Stage of Fools

The New York Times ^ | 3/4/09 | Maureen Dowd

[Obadiah]

Before the Senate resoundingly defeated a McCain amendment on Tuesday that would have shorn 9,000 earmarks worth $7.7 billion from the $410 billion spending bill, the Arizona senator twittered lists of offensive bipartisan pork, including:

[Obadiah]

But given how angry Americans are, watching their future go up in smoke, the bloated bill counts as this year’s business.

Is MoDo really off the HMS ObamaTitanic? If not, then credit her with at least a bit of honesty here. Rare in the corrupt MSM, and even rarer in the NYTimes.

[SolidWood]

I pity the miserable sh!theads like MoDo, who pretend to have been oblivious to this disaster before the election. They saw it coming, but preferred to suck up to the boyking.

[Obadiah]

A LOT of people fall into that category my friend. And all in 5 short week no less! In fact, we ought to start a running list:

David Brooks (NYTimes)

Jim Cramer (CNBC)

Muareen Dowd (NYTimes)

Clive Crook (Financial Times)

More?

[SolidWood]

David Frum... but he stills loves Oboyking.

[Doogle]

pssst hey NYT, got any spare pesos?

[ChetNavVet]

Yea and I’m all the while saying that McCain would have been better for the economy, and I must digress, ONLY a portion is not acceptable? and there are still Billions wasted?

I’d like to be president, I know I can do a better job, and so could most taxpayers, I only ask myself one thing... is the average taxpayer so stupid as to allow the continuation of the exact same policies that got us in this mess in the first place, stupid enough to let that continue? It would be comical, except I’m a taxpayer, and I’m tired of getting completly ripped off.

In my personal life I have 0 debt, I accept the fact I also have 0 credit (I went through turmoil to get my first car...). That’s how you run a personal checkbook! We regular folk are forced to comply, Credit is good and fine, except that the folks in the government that are writing the checks don’t gotta pay, and That’s NOT how you run a city/county/state/ or a nation.

Call me economics 101 graduate.

[Iron Munro]

They saw it coming, but preferred to suck up to the boyking.

But it felt so good being able to say "I voted for a black man."

[pabianice]

[DTogo]

Welcome to reality, Maureen!

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

$1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa.

[anniegetyourgun]

Would someone tally up the cost of all earmarks and compare that to Bozo’s announcement today about how much he’s going to “save” taxpayers in wasteful government spending?