….. But I Don’t Have Any Time For:
- “Pelosi, Reid have ‘failed,’ (North Carolina Congressman Heath) Shuler says.” Shuler is referring to “bipartisanship.” But Pelosi and Reid haven’t failed at what’s really important to them.
- Mickey Kaus, a liberal who has been on the welfare reform bandwagon all the way back to before its passage in 1996, has detected a possible back-door return to the no-questions-asked dole (HT Brain Shavings) in the mislabeled “stimulus” package. As usual, this is putting the need to create a dependent Democratic constituency ahead of the well-being of the dependents, and of the economy, which boomed like crazy when millions who had been economic drains became economic contributors.
- Headline — “Prosecutors Want (former DC Mayor and current Councilman Marion) Barry Jailed Over Tax Returns.” Instapundit snark — “I guess a Cabinet slot can’t be far away.”
- “50 De-Stimulating Facts.” The true total is probably more like 500. Maybe 5,000.
- Dan Spencer at Red State — “Obama backs away from war on terror.” I’d saying “backing away, ominously.”
- A state employee in New York says he gets paid for no work. Bright side: At least he’s not proactively inflicting harm.
- Joe Biden revived trickle down, and invented “trickle up,” in his “Middle Class Task Force” speech on January 30 (HT to a caller) — “With this task force, we have a single, highly visible group with one single goal: to raise the living standards of the people who are the backbone of this country — the middle class. Because when they, in fact — their standard is raised, the poor do better. Every — and by the way, the wealthy do better, as well. Everyone does better.” Who knew?
- Must-read, from James Simpson at American Thinker — “Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis.” It goes back to 1960s radicals, and it’s being executed before our very eyes.