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He really did write this. No, I’m serious.

If anything, deficits should be bigger than they are because the government should be doing more than it is to create jobs.

Unbelievable!

So when Krugman’s Keynesianism fixes everything, what’s next?

So once the economic crisis is past, the U.S. government will have to increase its revenue and control its costs. And in the long run there’s no way to make the budget math work unless something is done about health care costs.

Yes of course. Raise taxes, and nationalize healthcare. It never ends with these people.

And they gave this stupid son of a bitch a Nobel Prize in Economics?

I hate to rain on your populist parade, but if you believe that you or the government should have any say in what AIG pays their employees, you are wrong. They should not have been given govt. bailout loans. I agree. But folks, wake up! Can’t you see now that any “help” from the govt. is nothing but a means of control.… Statism is never right, not even in regards to the unpopular.

No I’m not wearing my tinfoil hat this morning. I do believe that Toyota has some problems with their accelerators. However, I also believe that the federal government’s ownership stake in Toyota’s largest competitor, along with the UAW’s relationship with the Obama administration, presents a conflict. You should too.

If the government is going to have any credibility in regulating the auto industry, it needs to GET OUT OF THE AUTO INDUSTRY.

More from RedState:

We are now supposed to believe, then, that the Obama administrations only interest in sticking it to Toyota is to protect US consumers from an alleged defect that has yet to be fully proven? Even after the UAW donated millions to The One’s campaign? Even though the government has a major stake in GM? Even when the president’s Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, brags about how they went to Toyota’s headquarters in Japan to “wake them up?”Even after Lahood smears Toyota as “safety deaf” and threatens that they’re “not done with Toyota?”

Are we really supposed to believe this is all a coincidence?

The whole thing stinks to high heaven. By the way, I am a huge fan of Toyota. My 2001 Tundra has about 220,000 miles on it and it purrs like a kitten. No offense to all of you “real Americans”, but I’d take a Toyota with a hundred grand on the odometer over a brand new GM vehicle any day.

Check out this graphic from a blogger named Instapundit.

The fact is, you did hear us screaming about spending during the Bush years. As a matter of fact, that is why many of us lost enthusiasm for the Republicans and allowed them to be voted out of office.

However, Bush’s abysmal lack of fiscal discipline doesn’t give Obama the right to completely destroy the United States treasury. Whether you go with the CBO or the White House, these projected deficits are unsustainable. Maybe that’s the idea though. Surely it has to be.

Even though he didn’t scream “You lie”. He may as well have.

I don’t think I have ever seen a politician lie with as much ease as Obama does. It’s as if the man has no soul. Of course it’s probably not his fault. Perhaps the telepromptor is the one we should blame for telling him to say these things.

Heh!

What does that mean Chris? Is it because he is so “clean and articulate“? Maybe it has to do with his light skin and “lack of a Negro dialect“.

As I’ve always said, there is nobody more racist than a white liberal.

Obama spews a bunch of populist demagoguery against the banks, and the stock market has it’s worst day in three months. I tell ya, that Obama fellow employs some pretty interesting logic. He seems to think that the best way to grow the economy and to create jobs is to attack the private sector. Weird!

Of course he isn’t really trying to grow the economy. For a Marxist like Obama, redistribution is always more important than growth.

This headline claims that today’s Supreme Court ruling is a setback for Democrats. Chuck Schumer called today’s ruling “un-American”. I think that he is un-American.

Isn’t it sad when a ruling that protects the First Amendment’s right of political speech, is deemed to be a setback for the Democratic Party? I guess the demise of the Fairness Doctrine was also a setback for the Democrats. Well certainly it was. The only way that these people have any chance of winning is to silence the opposition.

Never mind that General Electric, itself an “evil” corporation,  supported the status quo, since they own NBC/ MSNBC.

Thankfully, five members of the Supreme Court decided today that corporations who do not happen to own media outlets, are as worthy of the First Amendment as those that do.

Great day for liberty!

How ironic that the healthcare bill would be defeated by a special election for the seat formerly held by Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy, a champion of healthcare “reform”. How fitting that we actually have Kennedy to thank for this special election, because it was he that helped persuade the state legislature to change the law that allowed the governor, who at that time was Romney, to appoint his successor.

I think this is what they call “poetic justice”.

Healthcare “reform” died tonight folks. It died in the most Democratic state in the union. The House will not take the Senate version “as is”. It was difficult enough for Pelosi to get her first bill passed. There is no way she is going to get an up and down affirmative vote for the Senate bill. As for the Senate, they will not get another shot. Olympia Snow is not going to budge. They will not delay Brown being seated and they will not invoke the “nuclear option”. To do either would be worse than political suicide, it would be, as Pat Caddell stated “a political Jonestown”.

This is a great day for individual liberty. So raise up that Gadsden flag. Have a big ole slice of apple pie, and sing God Bless America.

Thank you Taxachusets and good job America!

AC has a list of what some of the “big wigs” are sayin’.

Demagogues always need villains. They can’t survive without them. There has never been, in American politics, a more successful demagogue than Barack Hussein Obama.

When his own approval numbers are plummeting, and when public anger at government is on the rise, the populist demagogue will always attack the private sector, especially bankers (code word Jews) and Wall Street.

Barack Obama stood in front of a microphone the other day and said “We want our money back”. He then went on to propose a tax on big banks. He did this after chastising these same banks for not lending more money. How taxing banks is going to cause them to lend more money, is something I would like to hear explained. So please opine, if you will.

He then went on to reveal that he was making this suggestion because banks were doing the same things that “got us into this mess”. So based on his own statements, it was a lack of lending that “got us into this mess”? Yeah okay.

Never mind that many of the banks that are going to be hit with this tax never accepted TARP loans. Forget the fact that most of these banks have already paid these loans back with interest. Oh and of course, never mind the fact that Bernanke and Paulson, damn near at the point of a gun, forced many of these banks to take this money against their will.

Also, if the President is really wanting to stir up public resentment against businesses that took government bailout loans, why in the hell is he giving GM and Chrysler a pass? They are paying back their loans at a much slower pace than the banks. Well that question is kind of stupid really. Forgive me for being facetious. We all know that those businesses were partly nationalized with the rest given to one of Obama’s largest donors, the UAW.

It gets worse folks. The general consensus among serious people is that Fannie and Freddie, in their quasi-government era, were most responsible for encouraging risky home lending, and thus contributed the most to the financial crisis. Since Obama is supposedly trying to prevent a repeat of what happened before, surely he is sticking it to these newly nationalized companies? Nope, wrong again.

So the banks are paying back their loans and the auto companies are not, yet the banks are being punished and the auto companies are not. Also Fannie and Freddie, which caused the mess, get to be excluded too.

Yes, you have to love populist demagoguery, do you not? Regardless of how many problems are caused by government intervention, it’s always the private sector that is to blame.

What an amazing time that we live in. Sometimes I feel like I am living in the novel “Anthem“.

Btw, Larry Kudlow sums up what is going on here pretty well. Check it out.

First. Obama tells banks to start lending more money, ie do the same risky crap as before that created a bubble. Now he is demagoguing them for doing the exact thing he bitched at them a few days ago for not doing. Folks, forget your old ideas of Democrat and Republican. This guy isn’t Clinton. He is by far the most radical left wing demagogue to ever occupy the presidency. He makes Hugo Chavez look like a Reaganite.

Okay I get the whole “if this had been a Republican” angle, but I just don’t understand why Harry Reid’s words are considered to be so offensive. His past comments about Clarence Thomas were much more offensive, in my opinion. But even those words pale in comparison to a bunch of other things Reid has said.

Read the excerpt from the book and tell me what you think.

He [Reid] was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a “light-skinned” African American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,”

Please tell me what is so offensive. Is it the word Negro? Sure it’s a little outdated, but it’s not like he used the other N word. He was talking about politics and whether or not the country would elect a black man. In other words, he was just saying that the country maybe wasn’t ready to elect any black man, but a mixed race black man that sounds like a white person could certainly be elected. He wasn’t discussing his own views on race. He was referring to the electorate.

I can’t stand it when Republicans trounce on stuff like this. It comes across as disingenuous and cynical. Democrats have been playing the race game for years. It’s extremely disappointing to see Republicans engage in this nonsense too.

Harry Reid’s statement that the war was lost, or his recent pronouncement that healthcare is a right, is much more offensive to me, and it should be to you too. This government has nationalized two of the three largest automakers. It has nationalized banks and ran up an enormous amount of debt. It is about to take over 17% of the economy, and we are focused on this BS. Unbelievable!

In closing, let me add one more thing. If Michael Steele and the GOP had a lick of sense, they would beg Reid to stay in his position, rather than call for his resignation. Harry Reid is like the gift that keeps on giving. Why would they ever want a guy like that to resign?

Tgirsch is frustrated with people who, according to him, don’t understand the difference between weather and climate. In other words, he doesn’t like it when people make fun of his religion. Of course if we were having a warm winter, you would never hear that kind of stuff from the “believers” would you? Yeah right.

Remember that article RFK jr wrote after Katrina? How about that movie “The Day After Tomorrow“? In my opinion, nobody in this debate is more worthy of ridicule than the people that buy into this nonsense.

Tell me something Tgirsch, is ten years worth of cooling long enough to be considered climate? What about the twenty to thirty year mini ice age being predicted? Can we make fun of your religion after thirty years of freezing our asses off?

Numerous Democrats have declared healthcare to be a right. Among those are, of course, Harry Reid.

Tom Harkin has even gone as far as to say that Congress, by passing the Healthcare Bill, has created, yes I said created, an inalienable right.

The problem with Democrats, is that they don’t know what a right is, or maybe they do. A right is not something that can be given. We are born with rights. You might say we are endowed by our Creator with them. Among those rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So the pursuit of healthcare is very much a right, but you and I have no more a right to healthcare itself, something that requires the labor of another, than we do to someone else’s food, clothing, or shelter.

But maybe the Democrats, who worship at the altar of big government, actually do know that rights come from God and not men. Maybe they know this, but just happen to believe that they, and Barack Obama specifically, are God. No need to pray anymore, just vote Democrat. And by doing so, you trample on those other rights, you know, the ones endowed by that Creator guy.

It’s been a week since Britt Hume recommended Tiger Woods give Christianity a try, and the religious bigots are still bearing wadded undergarments. Carl Cannon has written an excellent article on the story.

What is it about Christianity that offends people so much? Why do some demand that “faith be a private matter”?

First off, Britt Hume is a gentleman. He did not insult the religion of Buddhism, and he did not pass judgment on Woods. What he said about Christianity and also Buddhism is actually factually correct. Buddhists believe in karma. Christianity is 100% about redemption. The thief on the cross, regardless of what he did on earth, was forgiven. In Christianity, thankfully, you don’t get what you deserve. Now whether you believe in any of this or not is up to you. But the fact is, this is what the religions teach.

Should Hume had said these highly offensive but kind words to Woods? That isn’t up to you or me. It’s up to Roger Ailes or Chris Wallace. So get over it folks.

Now that the Crimson Tide of Alabama, the greatest tradition in college football, has won National Championship # 13, I will be able to spend more time here. It was just kind of hard during football season. I mean, you have to understand. We are talking about the University of Alabama here, not some weak sister like UT or Auburn.

Roll Tide!

Or would you prefer something more digestible like food?

At what point will it occur to some of you that electing the least qualified candidate in Presidential history may not have been a good idea?

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ordered his staff to revise a computerized forecasting model that showed that climate legislation supported by President Obama would make planting trees more lucrative than producing food.

The latest Agriculture Department economic-impact study of the climate bill, which passed the House this summer, found that the legislation would profit farmers in the long term. But those profits would come mostly from higher crop prices as a result of the legislation’s incentives to plant more forests and thus reduce the amount of land devoted to food-producing agriculture.

According to the economic model used by the department and the Environmental Protection Agency, the legislation would give landowners incentives to convert up to 59 million acres of farmland into forests over the next 40 years. The reason: Trees clean the air of heat-trapping gases better than farming does.

Look out Sam Walton, a new retail genius has stepped forward with an idea to change retailing forever. Enter Hugo Chavez with a new approach guaranteed to at least entertain and amuse those who still believe capitalism is the most efficient economic system.

Behold Comerso. Sort of a CostCo meets Karl Marx.

President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday announced a new chain of government-run, cut-rate retail stores that will sell everything from food to cars to clothing from places such as China, Argentina and Bolivia. “We’re creating Comerso, meaning Socialist Corporation of Markets,” Chavez said at the opening of a “socialist” fast-food location for traditional Venezuelan arepas (cornbread).

“They’ll see what’s good. We’ll show them what a real market is all about, not those speculative, money-grubbing markets, but a market for the people,” said Chavez in his drive to change Venezuela from a market-based economy to a socialist one.

“We’re going to challenge all that junk food that just fattens people up,” he added referring to the arepa stand he opened to the public.

Chavez said the Comerso chain of stores will include “a network of subsidiaries” that will sell new vehicles directly imported from China and Argentina, “without capitalist intermediaries.”

“We’re going to defeat speculation. Private individuals in sales can still sell, but they’ll have to compete with us and with a people who is now fully aware,” Chavez said.

From a Bloomberg op/ed on corporate values and Tiger Woods: (Tiger Woods and the Coming Decline of Celebrity Endorsements):

Green-values-oriented Nike is sticking with Woods for the moment, appearing to be rehabilitation-minded and comeback-oriented in other instances too. This fall, Apple, Excelon, and other companies dropped their memberships in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in disagreement with what they saw as the Chamber’s foot-dragging on climate change policy. Nike kept its membership while resigning from the Chamber board in order to work for change from within, executives said. But the Chamber incident, too, is evidence that companies increasingly see that their values must be reflected consistently in every decision they make, every marketing campaign they run, and every partnership they form.

Also at wisdomisvindicated.