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The Senate has voted to use revenues from cap-and-trade auctions to pay for higher gas and electricity prices .. I assume this will be limited to “poor” people.

Rick Wagoner got the boot from Obama in order to “start a new vision” .. why didn’t the UAW’s Ron Gettelfinger get “a new start” as well?

More than half of Americans do not support Obama’s plan to bail out troubled banks.

Lawmakers in Washington want to end the travel ban to Cuba. This one won’t go down without a fight.

Did you really think that every single penny of this economic stimulus package was actually going to be used to stimulate the economy and not wasted on pork projects?

Here are some more details of Obama Motor’s government guarantee. Speaking of which, someone has created a mock phone call to the White House’s auto warrantee department.

What are politicians having the taxpayers cough up the cash for their car payments? Needless to say, they aren’t worried about your wallets.

Mark Steyn quickly highlights what happens when people slip from government “investing” to government control.

Here’s an article from Forbes magazine explaining how our government has gone wild.

Just what we need .. air pollution monitors around our government schools. It’s the kid’s minds that are being polluted, not their lungs.

Residents in Washington are having to smuggle dishwashing detergent from Idaho because of local laws which ban detergents that actually work .. because of their effect on the environment.

Did you know that the taxpayers are funding government education experiments like teaching 4th and 5th graders in Baltimore City about a career in transportation technology?

What happens when a school in Canada installs an illegal cellphone jammer?

A redneck DUI.

All articles were obtained from boortz.com

Jonah Goldberg on never letting a good crisis go to waste.

In 2008, US household wealth fell by over $11 trillion. Here’s an idea. These people haven’t been punished enough. Let’s increase their taxes and let the government take whatever they have left.

The CEO of Blackstone says that 45% of the world’s wealth has been destroyed by this financial crisis.

The honeymoon is fading quickly .. which means that the Obama administration has to work even faster to get its agenda passed before it’s too late.

Barack Obama’s tax policies are going to turn Silicon Valley into a ghost town. How is that? By increasing taxes on the achievers. Let’s kill innovation for the sake of government power.

The Senate still has to have its way with this “cramdown bill” and it looks like we may have a vote on it this month. Look for the interest rates on new mortgages to go up as soon as these ignoranuses pass this thing.

Some politicians, including Republicans, are actually starting to feel sorry for Timothy Geithner. No way. The guy is a tax cheat - a willful and conscious tax cheat. If he can’t handle the job, find someone who can.

Obama’s third pick for Deputy Treasury Secretary has officially withdrawn his name from the candidate pool. That’s his third pick in just one week, by the way.

Freddie Mac is going to tap into another $30.8 billion in taxpayer dollars.

Some governors like Rick Perry of Texas rejected some of the federal stimulus money for unemployment because it would require a change in the state’s definition of unemployment.

Obama is going to be the first president since Grover Cleveland to miss the annual Gridiron Dinner. Not much of a jock sniffer, I guess. Maybe if they could just make hammering high-achievers a sport. Wait! It already is.

Utah’s solution to budget woes .. put a tax on caffeine. I know it’s hard to believe, but I drink decaf.

What would Bernie Madoff’s punishment be if he lived in countries without our judicial system? I rather like the idea of hanging him by his …….. oh hell, never mind.

How come we never heard about this guy trying to build a dirty bomb in Maine last year?

Atlas Shrugged updated for the financial crisis? WTH?

Here’s a study that Barack Obama and the Democrats should pay attention to .. this union card check bill will cost the US economy 600,000 jobs in 2010. Now that sounds like economic stimulus to me.

Yesterday, the White House decided that no cameras would be allowed to film Joe Biden’s address to the AFL-CIO. That’s probably because Joe announced that this card check bill is his #1 legislative priority.

Here we go yet again .. tax cheat Timothy Geithner claiming that Obama’s tax plans will restore “fairness”, rather than benefiting the people who are “fortunate” to be wealthy.

The Cato Institute explains how Obama’s soak-the-rich plan will ultimately hurt the middle class. Obama knows this .. but remember, his tax plans are based on “fairness” rather than economics.

Did you know that Obama’s “remarkably fiscally responsible” budget will add almost $4 trillion to the national debt over the next four years?

Despite what the government educated masses may feel, the stock market doesn’t seem too fond of Barack Obama and his administration.

The Senate votes this morning on cloture for this omnibus bill filled with 9,000 earmarks. And Nancy Pelosi insists that no changes be made to the bill. It’s either take it or leave it.

No, this is not a newsflash from the campaign trail: Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his teleprompter.

Matt Towery explains how government is becoming a “royal class.” Teddy Kennedy being knighted is just the beginning.

Slobbering Barney Frank wants the government to seek criminal and civil penalties on financial actors that fueled this current economic crisis.

This is welcomed news … Education Secretary Arne Duncan says that the DC voucher program should stay in place. Sadly, this only applies to the DC voucher program and not for vouchers as a whole.

What’s this? Target is going to open 27 new stores? They must have gotten the money to provide these jobs from poor people.

The big news of the day … Barack Obama is going gray. That didn’t take long.

The Prime Minister of Great Britain wants to outlaw tax havens for all those evil rich people who hide their money overseas to avoid taxes. Pass all the laws you want my friend, the high-achievers will always find a way. It’s a matter of survival.

Democrats in the Senate want the Republicans to join them in creating a “Truth Commission” to investigate the Bush administration’s supposed abuse of power.

Obama’s tax hikes are meeting opposition from … Democrats?

The chairman of the FDIC says that the fund used to protect consumer deposits could soon dry up. Wonderful, just wonderful.

A Russian general has taken a page from the “911 was an inside job” crowd .. saying that the United States planned the satellite collision that happened in early February. Too much fermented potato juice, I suspect.

A bill currently in the House Energy and Commerce Committee would place tobacco under control of the Food and Drug Administration. Uh oh. Something else I can agree on? What a day!

Looks like Obama’s plans for energy-independence have run into a little snag … in New York, green projects are tied up in red tape because their projects will endanger bats, birds and other wildlife.

Can anybody please tell me why this news about Google giving out million dollar bonuses is a big deal? The company managed to turn in a profit, even in this economy. Darn right they should be giving bonuses. I have family members working for Google. Maybe I can float a loan.

Is anyone going to call out the AFL-CIO executives for having their winter meeting at a luxury resort in Miami? No Democrat, that’s for sure. I would like to know how many of them flew down there on a private jet.

Michelle Malkin keeps us updated on where your stimulus money is being spent .. on bike paths, sidewalks and beautification projects! Sounds like economic stimulus to me.

Apparently some Republicans in Missouri have downed the Obama birth certificate kool-aid. They have proposed a “voter bill of rights” to take care of any future situations.

Do you qualify for Barack Obama’s foreclosure prevention plan? The Washington Post has created a little interactive survey to find out.

Can listening to sexually aggressive lyrics prompt teenagers to have sex at an earlier age? Yeah … like they actually need prompting.

Here’s a classy 21-year-old woman who punched a flight attendant on a flight leaving from Tampa.

All articles were obtained from boortz.com

Russia says that it does not want to haggle over this missile defense shield and Iranian nuclear plans. This is Putin telling Obama “We’re calling the shots here.”

Here’s a real shocker .. Tim Geithner said that stabilizing the financial system is probably going to cost more than the original $700 billion plan.

Tomorrow the Congress is going to vote on this mortgage “cramdown” bill.

Does anybody find this a little humorous? Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is going to set rules to limit the ability of international companies to avoid U.S. taxes.

Dick Morris explains how Obama and the Democrats are waging a war on prosperity.

Yesterday the Senate voted to keep all of their 8,500 earmarks in the omnibus spending bill.

The next looming $1 trillion bailout? Government pension plans.

Harry Reid say that Senate Republicans want Barack Obama to fail.

Do you know the truth about Obama’s scary Hoover-style taxhikes? With his new energy taxes, Obama is going to be raising taxes on everyone .. not just those filthy, evil rich people making over $250,000 a year.

Victor Davis Hanson says that after just five weeks, we can already tell what the next four years are going to look like.

Tony Blankley has a new bumper sticker slogan for ya .. Obama lied; the economy died.

“Creative tension.” That is how Henry Waxman describes the future of our healthcare system that includes both private and government insurers.

Jim Cramer said that “this is the greatest wealth destruction I’ve seen by a President.” The White House’s response was to say that Jim Cramer’s opinions are “geared to a very small audience.”

When you are trying to drive away the urban youth from your local mall .. Barry Manilow is the ticket.

A woman in Niagara Falls put on a sign on her private property saying “I rent three bedrooms [at her address to] white people Niagara Falls.” The police weren’t too happy about this one.

Someone has created a “bail me out” application for the iPhone where you can just press a button and magically be free of responsibility.

All articles were obtained from boortz.com

Al Gore won’t be testifying in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week … because there is going to be a snow storm. Al Gore and global warming are fast becoming a universally recognized joke.

The White House is backing away from Nancy Pelosi’s little plan to include contraceptives in the stimulus bill. Please don’t tell me you’re surprised. Margaret Sanger is spinning in her grave.

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell says that America is heading towards a looming entitlement crisis. Gee ya think? I wonder what his first clue was.

Is Obama really going to challenge Ted Kennedy in his opposition to the first offshore wind farm off of Cape Cod?

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has appointed a special envoy for climate change. Was it OwlGore?

Obama is going to allow states to set their own standards for tailpipe emissions. California is ecstatic. The next step .. tax the emissions!

And Senator Carl Levin has already spoken up against the plan, saying that it discriminates against U.S.-made vehicles of the same efficiency as the imports.

Carl Levin had a busy day yesterday … he also spoke out against the hypocrisy of CitiBank buying a new jet, while the automakers are being made to sell theirs.

Obama pledges to seek a worldwide ban on weapons in space. Pandering.

California is a mess. Schwarzenegger wants to tax golf courses, veterinarians, auto mechanics and amusement parks. What a miserable failure the Governator has been.

Tax rate reductions are more effective as an economic stimulus than rebates. This from the Heritage Foundation. Democrats don’t want you to read this.

Latest Rasmussen polls show that 59% of Americans are worried that Congress and President Obama are going to increase government spending too much in the next two years. Well duh! What did you expect when you voted these people into office? A bit late to worry about that, don’t you think?

New GAO estimates of state and local government deficits are not looking good at all.

Something good has come from state budget deficits .. lawmakers in Connecticut are considering a bill that would punish low-level marijuana users with a fine, instead of a criminal charge, because it costs the taxpayers too much money.

It’s about time … the state of New Jersey is considering requiring high school seniors to take Finance 101.

Hospitals in Great Britain are taking meat off their menus in order to decrease their carbon footprint and fight global warming. Let us know how that works out for ya.

Hillary Clinton is pledging that the Obama administration is going to do more to fight hunger. What hunger?

What’s the mature way to handle things when Bernard Madoff loses your entire trust fund? Toilet paper his mansion.

Nobody should be behind the wheel while talking on a cell phone. Especially teenagers. But children talking on cell phones while crossing the street is another hazard, according to studies.

When the economy is down .. reach for a Big Mac. That’s what a lot of Americans seem to be doing.

Government waste isn’t exclusive to the United States. Take China, for example, which used earthquake donation funds to buy luxury cars for government officials

Hey, look who is now in the comics business: The Truth About Evolution - Somebody’s Making A Monkey Out Of You.

All articles were obtained from boortz.com