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**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 [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The push to get taxpayers to pay for the upkeep of Jimmy Carter’s brother’s gas station and turn it into a national park (suggested name: “Mount Lushmore”) began last year, but it was dealt a blow yesterday: The gas station of former President Jimmy Carter’s beer drinking brother will not become [...]

Whoops…

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers Earlier today, Drudge headlined an ABC News story about how many millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on stimulus signs. Not stimulus projects, but just the signs to let everyone know where their money is being spent, whether it needed to be or not. I haven’t been able to [...]

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers A few days ago, Michelle wrote about the fiscal basket case that is the state of Illinois, but that isn’t stopping the governor from rewarding his staff for a nosedive well done: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has handed out raises—some of more than 20 percent—to his [...]

They get the station, you get charged

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers Nothing’s more inspiring to a child than a dad who’s only sticking around for some Obama bucks: President Barack Obama announced a new fatherhood and families fund at an event in Washington, D.C., on Monday to celebrate Fathers Day. The fund is part of a nationwide fatherhood initiative that the [...]

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers I’m only guessing that, when it’s completed, Pres. Barack Obama Parkway in Orlando, Florida will lead straight to the Magic Kingdom: Is it too soon to name a road after President Barack Obama? A new road being built through Orlando will have his name. Roads in Orlando honor some of [...]

Scroll for updates…2:37pm Eastern reported deal reached on two amendments…bomb threats reported…vote set for tonight…78-19, unemployment benefits/COBRA extension, other government benefits extensions pass…$10 billion bill not paid for…roll call vote added I’ve praised GOP Sen. Jim Bunning many times over the last two years for taking unpopular stands against massive, government entitlement expansions. He was [...]

Laughingstock.

My column looks at the year in Washington political bribery. And what a year it was for the Beltway’s reverse Santa Clauses, who are suspended simultaneously in mental states of denial and indignation. Democrat Sen. Mary “Louisiana Purchase” Landrieu defended her payoff while declaring that she “can’t be bought.”Democrat Sen. Tom “Iowa Bounty” Harkin dismissed [...]

Ever since the “American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009″ kicked in, it was obvious that a major part of the stimulus would be paying people to design, manufacture and put up signs alerting taxpayers where their “stimulus” money was going. You’d have to spend a fortune on an investigation to find a better example [...]

Sorry to interrupt all the liberal blogosphere’s unhinged GOP-bashing over conservative opposition to flu pandemic funding in the porkulus bill, but… Well. Just an inconvenient reminder: “All those little porky things that the House put in, the money for the [National] Mall or the sexually transmitted diseases or the flu pandemic, they’re all out,” Schumer [...]

Your tax dollars at work thanks to King of Pork John Murtha. Pennsylvania, why did you put this hog back in office. Why? (h/t William Amos): A state-of-the-art radar system that has sat idle for years at a local airport has never been used because there has been no one to operate it, officials said. [...]

Ugh. The Justice Department filed court papers this morning asking a federal judge to toss out the conviction of former senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) on corruption charges. The move comes as a federal judge was preparing to conduct hearings to probe allegations of prosecutorial misconduct by the team that tried one of the most powerful [...]

Swallowing the Crap Sandwich.

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, [...]

Shake and bake.

Sinking ship.

The FutureGen near-zero emissions “clean coal” plant earmark championed by corruptocrat Rod Blagojevich and Democrat No. 2 Dick Durbin was the largest single earmark in the porkulus package. Sen. Tom Coburn fought to strip it out. He lost. Now, we learn that the project has ballooned in cost to an estimated $2.3 billion. Hey, good [...]

Well, ok. Not really “fun.” Depressing, actually: More than one out of every five dollars of the $125 million Massachusetts is receiving from a federal spending bill is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys. I call it Hyannis Pork.

What a laughingstock. He signs 8,500 earmarks into law (out of camera’s view), sinks American deeper into a gazillion-dollar spending hole, then faces the public to declare that now, now, now he’ll clean up Washington, D.C. I smell swine odor! Acknowledging it’s an “imperfect” bill, President Barack Obama said he will accept a $410 billion [...]

Scroll for updates…7:09pm Eastern…motion to invoke cloture passes 62-35…and…omni-pork sails through the Senate on voice vote…$410 billion soon to siphoned away from taxpayers to bolster congressional re-election prospects…they should have said “Oink” instead of “aye…” Just watched Jeff Session’s E-Verify amendment to ensure that omni-pork spending only goes to legal citizens get tabled. Vote was [...]

Fry it up in a pan.

Desperate times, desperate measures. Via Wash Times: Congress Friday passed a temporary spending measure to keep the government open through Wednesday as lawmakers struggled over an omnibus appropriations bill for the remainder of the fiscal year. The House passed the bill by a 328-50 vote; the Senate acted by unanimous voice vote. President Barack Obama [...]

My syndicated column today spotlights the return of thrift in individual American households — a phenomenon that stands in stark contrast to the unmitigated profligacy embraced by Barack Obama’s White House. Opposition is growing to the confisctory spending train: Witness the Senate Republican success in delaying the omni-pork, coupled with the aggressive House GOP call [...]

Scroll for updates… Excellent idea: On the heels of the successful Senate GOP move to slow down passage of the $410 billion omni-pork bill, House GOP leader John Boehner is pushing for a freeze on government spending that would hold federal spending at current levels and strip the omnibus of all 9,000 un-scrutinized earmarks: The [...]

Some encouraging news breaking tonight: Senate Republicans forced a delay on consideration of the $410 billion omni-pork spending bill. Harry Reid canceled the vote after confessing that he was one vote short of the 60 needed to shut off debate and move forward. A Hill friend says Reid had to walk out 20 minutes after [...]