The Inauguration: Who is Paying? You Are.

Bret Baier, at Fox  last night:

It is believed President-elect Obama’s inauguration will be the costliest in history — around $50 million — despite the recession. President Bush has declared a state of emergency to free up federal funds

It appears to me , that this business with Bernie Madoff may in fact when a LOT deeper then one scam artist, however talented he may have been at it, or how hated he now supposedly is. When the press

What kind of man is going to be out next Attorney General? You tell me.
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Obama attends conservative dinner party. Really? Funny ting is no ‘conservatives’ were actually there. David Brooks of the NYT? Spare me. George Will? Bill Kristol (one of those oxymoronic ‘Big Government Conservatives’). If he were to have a ‘conservative’ dinner,

Michael F. Cannon, CATO @ Liberty:

Obama made a campaign promise that he will let Americans keep their current health insurance.

BO to George Stephanopolous:

We’ve got to eliminate programs that don’t work, and I’ll give you an example

This would be laughable, were it not so very tragic. Ben Smith:

The president-elect tonight is having dinner with some ideological adversaries: four of the most widely-read conservative columnists.

He’s dining at the Chevy Chase home of Washington Post columnist

WASHINGTON -(AP)- (Timothy Geithner)… President-elect Barack Obama‘s choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the nation’s economic rescue disclosed publicly Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication that

Shannon Love over at Chicago Boyz:

California has followed the grim path of the Great Lakes states.

 

As I wrote before, those states where once the industrial dynamo for the entire Earth, yet they destroyed that enormous economic dominance

You will have seen, by now, my piece on Hillary Clinton and political payoffs here on BitsBlog and On Pajamas Media. Apparently it’s a still developing story, with new players being added all the time. this morning, comes  The

CNN discovers Geraghty’s Law, National Review, 4 August last:

All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.

Jim Acosta et al, CNN:

During the campaign, Obama also told voters, “I don’t believe in running

Near the end of Q&O’s weekly podcast this week, Dale makes the point that FDR was able to get us out of the depression only by means of turning the entire country, essentially, over to war production.

He’s quite

I’ve been telling you all along that Obama will govern from the extreme left. Another example comes from the Washington Post, this morning:

Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick as global warming czar, was listed

The Bits Blog Blog of the Day is Dumpchrisdodd.com.

We are a grass roots group of independent Connecticut residents intent on removing Chris Dodd from the US Senate in 2010.

Hat tip and more:  Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.

With

It’s occurs to me in looking around this morning at the news and commentary that Send to be Ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich would’ve made an ideal candidate to run Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

It also occurs to me, that

We’ve recently watched as Israel and Hamas have slugged it out.  As always, when Israel seeks to defend itself, there have been many saying Israel’s response to Hamas has not been “proportional”. 

What is, in fact, a proportional response?.  Any