Own a GM?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/05/when_government_motors_fails_again_108733.html

That Socialism Stuff sure does work.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/04/AR2011020404934.html

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/legal_ugly_unsafe_igmHR7AIndw0LBZjeBTSqO

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/opinion/05collins.html

$32B in Cuts - That's It

The GOP rode the Tea Party back to power in the House, decrying the deficits, and promising massive cuts to spending. Yesterday, the House GOP proposed a paltry $32B in spending cuts. That's it. We have a $1.5T deficit and they were only able to find 2% to pare. After all the town hall takeovers, all the shouts and tears, all the hysteria... 2%!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/us/politics/04budget.html?ref=politics

Russell Pearce the Man of Honor

Russell Pearce would likely have a criminal record like his son if he hadn't struck a deal. After bouncing around in several state jobs, Pearce ended up as Director of the Motor Vehicle Division in 1995.
After less than four years at MVD he was fired in 1999 for tampering with state files (as was his son, Joshua, who pled guilty). Pearce falsified a woman’s driving record, erasing a DUI, and Transportation Director Mary Peters, a prominent Republican who later served as Bush’s Secretary of Transportation, canned him.
The only reason he does not have a blotch on his record is that Peters chose not to prosecute if he quit.
Pearce said he was “cleared," but Peters told the Arizona Republic: “There’s a big difference between being cleared and choosing not to file criminal charges” (Aug 21, 1999). Russell Pearce first wife filed domestic abuse charges in support of her divorce claiming he put his hands around her neck and began chockinh her during an argument. This is some man of honor!

Your Opinion

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is an astroturf front group started by oil billioniare David Koch and Richard Fink (a member of the board of directors of Koch Industries). AFP works together with the Koch family’s other conservative foundations and think tanks to disrupt Barack Obama's presidency. Accordingly,   AFP has opposed health care reform, stimulus spending, and cap-and-trade legislation,   which is aimed at making industries pay for the air pollution that they create. AFP was also involved in the attacks on Obama’s "green jobs" czar, Van Jones, and has crusaded against international climate talks. According to an article in the August 30, 2010 issue of The New Yorker, the Kochs are known for "creating slippery organizations with generic-sounding names," that "make it difficult to ascertain the extent of their influence in Washington.

I must be a member of AFP!

Baxter, you don't have to be a "front group" to oppose the Socialist agenda of this President.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-1SMV3ok58

Charting Obama

President Obama and the Democratic Congress created the economic environment in which more jobs were created - on net - in two years than in the preceding eight years of GWB. The economy is growing again - to the point now that further stimulus may be unnecessary. We should all be grateful for this exceptional performance. Objectively measured, the markets clearly approve.

In two short years, the Dow is up over 50%, the S&P 60%+ and the NASDAQ a whopping >90%.

Never Ending Programs

Amazing to say the least

Is this appalling or what?  I don’t think this kind of abuse is unique to California.  

I’m pretty sure we have similar abuses elsewhere. 
  
 Click here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wElqMl5TJM

Federal Reserve Balance Sheet - It's not a secret

Time for a little concern

Subject: Interesting financial interrogation

If this is genuine, it is the most worrying sign yet of what the future holds for the financial well being of the Western World.

Watch then prepare to tighten your belt!!

http://dailybail.com/home/there-are-no-words-to-describe-the-following-part-ii.html

Health Care

Well now it appears the Health Care Bill has run into a road block called unconstitutional... back to the drawing boards

Fourteenth Amendment

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;

Michelle Bachmann Theories - Anyone?

I assume by now you all know what she said last weekend at a speech in Iowa:

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said the United States was founded on racial and ethnic diversity and that the founding fathers were responsible for abolishing slavery.

Speaking at an event sponsored by Iowans For Tax Relief, Bachmann hailed the "different cultures, different backgrounds, different traditions" of the early European settlers in America, adding that the "color of their skin" or "language" or "economic status" didn't preclude them from seeking happiness.

"Once you got here, we were all the same," she said. "Isn't that remarkable? It is absolutely remarkable."

The Minnesota Republican called slavery an "evil" and "scourge" and "stain on our history."

"But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States," Bachmann added, claiming "men like John Quincy Adams... would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country."

The general reaction has been: what a dope. But I don't think she can possibly be that stupid. It just isn't possible, is it. She went to third grade. She went to high school. She obviously possesses an IQ somewhere around 100. So she can't be this dumb.

My alternative theory is that she, like many people on the right, just says s--t. She just says it and doesn't care. She said the thing about "skin color" because she doesn't care if she offends anyone with a skin color different from hers. She says J.Q. Adams was a founding father because, well, close enough. And she said the founders eradicated slavery because, you know, some of them wanted to and it happened eventually.

She'll just say anything. If it pisses off liberals, so much the better. Of course, even right-wingers who know something about history will find these kinds of things embarrassing eventually.

Do you have a theory?

Should be an easy fix