Thursday, January 22, 2009

Geithner Nomination Passes Committee

President Obama officially signed the executive order to close Guantanamo Bay within a year this morning, along with a few others, including a ban on waterboarding.  It looks like some of the Senate Republicans' objections to Eric Holder as Attorney General are irrelevant now.  By the way, Jack Murtha wants to bring the Islamic terrorists at Gitmo to his district.

 

The Senate Finance Committee voted 18-5 to advance the nomination of Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary to the whole Senate.  A few Republicans just laid down and rolled over for the Democrats, despite the abundance of evidence that he repeatedly cheated on his taxes.  They're just lapdogs now.

 

There is no evidence that there would be a single job created by the Democrats' stimulus bill.

 

Geithner's idea of a "bad bank" could cost up to $4 trillion.

 

President Obama may put a hold on any plans for drilling for oil offshore.

 

With Hillary Clinton now as Secretary of State, New York is down a Senator.  At least we know that Caroline Kennedy won't be her replacement.

 

Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts had a re-do on the oath of office last night.  I appreciate their attention to detail.

 

The mainstream, uppity, navel-gazing media gave Obama's coronation 35 times as much coverage as Bush's 2005 re-inauguration.  The masses left a record amount of trash—at least 130 tons of garbage—in Washington, DC.  Aren't they supposed to be environmentalists?

 

Here's a brilliant column by Dick Morris about the Obama Presidency:  Here Comes Socialism.  Maybe that's why Fidel Castro believes in Obama.

 

At least one Obama worshipper thinks that Obama is going to make everybody rich.  Boy, does she have a letdown ahead of her.

 

For the last eight years we've heard that dissent is patriotic.  Is that still true?

 

A real headline:  Former French President Chirac hospitalized after mauling by his clinically depressed poodle.  The French really are as pathetic as we say they are.

 

It appears that state legislators have agreed to kill the Homeowners Tax Relief Grants.

 

Warner Robins wants more money from Houston County to pay for the animal shelter.

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