Is there anything that could make Senator Baucus’ disdain for the American people more clear than openly admitting he isn’t even slightly interested in doing his goddamn job?

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Though it shouldn’t be taken as an overt sign that they are abandoning their pro-Obama point of view, the Times has, once again, exposed one of the many kinks in Obama’s armor: A more national, outward-looking strategy for creating a “postpartisan” dynamic might have included White House partnerships with Republican governors or even with conservative […]

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Reason: That’s right. A hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars spending bill made its way through Congress, and no one even noticed that the damn thing didn’t have a name. Which also means you can probably count on one hand the number of lawmakers who actually know what’s in the bill—and still have a finger left over to let them […]

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All the federal government needs to do is dangle “free” cash for long enough, and eventually, states, even those who vowed not to accept more cash, will cave in. Los Times: Mr. Sanford joined several other governors who had initially expressed hesitation about the money but later relented, including Dave Heineman of Nebraska and Sonny […]

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The day the new financial sector overhaul passed, I wrote Though one should notice that they didn’t figure a way to deal with government excesses “that tipped the nation into the worst recession since the Great Depression.” And it appears that I was right. Via Minyanville: The financial services reforms of the Dodd-Frank Act were […]

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I find this kind of shit insanely annoying. We banned online gambling For the Children™, but congresscritters can revive it again when government needs cash. It’s not okay for adults to gamble, but it’s okay for the government to make money from it when needs additional revenue streams. Fuck you, you hypocritical fuckers.

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N. Gregory Mankiw, a Harvard economist, in a piece titled “Crisis Economics” at National Affairs concerning the reliance on Keneysian economic theories by the Obama administration while administering economic stimulus (and its current insistence on yet more stimulus cash being thrown in to the economy): The administration’s second assumption, meanwhile, is a matter of academic […]

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Due to the fact that the only way we don’t have exponential growth of government is during stalemate, I know I want them to say no. Then I want the next minority to say no. And the one after that too. The less we have congresscritters Doing Something™, the better.

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Without question, one should draw the conclusion that Obama’s pandering of jobless folk during his speech in the Rose Garden is a full admission of his failed $1,000,000,000,000 stimulus bill.  An opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal: Sure, Mr. Obama’s ostensible purpose was to lobby Congress for the eighth extension of jobless benefits since […]

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Political Expediency. Republicans back away from their (correct) stance of withholding further unemployment extensions which are not paid for by equivalent spending cuts elsewhere in the budget, rather than adding yet another $100 billion or so to the public national debt.  Only so long can a party be publicly accused of hating the unfortunate before […]

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