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Anchoress stimulus plan a hit! - UPDATED
The Anchoress — ... lot of people are wondering the same thing: Why doesn’t the government just give the citizenry the money and allow us to put it back into circulation and the banks? Turns out Jon Stewart is wondering about that too. The answer seems to be simply that the people in power want as much control over everything as they can possibly get. God forbid the taxpayers have some control over their own tax money! The must-read of the day: Krauthammer So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks ...

Moneychangers 17, Messiah 0
Daily Pundit — ... International Union. * Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff to the president’s assistant for intergovernmental relations, lobbied for the American Association of Justice from 2001 until 2005. This doesn’t count Tom Daschle, who never registered as a lobbyist but got paid millions for his political connections in pursuit of preferential treatment for his clients in the health-care industry. Can you feel the hope? Can you smell the change? As Krauthammer put it, I thought the awakening would take six months. It took two ...

MSNBC Host to Senator on 'No' Vote: Will You Take Blame When People Have to Stuff Cardboard in Shoes Like During the Depression?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... The fear tactic has become commonplace for Democrats and their media allies since Obama was inaugurated, as columnist Charles Krauthammer pointed out in his Feb. 6 Washington Post editorial: ...

Saturday morning links
Maggie's Farm — ... about not insisting on open ballots for unions? How about tax cuts for everyone, across the board? How about a suspension of ALL taxes for a year? How about staying the hell out of the public sector? How about not nationalizing everything that isn't moving? How about scrapping this porkorama and starting over? How about doing what is best for Americans instead of what is best for the Democrat Party? Related: From Krauthammer on the Fierce Urgency of Pork: The Age of Obama begins with ...

Waking up
doubleplusundead — Waking up I guess Charles Krauthammer hasn't received his unicorn yet : After Obama's miraculous 2008 presidential campaign, it was clear that at some point the magical mystery tour would have to end. The nation would rub its eyes and begin to emerge from its reverie. The hallucinatory Obama would give way to the mere mortal. The great ethical transformations promised would be seen as a fairy tale that all presidents tell -- and that this president told better than anyone. I thought the awakening would take six months. It took two and a half weeks. Unfortunately, there doesn't ...

Prince Obama the Unready
The Wide Awake Cafe — ... It’s bad enough that Obama and his Democrat Party are promising the country the trillion dollar pork sandwich will be good for the economy even though support for the ...

Obama In 1998: "Not A Huge Supporter Of Welfare Reform" [Nice Deb]
Ace of Spades HQ — Obama In 1998: "Not A Huge Supporter Of Welfare Reform" [Nice Deb] Conventional wisdom says that Obama lost control of the stimulus bill when he delegated it to Nancy Pelosi to craft. Well, I don't think it's fair to give Nancy all the credit. Many of the ideas in the Spendulus abomination bear the unmistakable whiff of the Messiah's input. To Wit: Our friends at ...

From Meccania to Atlantis Part 7 – Drenched to the Bone
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe — ... It was that mortgage insanity, pushed by progressive political pimps, that triggered the falling economic dominoes, falling all over the world now. And it’s the same pimps whose $0.9 trillion-sized “remedy” now includes items such as $88.6 million for new construction for schools in Milwaukee, where there are 15 vacant schools and enrollment is shrinking. Or ...