Fuel for Thought

Statement from the Institute for Energy Reserach:

“Less than 24 hours ago, the president urged Americans to support his plan to spend over $700 billion in taxpayer dollars to fight our economic downturn. Meanwhile, the Department of Interior this

Walt Minnick, Idaho First, has a better alternative to the Pelosi/Reid/Obama Porlulus bill,  DC Examiner:

While President Barack Obama goes on the road to shore up slipping popular support for the $1 trillion stimulus porkfest that he ordered

Kate, Small Dead Animals, asks,”Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?, video:

Evidentlly according to Bruce McQuain, Q and O, what Barack Obama can not do is to tell the truth.  BO in  Elkhart, Indiana, today:

So – so

So what have we discovered of the nebulous administration of one Barack Obama?   Two things, one, Obama isn’t very good at governing and doesn’t like it ; two BO likes to campaign.   So with the fate of Porkulus hanging in

Mrs. Pelosi as Dubya is a skirt, John W. Lillpop, Post Chronicle:

Nancy Pelosi appears to be walking in W.’s steps when it comes to being inarticulate and a liability to her party.

For example, Nancy Pelosi’s garbled

Show me a person who says he is not greedy, and I show you either a fool or a liar.   Milton Friedman takes Phil Donohue to the woodshed, video:

Hat tips: Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit and Jack Dunphy, Patterico Pontifications.

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:

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“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:

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

Fox News is reporting some democrats want to “gut” the Pelosi-Reid-Obama debt bill:

Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson, who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Republicans and Democrats alike want to gut the nearly $900 billion program of

I’ve been teling you since… well, forever, that FDR made things worse not better…  So  along comes Harold Cole and Lee Ohanian at The Wall Street Journal this morning:

The New Deal is widely perceived to have ended the Great

The reason you’re not hearing much from Davos is that the building consensus among western political and business leaders makes Barack Obama look like a fool. Financial experts from all over the globe are standing up at the Davos economic

Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Barack Obama; 46% voted for John McCain, and 1% voted for wackos. Give that 1% to President Obama. Let’s say the vote was 54% to 46%. As a way to bring the country