Marsha Blackburn: My Cool Congressman!

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha - I love your sense of humor:

Press Release

Contact: Claude Chafin 202-225-1112 Blackburn Hails Stimulus Achievements Spending Bill Grants Tennessee More Seats In Congress Than Texas Washington, Nov 17 - Congressman Marsha Blackburn (TN-7) today hailed the Obama Administration’s efforts to create jobs and expand the number of Congressional districts in Tennessee. While the stimulus has only “created or saved” 9,548 jobs in Tennessee, Blackburn was gratified to see that it also increased the size of the delegation by 38 seats. Between 1982 and today, Tennessee only had nine Congressional districts. According to Recovery.gov, Tennessee’s 29th Congressional District gained 20 jobs and more than nine million dollars in stimulus funding. Blackburn’s 7th District only beat the 29th District by 109 jobs. In all, the Stimulus created 28 jobs in Congressional districts that did not exist previously. If the trend continues, Tennessee could have a whopping 49 electoral votes for the 2012 election. “I have been a vocal advocate for transparency in the stimulus bill, but this is more than I could have expected,” Blackburn said. “Not only can we track how many jobs were in created in each of Tennessee’s congressional districts, but in the process we have found dozens of districts we didn’t even know we had. Once we get all these seats filled, Tennessee will have a larger delegation and more clout than Texas. At nearly $400,000.00 per job, we also know that Tennesseans are the most valuable workers in the nation.” In total, the stimulus has awarded over three billion dollars in Tennessee and created fewer than ten thousand jobs, regardless of the Congressional district. Unfortunately, more than three hundred thousand Tennesseans remain unemployed. “Jokes aside, today’s additions to Recovery.gov illustrate what a confused failure the stimulus has been. Clearly, the Administration is incapable of explaining where these funds are being spent or why they aren’t creating jobs. As the debt mounts up, Tennesseans are still looking for work. Tennesseans deserve better and Washington can do better. It is time to incentivize investment and business creation and stop throwing more good money after bad.” Print version of this document

Harry to Nancy: "Mine's Bigger."

So the table of contents alone is 14 pages...Nancy's bill was 1,990 pages. Harry hurtles by with 2,074!

But wait, Nancy's bill will cost $1.2 Trillion; Harry's is only $849 Billion. So on a per-page basis, the better Harpoon in the side of the Ship of State is Nancy's bill at $6 Million per page versus a mere $4 Million per page for Harry. Of course, Medicare was only going to cost $3 Billion - here's an outtake from a 1993 article on the subject:

The cost of Medicare is a good place to begin. At its start, in 1966, Medicare cost $3 billion. The House Ways and Means Committee estimated that Medicare would cost only about $ 12 billion by 1990 (a figure that included an allowance for inflation). This was a supposedly "conservative" estimate. But in 1990 Medicare actually cost $107 billion.

So those estimates above were for the first 10 years - let's do the same projected miss that Medicare experienced and apply it to our wonderful socialized medicine plan...let's see, 24 years, 89% miss, works out to about 4% per year...times ten...if we are lucky, these plans would ACTUALLY cost $1.7 TRILLION and $1.2 TRILLION respectively, easily wiping out ANY of the so-called "savings" these bills are supposed to produce.

This is madness. The Chinese were busy lecturing Obama about our budget - they don't want us to default on all that debt we owe them - and we are getting ready to saddle ourselves with even more. Farewell freedom, hello planned economy and socia-communism. If you think that the mammogram age push back from the "U.S. Preventive Services Task Force" (which has no MD's on its staff) is bad - wait till they tell you that cholesterol checks won't be necessary till you are 80!

New York Muslims Condone Fort Hood Massacre

The "belly of the beast" allows you to spout your hatred you sick moron. Try preaching a Christian Gospel on the streets of Riyadh, Karachi, Cairo, or Tehran.

Nevertheless, here is a typical New York street urchin who has been pulled into this "religion of peace." This is the next wave of terror and we had better be prepared for it. Either we man up and realize the enemy we are up against and stop the insanity of political correctness by calling these hate filled people what they are: Islamic Terrorists; or we will be fighting them in the streets of our own cities.

Hat tip BT.

Hundred Trillion

Yup, this is the direction we are headed - that is a HUNDRED TRILLION dollar note from Zimbabwe...guess we'll be able to put Nancy Pelosi on one side of ours and Obama on the other.

Kim Jong O

Every now and then I browse the North Korean news website just for the sheer weirdness of it - here's a sample from this morning:

Double-Cropping Done by Kim Jong Il

Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- It was on a Sunday of June, Juche 53 (1964). An official who visited the residence of General Secretary Kim Jong Il was perplexed by the unimaginable scenery of the garden. There grew thick trees of economic value in the garden and grain crops, industrial crops, vegetables as well as fodder grass in patches. Sowing soybean as the second crop after wheat in a patch, Kim Jong Il kindly invited the official to join in sowing with a hoe. The leader said that as the after-crop beans sprout leaves not so much, the close planting would not have influence on the sunshine over the crops, indicating the plant-interval to him. When the official said that it was likely to harvest two tons of soybean per hectare, the leader stated with confidence that he anticipated three tons, not two tons and he would reap 6.5 tons altogether in the first and second crops. The official was full of admiration. The leader told the official that he had fixed various species of crops as double-cropping ones and done experimental cultivation for a few years, stressing that the reserves for increasing the grain production were double-cropping and close-planting. The official keenly realized that the patches were not simple experimental ones but a breeding farm for the development of agriculture of the country.

Apart from the awkward English, it suddenly dawned on me how much this sounded like the Obama administrations recent recounting of their great deeds in job creation:

Many Jobs Good Saved By Great Leader Obama

Washington D.C., November 12, 001 (First year of Great Leader)

An important official visiting many states under General President Obama was perplexed at many beautiful jobs created and happiness in land.

Many unicorns strutted in beautiful scenery as happy children sang praises of dear leader. The official smiled and told General President that "many millions" of jobs had been "saved or created" in District 15 of Arizona protectorate. The leader said he worked very hard to make people happy and maybe not "many millions" in District 15, but at least several hundred thousands in 42nd Obamamate in protectorate of Connecticut."

The official keenly aware of Great Leaders beautiful genius in economic recovery and full of great admiration like all people under leader.

Coming to a press box near you soon - it's already at MSNBC.

Fuel Lines Obama Style

This line of cabs is actually in Chongqing, China, where taxi drivers are lined up for natural gas, which is cheaper than gasoline over there. Since Obama won't let us tap our own oil or natural gas, I guess this is what our future over here will look like.

This Takes Chutzpah!

Obama is now worried about the debt??!! WTF? WTFF???

In an interview with FOX (Huh? Did he have some kind of out of body experience?) in China (They probably told him to do it...) our Master Economist says that too much debt is a bad thing:

PresidentBarack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession.

Now, we know what a "stern warning" let alone a "sternest" warning from Obama means...NOTHING! Ask the Iranians, they've been "sternly warned" about a gajillion times on their way to their Science Fair project to make Israel glow. Boy howdee, that sure has shown them! How about the North Koreans... So the "warning" part is obviously a joke. And yes, Mr. O, thanks to you and your squad there's about a 90% chance that we are headed to a double-dip, with the second dip looking a lot worse than the first.

Piece of advice, Mr. O, if you are serious about the debt, you would call up your pals Harry and Nancy and tell them to put health care "reform" and cap & trade legislation on ice NOW. Those two pieces of legislation alone - the very thought of the possibility of them being enacted - are adding such uncertainty to the future that small businesses and the credit markets are frozen in fear.

Spare us the rhetoric oh magical one, let's see actions that back it up.