The Great BS

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results"
- Albert Einstein

That's the only way I can characterize President Obama and Congress's plan to stimulate the economy by spending yet another 800-plus billion dollars when we're already in such a deep hole. So let's look at a few things in this latest 647-page insult to the American people.

1. $1 billion for Amtrack because yea, that works, right? Right?
2. $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts? I'm all for preserving art, but really? I guess the Smithsonian's huge money goes in with this too.
3. $40 million for global warming research. Damn, I thought that was settled.
4. $2.4 billion for carbon capture demonstration projects, whatever the hell that is.
5. $650 million for digital TV conversion coupons? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FREAKING MINDS!?!
6. $4.9 billion to everyone's favorite voter fraud organization ACORN.

Which leads me to paraphrase political comedian Lewis Black, "We'd be better off if they just came to our door and pissed on our foot."

At what point do we say hell no? President Obama, God bless his soul, picked a guy who didn't pay his taxes at one time to head up the treasury. Oliver Stone couldn't come up with that. But what's worse is that Geithner used to lobby, and what's President Obama's big rule? No lobbyists in the administration. And twice now, he's broken his own rule.

But let's get back to this stimlus crap. President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, Sen. Reid, etc. have talked about the urgency to pass this bill quickly, not leaving much time to read it all and dissect it. Let's go to the quote vault again.

"Anytime you pass something that rapidly, you're bound to have mistakes."
- Barack Obama

Obama was talking about the PATRIOT Act being passed too rapidly, and he had a point. But suddenly, that concept doesn't apply anymore.

And finally, let's look at the petition to silence Rush Limbaugh. Silencing the opposition. Sound familiar to some other places?

Again, I didn't want to be so hard on Obama so soon, but he's hit the ground running, and he's making himself look like an idiot, well to me at least.