Shyster, quit pimping out that Nobel laureate whore Krugman. Do your own hatchet work, you lazy bastard.

Aside: you guys know Shyster formerly worked as a clown?

That old liberal media disingenuousness. Maybe "volcano monitoring" is important work. If it is, then funding should easily pass in a separate bill - not sneaked in, wrapped in a newspaper, as part of a "stimulus" package. Obviously, Shuster isn't bright enough to see this. For a liberal groupie like him, if Obama and the Democrats want it, it must be good. Shuster's just an obnoxious little toady for the Democrats.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

There is nothing wrong with Volcano Monitoring but to call it stimulus is just plain stupid. That and allmost everything in this so called stimulus bill should have been addressed in the regular process and not the EMERGENCY STIMULUS BILL. There is not one iota of economic stimulus in this proposal. I guess someone who isn't a Rhodes Scholar just can't understand that. Beavis and Butthead are still on the air, just now they are on MSNBC.

if I said that the Democratic Party had become the party of Amos & Andy.

The Fairness Doctrine blog is posted just after this.

How might it's implementation effect 'pieces' such as this?

JDW

DAILY WAVE

Whatever else you think, your mother and my mother are both mothers

Let’s face it… Newsbusters is spending more and more time responding to the desperate outbursts coming from MSNBC.  After ratings crash and burn what is there left to do to attract attention but scream insults at the newsmakers and pundits who attract an actual audience.  Keith, Chris, David, Rachel, et.al., may be prolonging their on-air existence, but their clownish, boorish behavior belies a true lack of personal pride.  

And not all conservatives hate Beavis and Butt-head, David.  We’re diverse.

THEY, the MSM, are the Beavis & Butt-head; such dilusion from reality.  Tell us the truth.  STOP the lies.

http://www.wnd.com/i...

End of the American Dream?

Posted: February 21, 2009
1:00 am Eastern

As our new political leadership leads us into the fiscal twilight
zone, is it too much to ask for a little honesty as they do it?

The day after President Obama unveiled his plan to bail out distressed mortgage holders, Treasury Secretary Geithner and Housing Secretary Donovan wrote an op-ed in USA Today explaining it.

"Ordinarily, American homeowners don't need government help. … But these are no ordinary times," they say.

But practically every American homeowner does get government help by being able to deduct mortgage interest from their taxes.

And, Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac, the taxpayer backed quasi-government mortgage
behemoths, own or insure around 50 percent of all outstanding mortgages
in the country.

So, how about a little truthfulness here. It would be
extraordinary if the government did not get involved. Which gets to the
broader point.

This $275 billion mortgage plan, coupled with the "stimulus" package and the bank
bailout, adds up to a cool couple of trillion dollars. In one short
month, the Obama administration has committed us taxpayers to new
obligations equal to what the whole federal budget was a couple years
ago.

This unprecedented government-spending binge, beyond any liberal
Democrat's wildest dreams, has been enabled by a narrative. According
to this narrative, we now understand that unbridled capitalism doesn't
work. Unregulated markets are behind today's problems, and all agree
that we need more government.

According to our president, because "big banks traded in risky
mortgages … lenders took advantage of homebuyers … homebuyers knowingly
borrowed too much …" we have today's housing crisis.

But it's all so untrue.

What has failed in our country is not capitalism. It is our intentional undermining of it.

As government spends us into oblivion, and we recall Roosevelt
and the New Deal, we should also recall the role the Supreme Court
played then in changing the rules by which we live.

In a decision in 1937, Helvering v. Davis, the Supreme Court
upheld the constitutionality of key provisions of the new Social
Security Act. Until then, the power of Congress to tax us was limited
to paying for those functions of government explicitly laid out in the
Constitution. This decision opened the door to government taxing us for
anything the Congress could deem in the "general welfare." In other
words, anything they could pass.

A central tenet of capitalism, of course, is private property.
But what is private property in a nation where citizens can be taxed to
pay for anything politicians can get passed?

In 1938, the very next year, Fannie Mae was created, which got the government – taxpayers – into the housing business.

In 1968, President Johnson took Fannie Mae off budget and
transformed it into a government-chartered company to buy and insure
mortgages. A private company whose securities were guaranteed by we
taxpayers. Private investors get the profits, and taxpayers pick up the losses.

Could we have had this housing disaster without Fannie Mae and its brother, Freddie Mac? Certainly not.

Why would a mortgage originator sell a mortgage that couldn't
get paid back? Only if it could be re-sold to taxpayer-backed Fannie or
Freddie.

Both went belly up last year and were put under explicit
government control. Their $5 trillion in debt went right onto us
taxpayers, doubling the outstanding debt of the U.S. government.

Now President Obama is "solving" our mortgage crisis by adding
another $200 billion of taxpayer guarantees behind these two entities
and, for the first time, allowing them to guarantee mortgage refinancing for more than 80 percent of the home value.

And those who can't make their mortgage payments will be subsidized by taxpayers to the tune of $75 billion so they can.

A failure of capitalism? This could never happen in a country
where private property was respected and people were not subsidized by
government to buy what they can't afford.

Rather than saving the American Dream, the Obama team could be bringing it to an end.

M-B

Well, Krugman didn't say which one Jindal is. Nonetheless, all of us at "1600" agree with the larger point.

Exactly. The All-Obama-Orgasm Network (MsNBC) is and has been completely in the tank for the smug, arrogant, elitist who now is at The White House. Who could have predicted that? Umm.... EVERYONE!  If the fairness doctrine were put in place on TV this network would go down faster than Sean Penn at a table full of free cocaine.

Everyday it's a new low. Everyday it's another head-shaking moment with these idiots. 01/20/2013 cannot come fast enough for me.

You support the troops by supporting the mission! If you don't support the mission, have the guts to say you don't support the troops.

Obama: Not my President. Ever.

I guess that if you have nothing of substance to say, you resort to attack and derision...................

Does anyone else think that Shuster bears a resemblance to Alfred E Neuman.