Got this from Tertium Quids. This is REALLY GREAT! What is shocking is that CNBC let this guy keep going.

A glimmer of hope. Watch it before NBC takes it down.

Now that congress has passed and the president has signed the stimulus bill, we are finding out more about the previously unread and voted on contents. So what is the RAT Board provision; a provision giving DC politicians a chance to sidetrack and potentially end internal investigations by quasi-independent inspectors general through the "Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board".

I of course condemn and disavow this cartoon for it's explicit...whatever.

She writes in 'The Daily Beast' that her father could have won if GOP activists 'got' the interwebz:

When I first suggested launching a blog chronicling my experience on my father's campaign for president, I was met with confusion and resistance. A few people even asked me what's a blog. Throughout the campaign, I did everything possible to showcase the fun and interesting parts of the campaign. I posted pictures. I wrote posts. I even included a playlist of my favorite songs. But often, I got the sense that people on the campaign thought I was wasting my time.

I first heard about this from Thomas E Woods Jr in The American Conservative the other day, but
now the Connecticut papers are talking about it. And the local press is helping in hyping it as the right-wing version of the Ned Lamont insurgency in 2006, so this thing must be building momentum.

The ACP preempted the Messiah by over a year, which makes us The Father in the Godhead, I guess?

The geeks fawning over this late-comer is delicious in lulz:

First off is the very fact that with the move the White House is offering an alternative to DC's long love-fest with proprietary technology. Drupal is free, and hey, the economy being what it is, there are tax-payer dollars to be saved on going open source.

Tax-payer dollars to save? Tech President, such zingers should be on the late-night routines, if the heckling heads of late-night weren't such devout followers of the faith.

With apologies to the late Jerry Falwell, it appears the real Moral Majority exists on fiscal and economic matters.

The Next Right links Greg Mankiw excerpting survey results from his textbook that tell us where economists have found a consensus:

Here is the list, together with the percentage of economists who agree:

1.

A ceiling on rents reduces the quantity and quality of housing available. (93%)
2.

Tariffs and import quotas usually reduce general economic welfare. (93%)
3.

Flexible and floating exchange rates offer an effective international monetary arrangement. (90%)
4.

Fiscal policy (e.g., tax cut and/or government expenditure increase) has a significant stimulative impact on a less than fully employed economy. (90%)
5.

Video archives are wonderful things. They can show you precisely what was said in the past and how historical figures said it. John F. Kennedy, though naive and reckless in some foreign and domestic policy pursuits in his short presidency, holds a strong posthumous reputation for sticking to what he thought was right. Perhaps the myth merely exists from the martyrdom complex among some segments of our culture, but there's the chance he also stood for some things.

For instance, on September 25th, 1961, JFK condemned terrorism when speaking to the UN General Assembly.

This is a letter I am sending to the Washington Times (if I can get to their web site). I would like comments rather than just views, please. I would also encourage the members to draft and mail similar letters to their local papers.

I have listened to the debate the stimulus bill for weeks now.  I can see Saul Alinsky's rules being applied every day during the debate, before and after passage of the bill.  What a marvelous slight of hand trick is being played on the American Public.  Mr. Obama is demonizing bankers for lending money to people who want to buy homes when there are more entities involved in the transaction than the buyer and the bank. From Rule for Radicals in paraphrase, “simplify, demonize, repeat”!

Ah, the stimulus bill was an emergency measure, remember. But I bet that most Americans missed the other emergency bill that had no hearings, review or public exposure: The Digital TV Bill. This bill delayed the switch over to the digital over-the-air broadcasting of TV signals. It just so happens, according to the linked article, that the Obama administration’s champion for the digital TV bill was Transition Co-Chair John Podesta, whose brother’s lobbying shop, the Podesta Group, received $2.36 million dollars during the past decade from the National Association of Broadcasters.

Transparency? We don't need no stinking transparency! Why? On November 8, 2006. Nancy Pelosi said she intended "to lead the most honest, the most open and the most ethical Congress in history." See, no further discussion needed.

President Obama presented his plan to save American's mortgages today. Announced by the President is a program to allow government sponsored interest rate reductions and refinancing. Rep. Conyers now has and Senator Durbin a year ago introduced bills to cram down mortgages or reduce interest rates and principle for those in bankruptcy. The bills have allowed bankrupcy judges to make the determination of what is to be done on a case by case basis. What will this do to credit and the issuance mortgages is unknown.