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Follow the bouncing ball: TARP, the trillion-dollar-plus banking bailout, has morphed from a toxic assets purchase plan to a capital injection plan, back to a toxic assets purchase plan, to a life insurance company bailout, to an auto supplier bailout. I’m sure I forgot more.
Well, now the Democrats want to use it to bail out [...]

Stuffed.

Clunker.

Here’s a handy list of Generational Theft Act pork and other abominable buried treasures to pass out to your friends and family. One glaring omission, though: Add in the $200 billion-plus government-guaranteed mortgage entitlement championed by Sens. McConnell, Graham, and Ensign.
Kill the bill. Stab it. Stick a fork in it. Then start over:
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*Update: Ed Morrissey and Hot Air readers are melting the phones. Join in!*

GOP: Time to Get Things Undone
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
President Obama thinks he knows what the primary objective of Republicans in Washington should be: To “get things done.” Bashing Rush Limbaugh last week, Obama urged GOP lawmakers to ignore the voices of [...]

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
House GOP leader John Boehner’s office reports that the left-wing voter fraud/illegal alien/housing entitlement racketeers at ACORN “could get billions” more in federal taxpayer funding from the Democrats’ stimulus bill.
Here:
Incredibly, the Democrats’ bill makes groups like ACORN eligible for a $4.19 billion pot of money for “neighborhood stabilization activities.”
Not so [...]

The inevitable lard-up.

At least the porn industry was sort of kidding about their bailout bid. Public radio and public television — already funded with your money to the tune of some $400 million in direct federal handouts and tax deductions for contributions made by individual viewers, not to mention untold state grants and subsidies — want a [...]

$2 million per resident.

My syndicated column today takes on Obama’s stimulus Trojan Horse. It’s for the children. Mitch McConnell, are you there?
And just in: 2009 budget deficit is estimated at $1.2 trillion.
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The Generational Theft Act of 2009
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Barack Obama has dubbed his behemoth fiscal stimulus proposal the “American Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.” But if [...]

Craptastic.

Order up.

No deal yet.

Who fueled the left-wing housing entitlement racket?

Once is never enough.

Shakedown.

The Senate is on its way to passing yet another massive mortgage boondoggle. It would pile billions of dollars more in stimulus-palooza spending on top of the $152 billion already passed into law and radically expand government’s role in meddling with private contracts. Last night, members voted on a cloture motion to push forward with [...]

Your tax dollars at work!

Liberal-nomics.

Borrow and spend. Repeat.

The costs of “compassion.”

And look who has front-row media seats.

Oink, oink. Clear!