As a business owner, tax payer and elected official, I freely admit that I am VERY skeptical when the government warns me about anything. Government typically causes more problems than they solve, and it’s in their own best interests (power,

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davidl on September 8th, 2009

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble

Denial is not a river in Egypt,  from Rachel Martin and Sunlen Miller, ABC News:

Report: President Obama said that on Labor Day it’s time to “reaffirm” the nation’s commitment to rebuild, and declared that the stimulus plan

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davidl on August 29th, 2009

How much to you want to bet that this what Eric really wants to be driving?  From Ben Dobbin, the Associated Press:

AVON, N.Y. — After an hour of shunting rail cars aside, a 1964-vintage locomotive operated by Tim “Brown

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2009

I warned earlier today that the damage to our country from the Democrats would be downright staggering. Robert Zubrin, writing in Roll Call today, makes the point there, amply:

The United States emits about 9 billion tons of CO2

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Eric Florack on June 29th, 2009

Bernie Madoff hit the jackpot at sentencing, today… getting the maximum 150 years. The Guardian:

The disgraced financier Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to the maximum 150 years in prison for masterminding a $65bn (£38bn) fraud that wrecked the

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Eric Florack on June 16th, 2009

Aaron Task over at Yahoo’s tech Ticker makes a point I’ve made here at BitsBlog several times:

Before this discussion goes any further, Jeff Matthews of Ram Partners, wants you (and presumably policymakers) to remember this: “The epicenter of the

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davidl on June 15th, 2009

A follow-up of Eric’s  Ramble:

Never Mind: So now, Joe Biden is willing to admit that everyone guessed wrong on how the stimulus was going to work out. well, no, not everyone, Joe.

Just Democrats. as specifically, those associated

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Eric Florack on June 9th, 2009

Lee Cary over at American Thinker:

In a one sentence order, Justice Ginsburg left open the possibility that the SCOTUS may scotch the Chrysler-Fiat deal that gives 29 cents on the dollar to the Indiana Fund and other Chrysler

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davidl on June 7th, 2009

Represenatatives Steny Hoyer,  Chris Van Hollen and Daniel Maffei have sent a letter to the one:

Dear President Obama:

We are writing to express our concerns about General Motors’ and Chrysler’s decision to close profitable automobile dealerships across the country,

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Eric Florack on May 20th, 2009

Glenn Reynolds, today:

AT CNBC, SKEPTICISM ON BIG BANKS:

 

Mega institutions (financial institutions and insurance companies come to mind) that become TOO BIG TO MANAGE are likely to become TOO BIG TO FAIL.

It is impossible for top management

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davidl on May 2nd, 2009

In constitutional republic, even the president has to follow the rules.   Not in a Chicago style banana republic.    In Obamaland rules are for for the little people and the rules are what Obama says they are, Scott, Powerline:

The

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davidl on April 30th, 2009

Wanna know something Mr. President, there some six billion people in the World.   Not all of them like me.  Sobeit.

Mr. President, you mock Bush’s economy, but unlike yours, the Bush economy actually worked:

Obama Recession

Your recovery plan has failed.

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Eric Florack on April 14th, 2009

Boortz makes a point I’ve made before about this supposed ‘green stimulus’. It’s a contradiction in terms:

But here are the ugly facts … every “green job” that was funded by the Spanish government caused the loss of 2.2 regular

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davidl on April 1st, 2009

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
I tend to let Eric to the long and intense. This morning, I make an exception.

 Bit rambled:

The other shoe: I made mention in a Ramble last August of Jay Mariotti leaving his job in the traditional press.

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davidl on April 1st, 2009

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‘Really the government’s “Path to Viability” for the car companies sounds like the rough draft of a five-year industrial plan from the Soviet Union’

Jennifer Rubin, Commentary Magazine.

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