Since AIG and the car companies are causing $68.5 billion in TARP losses, Obama wants to tax all of the banks to make up for the losses.We're also going to lose over $400 billion on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have been shown to be worse frauds than Enron or Bernie Madoff ever could have dreamed of being.
This new book Game Changeis full of juicy political rumors, like the one in which Bill Clinton told Ted Kennedy that "a few years ago, [Obama] would have been getting us coffee."There's also the one where Harry Reid said that Obama could be successful as a black candidate because he's light-skinned and doesn't have a "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."Republicans are calling for Reid to resign, just as Obama called on Trent Lott to step down in 2002.Rod Blagojevich joined in, saying that he is blacker than Obama.A black Georgetown professor, Michael Eric Dyson, says that Obama runs from race like a black man runs from a cop.
December 2009 was the 14th coldest December in 115 years.How's that global warming working?The Mini Ice Age is beginning, which could last 20 to 30 years.
The Senate race in Massachusetts is getting more interesting and now in a desperate push for Democrat Martha Coakley the insurance and drug companies are heading up to Massachusetts to help get her elected.Democrats already have a contingency plan to delay the swearing-in of Republican Scott Brown until after the ObamaCare vote if he wins.
Not that it really matters, but it appears that the government option is dead.In something that does matter, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) says that the bill is "hanging by a thread."
Captain Underpants was "singing like a canary" before he was arrested and read his rights, and the biggest loss is the intelligence that was lost as a result.Meanwhile, a judge has thrown out most of the evidence that the government has against a Guantanamo detainee because his confession may have been coerced.
No members have been punished under the Congressional ethics rules that were meant to "drain the swamp."
Just because voters don't like the Democrats doesn't mean that they do like the Republicans.Here are ten tips for the GOP this year.
The Associated Press now admits that road projects don't help unemployment.Despite that, Obama's top economic advisor is promising to "do more" to create jobs.
A woman in DC, San Francisco, or New York City who carries more than two condoms in her purse can be arrested for prostitution.
The Macon Telegraph has a long story about how important it is for the midstate that the Census counts everybody.They're mostly worried about the parasite-targeting grant money.
Yet again, Houston County School Superintendent David Carpenter asked the state to raise taxes.
WR-ALC Commander Maj. Gen. Polly Peyer is enthusiastic about G-RAMP, even though she still can't point to any definite benefit to spending the money.
Why is it that Snellville can fire their City Attorney for making a math mistake, but Warner Robins can't fire theirs for shredding documents?
Last night was the annual Wild Hog dinner that informally kicks off the legislative session.Here's what Travis Fain gleaned from the dinner in terms of a legislative preview.Fortunately, state leaders continue to say that there will be no tax increases.
Most of the campaign finance disclosures are in, and the big winners are John Oxendine and Roy Barnes.You can view the Republican disclosures and Democrat disclosures at Georgia Legislative Watch.
The AJC has a big write-up about the coziness between lawmakers and lobbyists.
Bonaire Rep. Larry O'Neal, who just lost a bid for House Speaker, nominated Speaker David Ralston for the post earlier today.
It could cost $216 million for the first year for the trials of Islamist terrorists in New York.
Here is the report issued by the White House about the Captain Underpants bombing.Obama was forced yesterday to order intelligence agencies to follow up on all leads, which was done under the Bush administration.In hindsight, the Fort Hood shooting was like a dress rehearsal for the failures that led to the Captain Underpants attempt and White House national security advisor James Jones said that this is two strikes so far.White House Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano were both surprised by the attempted attack, and looked really stupid explaining their stupid surprise.Napolitano should be out of a job soon, but instead she's going to travel to Spain and help deploy a bunch of full body scanners that would not have stopped Captain Underpants anyway, but at least it can measure your penis!
Conservatives finished 2009 as the largest ideological group, while Gallup also shows the number of people who identify themselves as Democrats has dropped below 50% and Rasmussen shows Republicans leading by nine points on the generic Congressional ballot.
Democrats are losing members in the House, which will make it harder for them to pass health care.Even Ben Nelson, Senatorial Gigolo is now saying that it was a mistake to do health care this year.The other mistakes include having married couples pay more than unmarried people for their health care and taxing high-end health care plans, which Obama has now approved.
Less than one percent of known or suspected terrorists are on the no-fly list, but don't worry, the system worked!Obama is at least ordering a surge in the number of air marshals by February 1, which won't help if the intelligence about a bomber arrives while he's in the air and the default answer is "we'll question him when he gets off the airplane…if it lands."While Obama is still worried about closing Gitmo, Al Qaeda is blaming other causes than Gitmo for their attacks.
The IRS wants to license all tax preparers.The professional tax preparers like H&R Block are cheering this because it makes it harder to compete with them.
People across the state are preparing for snowpocalypse, with some school systems in metro Atlanta already closed and Bibb County preemptively cancelling after school programs.I'm guessing there's no bread, milk, water, or portable gas stoves available anywhere.
Inmates on Georgia's death row are planning a hunger strike.Here's hoping they take it seriously.
GDOT says that just because Atlanta doesn't want the tunnel connecting I-675 to GA-400 doesn't mean that it won't happen.
Georgia, Florida, and Alabama are trying to make sure that all water talks are kept secret.
While Houston County is trying to get everybody to pony up for the waste of money that is G-RAMP, Bibb County is waiting on Houston to give money for land acquisition near the Robins runway.That is a more worthy project.
The nutcase left in the media has two theories about Captain Underpants:that the CIA withheld information about him to embarrass Obama, and that it was secretly Republicans who tried to blow a plane out of the sky.
The Mistake said that the failure of the intelligence system to stop Captain Underpants from getting on an airplane was "a screw-up."Despite this, you can feel safe, because even though one out of every five ex-Guantanamo detainees are returning to Islamist terrorism, Obama is still going to close Guantanamo Bay, but he's just not going to send them to Yemen.
The backwards (and gay) fundies who protest soldiers' funerals have a parody of Lady Gaga.This is not safe for…well, anybody, but I'll play part of it on the show today anyway.
Here's a great idea from Muslim high school students:wear a sweatshirt that shows a bird flying into buildings.
Not only is the debt relative to GDP set to double over the next decade, but by 2052 entitlement programs alone will exceed tax revenues.
The downtown connector in Atlanta was closed again for a while earlier today as the DOT searched for the source of ice on the road.
In the race for Governor, Karen Handel and Rep. Austin Scott are trading barbs over ethics.Actually, Scott is criticizing Handel while Handel ignores the candidate polling at 2%.Handel gave a big speech yesterday criticizing the legislative culture of "sex, lies, and lobbyists."Meanwhile, there are plenty of lobbyist-sponsored events this week to raise money.
The new full-body airport screeners may break child porn laws.That's in addition to being ineffective.Of course, it can't get much more ineffective than what we already have, when celebrities and bloggers are kept off airplanes but Islamist terrorists can't be patted down.
The intelligence community may not be able to share information related to Islamist terrorism among each other, but the CIA is doing a fine job of sharing information with climate scientists related to global warming.
The pieces of a failed prevention of Captain Underpants getting on an airplane continue to come together, as it emerges that MI5 knew about his extremist Muslim connections, his father went to the CIA because the bomber told him during his last phone call that it would be their last contact, and President Obama actually got a pre-Christmas intelligence briefing about threats from Muslim terrorists.Meanwhile, Obama's top counterterrorism advisor said yesterday that there was no "smoking gun" that they missed, and that they may strike a deal with him.Meanwhile, 58% of Americans support waterboarding Captain Underpants to get information on Islamist terrorists, Vladimir Putin says that he would castrate Islamic fundamentalists, and the Obama administration closed the US embassy in Yemen because of threats.Those full-body airport scanners would not have stopped Captain Underpants.
Even the Associated Press is questioning whether the latest jobs bill will actually create any jobs.
Here's a shocker:Obama broke a promise to not raise taxes when Congress let 50 tax breaks expire.If Congress doesn't act, then there will be another tax increase next year.ABC is upset that, for just one year, the death tax is gone, depriving government of much-needed revenue.
Thirteen state Attorneys General are threatening to sue to get the sweetheart deal for Nebraska pulled out of the health care bill.Ben Nelson, Senatorial Gigolo is trying to stop them from suing because he wants his kickback.
Berkeley High School in California is considering dropping science labs because they're too white.
Washington, DC is suing AT&T because the city thinks that all minutes from prepaid calling cards that do not get used should go to them.They are also placing a fee on plastic grocery bags.
How do you feel about your investment on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
President Obama has vetoed his first spending bill.It took Bush over 6 years to do that.
Democrats are going to dust off the old "Blame Bush" strategy for the 2010 elections.Good luck with that, guys.
Obama named a transgendered appointee to the Commerce Department, which was probably more for the headline than qualifications.
A mother of 9 claims she was sterilized against her will.Considering she's a member of the parasite class, is it bad that I really don't have a problem with it?
Venezuela is rationing electricity to start 2010.How's that socialism thing working for you?
The Tour de Georgia has been cancelled again for 2010, leading race organizers to wonder whether it will ever happen again.
Here's a preview of the legislative session.The budget will be the primary issue, but there are plenty of other things for them to work on when they go back in session next week.
A state audit shows no proof that the state's tax breaks for creating jobs are actually creating jobs.
Apparently the files destroyed by Mayor Havrilla and City Attorney Jim Elliott dated back to the early 1990s.It doesn't change the fact that destroying them may have potentially been illegal.
Christine Armstrong was also fired for the Extracurricular Overwall Operation at the Mayor's Office in October, in part because of the access that she had to the city's network servers and in part for embarrassing the city.
Ben Nelson, Senatorial Gigolo is going to air a TV ad tonight defending his support for ObamaCare.It won't help him when he's already down 2-to-1 to a possible opponent in his 2012 re-election bid and the American people still hate the plan.Walter Williams explains why the pre-existing conditions mandate is unworkable.
After the inability to connect the dots on the part of the government on the underwear bomber, more information is coming out showing why the system is broken.There was a nearly identical attack stopped in Somalia last month, and the underwear bomber had plenty of red lights about him that should have prevented him from ever getting on an airplane.
In response to the underwear bomber, the Dutch are going to use full body scanners for US-bound flights.As Christopher Hitchens asks, why are we so bad at detecting the guilty and so good at collective punishment of the innocent?
Vladimir Putin wants the United States to share data on our missile shield, while they are building more weapons to try to balance the United States.
Even though over 90% of blacks still approve of The Mistake's job performance, the thrill is fading.
The government sector is not laying off employees at the rate at which the private sector is.Those of us who work in the private sector and pay taxes are real suckers.
California taxpayers are paying to develop a phone to help criminal aliens get across the border more easily.Meanwhile, The Governator is asking for an $8 billion bailout for the state.
The State Department twice missed the fact that the underwear bomber had a visa to travel to the United States despite his radical Muslim ties.Apparently the underwear bomber was lonely and depressed, just like every other teenager on the planet.Al Qaeda apparently practices beating airport security, which some say requires really creepy full-body scanners.Two of the plotters of the underwear bombing were released from Guantanamo Bay in 2007.The explosive used in the underwear bombing was the same used in an attack on a Saudi prince in August.Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) slashed aviation security funding so he could send $4.5 million to a pet constituency.
Some members of the state legislature want to restore bonuses to nationally certified teachers.Everything that they spend money on has to come out of the budget somewhere.
Presumptive Speaker David Ralston has said there would be no tax increases to cover the budget deficit.Can we legalize Sunday alcohol sales to raise more revenue without raising taxes, then?
Warner Robins Mayor John Havrilla destroyed secret files that Donald Walker kept on elected officials, department heads, and others.District Attorney Kelly Burke, who wants to investigate WRPD Chief Brett Evans for a few text messages, is praising the destruction of the files.
An Islamic terrorist from Nigeria made an attempt to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day in a plot planned by al Qaeda in Yemen, but Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says that there is no indication that it was part of a larger terrorist plot.Napolitano also made a fool of herself in saying first that the system worked, and then that it failed miserably.The Islamist terrorist who was trying to meet his virgins was already in a terror database after his rich Nigerian banker father alerted the United States embassy about his radical views and connections to extremists, but the tip didn't rise "above the noise."New airline travel rules are in effect, including requiring passengers to remain seated with nothing in their laps for the last hour of their flight.
The United States has started a few actions in a war against Islamic terrorism in Yemen.
The federal government has come up with another way to figure out how to fudge the numbers on stimulus jobs.For the first time, a plurality believes that the stimulus plan hurt the economy.
Government workers are more optimistic than those in the private sector about the economy.
Private schools are doing fine during this economy because parents don't want to trust the government to educate their kids.They'll cut back elsewhere in their budget first.
Remember that the revenue-generating "super speeder" law goes into effect on Friday.It's not about safety; it's about raising money for big government.
Houston County District Attorney Kelly Burke is on another ghost hunt, this one against Warner Robins Police Chief Brett Evans.Burke claims that Evans obstructed his investigation into the mayor's office break-in, when the GBI said that Evans and the WRPD cooperated fully with their investigation.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's "messaging" strategy was a miserable failure, but at least he will object to the appointment of members of the Conference Committee, so the House and Senate will play ping-pong now.In response, the White House is going to put off health care until February while they try and find enough votes to pass health care in the House.In the meantime, the White House will focus on jobs.We should still focus on what is in the health care bill and why it is bad for America.
Some liberals may cave on the government option, but regardless of whether there is a government option you will not have options in your health insurance.
Some people are already preparing lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of ObamaCare.
How about some ObamaCare goodies?First, the death panels will be permanent.Second, ACORN gets in on the funding action.Third, the bill includes at least five other bills.Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) is already admitting that this is only a start for them in terms of eventually arriving at a nationalized health care system.Sen. Jim Demint (R-SC) is going to force a vote on the Constitutionality of the individual mandate.The Associated Press has a list of winners and losers in the health care bill, but they forgot to include the American people under losers.The Mistake is going to put off his Hawaiian vacation as a measure of "sacrifice" until the bill passes the Senate.
The Mistake's poll numbers continue to tank, with his strong disapproval numbers outnumbering his total approval numbers.They're expecting to get a polling bounce from passing the health care bill.Most Americans say that Obama's decisions have been bad for America.
The phony economic growth numbers from the third quarter were revised down today.
Sen. Lindsey Graham's biggest complaint about the health care fight is that his precious cap-and-tax agreement might be harder to pass because of the partisanship in Washington.
A former Microsoft executive has an idea to stop global warming.It involves balloons, hoses, and pumping toxic gases into the upper atmosphere.
Build-A-Bear is trying to indoctrinate children into global warming alarmism.Just something to remember as you wrap up your Christmas shopping.Other environmentalists are trying to get you to eat your dog to save the planet.
If a guy can teach calculus over the internet, then why hasn't the Republican Party been able to use the same technology to teach about limited government?
A Democrat Representative has switched to the Republican Party.
A Massachusetts mother called 911 because her kid wouldn't stop playing video games.
Erick Erickson and RedState.com endorsed Karen Handel for Governor.The best part was where Erick called John Oxendine "Georgia's version of Rod Blagojevich with worse hair."Handel will also be resigning as Secretary of State.
I will just leave it at this:Larry O'Neal is a very classy man.
The Warner Robins City Council approved money last night for the G-RAMP environmental study.Apparently 8 governments in Middle Georgia have promised money for the project, but where's the private sector money?
Apparently there are more people involved with the break-in at the Mayor's office than had originally been believed.
Senate Democrats won the cloture vote at about 1:15 this morning, moving the now over 2700-page ObamaCare bill closer to passage, after bribes to both moderate and socialist Senators.The Wall Street Journal calls it "Change Nobody Believes In."The payoff for Senatorial Gigolo Ben Nelson (D-NE) is especially sneaky, because it was hidden by a hyphen in the bill.Nelson also proved that he was not holding out for a compromise on abortion because there is still federal funding of abortions, but both pro-life and pro-choice groups hate the compromise.Sen. Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT) got a socialist medicine starter kit for Christmas.
So what's in the bill (other than bribes paid for with your tax dollars)?Americans for Tax Reform has a list of the tax increases, Michelle Malkin points out that "children" will be covered until the age of 26, and the Congressional Budget Office still admits that this thing will still cost $2.5 trillion over the first ten years of spending.Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) says that the bill is just a "starter home," and they'll be adding onto it later.
China says that it is getting harder to buy American treasury bonds because we're borrowing too much money.The Mistake says that tax dollars can't be spent like monopoly money.
An overly-uptight DC cop pulled a gun on a snowball fight over the weekend.
After winning re-election in 1984, President Reagan changed the diplomatic tags on the cars used by the Soviet embassy in Washington to begin with the letters "FC."Take a guess what "FC" stood for.
The federal government has placed a time limit on how long planes are allowed to sit on the tarmac.
Obama ordered cruise missile strikes against two al Qaeda sites in Yemen.Finally some action.
Even though the United States Postal Service lost $3.8 billion last fiscal year and expects to lose more than double that amount this year, they spent $800,000 on things like fancy food and alcohol.Why bother being fiscally responsible when the government backs up everything you do?
