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

As a candidate Barack Obama created a terrible box for himseslf.  He could placate his leftard base and abandon an effective war on terror, or he could placate his base, and thus imperil both the nation’s safety and his own

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama‘s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.

Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health

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

Sorry about that Dan

George W Bush, 2002 State of the Union:

This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world. States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to

I wrote some weeks ago at Pajamas Media:

For all the vitriol that has been coming from the left, and specifically out of President Obama’s mouth during the campaign, there’s a difference in tone coming out of the Obama camp

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

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