President Obama is keeping the cameras busy as he accepts his Nobel Peace Price (for what exactly, I don't know) ...
“My accomplishments are slight:” Happy National Post-Achievement Day!
In honor of President Barack Obama’s acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, I think we should declare today Happy National Post-Achievement Day.
What award or honor don’t you deserve? Claim it.
What unearned prize for unmet aspirations would you like to give yourself? Declare it.
As the world turns ... What else could our Washington Overlords be up to? Oh look! The Democrats are spending yet more money they don't have (and will put taxpayers on the hook for) ...
Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, fear 2010 backlash
In a bold but risky year-end strategy, Democrats are preparing to raise the federal debt ceiling by as much as $1.8 trillion before New Year’s rather than have to face the issue again prior to the 2010 elections.
“We’ve incurred this debt. We have to pay our bills,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told POLITICO Wednesday. And the Maryland Democrat confirmed that the anticipated increase could be as high as $1.8 trillion — nearly twice what had been assumed in last spring’s budget resolution for the 2010 fiscal year.
The leadership is betting that it’s better for the party to take its lumps now rather than risk further votes over the coming year. But the enormity of the number could create its own dynamic, much as another debt ceiling fight in 1985 gave rise to the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction act mandating across-the-board spending cuts nearly 25 years ago.
Sweet! The lunatics have taken over the asylum!
In part, I agree with Hoyer though ... "MEMBERS OF CONGRESS incurred this debt. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS have to pay THEIR bills. (Seriously, they should be held criminally responsible).
