Obama Attacks Talk Radio

The Messiah might be President now, but he doesn't realize that it's talk radio that really runs America (just ask Trent Lott).  In a meeting with House Republicans Friday afternoon about the Omnibus Democrat Agenda Bill, Obama invoked the name of the Godfather of Talk Radio to tell the GOP leaders that they really don't matter, because he's going to do what he wants to do.  Then his Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, had the audacity to claim that Obama is "going to listen to any ideas."  That would mean any ideas that aren't conservative.

 

More on the Omnibus Democrat Agenda Bill:  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that federal funding for birth control will help the economy and cut government budgets and that the Republicans' ideas will be judged by how well they create jobs (a standard that doesn't apply to Democrats' plans).  One of Obama's economic advisors, Lawrence Summers, says that economic relief would come within weeks of the passage of the ODAB (but from where?).  Republicans are lining up against the bill, but it still doesn't look like anybody has the stones to filibuster the bill.  And a couple of big shocks:  earmarks are getting into the bill, despite the Obama Administration's ban, and a lot of the spending will be hard to cut later, meaning that much of the ODAB will be long-term expenditures.  Also, ACORN could get billions of dollars in the ODAB.

 

Pelosi wants to increase the size of the bailout fund ($700 billion isn't enough), and Democrats are working hard to bailout the banks of their choice.

 

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) wants a Constitutional Amendment that would ban the appointment of Senators by Governors.  Remember, it was his party in Illinois that refused to have an election to fill Obama's seat.

 

Congresscritters from Michigan are asking the Obama Administration to give new loans and grants to the Big Three, which are now trading gas-guzzling winners for green cash-guzzling losers.

 

Two ex-Guantanamo inmates have appeared in a new Al-Qaeda video.  What's the plan for the rest of the guys there again?

 

Joe Biden is warning of a higher death toll in Afghanistan.  The guy is certainly entertaining, isn't he?

 

It snowed in the United Arab Emirates for the second time in recorded history.  Don't you love global warming?

 

Listener Darrell alerted me to HR 45, which would require universal licensing for firearms.

 

Chris Matthews called Sarah Palin illiterate.

 

Georgia Democrats are declaring themselves to be the new protectors of school nurses.  The Macon Telegraph got on the bandwagon, too, claiming that not having nurses will hurt kids.

 

The Omnibus Democrat Agenda Bill could bring over $5 billion to Georgia.  Some of that money will go towards eco-friendly schools and to make up the state's budget deficit.

 

The state DOT has already cut back on their landscaping budget to help make up some of the budget shortfall.

 

The state Senate's transportation plan is now officially legislation that would allow 10 counties around Atlanta to self-impose a T-SPLOST, while also allowing other counties to do the same independently.

 

Here are some of the pieces of legislation to watch as the General Assembly goes back in session.