If you had $15.6 septillion and 94 cents in your account, would you save the world from the economic crisis or build a Death Star, destroy the world, and move on to invade the galaxy?

And if the construction firm set up shop in Connecticut, Chris Dodd could probably have gotten the funds appropriated!

Yes, that’s a whooping 1.4 trillion times the current US Debt. Or a sightly more meaningful number: 124 trillion years of war in Iraq.

Limbaugh has recently added an “Obama’s teleprompter told him to say…” facet to his on-air schtick.  Just a few moments ago he revealed that Obama’s teleprompter even has its own blog!

Go meet ‘TOTUS‘ and see what he has to say.

Here is Barak Obama’s Teleprompter’s Blog homepage – http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/.

Mrs. Clinton was over in Geneva today meeting with the Soviets…er, I mean Russians.  As a symbol of The Admnistration’s desire to begin anew our relationship with them, she used a prop and tactic that would embarrass the most worthless political hack: she gave the Soviet…I mean Russian (sorry I keep making that mistake) Foreign Minister a plastic Office-Depot-Easy-Button-

Credit : http://www.apfn.org

Congress just passed a $700 billion “stimulus” package less than two weeks ago.

Today, the headlines read that the House just passed a $410 billion spending bill and that Obama is preparing a $634 billion health care fund.  All of this on top of Obama’s bold statement that he’ll cut the deficit in half by 2013.

How?

Well, you obviously know how.  What needs to be re-focused is Obama’s historical position on the concept of taxes, socialsim, and the purpose of government in general.  And we can get that from Dreams of My Father.  Allow me to point you to a posting from National Review…from AUGUST 2008 (i.e., plenty of time before the election to wake the voting public up).  I also encourage you to read the Investors Business Daily article this post references.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGZiMGZlNGRiOWJjYzE5OTEwMWEwZWZhOTQzZjVjMTY=

“…high taxes are morally and practically good, if the government then uses them to provide for the people. How high should the tax rates be?  ”Theoretically,” he wrote, “there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.”  Yes, you read it: a 100% tax rate is fine.  Obama Sr. continued, ” It is a fallacy to say there is a limit (to tax rates), and it is a fallacy to rely mainly on individual free enterprise to get the savings.”

The real betrayal of Specter, Collins, and Snowe

posted at 11:15 am on February 16, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

I have one last thought on the Porkulus events from last week.  This weekend, Mitch and I took a lot of calls on the passage of Porkulus, with many demanding some retribution for Senators Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins.  Usually, both Mitch and I advise against revenge on defector votes.  We both agree that a big-tent party has to have room for some disagreement, and the only way to get to a majority again in Congress is to build a large enough coalition to take charge.  Purity drives lower our numbers and our ability to influence policy.

This, however, is a different matter.  First, the Republicans need to re-establish credibility as the party of fiscal responsibility, and supporting Porkulus is antithetical to that effort.  No matter how big a tent the Republicans need to pitch, they still need to stand for core values — and among them should be fiscal responsibility and smaller government for greater individual liberty.  Porkulus fails on both counts, which is why the House GOP maintained a solid wall of opposition to it.  Specter, Snowe, and Collins apparently don’t share those values.

But in this case, the betrayal goes beyond core values.  Despite Barack Obama’s demagoguery earlier in the week, many Republicans wanted a big stimulus package to come out of Congress as quickly as possible.  Given the chance, Republican partnership would have produced a bill with less long-term spending, more short-term spending, better tax cuts, and a huge reduction in the health-care bureaucracy that comprised almost half of Porkulus. Such a bill would have easily received a hundred Republican votes or more in the House and may have passed on acclamation in the Senate, and it would have sent a message of unity in a time of economic crisis.

In order to get that, Republicans had to shut down Porkulus.  It would have forced Democrats to negotiate with Republicans and get the better bill to Obama’s desk.  All we needed was Republicans to stand firm in the service of their fellow Republicans and to defy Nancy Pelosi’s triumphalism.  The House did its job, as did most of the Republicans in the Senate, even while saying that they would support a real stimulus package.  Instead, Specter, Collins, and Snowe essentially stabbed their colleagues in the back — while Specter whined about the lack of debate on the bill, after he voted for cloture and an end to debate.

That was the real betrayal.

What can the Republicans do to the Porkulus 3?  Not much, really.  The GOP needs them to offer an illusory chance at filibustering legislation, although their failure to filibuster something as bad as Porkulus more or less exposes that as an empty threat.  Republicans need to find credible primary opponents for these three, even if it means losing the seats, because after Porkulus it appears they’re already lost.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs

“One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions”

In other words, if you’re 60 years old with diabetes, you may just have to live with it instead of getting treatment.  And if you’re 80 with heart disease?  Well, we’ll be sure to send flowers to the funeral.

Especially that last word – TEMPORARY.  Conceptually, this Democrat has it right.  We need to figure out how to put some weight behind his proposal (I admit I have not read it, but if the article is accurate, it’s the preferable solution, compare to Porkulus.)

http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/Blue-Dog-nips-Obama-with-a-better-stimulus-idea-39358182.html#comments

http://wcbstv.com/slideshows/Conservative.Celebrities.20.824701.html

I was a bit surprised at some of the musicians who made the list.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg21-2008oct21,0,4288642.column

http://michaelmedved.townhall.com/blog/g/2f3e3917-c375-47cc-a177-de334138b91e

You can find the exchange between Obama and  Joe in the Joe the Plumber video.

Another e-mail from my conservative friend this morning had some great insight.

Subject – The brass tacks of it

The simple explanation is usually the most effective.  When making your choice (like there is one) between Obama and McCain … this speaks VOLUMES

At the DNC … the Obama supporters chanted O-BAM-A

At the RNC … the McCain supporters chanted U-S-A

Any questions?