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Obama in 11th hour push for stimulus boondoggle. I was right about Obama putting more boondoggles back in the conference bill. He added in back in the $400 million for STDs. He also removed some tax credits. There's still time to stop it as neither house of Congress has voted on it, and many don't want to vote on it still. They're looking for reasons to vote against it. House passes final stimulus boondoggle with no Republican support. Nancy Pelosi is saying they Congress passed it by working together under the new president. These Democrats lie as easy as they breath. It's just amazing. The same 3 RINOs in the Senate gave Obama the 60 votes he needed to pass this boodoggle. I hope everybody enjoys this recession. It's going to last a lot longer now.

This monstrosity is 1,434 pages, and still contains the new health care bureaucracies with the power to interfere between you and your doctor.

Apparently my Senator Brown is the last hope to stop the boondoggle. I just emailed him. I tried to call him, but it wouldn't allow me to leave a voice mail. I guess Senators can't be bothered to listen to peons like me.

The other thing I've noticed about this whole process is it was like Congress worked for the President. I don't like that at all. Now Pelosi is giving Obama tons of credit for making this happen, like she works for him again. But we know that Obama lost control of the process early on, almost lost the bill because of it, and only put his stamp on it in the conference. I'm probably reading too much into it. This is probably just a Pavlovian move to insure Obama continues to be a rubber stamp for her radical left caucus.

Female Iraqi suicide bomber kills 32.

Hamas carried out campaign of kidnapping, torture, and murder during and after Israeli invasion.

Zimbabwe police arrest opposition party minister before swearing in. That didn't take long. The power sharing deal is a sham to give Mugabe more legitimacy.

New soft drink from cow urine. I hope this is a joke.

Microsoft to open retail stores. I hope this is a joke too.

The Heritage Foundation came to the same conclusion Cato came to yesterday - Obama's stimulus boondoggle will end up costing us over $3 trillion.

Money managers want the government to do nothing. Rewriting contracts scares them. Investing in banks the government has invested in scares them. This is a very insightful quote:

Much of the justification for government intervention comes from the assertion that markets have failed. One money manager scoffed at this idea. “The markets are working fine, but they’re giving people answers that they don’t like, so people cry market failure.” Stocks and bonds low? That’s because investors are afraid of a prolonged depression and continued government interference. House in a jobless region of Michigan worth almost nothing? A place with 50% of its former jobs only needs 50% of its houses.

Cato explains how Obama's stimulus boondoggle will increase the welfare rolls. Paying people to not work will not put them back to work.

Charles Krauthammer celebrates Iraq's slmost forgotten elections.

Despite all the historical evidence and rational analysis that Obama's stimulus boondoggle will fail, Democrats and 3 RINOs who must lose their seats passed it anyway.