budget
Sharron Angle was forced to speak words yesterday, as she has yet to come up with the brilliant idea to have her campaign say she has a throat infection that makes her mute for the next few months. “The United Nations resides on our soil and costs us money. We are — I don’t see [...]
Whoa looks like Rahm Emanuel can’t even quit first. This from the Washington Post tonight: “White House budget director Peter Orszag has decided to leave the Obama administration, likely in the next few weeks, a Democrat familiar with his plans said Monday night. His departure would make him the first member of President Obama’s Cabinet [...]
Among the better perks of being White House budget director is the endless stream of smoking hot professional-class babes fucking you all the time. (That, and modest prescription drug co-pays. You won’t bankrupt me, under-active thyroid!) It’s safe to assume that in his first year on the job, youthful nerdbot genius/blogger Peter Orszag has second-based [...]
The Senate went to work on a Sunday — Hanukkah Sunday, we bet! — and desecrated the grave of the Stillborn Jesus to give hundreds of billions of dollars to themselves and their favorite government programs. The bill okays $447 billion for whatever federal agencies plus $650 billion to keep funding teabagger welfare programs such [...]
DON’T SELL OUT THE SENIORS! Oh man there aren’t many things better than John McCain whining and snarling for several minutes about how he must save the Olds from this black’s health care death program. “Hospice… OF ALL THE THINGS, HOSPICE! Uhh.. some… eight billion dollars!… All of these are cuts in the obligations that [...]
JUST A LITTLE ONE-SENTENCE REMINDER ABOUT THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM FACING AMERICA FOREVER: We award nine million “succinctness points” to beloved CBO director Doug Elmendorf: “The country faces a fundamental disconnect between the services the people expect the government to provide, particularly in the form of benefits for older Americans, and the tax revenues that people [...]
Huzzah for the Golden State, where crazed prisoners will soon wander freely and the poor will wrestle for rat crumbs and all the parks will be closed and all the counties will be robbed of various monies and the GOP threatens to wreck even this rotten deal, because there is still a chance to make [...]
Oh well here is a shocker: Nobody in California had the time, inclination, or detailed budgetary expertise to make a good ruling on the many ballot measures up for approval yesterday, so instead they voted “no” on everything except a legislative salary freeze and then they went to In-n-Out Burger for a double double.
BUDGET PASSES HOUSE, NO GOP VOTES: Surprise surprise, the Impotent Obstructionists voted en masse (that there’s a French socialist term) against the $3.44 trillion federal budget. Did you know they are against federal spending now? [CNN]
Mormon crickets: If you live, say, anywhere in the American West, you know these horrifying animals as a persistent cannibal scourge that can form a phalanx a mile across and two miles long, marching through the desert in search of food. If you are a senator “from” Arizona who grew up in Virginia and spent [...]
How to describe the music playing in the background here? It’s hold music, isn’t it, like what you hear while you wait 20 minutes to speak with a Capital One representative? Or is it what you hear piped in while you’re waiting for your 40-minute “Shiatsu” massage in one of those mall massage chains? Perhaps [...]
Here is the known dingus, Governor Mark Sanford, saying some thing about why he doesn’t want to spend the stimulus money on stimulation. Instead he would like to use it to pay off some loans. President Obama told him no dice, so now Sanford is literally taking food out of the mouths of poor South [...]
