Out of control spending

Posted on May 23, 2009 by ChrisA

Washington, you stink…

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Obamacare

Posted on May 23, 2009 by ChrisA

Overstating. Something the Obama administration is good at. Could be one helluva hangover. Liberals, now would be a good time to start slowing down on the the kool-aid consumption.

Yea, I know, it’s all Bush’s fault.

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Another world

Posted on May 23, 2009 by ChrisA

This is not the world Boulder lives in.

By a 75 percent to 13 percent margin, Americans think it is more important to develop new sources of energy than to require auto-makers to produce more fuel-efficient cars.


Follow the link for 4 additional insights into reality outside Boulder. Well, in this case I’m probably being hard on Boulder, as this is outside the world the liberal left & progressives live in.

Hope and change…

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Smart move Nancy

Posted on May 23, 2009 by ChrisA

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she won’t talk any more about her charge that the CIA lied in 2002 about using waterboarding on terrorism suspects.


What took her so long to figure out this was the best course of action? Waiting for the MSM to applaud Pelosi. I’m not sure what for, but I’m sure they will!

I doubt the MSM will be sending people to FactCheck.org!

Enjoy (or not) John Hinderakers take down of Emily Letella Pelosi. He concludes…

Nancy Pelosi is a fool and a liar, which is why she says: never mind. Anyone who saw her self-destructive press conference must wonder, further, whether she requires medication to get through the day and sometimes forgets to take her pills. There is no other obvious explanation for her bizarre performance, for her wild charges, or for her current, pathetic plea to forget the whole thing.

The country, to put it mildly, is not in good hands.


As I’ve said before, nobody can circle the wagons better than the Democrats.

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Inflation

Posted on May 22, 2009 by ChrisA

Charles Prosser of the Federal Reserve bank of Philedelphia is worried about 2.5% inflation in 2011.

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser said prices may rise 2.5 percent in 2011, a rate well above central bankers’ preferred range, and cautioned against complacency on inflation.

“The economy may be at greater risk of inflation than the conventional wisdom indicates,” Plosser said in a speech yesterday in New York. “While inflation expectations appear to remain anchored, we should not become sanguine about our credibility. It can be easily lost.”

The bank president’s inflation forecast for 2011 exceeds central bank officials’ long-run preferred range of 1.7 percent to 2 percent, and contrasts with the concerns of some officials and economists that the economic slump may provoke a broad decline in prices.


Good grief, the danger is it being much higher than that.

added 5/22 @ 22:34

Glenn Reynolds comments on Plossers inflation concerns…

I suspect that he’s grossly underestimating the problem. But I hope I’m wrong.


Yea, no fooling.

added 5/22 @ 23:08

Jim Rogers agrees… or more than likely, Glenn and I agree with Jim.

Quantitative easing is money printing will cause hyper inflation and the collapse of the dollar …
The stock market may hit new lows this year or the next as the current rally has been largely caused by the money printed by central banks and fundamental problems remain unsolved, legendary investor Jim Rogers told CNBC Wednesday
jim Rogers opinions concord with those of renowned bear Marc Faber aka doctor Doom , who told CNBC last week that the rises in share prices did not mean the world was embarking on a path of sustainable economic growth.


Yikes, where’s my happy pill?

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Obama TV

Posted on May 22, 2009 by ChrisA

Hope and change.

It’s perfectly fine, of course, for the White House to put out its own version of events — but is it right to do so by preventing actual reporters from covering something? (Even something like a pickup basketball game).

Do Obama White House officials think their media coverage isn’t flattering enough?

Is the goal to ultimately replace the pesky photographers who film what they want to and not what they’re told to (not to mention the annoying reporters who ask uncomfortable questions about, say, detainee policy and bank bailouts)?

Do you want your OTV? (I’ll bet there are a few takers out there.)


I’ll bet there are too, including the administration at ACORN.

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Bartering for a vasectomy

Posted on May 21, 2009 by ChrisA

Imaginative!

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Surprise: House rejects probe

Posted on May 21, 2009 by ChrisA

What a surprise that the House rejects probe into Pelosi CIA claims. As I’ve said before, there’s no one better at circling the wagons than the Democrats.

Here’s what Dick Cheney had to say…

Former Vice President Dick Cheney also stepped into the debate.

In a speech at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Cheney said Pelosi and other lawmakers had been briefed on the interrogation techniques on “numerous occasions.”

“In my long experience in Washington, few matters have inspired so much contrived indignation and phony moralizing as the interrogation methods applied to a few captured terrorists,” Cheney said.


Hey, Cheney’s popularity is on the rise I suspect it’s higher than Nancy’s.

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Fatigued

Posted on May 21, 2009 by ChrisA

California voters that is, just ask California Speaker of the State Assembly Karen Bass. Here, listen to her yourself…


This is the message that Ms. Bass received…

This is too complicated. We don’t want to vote on it. We are fatigued with the number of elections we’ve had especially special elections and we want you to go back to Sacramento and resolve this.


Gag me, gag me big time. Karen Bass needs to be unemployed (and get her hearing checked). Tomorrow couldn’t be soon enough. Take a vote, wrap it in a bunch of psuedo intellectual gobbly goop and the politicians just don’t get it.

H/T to Gateway pundit (and Instapundit). The comments over at Gateway make for delightful reading, unless you’re a politician that fits the mold of Karen Bass.

Added 5/22 @ 12:10

The San Diego Tribune does a takedown on the politicians “blame the voters” mentality….

We could go on, but our point is clear: It is absurd for any pundit or politician to blame voters for the budget disaster. And it’s a canard that gets in the way of a constructive response to the crisis.

So long as lawmakers think they’re not the problem, the status quo won’t change. And so long as the journalists who cover these politicians accept this analysis, they will be sympathetic to the status quo – even though it’s a status quo that’s absolutely got to go.


Hmmm, what about the local journalists covering the Boulder County Commissioners?

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This guy should be a hero…

Posted on May 21, 2009 by ChrisA

instead Paul Pearson is in court for “electric vehicle conversions”. What a stoopid prosecutor. You really just can’t make this stuff up.

h/t to Instapundit.

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ACORN and the 2010 census

Posted on May 21, 2009 by ChrisA


Who in their right mind would want this corrupt organization involved in the census?

h/t to Michell Malkin. Looks like I should add the word “Obamacorn” as a label!

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti

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Special election landslide

Posted on May 21, 2009 by ChrisA

Darren points out how great yesterdays landslide was in the California special election.

We had a special election yesterday, and the results have astounded me. I’ve never seen anything like this.


How much you wanna bet the politicians still don’t get it. Ahnold is busy getting on Obama’s good side for a bailout.

In addition, Schwarzenegger proposed the federal government should give deficit-laden states like California $5 billion a year for the next three years.

Crazy.

added 22:07

Powerline chimes in as well (they have nice pie charts too!)…

California is in deep trouble. It’s hard to say what comes next, but the common assumption is that California will look to Washington for relief. And why not? When you’re spending funny money, there is little reason to stop. If only you could create wealth by running a printing press, the Obama administration’s policies would make perfect sense. And California’s problems would have an easy solution.


Bold is mine.

Also, I think we as a nation are going to find out that you can’t create wealth by running a prinint press. Can you say “inflation”? I knew you could.

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Boulder: Help out Obama

Posted on May 21, 2009 by ChrisA

I haven’t heard the City volunteering to take a detainee. Just a thought, seems like a logical step that a progressive city like Boulder would or should take.

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California special election results

Posted on May 20, 2009 by ChrisA

Finding the results of this election is not easy. Frustrating. Perhaps it’s because I’m in a hurry?

Below are the results, which I don’t feel like taking the energy to format. You can view them here.

Basically the citizens that voted told their elected Representatives to “walk the plank” and without a pay raise at that!

Proposition Title Yes
Votes % No
Votes %
N 1A “Rainy Day” Budget Stabilization Fund 1,327,400 34.1% 2,555,519 65.9%
N 1B Education Funding. Payment Plan. 1,452,535 37.4% 2,421,906 62.6%
N 1C Lottery Modernization Act 1,368,222 35.4% 2,493,770 64.6%
N 1D Children’s Services Funding 1,324,252 34.2% 2,536,657 65.8%
N 1E Mental Health Funding 1,292,437 33.6% 2,549,361 66.4%
Y 1F Elected Officials Salaries 2,859,122 73.9% 1,010,457 26.1%

Here are links to Instapundit’s roundup of coverage. Megan Mcardle sums it up nicely…

Whoever is to blame, the state was bound to go broke one day, and hey, today’s that day!

Link 1 (Megan)
Line 2 (Media displeased)
Link 3 … they say “No Way!”

Perhaps the media displeasure post explains why finding results of the election is so difficult?

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Our tax dollars at work

Posted on May 20, 2009 by ChrisA

At least it’s only $178,000.

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Our teachers don’t know math

Posted on May 19, 2009 by ChrisA

Doesn’t surprise me a bit, based on my experience with the local school system.

According to state education officials, nearly three-quarters of the people who took the state elementary school teacher’s licensing exam this year failed the new math section.


Of course, Colorado is not Massachusetts, but I expect the results would be quite similar.

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Losing that “hope and change” feeling

Posted on May 17, 2009 by ChrisA

Obama like Bush…

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California tax referendum

Posted on May 17, 2009 by ChrisA

California needs money, or at least their politicians think the the state does. Well, it must be time to to tax the citizens. Unfortunately for the politicians, the citizens get to vote on the taxes… next Tuesday. The only one of the six propositions that appears to be passing is…

The only proposition passing in the 10News poll is Prop. 1F, which would prohibit pay raises for legislature, governor and other elected officials if the state is expected to have a deficit.

It is leading by 10 points, according to the poll.


Can’t imagine a tax revolt in Boulder. Everyone seems to want universal health care and the government to take care of them.

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Democrats: Al Franken isn’t enough

Posted on May 17, 2009 by ChrisA

Thank goodness!

And with contentious fights over health care, climate change and Obama’s first Supreme Court pick ahead, some Democratic senators are now convinced that they can’t wade into some of the hot-button social issues their supporters would like them to pursue.


Hey, the Republican’s and some Dem moderates are doing Obama a favor. What the heck would he do for the next 3 years if he got his agenda through so quickly?

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Boulder City taxes

Posted on May 16, 2009 by ChrisA

The editorial advisory board opines on the City of Boulder’s upcoming tax shortfall. The comments are much better than the adisory boards contributions.

Where is Anne Butterfield to remind us that alternative energy will solve all or our problems?

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