In This Dimension

This is a very cool video. You should watch. It’s only a couple of minutes.

In it deficit spending is expressed visually using the metaphor of a road trip across America. As a President and Congress spend more money they don’t have, the speed of the trip increases. As they spend less, it slows. When they pay-down Debt, the car reverses.

It’s very clever, very good in getting the message across. And excellent at showing those complaining that “Bush did it!” how much farther and faster The Messiah has spent borrowed money than anyone in history.

Some numbers published here:

Government needs funding this year of $2.0 trillion (that includes the federal budget deficit, off-budget spending, and state and local needs). Private industry needs about $0.5 trillion. Part of the funding will come from the country’s savings. Total gross savings (new savings) is estimated to be $1.5 trillion. Assuming all savings is available, a shortfall of $1.0 trillion exists.

This money can come from foreign lending or inflation. But…China, Japan and everyone else are saying, “No, thanks.”

“The Treasury Department reported that foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities fell by $53 billion in December, surpassing the previous record of[…]

Here is an excellent video put together by Naked Emperor News - which I got via Powerline.

In it several of the major Democrat Senate express their views on the “nuclear option,” the threat by the GOP when the GOP was talking about going around the filibuster.

Very educational and well worth watching.

Cynical? Moi?

My how times change….

How can so many people in government not understand how our government WORKS?!?

This is NOT that difficult! Sheesh!

Obama’s new tax bill… uh… tyranny bill… sorry : Healthcare bill… you know - the one he wrote and expects the GOP to pass without comment, amendment or dissent (dissent no longer is patriotic, in case you missed the memo.. now it’s bigoted and racist and done only by the un-educated classes…) - THAT bill…

…seems to be hung-up because the geniuses in the Congress and DNC don’t know to which chamber it should be submitted first so they can break the law and use[…]

Executive pay has become a hot button in the culture wars. The GOP needs to ensure its reaction to the Democrat proposals for the government to cap executive pay is not just a knee-jerk rejection, but is based on ideas other than the status-quo and increasing an unprecedented American divide between the haves and have-less, something that is not good for the body politic.

Bonuses or salaries of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars for bankrupting one’s company or quitting and parachuting out of your contract - or even just doing a good job - are not Conservative ideals. No[…]

Interesting article wrapped around the Winter Olympics.

Reality doesn’t get any more brutal than this.

Question: If ALL countries and cultures based on the Enlightenment fail, is any outcome other than another Dark Ages even possible?

Something to think about….

Mary McCarthy once said of playwright Lillian Hellman that, “every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”

Kinda reminds one of Obama, and what he says, doesn’t it?

Obama - the 21st Century’s Lillian Hellman… whooda thunk?

Look at these pictures. Not photoshopped, released by the White House.

And then watch and listen to this 55-second POTUS / TOTUS statement….

Can America really live through three more years of an infant being allowed to be the most powerful man in the world? A guy who lives inside a bubble of the most enormous conceit I can remember? And I can remember back to LBJ quite well….

This guy is DANGEROUS, very DANGEROUS.

This emperor has NO CLOTHES - and someone needs to tell him.

Three facts to consider:

1. Everything Obama has done has HURT America.
2. NOTHING he has done has HELPED America.
3. If you have children, they[…]

I am not a huge fan of Ann Coulter. She is usually funny but rarely truly insightful and seems to be more in the entertainment business than the serious punditry business.

That said, however, it is VERY hard to argue with this spot-on description of Joe Biden:

“How long are we going to pretend that Joe Biden is not just some drunken Irishman embarrassing Obama?”

You decide.

Why do NV voters insist on sending this idiot to DC? Why does the Senate make him Majority Leader?