact that no thanks to Obama and his cronies, the national debt is through the roof.

We'll need a crane to tear this garbage down and return the country to normal. Don't let anyone lie to you; the country will not magically get better after the new Congress comes in. It is going to take years to fix this (if we're lucky.) I say this now because I expect to eventually hear some Independent whining that the Republicans couldn't do anything.

That's right; unless some Dems move to the center, the next two years will be gridlock. That's the idea. First we put up a roadblock and work undoing whatever we possibly can. But some of these bills are monstrosities, and I suspect it will take awhile to undo them.

By the way, a Democrat journalist just went out and said he couldn't understand the Constitution because the document was over 100 years old. Iowa Hawk responded to the guy in a unique way, but I think the best response came from a commenter on Gateway Pundit's blog:

It’s a good thing the left has all the intelligent people. If I was as smart as they are instead of just an ignorant TEA Party supporter I wouldn’t be able to understand the constitution either.

I second that. And just think, more fools like this have been running the country for the last two years. We're gonna need a crane to break all of this garbage down and start over again. The TEA party is the crane itself, and the Republicans, if they their jobs right, are going to be the metal ball on the end of the chain.

Let the smashing begin.

We'll need a crane, we'll need a crane
To take the bills the Dems built back apart
To make it break, it's gonna take
A metal ball hung from a chain...

Tomorrow's Political Forecast: Partly Tyranical with a 53% Chance of Atlas Shrugging

Is it just me, or have things actually gotten worse since the Dems were voted out? Oh wait, it's not just me - It has.

Alright, so the Democrats are angry that we rejected their tyranny, but I don't understand why they still have the power to ruin our lives like this. It annoys me.

Let's see, what all kind of crud has happened the past few days? Well, tonight I got word that the FCC has decided to start regulating the Internet. (Keep your hands off my computer! Dial R 4 Infinity is a No Net Neutrality zone!!) Also,

- The Senate passed a food safety bill that gives the FDA more power. The Republicans abandoned the Tea Party to jump on board with the Democrats. You can follow this link to see several lies about that bill get debunked. (Even if you don't read that food safety bill, I strongly suggest reading NaturalNews article in the second link.)

- In an utterly stupid move, the Senate decided to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell. The stupidity of this is just mind blowing. It's an army, not a social club, and it's no place to host a social experiment like this. In fact, I can predict how this ends because everytime I hear about a different country that allows fags to serve, the army can't fight worth squat.

- The irony meter went through the roof on Sunday when Wikileaks traitor Julian Assange's lawyers went out and complained that details about their client's sex life were leaked. (We read the documents on Wikileaks.)

And last, and probably worst (maybe...it's hard to tell) is the fact that the Republicans also collapsed on the START nuclear treaty with Russia. Now there is a motion to advance it. (Irritating me even more is the fact that one of my idiot Senators, RINO Dick Lugar, voted yes. Democrat Evan Bayh, who has retired, abstained from voting. I never thought I'd appreciate a Democrat over a Republican, but I do in this case.)(Wait a minute, I just admitted that I prefer Bayh over Lugar. What is this, the apocalypse?)

I digress. Today I was thinking about all this crap and I thought, you know, I'm getting an Atlas Shrugged vibe here. Who knew Ann Rand was qualified to be a prophetess? In Atlas Shrugged, the government is always after more power. And when whatever they're running fails, they demand more power to make sure it doesn't fail again. (even though the collapse was their fault in the first place.) That's what's happened with this new Food Safety bill. The FDA botched up, so of course they want more power now to make sure they can screw up our lives don't screw up again. (See lie #5 on the Natural News link up there.)

DADT qualifies under the 'making life fair' part of the government in Atlas Shrugged. And yes, the government in the book did try and make life fair. (They also used class warfare. I'm telling you: flat tax.)

Ever since Obummer came to power I've heard different people say it was like they went to bed in America and woke up after the election in a Banana Republic or the Twilight Zone or something like that. Well, now that I'd done reading AS, it feels like I went to bed in the real world and woke up in the book.

Which begs the question: WHERE IS JOHN GALT? Where is the person is going to restore sanity to those with the minds to accept it? I'm ready to accept it. Heck, I'm ready to move to Galt's Gulch. (Though I admit it will be hard to ship my books out there.)

All joking aside, no, I really am waiting for the person who's going to save America. And no, Obama is not qualified to do that job. Heck, he's not qualified to a Wal-Mart cashier. So who's going to save us now? (Oh heck, for that matter we may as well ask who is John Galt?)

No, I'm not giving up. Not yet. We still have another shot, as soon as January fifth rolls around. But it's not coming fast enough. This lame duck session should never have happened. Obama knows this is his one last shot to get the things he wants done. He is such an idiot it isn't funny. Washington D.C. is suicidal, and they want America to die with them.

Paging John Galt.

I can't will 'till the 2012 election.

I can't spend much time here, as I have a paper due today and need to finish working on it, but I just heard that the DREAM bill passed in the house. What a nightmare. Dear heaven, what a nightmare:

The Senate is scheduled to vote on the bi-partisan legislation, which would potentially legalize hundreds of thousands of young people, on Thursday. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada), majority leader, is not expected to have the 60 votes needed for passage.

Republican leaders said the bill is just another form of “amnesty”, one that is too costly to taxpayers and will only invite more illegal border crossings.

With a comprehensive overhaul of the immigration system dead, Democrats and immigrant advocates believe the Dream Act is the last best chance to win legal status for at least some illegal migrants before Republicans take control of the House in January.

Overhauling the immigration system is not dead, and if it is someone had better resuscitate it. Over in New Revolution, I used a quote as a chapter opener and the quote went like this: "Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law."

That was said by someone called Richard Lamm, and truer words have never been spoken about immigration. All the DREAM act is is amnesty, and it's going to cost us 6.2 million dollars - and that's the conservative estimate. It reality it will probably cost a lot more. And now illegals can take jobs that so many ordinary Americans need. thanks Congress. Thanks for nothing.

So the Demonrats, angry that they were rejected in the 2010 elections, respond by groping us all at airports and now by giving illegals amnesty. Let this serve as a lesson to us all: never vote for someone with a D after thier name.

So Now What?

I am tired. All this afternoon I have been on the blogs, and off the blogs, and on, and back off, and making phone calls, and making more phone calls. I have called every Democrat Representative in the state of Indiana and asked them to just say no.

The St. Louis Tea Party is holding a candlelight vigil tonight for the elderly and the unborn who will suffer is Deathcare comes to pass, and Even though I don't live in St Louis, I plan to light a candle too. That starts at seven, and it's six right now, which gives me an hour.

There are five Dems in IN, and I called them. I tried to call Bart Stupack, but couldn't leave a message because his phone box was full.

Then I tried to call Nancy Pelosi. Yes, that Nancy Pelosi. I couldn't figure out what to say to her, so I decided to give her the same message I gave every other Dem: "Please vote no on the healthcare bill." It takes probably less than 45 seconds for me to give my name, hometown, state, and that message.

I was surprised when I called her office that I actually got a living, breathing, human being. For all of ten seconds, for no sooner did I put out the words "no" and "Healthcare" than I was asked to hold, and then shipped over to an answering machine. Nice.

So I guess it was sort of pointless to call Pelosi, just like I was told. I thought I would try it anyway. I knew going in I would not be able to change her mind, but I thought I should leave no stone unturned.

Heaven help us. We're all going to need it now.

Rise Against - Prayer of the Refugee



Addendum: The Tea Party is burning red candles for the victims of Deathcare. I don't have a red candle; I'll just burn the one I've got.

6:20 pm right now. I should probably start looking for something to light that candle with.

Good News!!!

You can read all about it!!
From the AP:

Republican Scott Brown says his Senate victory in Massachusetts sends a powerful message and he hopes to get to work right away.

Brown's stunning triumph for the seat long held by Sen. Ted Kennedy was a devastating Democratic defeat that triggered soul-searching within President Barack Obama's party over how to stem further losses in November's midterm elections.

I'm so happy!! Go Massachusetts!!

Republicans are rejoicing and Democrats reeling in the wake of Scott Brown's stunning triumph in a special Massachusetts Senate election, a devastating Democratic defeat that triggered soul-searching within President Barack Obama's party over how to stem further losses in November's midterm elections.

Obama himself grimly faced a need to regroup on Wednesday, the anniversary of his inauguration, in a White House shaken by the realization of what a difference a year made.

In one of the country's most traditionally liberal states, Brown rode a wave of voter anger to defeat Martha Coakley, the attorney general who had been considered a surefire winner until just days ago. Her loss signaled big political problems for Obama and the Democratic Party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.

I sure hope it signals problems. But for now, I'm just gonna be happy that Brown won.

Does Sonia Sotomayer Have Empathy for Terrorists?

Two things I want to discuss today, that racist witch Sonia Sototmayor and the Gitmo detainees.

First, we'll start with the Gitmo detainees. As a student of 9/11 I was hopping mad when I turned on the TV this morning and learned that Obummer had smuggled one into the country last night. Heaven help us, Obama is trying his absolute hardest to get us all killed. Expect to hear screaming in this corner of the blogosphere if they're freaking stupid enough to let this guy go:

U.S. authorities have brought the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to the United States, flying him into New York to face trial for bombing U.S. embassies, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

The department said Ahmed Ghailani arrived in the early morning hours Tuesday, to be held in U.S. law enforcement custody until his trial in federal court in lower Manhattan. Ghailani was expected to make his initial appearance in Manhattan federal court later Tuesday.

"With his appearance in federal court today, Ahmed Ghailani is being held accountable for his alleged role in the bombing of U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and the murder of 224 people," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a press release. "The Justice Department has a long history of securely detaining and successfully prosecuting terror suspects through the criminal justice system, and we will bring that experience to bear in seeking justice in this case."

Ghailani's trial will be an important test case for the Obama administration's plan to close the detention center at Guantanamo in seven months and bring some of the suspects to trial.

Two hundred twenty-four people. He murdered 224 people.

New York, you should be worried.

The government thinks everything will turn out alright. I don't. I'm innately suspicious of the man who said that:

...[F]ighting a war against fanatic barbarians "with one hand tied behind your back" is being on "the better side of history," even though innocent lives are put at risk.

That means Obama is going to risk your life to make sure everything meets his standards. History doesn't care, by the way. All it does is prove repetitively what blithering idiots liberals are. Back to the detainee:

He was categorized as a high-value detainee by U.S. authorities after he was captured in Pakistan in 2004 and was transferred to the detention center at the U.S. naval base in Cuba two years later.

Since his capture, Ghailani has denied knowing the TNT and oxygen tanks he delivered would be used to make a bomb. He also denied buying a vehicle used in one of the attacks, saying he could not drive.

Now, the Obama administration is trying to put him into the U.S. criminal justice system, despite claims by Republican critics that doing so would endanger American lives. Some lawmakers have opposed bringing any Guantanamo detainees to the U.S. for trial, even in heavily guarded settings.

Last month, President Barack Obama said that preventing Ghailani from coming to U.S. soil "would prevent his trial and conviction. And after over a decade, it is time to finally see that justice is served, and that is what we intend to do."

Justice is served, eh? I doubt it. But we'll see.

Now, onto Sonia Sotomayor. From New England Republican:

Here’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on the ability of female Latina and white male judges to reach decisions:

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

So, the easiest way to determine if this is a racist comment is to flip the sides and see if it still flies:

“I would hope that a wise white male with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn’t lived that life.”

Is there anybody out there that wants to make the case that the 2nd quote wouldn’t end the career of a white male judge? I didn’t think so. It looks like Barack Obama was listening to Jeremiah Wright when the later was spewing his racist rhetoric those 20 years.

This is what I wanted to bring up, that quote. That right there tells me this woman couldn't do a decent job to save her - or anyone else's, for that matter's - life.

This is woman is a racist. Technically, I guess she would be called a reverse racist, but I would hate to have to stand in front of this woman and ask for her help. Being as she's a Latina woman with all the richness of her [in]experience, I daresay that I, the "poor white woman", would be dissed as not having gone through the riches of experiences this racist is citing.

Here's what two other bloggers had to say about her:

From There's My Two Cents:

... [T]his woman is bringing a serious axe-grinding to the highest court in the land, and is planning to make decisions based on race and gender rather than the law... Personally, I think this is only one of the two worst aspects about her. The other is that she believes it is the job of judges to write law from the bench. Both are blatantly unconstitutional, and will spell major, major problems for Americans down the road.

Agreed. From American Thinker:

Not to belittle Judge Sotomayor's achievements,

What achievements? Princeton doesn't count as achievement, and neither does becoming a judge. Hundreds of people do both of those things, so neither of them makes Sotomayor special. (Incidentally, in a sane world, being Latina Hispanic whatever would not make her special either.)

... but the "richness of her experiences" seems to drop off past adolescence. Once she started Princeton (at age 18?), her experiences of successful student, attorney and judge might be rich, but how different from white males who also became judges?

Believe it or not, white males can have rich experiences. And some rich experiences are known to happen after childhood.

...I reveal these things not to get sympathy or anything like it, but because I am sick and tired of so many non-whites and females acting like white males know nothing of life but some kind of mythical white-bread experience. Here's a hint: nobody grew up with Leave It To Beaver or Ozzie and Harriet. Those were TV shows.

White males in real life tend not to go on Oprah, so you non-white females might not be familiar with us.

...The richness of our experiences is what we white guys call "life." I'm sure Princeton was rich, too.

Judge Sotomayor's statement does not bother me because it is racist. It bothers me because it reveals shallowness and a poverty of experience that has no place on the bench of the Supreme Court.

The racist is what bothers me, not the shallowness, though I will agree she is shallow. Another problem is her "empathy," which came up during a discussion I had with my father about her. The point made was, who should she empathize with? The plaintiff? The defendant?

You see the problem here? Empathy should not be on the table, and this woman should not have been selected by Obama because of her "empathy."

Then again, this is Obama's pick, so who am I kidding?

Your Future Car

Cross-posted from Lady Cinncinatus' blog, this hilarious video, from Iowahawk.



To good.

Imminent Threat To Your Health!!

It's called Socialized medicine, occasionally disguised as National Healthcare:

Today, Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus is meeting with the other members of the committee to discuss options for expanding insurance coverage. The slides they are using to guide their discussion — available here — are illuminating to say the least.

Among other things, they indicate that the committee is considering a requirement
that, if an Obama-like plan were to pass, all health-insurance plans would have to conform to one of four benefit designs: lowest, low, medium, and high. That's it. Four options for everyone in the United States, determined by the federal government.

Of course, the committee is cognizant of President Obama's promise that Americans who like the insurance they have today will be able to keep it. So they create a carve-out for "grandfathered plans." Existing insurance can stay just as it is, they say.

Except that's not really true. Because elsewhere in the document, the committee makes it clear that existing insurance arrangements that do not comply with government requirements cannot enroll new entrants. Nor can any enrollees get the new premium subsidies the committee is contemplating. Consequently, no "grandfathered plan" will be viable, or at least not for long. Understandably, many people would want to leave them to get government's money, and the pool for spreading insurance risk would become less stable as people exit for a host of reasons (like when they switch jobs or get married) but cannot be replaced with a new entrant.

Regarding "affordability," the committee is apparently looking at providing new premium subsidies to everyone below 400% of poverty. For a family of four, that's about $88,000 per year. A very large segment of the working-age population falls below that threshold. If enacted, it would be a massive new health-care entitlement piled on top of the unaffordable ones already on the books.

And then there's the government-run insurance plan. The committee outline suggests four options: a Medicare-like plan; a plan which looks like Medicare but pays higher rates to doctors and hospitals; a plan that tries to create some distance from the government with "third-party" administration; and a state-based public plan. (The committee also notes that it is possible the legislation would not include a new government-run option at all.)

These alternative design options for the "government option" are really a distraction because it really doesn't matter what such a plan looks like at enactment. What matters is what it will become over time. Safeguards today can be easily overridden later. When the government micro-manages health insurance, it is inevitable that arbitrary price-setting will become the favored method of trying to control total costs because it creates the illusion that beneficiaries are protected. It's only the doctors and hospitals who are getting paid less for each service rendered, politicians claim. Of course, that's the first step down the slippery slope to waiting lists.

There is one word that effectively describes the government: Inefficient. These people can't do anything right, other then spend money. Eventually it will come down to whether or not your life is worth saving. The Post Office is bankrupt, every bailout has failed or been wasted.

Everything the government touches, it destroys. The government also appears to be absolutely incapable of learning from other country's mistakes. This has been tried in other countries, and it always ends badly.

Great Britain:
- A 22 Year old woman dies while waiting for an MRI. Turns out, she had cancer. She may have had a fighting chance if she hadn't had to wait thirteen weeks for that MRI. And she was marked higher on the waiting list.
- The inadequacy of British Hospitals: Cold, smelly, and poorly maintained.

Canada:
- They send you south.
- I hope you don't need a dentist soon.
- No medicine for you. No, it doesn't matter that you have cancer.

There's more stories, from other countries, that you can see here. This has been tried, time and time again. It has yet to work.

Socialized medicine'll kill ya.

Let's Make a Case and Impeach Obama

If you've ever looked at my blog, you'll quickly learn I am no fan of Obama. The country is going to pieces around his ears, and he's doing everything in his power to help tear it down.


I want Obama impeached. Which is a good place to start, but liberals said the same thing about Bush, so I'll need a good case before I can get anywhere.

Federalist Papers #69

The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.

High Crimes and misdemeanors. I don't know; someone out there help me with this: Is attempting to turn the U.S. into a socialist nation a high crime or misdemeanor? I think it is.

Thinking, however, is not enough. I'll have to prove it. Ladies and Gentlemen of the ... blog, I move that in everything Obama has done in his first sixty days in office, Obama has done nothing short of disservice to America. I move that Obama has failed in office and abused his powers.

In the past, Congress has issued Articles of Impeachment for acts in three general categories:

-Exceeding the constitutional bounds of the powers of the office.

-Behavior grossly incompatible with the proper function and purpose of the
office.

-Employing the power of the office for an improper purpose or for personal
gain.

I move that Obama has failed in the duties of his office, and used his powers for improper use, frankly, he has used them to turn this democracy into a socialist nation. Here I give you a shortened list of the powers of the President:

Powers of the President
- Serve as commander in chief of all U.S. armed forces

- Commission officers of the armed forces

- Grant pardons and reprieves from Federal offenses (except impeachments)

- Receive foreign ambassadors

- Take care that Federal laws are faithfully executed

- Wield the "executive power"

Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to call your attention to number four of that list. Recieving foreign amdassadors. I move that Obama improperly recieved a foreign ambassador, the Prime Minister of Great Britian, Gordon Brown. The President failed to hold a state dinner or a press reception the leader of our very important ally. Was there no one in the state department who understood how to recieve foreign dignitaries? And if there were, did Obama ven ask for thier advice? This was not only extremely insulting to our ally, it was very embarrasing for America as a whole.

I also move, Ladies and Gentlemen, that Obama is abusing his executive power by flippantly spending money most American put in 40-hour work weeks to earn. With his $3.6 trillion dollar budget and and the combined price of the stimulus bills, which comes out to $1,197, 000,000,000.00, Obama has saddled our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren with nearly $4 trillion in debt. His flippant spending has caused the dollar to drop in value in a way not seen in twenty-five years, ladies and gentlemen, and I quote:

The dollar dropped the most against the currencies of six major U.S. trading partners since the Plaza Accord almost a quarter-century ago as the Federal Reserve’s plan to purchase Treasuries spurred speculation that it’s debasing the greenback.

...The U.S. currency weakened beyond $1.37 per euro this week for the first time since January as the central bank’s decision to increase its balance sheet by $1.15 trillion lowered yields, making American assets less attractive. The Norwegian krone and the New Zealand dollar rallied as the Fed’s move spurred advances in commodities.

The dollar depreciated 4.8 percent to $1.3582 per euro yesterday, from $1.2928 on March 13. The U.S. currency touched $1.3738 on March 19, the weakest level since Jan. 9. The dollar also fell 2.1 percent to 95.94 yen from 97.95. The euro increased for a fifth week versus the yen, gaining 2.9 percent to 130.29 after touching 130.49 yesterday, the highest level since Dec. 18.

Due to this developemnet, the United Nations is recommending that the rest of the world dump the U.S. dollar in favor of other currency. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe this would have a disatrous effect on our country.

President Obama has also isolated us from our allies, not limited to Great Britian, but also slighting our ally against Russia, Poland, by promising Russia we would not help Poland build a missile sheild.

"President Kaczynski [the president of Poland] raised missile defense, but President-elect Obama made no commitment on it. His position is as it was throughout the campaign: that he supports deploying a missile defense system when the technology is proved to be workable," McDonough said.

And also...

"During the discussion, both sides emphasized that relations between Russia and the USA are priority ones for both parties and that their positive development is crucial not only for the peoples of the two countries but also for the wider international community," a statement from the Kremlin said.

Ladies and gentlemen, Russia is a communist country. They are and have been our enemy for many, many years. Why is it a priority that we fix relations our enemies?

President Obama's Secratary of State, Hillary Clinton, has insulted Israel, another of our allies, and scolded Tibet.

When he is not insulting our allies and charming our enemies, he is busy seizing the private sector:

I urge you to consider this extremely disturbing developement (emphasis mine):

The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers, investment firms and hedge funds, whose collapse would damage the broader economy, according to an administration document.

The government at present has the authority to seize only banks.

Do you understand the implications here? This means that the federal government can come out and whip up panic about any company, saying it's 'too big to fail', and then simply take over it in the interest of protecting the 'broader economy'.

I wish someone would tell me how this is beneficial to America. Need I remind everyone what happened to the USSR? From Conservative blogger 2cents:

What happened to the idea that failing businesses should fail? This is everything that American capitalism fought against when it was first formed. This is classic socialism, and a giant step toward outright Communism, where the State controls everything. This is what the Obama administration has been doing: whipping up panic, then swooping in and taking over.

This is the first leg of a complete government takeover of America. If the financial industry -- including investments and the stock market -- falls, you can count on energy and health care coming next. When that happens, America as we know it -- and as the Founders designed and intended it -- will cease to exist. When the government controls your savings, your income, your investments, your ability to travel to/from work or leisure locations, the cost of all goods (through energy), and every decision about what medical treatments you can or cannot obtain, what is left?

Nothing. You have become a slave to government, and America has become transformed into a communist state.

Ladies and gentlemen, do we really want this to happen? Everything Obama has done in his first 67 days in office has been little more than a gross misuse of power with the intent to turn this country into a socialized nation. It would take more time than I have to point out everything Obama has done wrong. There are 1393 days until Obama leaves office but, ladies and gentlemen, we can impeach any president for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and midemeanors. I move that everything Obama has done this far has been nothing more than a high crime against America as we know it.

Perhaps, ladies and gentlemen of the blog, you will look at this evidence and decide that there is not enough evidence to warrant impeachment. Perhaps there is not. But I do not doubt that at some point, undeniable evidence of President Obama's misdemeanors will come to light.

The prosecution rests... for now.

See also:

-What Kind of President Thrives on Chaos?

-60 days, 64 mistakes

Duo Post: Obama's First 50 Days & The Gitmo Saga

Dial R 4 Infinity Productions is proud to present you a duo post on Barack Obama's first 50 Days in Office and the never ending Gitmo saga, both courtesy of Gateway Pundit.

First, Obama's first 50 days. We're actually a little over that at the time I quote this, but still.

50 Days That Changed the World

...It's hard to imagine we're only 50 days into the Barack Obama Presidency.

** Obama is on track to spend more money than any person in the history of the planet.
** Obama and Pelosi's stimulus bill was the largest spending bill in the history of the planet.
** Obama and democrats have already saddled America's children and grand children with massive debt. Not that this bothers them.
** He's lost at least 3 administration nominees due to tax fraud.
** He's promoted a tax cheat to run the IRS and Treasury.
** He's insulted America's greatest ally, Great Britain.
** He's reneged on missile agreements with allies Poland and the Czech Republic.
** His administration has already met with the murderous Assad Regime from Syria.
** Obama signed legislation to close Gitmo.
** Obama freed a dirty bomber from Gitmo to Great Britain.
** Obama told US soldiers and marines in Afghanistan, "We're losing."
** Obama's VP told US soldiers and marines that US deaths will rise in Afghanistan.
** Obama has already discussed holding peace talks with the "moderate" Taliban members... The Taliban had to remind him there was not such a thing.
** The Obama stock market had its worst January in 113 years.
** The stock market had its worst February since 1933.
** The Dow dropped faster under Obama than any other new president in 90 years.
** Obama's budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, and adds more to the debt than all previous presidents -- from George Washington to George W. Bush -- combined.
** Obama managed to spend more than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
** Obama will quadruple the deficit this year.
** Cap & trade was introduced that will cost America 4 million jobs and cost Americans at least $700 per family per year.
** Team Obama announced easing restrictions with communist Cuba.
** Meanwhile, democrats further restricted free trade with ally Colombia.
** Obama signed legislation to fund foreign abortions.
** Obama signed legislation to fund embryonic stem cell research.
** Democrats already banned offshore drilling.
** Democrats scrapped oil and gas leases in Utah for energy development.
** Obama's party permanently banned drilling in ANWR.

In the entire history of the U.S., has there ever been a president who has been so debilitating to our country? We are being destroyed, not by an outside enemy, but by what these idiots in office are doing. I recommend you go over and have a look at the list, there are all sorts of links to back up all of these claims. And here's another good list. Oh, don't forget this one.

And the other story brought to my attention by Gateway Pundit: Obama administration is considering freeing terrorists into the U.S.

Some of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners could be released into the United States while others could be put on trial in the American court system, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday.

...About 240 terrorism suspects, including suspected planners of the September 11 attacks, are being held in the prison. Many have been detained for seven years without charges and some were subjected to interrogation techniques denounced by critics as torture.

Cry me a river. Other countries do far worse to their prisoners.

The administration faces intense political resistance to the idea of bringing the prisoners to the United States as part of closing the detention camp. The administration seeks to transfer some detainees to Europe or other countries while freeing others.

...Holder told reporters at the Justice Department that the administration's review, made on a case-by-case basis, would determine whether the prisoners need to be put on trial or whether they can be released.

Whether they can be released? They were put in Gitmo for a reason. But wait, it gets better.

"For those who are in that second category, who can be released, there are a variety of options that we have. Among them is the possibility that we could release them into this country," he said.

Sure, let's free them into the U.S. What could possibly go wrong?

1402 days before we can tell Obama to hit the road. Will there be anything left of this country by that time?

America, you okay?

Are you okay?

Are you okay, America?

America, you okay?

Are you okay?

Are you okay, America?

You've been hit by,

You've been struck by

A smooth liberal.

Barack Obama: "This economy is not my Fault."

America, you okay?

Are you okay?

Are you okay, America?

America, you okay?

Are you okay?

Are you okay, America?

You've been hit by,

You've been struck by

A smooth liberal.

Okay, so the record, I don't think Obama's actually said that in so many words, he just blames Bush, which in itself is starting to rub me raw. But get this: Obama is now worried that he might face a backlash. No kidding:

The Obama administration is increasingly concerned about a populist backlash against banks and Wall Street, worried that anger at financial institutions could also end up being directed at Congress and the White House and could complicate President Barack Obama's agenda.

The administration's sharp rebuke of the American International Group on Sunday for handing out $165 million in executive bonuses — Lawrence H. Summers, director of the president's National Economic Council, described it as "outrageous" on "This Week" on ABC — marks the latest effort by the White House to distance itself from abuses that could feed potentially disruptive public anger.

Yep. Being forcibly dragged out of office could sure screw up his agenda. And did you see that? He's trying to distance himself from the anger. Someone oughta inform this guy that we're still ticked off at him for spending money we haven't even made yet. But wait - it gets better:

Beyond that, a shifting political mood challenges Mr. Obama's political skills, as he seeks to acknowledge the anger without becoming a target of it. A central question for Mr. Obama is whether his cool style — "in a time of crisis, we cannot afford to govern out of anger," he said in his address to Congress last month — will prove effective when the country may be feeling more emotional. .....

....Still, aides acknowledged the risks of a backlash as Mr. Obama tries to signal that he shares American anger but pushes for more bail-out money for banks and Wall Street.

For all his political skills and his capturing of the nation's desire for change in the 2008 election, Mr. Obama, a product of Harvard Law School who calls upscale Hyde Park in Chicago home, has shown little inclination to strike a more populist tone. The danger, aides said, is that if he were to become identified as an advocate for the banks and Wall Street, people could take out their anger on him.

"The change now is you have a free-floating economic anxiety that has expressed itself in a kind of lashing out at those being bailed out and people who are bailing out," said Michael Kazin, a professor at Georgetown University who has written on populism. "There's not really a sense of what the solution is."

"I do think there's a potential for a 'damn everybody in power' kind of sentiment," Mr. Kazin said.

Another problem is the fact that Democrats don't care how much tax money they spend, and they don't have to since they don't pay taxes. But, moving on...

Govern out of anger? We were angry before this started, okay? You're trying to keep yourself out of trouble by distancing yourself as you hand over more of taxpayer's money.

Yeah, it belongs to the taxpayers, and they are not happy that every time these idiots come slinking back to Washington, you fork over more money. When is this madness going to stop?!?

It's odd. The media helped him create this crisis - just like they did for Clinton - and now everyone's feeling real nervous, wondering what the American people are going to do, or how long it will take for America to tell them to put a sock in it.

Do the whole economy a favor, Obama. Put a sock in telling us how bad it is. And stop giving losers our money.

America, you okay?
Are you okay?
Are you okay, America?

America, you okay?
Are you okay?
Are you okay, America?

You've been hit by,
You've been struck by
A smooth liberal.

Hat tip Michelle Malkin
Song lyrics are a parody of Alien Ant Farm's version of 'Smooth Criminal.'

Money Problems Everywhere...

And more than you might think!

Let’s start with the top kingpin: one Barack Obama. His impressive resume includes sliding into the White House mostly on the race card.

Well, it’s no wonder he picked tax cheats for his cabinet. You see, he owes the city of Philadelphia $24,000, he owes Springfield Illinois $65,000, and he owes Chicago $2 million.

That’s a lot of zeroes, but give me a minute… alright. The combined final cost of all these bills comes to $2,089,000.00.

And I thought he was rich.

Next, we have Joe Biden, who is also being fraudulent. Cross-posted from There's My Two Cents:

The Bidens' 2006 purchase of Paradigm has sparked litigation. In December, James and Hunter Biden settled a lawsuit brought in New York state court by a one time business partner, Anthony Lotito Jr. Mr. Lotito alleged the Bidens owed him money from the Paradigm purchase. In court filings, he also contended that James Biden asked him to help Hunter Biden, who had been a Washington lobbyist, get into the hedge-fund business. Mr. Lotito alleged that Joe Biden was concerned about the impact his son's lobbying could have on his planned 2008 run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Mr. Biden did run for president but dropped out of the race.

More here, if you want the full article.

Rahm Emanuel is also cheating:

Gawker first reported that Emanuel rents a basement apartment last week, mostly to make fun of the chief of staff for sleeping on a futon under a blacklight poster of Bob Marley. Which is an important part of the story, but it turns out the residence in question isn't zoned for rentals.

That sent Emanuel's colleague and alleged landlord out to deny the charges. Rep. Rose DeLauro (D-Conn.) told her hometown paper, "Hey, it's cool. He doesn't rent from me. He lives there for free!"

"I wanted to make clear: we have no separate apartment in our DC house, no rental apartment; all our bedrooms and living areas are part of the house and accessible. They are often used by close family and friends. In
mid-November, I got a call from the DC zoning office indicating that somebody had lodged a complaint and asked to inspect the property, which we welcomed. My husband was there for the inspection, which was uneventful and we did not hear again from the zoning office."

...Hospitality between colleagues is not prohibited by House ethics rules, but a gift of this size would have required a written waiver from the Standards Committee, which neither party has yet produced.

But, let's not stop there with the questionable ethics. DeLauro is married to one Stan Greenberg, a Democratic pollster who has made quite a pile of money off work supplied to him by none other than his semi-permanent house guest. Living for free in the home of a Democratic pollster whom you employed as both a Congressman and as chair of the DCCC might run up against the ethics rules of the "most open and transparent" administration in history. That revolving door Obama keeps talking about is actually the private entrance to Emanuel's digs.

Dude, I'm not even done yet. Let's keep going...

Of course, who can forget Tim Geithner. I won't go into detail here, but let me give you the highlights. He failed to pay $34,000 dollars he owed in taxes. He paid the back taxes and interest the day before his nomination. And this guy is the head of the IRS. Good grief, they should be the ones putting him in jail.

Bill Richardson, nominee for Secretary of Commerce, was accused of giving a state contract to one of his contributors. Whoops.

Tom Daschle cheated on taxes:

The controversy deals with a car and driver lent to Daschle by a wealthy Democratic friend -- a chauffeur service the former senator used for years without declaring it on his taxes. ...

...The Cadillac and driver were never part of Daschle's official compensation package at InterMedia, but Mr. Daschle -- who as Senate majority leader enjoyed the use of a car and driver at taxpayer expense -- didn't declare their services on his income taxes, as tax laws require.

During the vetting process to become HHS secretary, Daschle corrected the tax violation, voluntarily paying $101,943 in back taxes plus interest, working with his accountant to amend his tax returns for 2005 through 2007.

Perhaps it's a good thing he was nominated for health and Human Services Secretary. Now he can feel good about paying back all that money he owes. But still. He was using this car - payed for with tax money - without paying taxes for using it.

And then we have Nancy Killefer, who got in trouble for ...... cheating on taxes!

And how did we not see this coming?

Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday.

Killefer was the second major Obama administration nominee to withdraw and the third to have tax problems complicate their nomination after President Barack Obama announced their selection.

The White House said Obama had accepted Killefer's decision and that the 55-year-old executive with consulting giant McKinsey & Co., would explain her reasons for pulling out later Tuesday.

When her selection was announced by Obama on Jan. 7, The Associated Press disclosed that in 2005 the District of Columbia government had filed a $946.69 tax lien on her home for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help.

Since then, administration officials have refused to answer questions about the tax error which she resolved five months after the lien was filed.

Yep. They refuse to let it blow up in Obama's face. My, wouldn't something like this be an embarrassment to the "most transparent administration in history"? Actually, that should be the "most corrupt administration in history". You're not as bad as Clinton yet, Barack, but you're getting there.

And then we have the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. I kid you not. She is involved in a pay-to-play scandal.


On top of all this, the second porkulus (AKA "Onmibus") spending bill has earmarks in it for Obama, Emanuel, Clinton, and Biden, along with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis. (Here, here.)

So your money is going right into their pockets. These cheats, all of whom either owe someone money, or have cheated on taxes, are going to take your money. They've already taken $787 billion, they're coming back for $410 million more (Unless that bill has already been killed - we can only hope).

And if that wasn't enough, Obama's budget calls for $3.6 trillion dollars. You can read about it here.

One final thing: as of today Geithner has announced that Obama team will crack down on tax dodgers. I suggest he start with himself.
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3-4-09
Just when I think I'm done, wouldn't you know I'm not! Apparently Apparently we have a new one: Ron Kirk. Guess what he's in trouble for... Tax dodging!

Another Obama administration nominee has tax troubles. This time, it's Ron Kirk, the president's choice to be U.S. trade representative.

Kirk owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed to pay them, the Senate Finance Committee said Monday. The committee said the taxes arise from Kirk's handling of speaking fees he donated to a scholarship fund that he set up at his alma mater, and for his deduction of the full cost of season tickets to the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team.

Kirk also agreed to make changes in his accounting of charitable deductions, including reducing the claimed value of a donated television from $3,000 to $1,500.

The former Dallas mayor is the fourth nominee by President Barack Obama to run into tax problems.

Well isn't this just lovely. More tax problems. The only question now is, was anyone really surprised?
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4-1-09
And just when you think it's over, you find it's not. No, this is no April Fool's Day joke:

Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama's nominee to become Health and Human Services secretary, said in a letter obtained by the Associated Press that she made "unintentional errors" on her taxes and has corrected her returns from three different years.

In the letter, which was sent to senators and dated today, Sebelius wrote that she had made changes related to charitable contributions, business expenses and the sale of a home, according to the AP.

The wire service reports that she and her husband paid just over $7,000 in back taxes, along with $878 in interest, for the years 2005-2007.

... CBS News has obtained Sebelius' letter to the Senate Finance Committee. She writes in it that she and her husband hired a Certified Public Accountant to review their returns after her nomination and that the CPA uncovered the errors, after which they amended their returns.

On the charitable contributions front, she writes that she could not locate three acknowledgment letters out of her 49 charitable contributions in excess of $250, and thus eliminated those three deductions.

She also writes that she had "insufficient documentation" for some of her tax dedications for business expenses, though because of the Alternative Minimum Tax they did not affect the amount owed. She also said she mistakenly paid off a home loan that included deductable mortgage interest.

Oh yeah, most transparent administration ever. Yeah right. Maybe she did make an "unintentional mistake," but she was nominated for the Cabinet, so we can't help but wonder...

Oh, the Woe.

Do you remember my earlier post, Massive Economic Woe? Well do I ever have woe for you. I'm sure you've heard about this stimulus package that will not stimulate? (You know, the one has Conservatives like me tied in knots?) Here's peek at what the Democrats want to do with YOUR money. Will any of this stimulate anything?

From There's My Two Cents:

- up to $18 billion to crush brand new cars (yes, literally crush them - SUVs and trucks)
- $5 billion for ACORN
- $500,000 for dog parks
- $4.5 million for butterfly gardens
- $6 million for water slides
- $886,000 for a disc golf course
- $20 million "for the removal of small- to medium-sized fish passage barriers." (whatever those are...)
- $25 million to rehabilitate off-roading (ATV) trails
- $34 million to remodel the Department of Commerce headquarters
- $70 million to "Support Supercomputing Activities" for climate research
- $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Dept. of Energy defunded last year because the project was inefficient
- $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film (this has already been killed, but I thought you should know they wanted it)
- $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship)
- $448 million for constructing the Dept. of Homeland Security headquarters
- $248 million for furniture at the new Dept. of Homeland Security headquarters
- $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees
- $400 million for the CDC to screen and prevent STD's
- $1.4 billion for a rural waste disposal programs
- $125 million for the Washington, D.C. sewer system
- $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities
- $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion
- $75 million for "smoking cessation activities"
- $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges
- $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI
- $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction
- $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River
- $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas
- $6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings
- $500 million for state and local fire stations
- $650 million for wildland fire management on Forest Service lands
- $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities
- $1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs
- $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service
- $412 million for CDC buildings and property
- $500 million for building and repairing NIH facilities in Bethesda, MD
- $160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service
- $5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the VA "National Cemetery Administration"
- $850 million for Amtrak
- $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint
- $75M to construct a new "security training" facility for State Dept Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies
- $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems
- $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations
- unspecified millions to illegal immigrants (in the form of 'rebate' checks)

Are you writhing yet? You should be. 'Cause guess who's gonna be paying for all this? Yeah. You.

And why is there not $2 million or something for ditch-digging on that list? Come on Obama, you wanna be like FDR, dontcha? These 3 million new jobs'll have to come from somewhere in all this fatty goodness. (That was sarcasm, by the way.) Anyway...

People, the only thing this bill is going to do is instill socialism and misery, and we'll be paying for it for... probably until about the end of the world. Or our country, whichever comes first.

You feelin' that woe yet?

P.S.: Sorry, I forgot about the Honeybee insurance. Does anyone know how much that's gonna cost?

What part of Massive Economic Woe do you not understand?

Let's go back to the Great Depression, and have a look at Franklin D. Roosevelt. He tried to fix a depression once, a long time ago. Let's have a look at him.

In an effort to fix the economy, he composed a "New Deal" Let's take a good, long look at that New Deal.

Now, according to Wikipedia, there were three parts to the "first" New Deal:

1) Bank and monetary reforms:

With strident language Roosevelt hurled blame at businessmen and bankers: "Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men....The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization."

Now doesn't this remind you of something Congress did recently? Oh wait, they did that to the car makers. They let their pets Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac slip right on by.

2) The Economy Act - Now doesn't just that name right there remind you of something Congress did? The Economic Stimulus Package, anyone? But the one in the New Deal wasn't like that, at least not by the site I'm looking at.

3) Farm and Rural programs - We haven't gotten here yet, though I wonder if it's on Obama's to-do list.

Now, the public is convinced the New Deal helped get us out of the Depression - Wrong! FDR's New Deal prolonged the Great Depression:

Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

After scrutinizing Roosevelt's record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years.

The New Deal fixed nothing - it just prolonged the pain. More about the New Deal here.

Now let's fast forward several decades, up to 2009. We are in the middle of a recession. Our new president, not even in office at the time I write this, is calling for another stimulus package. This one will cost us $1 trillion dollars. I wonder how many zeros you'd have to tack on that one ... I believe it's twelve. Either way, that's a heckuva lota money.

Obama is working hard to push this insanity. Check this out:

President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday the recession could "linger for years" unless Congress pumps unprecedented sums from Washington into the economy, making his highest-profile case yet on an issue certain to define and dominate his early presidency.

"I don't believe it's too late to change course, but it will be if we don't take dramatic action as soon as possible," Obama said in a speech set to be delivered at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., outside Washington.

It was the fourth day in a row that Obama has made a pitch for a huge infusion of taxpayer dollars to revive the sinking economy he will inherit from President George W. Bush.

He wants to revive a sinking economy. Now doesn't this sound like something we've heard before? Oh, I don't know, the Great Depression, anyone?

2cents wrote about this on the blog There's My Two Cents:

So, history shows that recessions are 12-24 months, but Obama is saying this particular one will last well beyond that. Why is that? First of all, isn't that warning essentially an admission that what he's going to do won't work? And, isn't it also an admission that he knows it won't work? More importantly, when was the last time a recession stretched out into several years? Bingo - the Great Depression.

Failing banks, bad economy, people buying everything on credit, sure sounds like immediately prior to the Great Depression to me. This next quote comes from both the UCLA study and 2cents:

The conclusions of this study are critical to understand:

Roosevelt's role in lifting the nation out of the Great Depression has been so revered that Time magazine readers cited it in 1999 when naming him the 20th century's second-most influential figure.

…"The fact that the Depression dragged on for years convinced generations of economists and policy-makers that capitalism could not be trusted to recover from depressions and that significant government intervention was required to achieve good outcomes," Cole said. "Ironically, our work shows that the recovery would have been very rapid had the government not intervened."

The facts are clear: if Obama gets his way with this stimulus package, he
will transform this recession into another Great Depression.

Obama wants to put $1 trillion into the economy. The first stimulus didn't work. The banks apparently squandered the bailout they were given (at least, no one can locate that money they were given), the economy's still in the trash. Why does he think pumping more money in is going to work?

People, this is not going to work. At the best, it'll be like it was with Carter, the intrest rates, the shortages, etc. At the worst, it will be a second Great Depression. Pumping money into a sinking economy did not work the first, and it will not work a second time.

I don't care what you call me. Put down the Kool-Aid and listen to what's being said. By the way, where do you think he's gonna get the money to pay for this $1 Trillion dollar stimulus package? Taxes, perhaps? Or maybe he'll borrow it from China.

Massive economic woe, anyone?

You'd better be a Government Pet, or No Bailout for You

I know Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry are dumb, but this is insane.

They can can tax us, print more money, and go further into debt with China and Japan to save their precious financial pets, but when I turn on Fox News, all I here is Congress ratting out the owners of GM and Chrysler and everything else.

"So, who's going to be the first to sell their private jet?"

Well, here's an idea, Mr. Congressman, YOU sell YOUR Private jet. Then our tax money won't have to pay for your gas, along with bailing out your precious Democratic pets, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But that's a different rant for another time.

I love how they can come up with $ 700 billion for the financial market, but not $ 25 million for the automotive industry. The irony makes me want to laugh.

This is foolish. And it proves something. One of the Automakers asked what Congress would have done if instead of automakers, they had been bankers. Good question. Being as Congress didn't give Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac the third degree when those two needed a bailout, I think we know what the answer is.

Another laughable comment I heard the other day was a Congressman saying that the American people don't want to be stuck paying for this bailout. Let me tell you something, bub, we didn't wanna pay for the first one, but you shoved it through Congress anyway.

This is beyond stupid. I've had to forgo watching FOX news recently because I just can't take it.

For the sake of jobs everywhere, I hope the Big Three get the money they need. I also hope that come next election, most of Congress loses their jobs.

After all, we just paid how many millions of dollars to the financial industry to save them? The twenty-five million the Big Three wants is pittance in comparison.

Begun 11-20-08
Completed 11-25-08