February 22nd 2009
Sunday Scan Lite
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nside-the-Beltway Mom and Ex-Ambassador Step-dad need a ride to LAX this morning for their flight to Hawaii, so my time is limited. What you see is what you get this week.
Defying the laws of economics - After whipping out an $887 billion spending bill, following the two-parrt $700 billion Bush bank bailout and preceding the $75 billion housing loser bailout, Prez O tells us he’s going to cut the budget deficit in half by the end of his first term. Let’s see; that’s $1.7 trillion on top of the so-called $1.3 trillion existing deficit - and he’s going to do it by getting out of Iraq in 16 months and raising taxes on those who make more than $250,000 - while cutting taxes to everyone else? There’d better be a lot of those rich folks, and they’d better be making a whole lot more than $250,000.
(Of course the real deficit is vastly larger. Obama’s $1.3 trillion figure does not include unfunded mandates that the government is legally obligated to pay, like Social Security. He can pretend the number’s not there, but it is.
New Watcher of Weasels Feature - The Watcher of Weasels has started a new, intermittent feature, Weekend Weasel, and kicks it off with the decidedly weasely Stephen Fowler:
The first member nominated to the Watcher of Weasels wall of shame is none other than San Francisco celebrity liberal Stephen Fowler. This elite ass appeared on wife swap and was paired up with Gayla Long, a woman from a small town in Missouri that Fowler affectionately referred to as a “dumb redneck” and “lower class.”
Check it out. The Watcher really winds up a roundhouse on this one. The only thing worse - much worse - than a San Francisco liberal is an arrogant San Francisco liberal.
War Gaming - Don’t know if you caught Glenn Beck’s War Room this week. Chilling stuff; experts talking about worst case scenarios with the economy, meltdown, and societal reactions. One section talked about the “Bubba Factor” - folks becoming so afraid of the way the government’s going that they begin to protect themselves in armed compouds, like the militia movement that grew under Clinton’s watch. Say what you will about this, but don’t say what Glenn Greenwald does:
What was most remarkable about this allegedly “anti-government” movement was that — with some isolated and principled exceptions — it completely vanished upon the election of Republican George Bush, and it stayed invisible even as Bush presided over the most extreme and invasive expansion of federal government power in memory. Even as Bush seized and used all of the powers which that movement claimed in the 1990s to find so tyrannical and unconstitutional — limitless, unchecked surveillance activities, detention powers with no oversight, expanding federal police powers, secret prison camps, even massively exploding and debt-financed domestic spending — they meekly submitted to all of it, even enthusiastically cheered it all on.
Where to start with this bufoon? Obama has expanded Government more in three weeks than Bush did in eight years. Bush did nothing unlike what Lincoln or FDR did in times of war. The surveillance programs Bush employed were limited and checked. There was oversight over the detention program - Congress. The “secret” prison camps were well known and were for terrorists, like a POW camp, not for U.S. citizens. Guilty on the debt - but not nearly as guilty as Obama. With idiots like this running around and having the ear of the new administration, hunkering down with an assortment of guns doesn’t seem alike all that bad an idea.
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February 22nd, 2009 at 10:51 am
Defying the laws of economics: Obama is governing the same way he ran for office: By telling the people what they want to hear with no regard to reality. God help us.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Oh the poor conservatives. 8 Years and a doubling of the national debt. How’s that for fiscal conservatism. Let’s see what else. We find out on Friday that Bushie was also not coutning the wars in Iraq, or the spending on Katrina as part of the budget defecit. Now that’s transparency at it’s best. You say “god help us”. Screw god. God has nothing to do with government. It was bible freaks like you that got us into this mess. Maybe God should have taught you basic math skills. 8 Years of Bush, 3 million jobs created and a collapsed financial system. 8 Years of Clinton, 21 million jobs created. You can’t argue with that. Let me guess your solution. More tax cuts.. How creative!!! I suggest all the republicans get their guns, bibles and move to the deep red south. SHould be happier down there…