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Where’s House Majority Whip James Clyburn? I’m sure he’ll be along any minute now to lump Tennessee Dem. Gov. Phil Bredesen in with all the other bigoted GOP governors who have spurned stimulus money. RAAAAAAACIST! Tennessee could reject a portion of the $787 billion economic stimulus package out of concerns that it would force the [...]

Sob.

Gaffetastic!

Not fit to print.

My column this week expands on my debunking of ACORN’s sob story foreclosure “victims.” In the latest developments on the Baltimore ACORN break-in, ACORN activist Donna Hanks was arrested and criminally charged. Just one more on top of her other brushes with the law (which the Washington Post and others have yet to report). The [...]

And the bucket goes to…Ron Fournier of the Associated Press for this overflowing, slobbering prose: Analysis: Obama address renews audacity to hope By RON FOURNIER – 46 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama gave America the audacity to hope again. After describing the U.S. economy in nearly apocalyptic terms for weeks, pushing his [...]

The cable news talking heads panned Bobby Jindal’s response to Obama tonight. There were some apparent audio and technical problems. He could have been more specific in his attacks on the porkulus bill, the bailouts, and the coming omnibus spending bill/mortgage entitlement expansion. (Full speech here). But then, of course, the critics would have accused [...]

Crystal ball.

Here’s the roll call vote on Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. Seventeen GOP Senators voted no: Bond (R-MO) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Coburn (R-OK) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Ensign (R-NV) Inhofe (R-OK) Kyl (R-AZ) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Wicker (R-MS)

Wonder drug.

From the left-leaning Seattle Weekly, which has long documented Locke’s cronyism: Of course, there was that memory loss and all those “I don’t recall . . . I don’t remember” statements to Congressional investigators in 1999, probing his gubernatorial campaign fund-raising efforts; the astonishing $3.2 billion tax break he gave to Boeing while never disclosing [...]

The Taxpayers Clearinghouse Prize Patrol travels to NYC, NJ, and Washington to present huge bailout checks to AIG, Citi, and other lucky winners of the bailout bonanza. Plus: Showering Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner with cash: Brought to you by the same creative folks who are offering the personal bailout contest at www.right.org.

One of these things is not like the other…

Just got my copy of John Ziegler’s new film, Media Malpractice — a damning indictment of the MSM’s failures and partisan complicity during the 2008 presidential campaign. Ziegler’s done yeomen’s work putting this together and it’s an invaluable contribution. Get yours here. *** Related interview posted over at Hot Air.

There are no special interests.

Looks like the monkey-see, monkey-do routine at yesterday’s “fiscal repsonsibility” summit hosted by Barack Obama and dutifully attended by congressional sycophants didn’t capture Larry Summers’ attention. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz: Although Lawrence Summers, head of the National Economic Council, fell asleep on the podium, most attendees, including Republicans, appear to have appreciated the exercise. Hope he didn’t snore [...]

Is it possible for Barack Obama to pick a Commerce Secretary nominee who’ll actually make it past first base? Bill Richardson withdrew in the midst of a pay-for-play scandal. Judd Gregg withdrew in the midst of a humiliating power play over the Census and porkulus bill. Now, former Democrat Gov. Gary Locke — a lawyer [...]

Soooiiiie.

Obama-capulco Cliff Dive! Look out below… (Also can be used to accompany news of AIG record loss report.) No kidding: Wall Street has turned the clock back to 1997. Investors unable to extinguish their worries about a recession that has no end in sight dumped stocks again Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 251 [...]

Barrel of M****ys.

“Washington sends $1 food stamp checks to 250,000.”

Resistance.

(Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti) Tons of groups and individuals are stepping up to the plate in the wake of last week’s anti-stimulus/anti-entitlement protests and the call for a nationwide Tea Party. PJTV’s clearinghouse for protests is here. The New American Tea Party page from “a coalition of citizens and organizations concerned about the recent trend [...]

I.O.U.

“Monkey business.”

Your casa is not my casa.

You cannot appease racial grievance-mongers. This man’s appetite for destruction is insatiable. You can take them to dinner, put them on TV, give them awards, welcome them to the White House (!), bow and scrape, and kiss their rings. But it will never, never be enough. Al Sharpton and the rest of the demagogues are [...]

On Feb. 18, I warned about the ACORN civil disobedience mob working in ideological tandem with Barack Obama to bully Washington into passing a massive new foreclosure prevention/mortgage entitlement scheme. On Feb. 20, I noted that ACORN garnered nationwide media attention for breaking and entering into a foreclosed home in Baltimore at 315 South Ellwood [...]

…by Barack Obama. Related: Obama plans “soak the rich” class-warfare economics

News broke over the weekend that an arrest may be imminent in the Chandra Levy murder case. There is reportedly DNA evidence linking Levy to illegal alien sex offender Ingmar Guandique. His name should be familiar to those of you who have followed the story over the years. I first wrote about Guandique nearly seven [...]