Right now, President Obama's budget doesn't have the votes to pass in the Senate, mainly due to the biggest tax increase in American history, cap and trade.
The EPA is already preparing for cap and trade by considering requiring factories to report their amount of carbon dioxide emissions. Remember, environmentalism is all about control.
Some Democrat Senators are considering opposing "card check" now that it actually has a chance of becoming law. It's not that they don't support allowing unions to spread their influence by intimidation, it's that they don't want to be held accountable when it destroys jobs. Harry Reid says that Republicans opposed to the bill are just saying no to everything.
Nancy Pelosi uses the United States Air Force as her own private airline.
The federal budget deficit has reached a record $765 billion in 5 months, and Congress has spent about $1 billion per hour since Obama became President.
James Carville wanted Bush to fail in 2001, so why can't I hope for Obama to fail in 2009?
A current leader in the Taliban in southern Afghanistan was at Gitmo.
One of the good things that President Obama said (although it is not the job of the President to say it) is that he wants more charter schools. Here's a story about successful charter schools in Los Angeles.
In the latest vote of no confidence for the Obama economic team, 53% of Americans think that the United States will enter a depression within the next few years. Even Democrats are starting to panic because the "stimulus" bill was not a magic bullet that is helping the economy now.
Some banks that received bailout money want to give it back because of the federal demands on them.
The omnibus spending bill passed the Senate last night with 8 Republican supporters, but without the D.C. school choice provisions and with automatic pay raises for members of Congress. Even though he'll sign it, after this bill President Obama says that he expects change in the earmarks process.
Two more lobbyists have gotten waivers to join the Obama Administration, including one from pro-illegal alien interest group La Raza.
Harry Reid claims that the Fairness Doctrine is a "ghost that doesn't exist" and that nobody wants it to come back.
Good news: the grocery tax hike is dead.
The General Assembly passed this year's budget thanks to the bailout from the federal government.
The Houston County School Board has put off their vote on the FY2010 budget until the end of the month. David Cranshaw might be by to discuss it with us today.
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