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Form of…a FAIL. (Plus: More taxpayer revolts underway.)

This weekend, enviro-zealots will celebrate “Earth Hour” by turning off their lights. They’ve pulled this stunt for a few years now. But this time, they’ve added a new twist: “This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of [...]

This would be funny if it were not so pathetic. Newspaper publishers want Google to adjust its search engine rankings to give preferential treatment to Old Media. The industry is in trouble and it’s looking for any help it can get — and anyone to blame: Major media companies are increasingly lobbying Google to elevate [...]

Cooler heads have prevailed in the U.S. Senate and in this particular case, it is a good thing. The Senate took its role as a deliberative body seriously and has buried the demagogic, backside-covering corporate bonus tax bill passed last week by the House. They’ve kicked the can down the road. The Hill reports: President [...]

Manifesto.

“Ultrarich.”

Just finished watching the daily White House press briefing with Robert Gibbs. Alas, the media drool buckets aren’t as full as they once were. Gibbs pouted that he was “all Russia’ed out” after fielding several questions on the subject. He boasted that “a million doors were knocked on” by the Obama-bots attempting to manufacture grass-roots [...]

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Bonus-tax boneheads.

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti An ACORN fund-raiser on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals? I’m kidding, right? Nope. And a GOP Senator approves of this? I’m kidding, right? Alas, it is true.

Swallowing the Crap Sandwich.

Now what? Last week, the Obama administration brought us a $1 trillion Federal Reserve magic trick hatched by the David Copperfield School of Economic Recovery — printing up a trillion bucks and “pumping it into the U.S. economy”…by buying up bonds and mortgage securities…sold and backed by the government. Today, hapless, truth-challenged tax cheat Treasury [...]

Brewing.

Super-duper-busy today with non-bloggy things. Talk amongst yourselves and don’t put your feet on the table.

The Robert Gibbs Live Comedy Hour WH press briefing is on. Press corps is actually pressing Gibbs on Tim Geithner. A journo asked Gibbs about the Geithner date discrepancies (March 10? March 3?) Gibbs replied, and I quote: “Uhhh…uhhhh…uhhh…uhhh.” After having made snarky remarks about “his friends on cable TV” in response to a question [...]

Why are the president’s “jokes” (scripted or not) so lame? The answer is a three-letter-word (or is that four letters, Joe?): E-G-O. Barack Obama is constitutionally incapable of self-deprecation, because self-deprecation requires sincere humility. And the Obamessiah — Lincoln/JFK/FDR/Reagan/Soul-Fixer/World Savior/Mighty Mouse rolled into one — doesn’t seem to have a molecule of sincere humility in [...]

Can he get anything straight? TurboTax failed him. So, apparently, did Outlook calendar. Hapless Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner claims he didn’t find out about the AIG bonus issue until March 10. This was contradicted by AIG president Edward Liddy’s testimony before Congress earlier this week. Liddy was right. Geithner was wrong. And it’s all on [...]

Plus: Anti-war thugs plan protests tomorrow.

My syndicated column today tallies up all the craptacular spending that’s been going on while the AIG-bashing hypocrites on the Hill crow about $165 million in corporate bonuses none of them bothered to stop before they rushed to fork over billions to AIG in the first place. I mention the little-noticed $6 billion GIVE Act, [...]

Heckuva job, Timmy.

You can find the full roll call vote on HR 1586, tax cheat Charlie Rangel’s ass-covering, after-the-fact AIG bonus tax here. I have broken out the 85 Republicans (led by GOP Minority Whip Eric Cantor) who voted with Rangel and the Democrat demagogues. Because you should know: Aderholt Alexander Barton (TX) Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Blunt [...]

Yukking it up.

Well, how d’ya like that rebranded GOP now? The Taxinator, Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, welcomed Barack Obama to southern California with open arms this afternoon — praising his courage and extolling the porkulus package. Schwarzenegger has been busy taxing everything in sight in the once-Golden State, pouring fuel on the anti-Prop. 8 fire, and preparing [...]

Scroll for updates… If you haven’t been watching the AIG bonus debate in the House, you really should tune in. Barney Frank is shrieking. Jumping up and down over parliamentary procedure. Blaming Bush, Bush, Bush, and then attacking GOP for “partisan attacks.” John Boehner just finished statement: “Are you kidding me? This is joke. Vote [...]

Hey, didn’t conservatives lambaste Obama Transportation Secretary nominee Ray LaHood over his proposal to impose mileage taxes and satellite-based tracking of drivers? Yes, yes we did. And Obama backed off. Well, it’s still just as onerous, enviro-nitwitty, and Big Brother-y coming from a GOP governor as it does from an Obama nominee… State officials say [...]

“I’m serious.”

More after-the-fact Kaubki outrage from members of Congress who stampeded over each other to fork out massive bailout funds: Turns out that 13 firms who accepted bailout money owe $220 million in back taxes. Future Obama nominees! Thirteen of the companies receiving billions in federal bailout money owe a total of more than $220 million [...]

I really don’t want to hear it later from Senate Republicans if Commerce Secretary nominee Gary Locke gets himself in an ethics mess after he’s approved. Washington has been warned — not just by me, but by many other close observers of the former Washington state governor who have followed his career marked by sloppy [...]

Grabby.

Presto change-o!