fly at night

True statements all the way around…

There is little doubt that the House bill is DOA in the Senate as the price is simply too high and the restrictions too many.

The markets are still heading south. With each White House pronouncement comes another drop. February 09 results are now in the books. The down closed the month at $7,062.93, down $1,218.29 (-14.7%) for the Obama year and about $938 for the month. The techs didn’t fare well either losing $151.49 (-9.9%) and ending at $1,377.84. [...]

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.

The problem is that the Professor does not inform you with facts. In fact he makes fun of the instead of discussing it.

Nancy Pelosi has been Speaker of the House for more than a year now. I have written very little about her. Here is what I said in December 2006: However, I have decided that I would not pile on Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi at this time. In fact, unless there is a significant stupid decision I [...]

Maybe California Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, will decertify the electronic voting machine used by the House. I guess not as the machine eventually gave the desired results and that is what is important.

From The Hill – Murtha nabs $150M pork What is that the DEMS say now? Ah yes, we are doing what the public elected us to do! Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations defense panel, has secured the most earmarked dollars in the 2008 military spending bill, followed closely by the panel’s [...]

Cox and Forkum has an interesting opinion on how well the Speaker is doing with her “open” government pledge – Open House? Despite the new Democratic congressional leadership’s promise of “openness and transparency” in the budget process, a CNN survey of the House found it nearly impossible to get information on lawmakers’ pet projects.

Noam Levey writes Approval of Congress lowest in a decade Just 27% of Americans now approve of the way Congress is doing its job, the poll found, down from 36% in January, when Democrats assumed control of the House and the Senate. And 63% of Americans say that the new Democratic Congress is governing in [...]