Congressional Budget Office Throws Mrs. Pelosi Under the Bus

From Brian Faler, Bloomberg: 

A Congressional Budget Office analysis of President Barack Obama’s plan found that most of the approximately $355 billion in proposed discretionary spending on highways, renewable energy and other initiatives wouldn’t be spent before 2011. The

Barack Obama had over two months to plan and then execute his inauguration.  BO’s team utterly failed. Peter Scoblic, Plank:.

I cannot even imagine the logistical skill and dedication required to pull off an event of today’s magnitude. And,

McQ notes, this morning, something that bothered me last night, as well:

If there is indeed an “era of maturity” evident, it has nothing to do with the leftists of this country. Indeed, even on this day, they just

Barack Obama may or may not be a pragmatist.   If BO is pragmatic it is only in the political sense, how to keep his seat of power.   Dubya liked to bill himself as “The Decider.”   BO is more like the

I have another piece up over at Pajamas Media, this morning. Here’s a taste:

You see, while the numbers suggest that there has been no president since Richard Nixon or — depending on how you judge these things — Harry

We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give back, where brown can stick around, when yella’ will be mella’, when the red man can get ahead, man- and when white

From Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech, via Macsmind:

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,

As noted by Mark Hemingway, National Review:

Soon [Conngressman Jim] Moran stormed out of the building and angrily confronted the police officer looking at his wife and shouting, “Is this the one?” He then got in the officer’s face

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

Since I’ve already given you my thoughts on today’s events, before they even occurred, it’s down to some random tidbits.

• Today marks the end

Every day… EVERY day… is history, once it has passed. Good or bad, different or indifferent, laughable, or lamentable, it’s all the same.  I offer that almost axiomatic point to those pointing to today’s inauguration as some kind of historical

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

Lots going on, today, despite it being a holiday. Let’s get to it.

• It’s about time you did this, Mr. President.  Only one

On Saturday, Brian Douglass opened up over at Pajamas Media:

A little over a year ago, Honda’s luxury Acura brand was criticized for not offering a powerful V8 engine in its flagship sedan. After all, the pundits opined, luxury buyers

From the mailbag:

Okay.  Here’s what I think liberals are, and what I think liberals believe.

Liberals are politically left of center elitists, who want to create ever-growing big governments that only they control, to take care of the nation

I was saddened to learn, this morning of the passing of Bill Faith, by way of Michelle…

He died of a heart attack and had been in ill health.

Bill ran the blog Small Town Veteran and founded/contributed to Old

Barack Obama has an approval rating of eighty-three percent, and the undisputed media darling.   Mrs. Pelosi has an approval rating of twenty percent.   That will not stop Mrs. Pelosi from enacting her agenda, not BO’s, Arthur Bruzzone, San Francisco Examiner