The “Stimulus” That Keeps On Sucking

It’s bad enough that we borrowed a trillion dollars from China to waste on a “stimulus” program that actually destroyed 595,000 jobs, but it turns out that we lavished $24 billion of the massively useless pork potpourri on tax criminals! How cool was that? Stimulus recipients found to be tax cheats One construction company that [...]

The State Of The Union Is Not Strong

The U.S. economic forecast looks grim and we’re definitely expecting more rain. UPDATE: CBO Estimates 2010 Deficit At $1.34 Tln A new projection from the Congressional Budget Office forecast the federal government’s budget deficit for fiscal 2010 would total $1.34 trillion, improving to just over $1 trillion in fiscal 2011, which begins on Oct. 1. [...]

Obama And The Democrats Set Another Record!

And it’s a record that really sucks. US budget deficit hits record in April The US Treasury Department says that the federal budget deficit hit a record for the month of April, reaching nearly 83 billion dollars. On Wednesday, the Treasury Department announced that the April deficit soared to $82.7 billion, the largest imbalance for [...]

One Year Later

Rick Santelli is hardly a teabagger. Why the Tea Party Movement Matters If any one person is the founder, it’s Rick Santelli. A year ago, the CNBC commentator blew a gasket on the air over a plan by the Obama Administration to tackle the foreclosure crisis. Multibillion-dollar proposals were flying like snowflakes in Washington, and [...]

Happy First Birthday “Stimulus”!

The “stimulus” worked exactly as intended. What, you didn’t think it was supposed to create jobs, did you? /Michael Ramirez Why Defend The Failed Stimulus? Recovery: Is the president right when he says the stimulus kept the U.S. from falling into a depression? No. In fact, too much government tinkering and spending, not too little, [...]

Obama Adds Astronauts To The No Fly List

No Shuttle plus no Constellation program equals U.S. manned space flight grounded. White House won’t fund NASA moon program NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there, if President Obama gets his way. When the White House releases its budget proposal Monday, there [...]

The First Stimulus Has Been A Total Disaster So Naturally Democrats Plan To Waste Even More Borrowed Money On More Useless Stimulus

Hey, I know, the first “stimulus” isn’t working, so let’s spend more money we don’t have on a second “stimulus”. Nevermind that we haven’t even spent one third of the first trillion dollar “stimulus” yet. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. /Albert Einstein STIMULUS WATCH: Unemployment Unchanged by [...]

A Smart Rat Jumps The Sinking Ship

With Obama’s approval rating at a new low, well under 50%, Congressional job approval under 30%, the generic Congressional ballot favoring Republians, and most Americans against the Democrat Obamacare plan for socialized medicine, Parker Griffith has seen the light, smelled the coffee, and jumped from the sinking Democrat ship. Smart move. Democratic congressman defects to [...]

Obama And The Democrats Never Met A Borrowed Dollar They Couldn’t Squander

Remember the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) that was originally passed to purchase toxic assets from banks but then, in a classic bait and switch, was spent on bailing out troubled banks instead? Well, the good news is that some of the banks, to escape onerous government interference and micromanagement, are actually paying back their [...]

Launch It Quick, Before Obama Cancels It

NASA’s Ares 1-X Rocket: Space Shuttle Replacement? Or Rocket to Nowhere? NASA Preps for Test, Though Obama Could Cancel Program This isn’t your daddy’s space ship — but it is something your grandfather might recognize. The Ares 1-X rocket sitting on the launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center is ready to go, scheduled [...]