Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: Orgy of Fraud, Waste and Abuse


The Clairvoyant Palin: Treacher
FBI raids lobbying firm tied to Murtha: ABC
Repeat after me: "Carter-era policies": Hewitt

Visual display of quantitative information: Corner
Leahy "Truth Commission" to pursue Bush: CQ
Environmentalists, in name only: NRO (Miller)

Eighteen days of hope and change?: Hanson
German economist: stimulus doomed to fail: ECO
Barack Obama is a novice - and it shows: Telegraph (UK)

Obama takes his case to the people: Power Line
Savior holds first fear-mongering press conference: Malkin
More on that unhelpful 'catastrophe' talk: Dinocrat

Former Obama Campaign Organizer: 'We didn't know who he was. We knew who we wanted him to be.': PuffHo
Specter tries to explain his betrayal, fails: Ace
Obama Predicts Doom If Trillion Dollar Spendulus Is Not Passed to Counter 1.9% Dip In GDP: Gateway

Specter's flawed rationale: Riehl
McCain Slams Obama's Mocking Rant: Newsmax
Gerald R. Obama (Better put some ice on that): Surber

Obama's injustice for terror victims: Prairie Pundit
Screaming into the whirlwind: an Army officer's thesis on Jihad: Solomonia
Tony Snow's remarks one year ago at CPAC still rung true today: Flopping Aces

Studies confirm: Unionization hurts employment and wages: Flashback
"Thank You Sucker" Motivational Currency Replaces Dollar: Cube
The case against the bailout (September, 2008): EconLib (Kling)

Stimulus wasteful spending list: Corner:

* $2 billion earmark for FutureGen near zero emissions powerplant in Mattoon, IL
* $39 billion slush fund for "state fiscal stabilization" bailout
* $5.5 billion for making federal buildings "green" (including $448 million for DHS HQ)
* $200 million for workplace safety in USDA facilities
* $275 million for flood prevention
* $65 million for watershed rehabilitation
* $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges and libraries
* $650 million for the DTV transition coupon program
* $307 million for constructing NIST office buildings
* $1 billion for administrative costs and construction of NOAA office buildings
* $100 million for constructing U.S. Marshalls office buildings
* $300 million for constructing FBI office buildings
* $800 million for constructing Federal Prison System buildings and facilities
* $10 million to fight Mexican gunrunners
* $1.3 billion for NASA (including $450 million for "science" at NASA)
* $100 million to clean up sites used in early U.S. atomic energy program
* $10 million for urban canals
* $2 billion for manufacturing advanced batteries for hybrid cars
* $1.5 billion for carbon capture projects under sec. 703 of P.L. 110-140
* $300 million for hybrid and electric cars for federal employees
* $198 million to design and furnish the DHS headquarters
* $255 million for "priority procurements" at Coast Guard (polar ice breaker)
* $500 million for State and local fire stations
* $180 million for construction of Bureau of Land Management facilities
* $500 million for wildland fire management
* $110 million for construction for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
* $522 million for construction for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
* $650 million for abandoned mine sites
* $75 million for the Smithsonian Institution
* $1.2 billion for summer jobs for youth
* $412 million for CDC headquarters
* $500 million earmark for NIH facilities in Bethesda, MD
* $160 million for "volunteers" at the Corp. for National and Community Service
* $750 earmark for the National Computer Center in MD
* $224 million for International Boundary and Water Commission – U.S. and Mexico
* $850 million for Amtrak
* $100 million for lead paint hazard reduction

Mark my words: this bill will bankrupt America and the money will disappear in a Democratic orgy of fraud, waste and abuse.

And our children and their children will be left holding the bag.

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