Guess Who Made A Lot Of Bread Off Of The Recent Downgrade?

This is a couple of days old and that means it's old news in the Blog-O-Sphere but Ace recycles a bit now and again and that goes, "I want to talk about it now."

Give you a hint. He speaks with a funny accent. Even though he's a naturalized citizen, he still hates this country. And he has a fondness for Dr. Evil type sweat suits.

Ready?

George Soros.

It's all speculative right now, much the same way OJ is still out there, searching for the real killers.

Mary Katharine Ham Shows How To Save Money: The Washington DC Way

When I presented my case to buy an iPad to my wife, I used this exact same argument. She didn't agree. Anyway, I think she might be part of a secret terrorist sect. I caught her balancing our checkbook just the other day.



Via Insty.

Video: "Eat Your Peas"

An odd turn of phrase popped up today at Obama's presser:

"Eat your peas"



Henry has this about it:

I had no idea that this was a term coined by the late William Saffire in reference to Michael Dukakis…

“Eat Your Peas” Government is a euphemism for the Nanny State, for the government which assumes that the great bulk of citizens are simply too childlike or stupid to be able to be trusted to make their own decisions about… well… anything. William Safire famously referred to 1988 Democrat presidential candidate Michael Dukakis as an Eat Your Peas politician for being such a scold, and the term stuck.

The mask hasn't just slipped but has been removed for some time now.

Video: Bill Whittle Lays Out How Far A Billion Will Go With Today's Government Spending It

A liberal (and clueless, but I repeat myself) buddy of mine keeps saying that the US needs to, "Soak the rich." Bill Whittle demonstrates just how far the money from the rich. Turns out, not very far.

Content warning: There is a small, archived clip of Micheal Moore speaking in a quivering voice.

Video: State Budget Battle Showdowns

From The Heritage Foundation and Reason TV.

Wisconsin. Ohio. Michigan. New Jersey. New York. Budget-battle showdowns are coming soon to a statehouse near you.

Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) has provoked the ire of labor union leaders in Wisconsin, but he’s not alone. Governors across America are confronting budget shortfalls — and looking to public employees to help make up the difference.

Walker’s budget repair bill asks government workers to make a 5.8% pension contribution (about the national average) and 12.6% health insurance contribution (about half the national average). In New Jersey, Republican Gov. Chris Christie proposed that public employees pick up 30 percent of their health care premiums. And in neighboring New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, asked public employees to pay $500 million toward benefits they’re currently receiving for free.

It’s a scenario all too common after years of out-of-control government spending.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Slicing Like A Hammer

More info and background at Hot Air and Ace.

In News Other Than Health Care

Call this unprecedented.

CBS’ Mark Knoller reports that Barack Obama has set a new record for adding to the national debt, smashing the old one set by George Bush:

The latest posting from the Treasury Department shows the National Debt has increased over $2 trillion since President Obama took office.

The debt now stands at $12.6 trillion. On the day Mr. Obama took office it was $10.6 trillion.

President George W. Bush still holds the record for the most debt run up on his watch: $4.9 trillion. But it took him over four years to rack up the first two trillion dollars in debt. It has taken Mr. Obama 421 days.

But the Obama Administration routinely blames the Bush Administration for inheriting a budget surplus and turning it into years of record-breaking deficits and debt — and then leaving it on the doorstep of the new president.

Unfortunately, both CBS and Obama get this one wrong. Deficits don’t come from Presidents. They come from Congress, which passes budgets and sets tax policy. While the White House proposes budgets, Congress actually debates, modifies, and then passes them, usually with some resistance from the President.

Going back to the spending under Bush 43 help to set the catalyst to the Tea Parties. For far too long our government has been acting uncountable to the people. Partly that's the general population's fault as well and not voting incumbents out of office enough. And partly due to the fact that this is how Congress has been making laws for years and it's finally being seen by more and more people who want something different from the status quo.

It's The Spending, Stupid

It's what the Tea Parties has been trying to make everyone aware of. The massive increase in government spending. From Republicans and Democrats alike. From Dan Mitchell of The CATO Institute.



Via Instapundit.

$100 Million? You've got to be kidding me!

As Tapper was trying to point out - this is a joke!

After a video that clearly displays that the POTUS bowed they tried to tell us that he didn't... Fake Staged CiC visits to Iraq. Oh - and of course they told us that the POTUS wasn't even aware that the TEA parties were happening on tax day.

And now after trying to tell us that $8 BILLION in earmarks is only a very very small amount of money they are following up a mere few weeks later with trying to tell us that $100 million in budget cuts is a large amount? They have to be joking!

The Obama administration is really pissing me of with this B.S. They have to think Americans are stupid. REALLY STUPID.