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Payoffs from A to Z.

The final 220-215 roll call vote on passage of the House Dems’ government health care takeover bill is here.
And here is the 240-194 roll call vote on the Stupak amendment to extend the ban on federal abortion subsidies to Obamacare/Pelosicare.
Thanks to Doug Powers for filling in while I spoke at the Foundation for Life event [...]

At the annual American Banking Association conference this weekend in Chicago, the SEIU army spearheaded an angry mob protest against major financial institutions who have taken federal bailout funds.
It was the usual left-wing Kabuki theater. If the protesters were sincerely mad about the government bailouts, they’d be yelling on Capitol Hill and in front of [...]

What up?!

Yes, it’s time for the upside-down elephant. The Stupid Party is at it again. The subject of today’s column: An abomination in the NY23 special congressional race to replace former GOP Rep. John McHugh, who accepted President Obama’s Army Secretary position. Way to go, Beltway GOP establishment. Grass-roots fiscal conservatives are fired up over ACORN, [...]

You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me:
President Obama on Wednesday attempted to preempt the announcement that Social Security recipients will not get an increase in their benefit checks for the first time in three decades, encouraging Congress to provide a one-time payment of $250 to help seniors and disabled Americans weather the recession.
“One-time payment” [...]

Same old, same old.

The Naked Emperor revisited.

Won’t be long before this guy is blamed for inciting violence:
An unusual sign has appeared along Interstate 70 in Blue Springs.
If you are traveling in the eastbound lanes of the freeway between Adams Dairy Parkway and the Grain Valley exit you will see a sign that appears to be anti-President Barack Obama.
The sign features the [...]

Bank of America has been caving in to left-wing special interests for years.
The financial giant teamed up with the open-borders lobby to offer illegal alien home loans.
It forked over payoffs to self-declared bank terrorist outfit NACA (the taxpayer-subsidized Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America).
BoA also capitulated to a Jesse Jackson shakedown.
And then, after receiving a middle-of-the-night [...]

“Reckless.”

Good for the TARP watchdog.
Team Obama tried to tighten his leash. He bit back. Turbo Tax Tim Geithner tucked tail.
More, please:
The Treasury Department backed away from a standoff over the independence of the special government watchdog appointed to scrutinize how last year’s $700 billion financial-industry bailout is being spent.
Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the [...]

My syndicated column today spotlights the pay czar’s power grab and the cover it provides both the White House and Congress for supporting, enabling, and rewarding the failures of the TARP bailout recipients in the first place.
Team Obama has provisionally approved the AIG CEO’s $7 million compensation package. Here’s Feinberg’s verdict on Weil, Gotshal & [...]

“Anything is possible.”

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Dodd and Obama: Corrupt birds of a feather
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Everything you need to know about false Hope and Change can be found in one picture: The image of President Obama embracing embattled Sen. Chris Dodd.
The embattled Democrat is in deep doo-doo over his Countrywide sweetheart home loan deals, corporate bailout cash, [...]

Just finished up on the Today Show, where I had a quick chance to briefly expose the Culture of Corruption in the age of Obama. My syndicated column today adds to the dossier with a round-up of fresh Bully Boy moments.
It’s the Chicago way.
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Bully boys: A brief history of White House thuggery
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright [...]

Sez Harry Reid now in his announcement that there will be no health care takeover bill until after the August recess:
“It’s better to have a product based on quality and thoughtfulness rather than try to jam something through.”
Gee, if only they had that attitude before they jammed through all the bailouts, the porkulus, [...]

It doesn’t get much more dishonest than this:
“Reducing the Need for Abortions Initiative.”
Steven Ertelt reports on the abortion bailout bill disguised as “pro-life” legislation:
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat who is a former NARAL staffer, and Rep. Tim Ryan, an Ohio Democrat whom Democrats for Life of America recently kicked off its board, are [...]

Sen. Chris Dodd is an unrepentant crony Democrat caught up in multiple sleazy scandals, hypocrisy, and lies that have turned off his constituents and his own local party leaders.
Sen. Orrin Hatch is the vice chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
What the hell is Sen. Hatch doing praising Dodd as “one of the better Senators [...]

From the very beginning of the Tea Party movement, I’ve reported that activists have directed their disgust at both parties over fiscal recklessness.
It’s an inconvenient truth the Tea Party-bashers would rather ignore.
The anger at Republicans who voted for TARP hasn’t gone away. And Texas Sen. John Cornyn was vividly reminded of that as he spoke [...]

Beware the grubby paws (hat tip – Will Amos):
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank has a plan to funnel income from the government’s $700 billion bailout fund toward the housing sector.
The powerful Massachusetts Democrat last week quietly introduced legislation that aims to use $1 billion in dividends paid by the recipients of government aid [...]

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
Obama’s ground troops are back. The ACORN criminal racket has moved away from illegally breaking into homes back to mobbing financial institutions. Today:
Protesters in more than a dozen cities across the country are demanding that a group of mortgage companies who benefited from federal bailout money participate in a government program designed [...]

GOP Rep. Pence: “What’s the hurry? What are they hiding?”

Down the drain.

Jury selection is now underway in the William “Cold Cash” Jefferson corruption trial. My syndicated column today revisits the case as a new Rasmussen poll shows Democrats losing to Republicans on ethics and corruption.
Cold cash, hot Democrat mess
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Remember William “Cold Cash” Jefferson? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Clean-Up Crew hope [...]

I gave you a heads-up last month about the coming $108 billion IMF bailout.
Sens. DeMint and Coburn have been watchdogging the foreign giveaway.
What’s the latest? The Democrats are trying to tack the foreign bailout to the emergency war supplemental bill!
A glimmer of encouraging news: It’s not just fiscal hawks who are balking at this [...]

(Photoshop credit: Reader Joe N.)
It’s official. General Motors has filed for bankruptcy. Government Motors is now in business, with a perpetual taxpayer lifeline:
General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday as part of the Obama administration’s plan to shrink the automaker to a sustainable size and give a majority ownership stake to the federal [...]

(Photo source: 2008 ACORN slideshow presentation)
They thought it would go away. They were wrong. Obama and the Left thought ACORN’s scandalous racket was a dead issue. But whistleblowers, investigative bloggers, and talk radio continue to press for transparency and taxpayer accountability. Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King has renewed efforts for congressional hearings into the financial [...]

When your salary is funded by Big Labor, you must sing Big Labor’s tune. Very sad to see this pressure being put on the San Diego Union Tribune editorial board, one of the few large center-right boards that exist in the country.
Or…existed:
The union representing Los Angeles police officers is pressuring the owner of San Diego’s [...]

A telling exchange this afternoon between staunch fiscal conservative Sen. Jim DeMint and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, via WaPo:
Geithner was hammered by a Republican senator decrying Treasury’s growing power over the American economy. “This is not mission-creep,” said Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). “This is a stampede of any traditional understanding of constitutional boundaries.”
DeMint called Geithner [...]