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TAX AND SPEND:

Reminding everybody that Democrats are frauds, Obama releases a budget that claims to cut the deficit by $1.1 trillion over ten years. Of course his numbers are phony like government's numbers always are, but even using his phony numbers, his budget won't go in the black after ten years. What a joke. The US as we know it won't exist in ten years.

This woman wants Republicans to propose a jobs bill. I'm sure she means another stimulus boondoggle. No thanks. The only thing government can do to create jobs is to cut spending and regulations, and neither party wants to do that.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Charles Krauthammer tries to give credit for the freedom movement in Egypt to George Bush and the neocons. I'm not kidding.

"Today, everyone and his cousin supports the "freedom agenda." Of course, yesterday it was just George W. Bush, Tony Blair and a band of neocons with unusual hypnotic powers who dared challenge the received wisdom of Arab exceptionalism -- the notion that Arabs, as opposed to East Asians, Latin Americans, Europeans and Africans, were uniquely allergic to democracy. Indeed, the left spent the better part of the Bush years excoriating the freedom agenda as either fantasy or yet another sordid example of U.S. imperialism."

Stupid or evil? I'm going with stupid. I think his hubris makes him really believe this. Maybe I'm wrong though. He was strongly against this Egyptian movement at the beginning. As for George Bush spreading democracy, if George Bush had wanted democracy in the Middle East, he could have forced Mubarak's resignation without invading Egypt. He could have done the same in Tunisia and Algeria. He could have spread democracy all through the Middle East without killing anybody simply by withdrawing US support for dictators. He didn't. All he wanted to do was oust an anti-American dictator and install a government in Iraq that would be beholden to the US ruling class, and he didn't care how many Iraqis, Americans and others he killed in the process. And the idea that invading Iraq inspired the Egyptian revolution is a crock. It turns reality upside down. The revolutionaries in Egypt know that the American ruling class was responsible for Mubarak.

Most social revolutions end badly.

The cabinet ministers of the Palestinian Authority to resign. Another Middle East shake-up.

POLITICS:

Reminding everybody that Republicans are frauds, not one candidate other than Ron Paul mentioned Egypt at CPAC. Paul wins CPAC straw poll, but is branded a loser by the establishment press. It's one thing to say his message won't win many votes - that may or may not turn out to be the case - but it's obviously dishonest to claim that because he won, and by a large margin, he lost.