This just about ruined my damned day: The Congressional Budget Office will release new budget forecasts Tuesday that will put next year’s red ink near $500 billion. Sinai’s own forecast put the figure even higher, as high as $535 billion. Absent any serious change in policy, private sector economists say deficits will remain in that …
Republican Stupidity
Over The Top Rhetoric
As much as I like Misha (he is much tamer in person), I simply can’t share these sentiments and find them distasteful: I heard this on the news this morning and had almost popped the cork off of a bottle of sparkly when I heard that it was the U.N. HQ in Baghdad. Oh well, …
Fratricide in California
Via Calpundit, I note that Bill Simon is beginning to air commercials attacking… Arnold Schwarzenegger: Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon (search) will run the first radio ads directly attacking GOP front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger (search) by focusing on the issue his economic advisor raised by suggesting Californians might need to pay higher property taxes. The radio …
Supporting Our Troops?
I am not going to even pretend to know what these jackasses are thinking: The Pentagon wants to cut the pay of its 148,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, who are already contending with guerrilla-style attacks, homesickness and 120- degree-plus heat. Unless Congress and President Bush take quick action when Congress returns after Labor Day, the …
This Is Infuriating
Sometimes I read the newspaper and I wonder if someone in the Bush administration is a Terry McAulife plant doing the Democrat’s bidding: When 21 freed American P.O.W.’s returned home from the Persian Gulf war in March 1991, Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, welcomed them at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. “Every man and …
Fiscal Conservatives, My Ass
Via Andrew Sullivan, this disturbing graph (which he got off the Free Republic): Makes me want to vomit. Remember this the next time the lying Democrats claim Bush is gutting spending.
Republican Bile
Way to help ‘change the tone:’ Just a few blocks from the future site of Bill Clinton $160 million presidential library, a couple of Clinton haters hope to open a museum devoted to mocking his presidency. “As long as he’s talking, we’ll have to be here trying to keep him somewhat honest and stop him …