Congress Delays Digital TV, Or Does It?

Still getting your televison over the air and haven’t yet got your converter box?    Congress is claiming to have done you a favor, MSNBC:

The house voted Wednesday to delay the transition to digital T.V. The nationwide switch that

From the New York Slimes:

Mr. Obama called Ms. Collins and Mr. Specter, as well as Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, another Republican expected to support the deal, to acknowledge they were acting against pressure from their party

From Swamp, Micheal Steele, video:

Text:

“This is Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Democrats have controlled both branches of government for less than a month. And you have to wonder if all that power has gone

Bruce McQuain, this morning at Q&Q:

Well there’s an agreement on the Generational Theft Act of 2009.  The squishy middle has capitulated.

As expected, just enough Republicans have signed on to ensure its passage.  Names?

Specter for one:

Mrs. Pelosi on the Pelosi-Reid-Obama Debt bill:

“Washington seems consumed in the process argument of bipartisanship, when the rest of the country says they need this “

Whereas back in the real world, support for Pelosi detb plan craters:

But

Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe  asks:

Does anyone have a right to tell anyone else how many kids to have? Can only people who can afford them bear children? Do you need a husband to have a baby? These are questions

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• It is jolly well amazing to me that Obama should be resorting to the politics of fear so quickly.  There’s a simple reason

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post:

After Obama’s miraculous 2008 presidential campaign, it was clear that at some point the magical mystery tour would have to end. The nation would rub its eyes and begin to emerge from its reverie. The

Explain why this is a good bill. I double dog dare you. And if you can’t or won’t, explain why I shouldn’t be siding with the GOP in opposition, despite how crazy they are

John Cole, Balloon Juice, via James

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Coming to you today, direct from the frozen tundra of western NY, the very heart of the chruch of Global warming.

• This Global

All in all, after reading the list of boondoggle, pork-laden goodies in that so-called stimulus bill, I must conclude that there aren’t two people up there who have ever balanced a checkbook or paid off a credit card. Why, to

Jay Newton-Small, Time, on the coming  Beltway cage fight, Obama-Pelosi:

For all his high-minded talk of bipartisanship and common purpose, Barack Obama was always aware that Republicans in Congress weren’t going to simply set aside their philosophical differences and

Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, warns of the coming meltdown of Barack Obama:

If [Barack Obama] doesn’t quit the messianic style and perpetual campaign mode, and begin humbly governing, then he will devolve into Carterism-angry that the once-fawning press

Making the rounds on email just now:

After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to
Target. Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out. Equally unfortunate,

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This is the “Under The Bus” edition.

• What about the rest? With all the activity on Obama’s appointees and taxes, it shouldn’t shock