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House Republicans to offer bill focusing on tax cuts to compete with Obama's stimulus boondoggle, but Obama's bill is expected to pass in a party line vote. If the Republicans had had this kind of principles when they were in power, they would still be in power. The House vote is today. The House debated the biggest spending bill in history for a week and a half. Why do we tolerate these aristocrats, let alone keep re-electing them? Knowing that the people do not want this stimulus boondoggle to pass and will mount a resistance once they learn of it, Obama says there's not a "moment to spare". Nothing like alarmism to incite panic. House passes $819 billion stimulus boondoggle 244 - 188. No Republicans voted for the bill. Maybe Republicans finally got their act together, but it's too little, too late. Obama learned he can't bribe Republicans with candlelight dinners. He can't get away with empty symbolic gestures of bipartisanism. He'll have to moderate his radical agenda to get any Republican support.

Charts show that the vast majority of the money Obama took from taxpayers to pay for this bill won't be spent until 2010 and beyond. That's no stimulus. That's a historic $819 billion in earmarks to payoff Democrat special interests. Cato explains that the bill is targeted at economic segments with low unemployment, not high unemployment.

Thomas Sowell has a great quote that shows the Democrats don't care about economic stimulus:

Using long, drawn-out processes to put money into circulation to meet an emergency is like mailing a letter to the fire department to tell them that your house is on fire.

If you cut taxes tomorrow, people would have more money in their next paycheck, and it would probably be spent by the time they got that paycheck, through increased credit card purchases beforehand.

And for those people who in a knee-jerk reaction will say Bush used alarmism about terrorism to get stuff passed, I just remind them that it really is alarming when terrorists are flying planes into our buildings and trying to attack us again.

Russia halts deployment of missiles in Baltic.

Sensing American weakness and playing us for the fools we are, Iranian President Ahmadinejad seeks apology from the US. It didn't take the Iranians long to start capitalizing on the opportunity presented by Obama's wimpiness.

Is Obama setting the stage for the Fairness Doctrine with his attacks on Rush Limbaugh?

In regions of the UK, government is responsible for 70 percent of the economy. And in our breakneck race to the left, we're following right behind.

The Heritage Foundation report explains why government spending, and Obama's big-spending boondoggle, won't stimulate the economy, and it offers a proven alternative. Funny how the Democrats' plan has ballooned from $300 billion when this was written on 11/12 to $900 billion today.

Because of government interference in the economy, the economy continues to tank. But it's instructive to remember how we got stuck in the Great Depression. I can't find the darn graph right now, but the recession of 1929 was reasonably short. The private sector quickly overcame the damage that government had caused and began to recover. Hoover's and FDR's policies that drove the country into a several year long secondary depression in the 30s. But the private sector again overcame the damage caused by government, and started to recover. Then FDR's policies drove the country back into a tertiary depression in the late 30s. So the Great Depression was really a recession/recovery/depression/recovery/depression/war process. The first order effect was the most minor, and that's what we're experiencing now. The secondary effects caused by big government interference in response to the initial recession caused the most damage. But as the privates sector begins to recover, like it will this year, the policies of Bush and Obama, like the policies of Hoover and FDR are going to create a secondary recession. In our case though, the Fed's policies will hide the recession behind rapid inflation similar to 70s style stagflation, but probably worse.

Graphs show that our current recession is milder than the median of recessions since WWII.

Even though ACORN is again under investigation for massive voter fraud, Democrats are creating a $4+ billion slush fund for ACORN and other organizations to dip into.

Democrats' stimulus boondoggles are over $1 trillion when you include the interest. But that isn't stopping Obama from considering a new multi-hundred billion TARP program.

PBS commentator claims Obama is the "first true American" president. Funded by our tax dollars.

School board drops Veterans Day as holiday because students don't know what it's for. I guess teaching the students never crossed their minds.

Cyberspace creating amoral generation of teens. I thought Bill Clinton did that.

62 percent of professors are liberal and 19 conservative. Guess what that means for college students.

Some panhandlers making $400 per day. More power to them. I don't have any problem with the panhandlers. It's the people giving them money that are stupid. If you want to help the homeless, find a charity that helps the homeless get back to work and become productive citizens. Don't give them a handout or you're just as bad as government welfare programs.

Cartoonists found it easy to lampoon Bush's looks but not Obama's. What a bunch of crap. They love showing Bush with big ears even though Bush doesn't have big ears, but they don't want to lampoon Obama's huge ears? What about his sticklike arms and legs? This is either liberals who don't want to lampoon their messiah or others who don't want to be called racists for lampooning Obama.

Despite the winter storm that dumped 10 inches of snow at my house, Al Gore tells the Senate that economic problems shouldn't stop the US from oppressive and costly policies to fight global warming. Al Gore is like a comedy show. I can just imagine one of those British sitcoms lampooning a Gore-like figure as he preaches about the dangers of global warming to people buried in snow drifts or running from advancing glaciers. He's using the same technique Obama is. He knows most Americans have seen through is scam, so he's using alarmism to force his agenda through Congress before the opportunity completely disappears. Al Gore changed the name again. Originally it was global warming, but when the planet started cooling, he changed it to climate change. Now that climate change isn't getting it done, he changed it to climate crisis. Prosecute this fraud and put him in prison where he can't hurt anybody again.

The danger from Al Gore isn't over yet as the EU calls for a global carbon market. That's another push for a world government. Between the global warming fraud and this financial crisis created by government aristocrats, the government aristocrats think they can further develop their one world government dreams.

Government subsidies have degraded the value of college a education.

Reason advances a damning indictment of the big-spending, big-regulating, incompetent big-government Bush administration. They went easy on him.

Obama refuses to acknowledge the real costs of his green collor plans.

Reason explains that Obama's election enforces the conservative positions on race.

This is the consequences of socialized medicine - Britain is the sickest country in Europe with worst rates of obesity and teen pregnancy. This is what happens when somebody pays the bills. Don't worry about getting pregnant. Somebody else will pay for the abortion. Don't worry about getting obese. Somebody else will pay the health care costs. Don't worry about smoking. Somebody else will pay for it. Third party payer systems encourage people to ignore prevention because somebody else will always pay for the cure. Until government starts rationing care and letting people die. This is the model liberals want to force on Americans.

Instead of cutting mail service to 5 days a week, we should just privatize the mail service.