Bye Bye Bailout, for Now (Addendum And Bump)

The Wall Street Journal:

WASHINGTON — A frantic, last-ditch attempt to forge a relief package for the auto industry collapsed in the U.S. Senate, dealing a giant blow to the immediate hopes of the Big Three.

Senate Majority Leader Harry

Hat tip:  Stephen Green, Vodka Pundit.

“Cold Cash” Jefferson left out in the cold.

When Mrs. Pelosi become Speaker of the House, she vowed to “drain the swamp.”    Rather than draining her swamp, Mrs. Pelosi has allowed her swamp to become even more infested.   Well yesterday,

The open question is just how bleeding stupid is BO, a/k/a  Barack Obama.  It is hard to say.   However there appears to be an unlimited depth to BO’s sheer stupidity.   Mike Allen and Jonathan Martin, Politico, reports on what

The one on the vision thing:

“Understand where the vision for change comes from, first and foremost,” he told reporters at his third press conference in as many days. “It comes from me. That’s my job, is to provide a

Is Barack Obaam(BO) planning an economic stimulus package or just of pay-off to campaign donors?   From Julie Hirschfield Davis, Associated Press:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats and President-elect Barack Obama are laying the groundwork for quick enactment in January

In this morning’s Financial Times:

The US government rode to the rescue of Citigroup, entering an agreement to guarantee up to $306bn in problematic assets and inject $20bn in capital to restore confidence in a bank that defines the

A.J Strata, Strata-Sphere, compares Barack Obama(BO) to a rock,  and makes the rock seem smart.  At least a rock is not stupid enough to believe in anthropogenic global warming.   The sane can not be said of BO:

What kind

What a businessman, turned poltician, knows that leftards like Dirty Harry Reid and Mrs. Pelosi don’t, on what needs be done to fix Detroit, via Ace:

First, their huge disadvantage in costs relative to foreign brands must be eliminated.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting just now:

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed insider trading charges against Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, for allegedly dumping shares in Mamma.com upon learning it was raising money in

McQ over at Q&O points up a source of power we haven’t been using as much as we should; Tidal forces.

With 12,383 miles of US coastline, this seems like a technology which would make sense for both development and

McQ, Q and O, is attributing this remark to Jim Moron Moran, democrat, Virginia(VA-8):

We have been guided by a Republican administration who believes in the simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep

As Yogi Berra would say:  When you come to a fork in the road, you take it.   Well President elect BO has come to a fork in the road.

Obama campaigned on a promise to redistribute the wealth.  Obama campaign

Bit rambled:

Sis also notes the meme going around about how RFK JR is being offered EPA. And watch closely, this fight involving Dingle, Pelosi and Waxman. It’s taking on envro-whack-job overtones, too. I’m telling you gang, we’re

You have to wonder about the economic literacy of our nation when I can hear more economic sense in Greek dinner than I do coming from majority party.

The party of Mes. Pelosi is talking about yet another “economic stimulus