Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Obama's Pathetic Excuse for a Spending Freeze

The World Social Forum in Brazil is celebrating the perceived failures of capitalism and promoting socialism.  Why isn't Barack Obama there?

 

Despite campaigning against spending freezes, Obama is proposing a freeze on government spending.  The freeze is a joke, but it gives him some talking points, even though the amount of interest paid on the national debt is more than the total discretionary spending that Obama is looking at freezing.  The deficit this year is projected to hit $1.35 trillion, which is already having adverse effects on the economy.

 

Obama's State of the Union tomorrow night may be his "I Feel Your Pain" moment.

 

Obama says that he would "rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president."  How does "miserably bad one-term president" work for you?

 

Obama is going to meet with House Republicans.  This is dangerous ground for Republicans.

 

Welfare rolls were up last year as the parasite class continues to grow.

 

The stimulus package is more expensive than expected because it has failed.

 

Most members of labor unions work for the government.

 

Experts on Presidential speeches say that Obama's speeches are too intelligent, and nobody remembers what he says.  (Thanks to Dr. Greg Domin for the link)

 

A former DNC press secretary tells Democrats to be more libertarian.

 

The Governator wants to send criminal alien prison inmates to Mexico.

 

Teen pregnancy and abortion rates were up in 2006.

 

The federal government has banned truckers and bus drivers from texting while driving.  It was mostly for show.

 

Thanks to bureaucracy, members of Congress are not allowed to put links to private sector Haitian relief efforts on their websites.

 

A dictionary has been banned in a southern California school district because it has the definition of "oral sex."

 

Speaker David Ralston and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle both oppose the hospital bed tax.

 

As Ralston and Cagle announce six more furlough days for state legislators, we find out that some members of the legislature did not take their furlough days last year, including two from Macon.

 

All of the candidates for Governor agree that there are big problems in the state Department of Revenue.  The legislature may make it a point to try to collect more sales taxes.

 

In his 11 days as Speaker, Mark Burkhalter issued about 30 appointments.

 

Three Democrat state legislators have introduced legislation to crack down on racial profiling.

 

Here's the story I talked about yesterday, with the DNR advising John Oxendine to take a hunter education course.

 

Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers responds to the blatant liberalism of the Macon Telegraph's editorial board.

 

Houston County legislators want to change the nepotism clause in state law for one person.

 

I still don't care about the Davis Drive Post Office closing.

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