Snow in New Orleans?

It snowed this morning in New Orleans and last night in Houston, Texas.  Don't you just love global warming?

 

The federal deficit is projected to reach $1 trillion this fiscal year after reaching $164.4 billion in November.  To do it, they're spending 1 of every 4 dollars in the entire United States economy.  Meanwhile, the American people cut their debt for the first time ever.  The Senate Finance Committee Chairman thinks that it's necessary for the federal government to spend money to "show it cares."  In reality, Congress spending so much money now shows specifically that it doesn't care—about the future.  They only show that they care about protecting their own careers.

 

Cerberus Capital, which owns Chrysler, has already received a federal bailout through another of their subsidiaries, GMAC.  So Ford doesn't need the money, and Chrysler's parent company has already received money.  That leaves GM, which has admitted that the bailout isn't going to save them.  So what's the point again?  Oh yeah, it's all about saving the UAW (and, apparently, saving the environment).  Fortunately, even though the House has passed the bailout, it's looking like Senate Republicans will probably kill it.  They'll have a test vote in the Senate tomorrow morning, but it looks like there will be enough Republicans to filibuster this thing to death.  Senator Jim DeMint, who has signaled his support for a filibuster, says that there could be riots if the Big Three gets a bailout.  He's probably reaching a bit there, but he is correct in saying that GM is in a better financial situation than the United States government.

 

Meanwhile, the Blagojevich drama continues.  Obama claims that he has never spoken with Blago about the Senate seat, even though both sides have said that Obama and Blago met, both before and after the election.  Now he is going to reveal any contact his staff may have had with Blago.  Mea Culpa?  Meanwhile, the mainstream media is running cover for the Obama camp, trying to corroborate his claims.  KHQA-TV, which reported about a November 5 meeting between Obama and Blago on both November 5 and November 8, has now pulled those articles off of their website and rescinded the November 5 story.  Meanwhile, the Obama team is censoring questions about Blago that go into the transition website by calling them "inappropriate."  The other question that has to be asked is:  why hasn't Obama been contacted by the FBI yet?

 

A few Republicans on Capitol Hill are introducing a bill to prevent the BCS from calling itself a national championship.  I agree with them, but that is NOT the place of government.

 

Bobby Jindal says that he will not run for President in 2012.  That's fine.  He has plenty of time.

 

It's a sad day when they have to put GPS locators on baby Jesus in nativity scenes.

 

The jury in the Brian Nichols case can't come to a unanimous decision on the sentence he will receive.  This one should be easy—fry him.

 

The (Saxbe) fix is in—Congress cut the pay for the Secretary of State position so that Hillary Clinton can take the job.