Some say this is good:

Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, has asked the entire staff to resign, FOX News has confirmed.

Unless proven otherwise, I say this is good. Out with the disfunctional, in with the functional.

I’ll give him time.

Until he proves me wrong.

Show me the money.

TARP II – passed. Thank you, Mr Bush and Washington.

Two plans now for stimulus packages: House, roughly $820 billion. Senate, roughly $827 billion.

Mr Obama praised the Senate version and urges speed speed speed speed speed. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Ask no questions. Trust your government. Verification not required.

As Mr Obama recently said, “By the way, these days everybody thinks they’re economists.” Translated: you’re a dolt. I’m more intelligent. I know better than you how to spend your hard-earned tax dollars. Just be quiet and don’t interfere.

As Bushwack recently pointed out in my last post’s comments with remarkably clarity and perspicacity:

Who said: “We have chosen hope over fear“?

And who said: “A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe“?

Yep, the same man, Barack Hussein Obama. I guess fear is only good when you need it. **sigh**

Truer words were never written, dear sir. Fear works only when it works for you, eh, Mr Obama?

Mr Biden, however, may not be as completely asinine as he’s been in the past when he stated:

Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged today that Democrats could face political repercussions in 2010 for their support of the $900 billion economic stimulus package.

An “anonymous” commenter on my last post indicated that “your ignorance of economics is shown by your criticism of the stimulus bill. We really DO need this stimulus, it really IS stimulus, even the alleged ‘pork’ in the bill puts money in the hands of CONSUMERS, which is what stimulates the economy.”

I asked then and I ask now: where is it, pray tell, that money is being placed into the hands of the actual consumers in the country? Where is the proof? Documentation? Charles Krauthammer writes about the Urgency Of Pork here. Further, Mitt Romney says the “stimulus package” stimulates only government and not the overall economy.

93% pork, 7% stimulus: Republican Senator James Inhofe (OK) issued this statement on Friday:

While I appreciate the efforts of my colleagues to bring down the price tag of this bill, the fact is we still face a trillion dollar spending bill. Making it worse, the bill is 93% spending and only 7% stimulation. Over the past few days I have fought to include more in the way of real stimulus through higher percentage of infrastructure and defense spending, while working to cut much of the typical government waste often found in a bill of this size. Yet Democrats have blocked these efforts.

“The good news tonight is that the American people are catching on to the fact that this is the largest spending bill in history and are becoming more and more vocal in their opposition. My offices in Oklahoma and Washington DC have been flooded with emails, phone calls and faxes overwhelmingly opposed to this trillion dollar legislation. They can rest assured that my vote remains an unwavering ‘no.'”

Further, read this amount of arrogance:

U.S. Rep. David Obey (D-WI), the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, helped write the bill and says he doesn’t like being asked about earmarks.

“We simply made a decision, which took about three seconds, not to have earmarks in the bill,” he says. “And with all due respect, that’s the least important question facing us on putting together this package.”

Leaving out the earmarks does mean Congress will have less control over how the money is spent. But, Obey says, “So what? This is an emergency. We’ve got to simply find a way to get this done as fast as possible and as well as possible, and that’s what we’re doing.”

That doesn’t mean Congress will be responsible if the money is spent badly, he says.

Can you believe the lies? No earmarks? No pork? Nope! he says. Nothing of that nature in the current “stimulus” package. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Yes, the Demorats truly and fervently believe you ARE that stupid, electorate.

What’s more, they’re COUNTING on your ignorance and, moreover, indifference.

Further, as Rivka was keen enough to point out on Saturday (I didn’t see this coming):

President Obama has decided to bring the U.S. Census Bureau under White House jurisdiction, a move that incensed House Republicans, who fired off a blistering letter to him Thursday, calling it “outrageous and unprecedented” and a “blatant partisan and political maneuver.”

Think that Republicans “suggested” that “the move could improperly influence legislative redistricting, which is shaped by Census counts“? Really? Could that be?

Pork and Power. All in one. Right off the bat.

Apparently the inappropriately-named “stimulus” package is going to pass. No shock there, considering Pelosi and the Demorats have decided the Republicans can go straight to Hell and a speedy adoption is infinitely more important than “bipartisanship.” Bipartisanship. Right.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Amid stunning new job losses and yet another bank failure, key senators and the White House reached tentative agreement Friday night on an economic stimulus measure at the heart of President Barack Obama’s recovery plan. Two officials said the emerging agreement was for a bill with a $780 billion price tag, but there was no immediate confirmation.

At $780 billion, the legislation would be smaller than the measure that cleared the House on a party-line vote last week. It also would mean a sharp cut from the bill that has been the subject of Senate debate for a week. That measure stood at $937 billion.

Beyond the numbers, though, any agreement would mark a victory for the new president and would keep Democratic leaders on track to fulfill their promise of delivering him a bill to sign by the end of next week.

You and I both know the bill will pass. Remember McCain’s amnesty ramdown? This is the same damned thing. “Speed is of the essence.” Yeah. Speed. So the bill can’t be discussed further and its pork exposed more to the light of day:

In a statement sure to rile Republicans, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday dismissed calls for bipartisanship as “process” arguments extraneous to passing a stimulus bill — and warned Senate Democrats against slashing proposed increases to education spending.

But bad things are brewing “locally” as well.

In Fornicalia, the lack of a budget (gee, only months overdue) and economic pressures have caused counties in the state to begin to fight back.

First, the State of Fornicalia has officially stated that taxpayers won’t get their refunds.

Most recently, some counties in Fornicalia have said they’ll fight back:

Counties in California say they’ve had enough – and they aren’t going to take it anymore.In what amounts to a Boston Tea Party-style revolt against the state Capitol, they’re threatening to withhold money.

Los Angeles is considering such an option. And Colusa County supervisors said they authorized payment delays for February.

“We didn’t vote on it, because I don’t think anybody wants to go to jail,” Colusa County Supervisor Kim Vann said.

Closer to home, Sacramento County is planning to file a lawsuit this week against the state and Controller John Chiang for withholding millions of dollars – much of it for social service programs.

“The Legislature authorized those expenditures, and (the controller) has decided to withhold it,” said Susan Peters, chairwoman of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors. “I believe it’s possible other counties will be joining in the action.”

Intemperate reactions?

Revolution?

Anarchy?

Guess what: it’s already happening.

This should not be unexpected. President Barack Hussein Obama has already sent a plain and clear signal that it is not so important that persons pay their taxes. Right?

WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery Thursday for pancreatic cancer, raising the possibility that one of the ideologically divided court’s leading liberals—and its only woman—might have to curtail her work or even step down before she had planned.

This was the nightmare situation I envisioned during the presidential campaign, and it is staring back at us earlier than predicted. And this is the precise reason I feared a Leftist president, House and Senate.

I can hear all the Leftist and Socialist lawyers, jurists and law professors dialing up the White House (1-800-SCRU-RUTH) even as I write this. And poor Bader Ginsburg is still warm.

P.S.

I know about pancreatic cancer. My wife’s mother died within two months after having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, in 2007.

Pity the poor Islamists; specifically Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

They will have ended up enabling the reincarnation of Benjamin Netanyahu, a much harder-right figure than Tzipi Livni. Israel elects their new Prime Minister on February 10th, next Tuesday.

Hamas has continued sending rockets into Israel.

They had a chance, long ago, to stop but insisted on breaking, essentially, every cease fire extant.

Therefore, if Netanyahu is unleashed, only one entity will be responsible for whatever result occurs: Hamas. Lovingly embraced by the “peoples” of Gaza.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a “hardliner” on Hamas to the point that Israel Labor MK Ophir Paz-Pines said “The election of Netanyahu as prime minister is likely to lead to unending conflict between him and the Obama administration and risk Israel’s most important strategic asset – ties with the US.”

Netanyahu has pledged:

Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday promised that a government under his leadership would topple the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip.

Bibi will have opposition, as indicated above. One in opposition will continue to be former president Jimmy Carter, who was interviewed on the Michael Medved show last Friday, January 30th. This is the same James Earl Carter who, in his newest book (the title of which I shall not promote here) wrote, regarding his beloved Hamas:

We pursued the concept of non-violent resistance of Hamas leaders and gave them documentation and video presentations of the successful experiences of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, and others.”

Can you believe the incredible naivete — not to mention outright stupidity — of that statement? During the Medved interview, Michael started with the following question and acquired Carter’s madcap response:

MM: My question is, why then do you have more confidence in agreements with Hamas, given the fact that, by any standard, Hamas is more openly anti-Semitic, more openly violent and less responsible than the Nazis appeared to be in 1938?

Carter: Well, I don’t agree with that premise. Do I have to agree with the premise to answer the question?

Do you understand that Carter believes Hamas is a more reliable entity with regard to negotiations than the Nazis — an organized, obvious, uniformed self-interested entity? As opposed, say, to the Islamist Cult of Death embodied by Hamas — the persons hiding behind skirts of women and the blankets of babies, purposely dressed in civilian garb and completely indifferent to the ancillary deaths of their so-called fellow countrymen -and women.

Further, biblical scholars, were you aware of this passage from the Holy Bible, pronounced by Carter in the same interview:

Carter:–If you want to talk about ancient history, Christians believe that in the second coming, Christ can’t come back to the Holy Land until all Jews are either dead or become Christian.

You may read the rest of Carter’s ridiculously inept droolings here.

I should like to leave you now with a reference to a Wall Street Journal article written by Judea Pearl, the father of slaughtered WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl, entitled “The Normalization of Evil.”

In this article Mr Pearl asks:

Would Danny have believed that today’s world emerged after his tragedy?

Neither he, nor the millions who were shocked by his murder, could have possibly predicted that seven years later his abductor, Omar Saeed Sheikh, according to several South Asian reports, would be planning terror acts from the safety of a Pakistani jail. Or that his murderer, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, now in Guantanamo, would proudly boast of his murder in a military tribunal in March 2007 to the cheers of sympathetic jihadi supporters. Or that this ideology of barbarism would be celebrated in European and American universities, fueling rally after rally for Hamas, Hezbollah and other heroes of “the resistance.” Or that another kidnapped young man, Israeli Gilad Shalit, would spend his 950th day of captivity with no Red Cross visitation while world leaders seriously debate whether his kidnappers deserve international recognition.

Please read Mr Pearl’s complete article.

Islamists exist within no civilization save the Cult of Death. And they deserve no negotiations. They simply deserve to be culled.