Brazil, baby, Brazil

Footnote: Ideas that save too much money are inconsiderable

**Written by Doug Powers Today, a Wilmington, Delaware train station was officially renamed for Joe Biden, the man charged with ensuring that every stimulus project comes in on time and on budget. Naturally this particular station came in $5.3 million over budget. That, however, was a small price to pay to add another piece to […]

With bonus Weiner rage

Joe gets his own station, you get the bill

**Written by Doug Powers If the same amount of taxpayer dollars were going to Fox News, would it be considered such a meaningless pittance? President Obama defended public broadcasting from cuts on Friday, emphasizing that defunding networks like NPR and PBS would do little to rein in spending. [...] “I think it’s going to be […]

**Written by Doug Powers Harry Reid’s love of all-things-cowboy dates back to his great great grandfather Bucky Ried, who, as legend has it, once taxed a man to death just for snorin’ too loud. That trait has stayed with the family, and now the Senate Majority Leader is leading the fight to maintain taxpayer support […]

**Written by Doug Powers Quick note: Apologies for the slow posting the past couple of days. I’m “on the road” and haven’t gotten in as much time for a little writing as I originally hoped — which is merely an admission that I’ve failed miserably at the art of simultaneously blogging while playing blackjack. The […]

Tickle me budget cuts

**Written by Doug Powers The Edward M. Kennedy Institute will make no mention of these things, but if you ask me they’re worthy of an entire wing: The late Sen. Ted Kennedy arranged to “rent” a brothel for a night while on a visit to Chile and other Latin American countries decades ago, according to […]

Vermin on the Hill

Oh, no. It’s another White House White Board (click here for Austan Goolsbee’s turn last week). Here, OMB Director Jack Lew tells you how spending into oblivion “while still investing in the future” = fiscal responsibility. With Obama math, anything’s possible: Takeaway sentence from ABC News’s description of the Obama budget unveiled today: “At no […]

The big reach

**Written by Doug Powers Back in October, Harry Reid reminded voters how tirelessly he’s worked to fulfill his constitutional duty of spending as much taxpayer money as humanly possible. Now Reid’s humble Jeffersonian mission is being slowed and he can’t understand why. A little frustrated, Harry? I think Harry’s angry because, hey, he single-handedly saved […]

**Written by Doug Powers If Chris Christie ever decides to seek higher office, he recently stumbled across what would be the perfect campaign slogan. From The Corner: “Let me help you pack.” That’s what Gov. Chris Christie told one of the state’s top administrators when that administrator commented publicly that he could leave New Jersey […]

**Written by Doug Powers President Obama, assisted by his willing accomplices in Congress who have helped swipe the national credit card like giddy teenage girls at the mall with daddy’s Visa, have made history. From CNS News: It’s official: The Obama administration has now borrowed $3 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. It took […]

**Written by Doug Powers From the New York Times, January 2009: On “Meet the Press,” fill-in host Tom Brokaw wants to know how quickly Barack Obama can create jobs, and the president-elect promises to move fast. After all, he says, he’s met with a bunch of governors “and all of them have projects that are […]

“Weinercare”?

The running of the donks

**Written by Doug Powers That Austan Goolsbee never stops with the comedy. From Fox News: Vice President Biden wasn’t talking about jobs when called this the “summer of recovery.” He was talking about construction projects. That’s the explanation top White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee gave when asked about the more than 280,000 jobs lost […]

Was it good for you?

**Written by Doug Powers First they had to pass it so we could find out what’s in it, and now they know what’s in it but they can’t talk about it: The progressive coalition Health Care for America Now fought hard to pass health care reform. Now it’s fighting hard to help reelect lawmakers who […]

**Written by Doug Powers If you’re selling US economy stock short, now is the time to get aggressive: WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–President Barack Obama on Monday said his economic team is working to identify new measures to stimulate U.S. growth as part of a “full-scale attack” to strengthen the lackluster economy. Obama, speaking in the White […]

**Written by Doug Powers By way of Moonbattery, a sign spotted at the State Department: Van Helsing adds: The leftist criminals running the federal government are stealing literally $trillions from us, from our children, and from our grandchildren, and using nonsensical bailouts and pork-stuffed “stimulus” farces to pass out the loot among their corrupt cronies. […]

Like so much that emanates from Washington, this latest summer of corruption tale stinks. Back in February 2009, you may recall that government spending watchdog GOP Sen. Tom Coburn first called attention to a $2 billion earmark in the Obama stimulus bill to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the […]