Spreading that wealth

Bits and pieces. Via Washington Examiner, Obama obfuscates his intent: President Obama, who famously called for tax increases on the wealthy to “spread the wealth around,” denied today that his tax increases on the rich are an attempt to “redistribute wealth.” “So these investments — in things like education and research and health care — [...]

White House scrubs story of Malia’s jaunt to Mexico for all the wrong reasons

It’s not the security threat. The press treatment of the Bush twins proves that. It’s the moolah. Everyone knows how much money Michelle likes to spend on her little jaunts outside the White House. The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree, eh? It’s not that Americans are warned against all travel to Mexico. [...]

Perry’s flat tax: It’s so easy Tim Geithner can do it!

On a postcard, no less. Rick Perry discloses details of his new tax plan in the WSJ. As someone who gave a persuasive speech on the glories of a flat tax to an undergraduate speech class eons ago, I’m smitten: On Tuesday I will announce my “Cut, Balance and Grow” plan to scrap the current tax [...]

Need a laugh? OWS edition

This should get you rolling. I wonder if those joyless folks demanding everyone else pay to provide free education and imaginary $20/hr jobs would find this as funny as I do. Probably not, eh? That makes it even funnier. H/t: Instapundit.

Put that fire out!

Metaphorical fire, that is. Harvard economist Martin Feldstein sees the forest for the trees in the housing debacle. In the NYT he states: I cannot agree with those who say we should just let house prices continue to fall until they stop by themselves. Although some forest fires are allowed to burn out naturally, no one [...]

Apples and oranges, vacation style

The bean-counter of all things White House, Mark Knoller compares vacation days of presidents: There has been criticism of the president’s vacation at this time. But how does the number of vacation days the president has spent compare to his predecessors? CBS Radio’s Mark Knoller has kept track of presidential vacations for years and supplied [...]

$4,107

That’s how much it costs taxpayers to subsidize each ticket into the bustling metropolis of Ely, Nevada, and the cause of the great pissing match in DC about the cut in funding to the FAA. From the AP: On some days, the pilots with Great Lakes Airlines fire up a twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 at the Ely, [...]

The inverse is also true, and more appropriate

Robert Samuelson outlines a ten-point plan to cut the deficit and balance the budget. His plan combines a mix of cuts and tax hikes, but he omits something important from the premise of his argument [emphasis mine]: Decide to balance the budget over a decade. “Deficit reduction” isn’t good enough. The case for balance (albeit [...]

Ouch: when libs talk like this, Obama should worry

A liberal Obamaphile pauses to wash the kool-aid from his glass after it comes up empty: As a practicing psychologist with more than 25 years of experience, I will resist the temptation to diagnose at a distance, but as a scientist and strategic consultant I will venture some hypotheses. The most charitable explanation is that he [...]

Say what?

Via Gateway Pundit, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen made a surprise stop in Afghanistan today.  What do you tell troops in harm’s way when your boss says screw with ‘em and make ‘em worry? A soldier asks what will happen when the government defaults, and this is what he gets [...]