His last hurrah: Inhofe stuffs omnibus bill with $498M in earmarks

Earmarks: political self-bribery. Vote and influence buying. "The gateway drug to runaway spending," as the late Dr. Tom Coburn used to say.

Earlier, I posted that U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe was the only Oklahoman to vote for the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill passed by Congress. Why was he in favor of the mega-spending bill?

That's easy. Inhofe stuffed almost half a billion dollars worth of earmarks in the bill -- second most of all senators and representatives. If anything was made evident by his time in Washington, it's that Jim Inhofe looooved him some earmarks and pork spending. 

Israeli Finance Minister on 'stimulus' programs

Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz had a very interesting quote yesterday, regarding "stimulus" programs. "Never sacrifice the future of your economy in order to save it in the present because you will kill both."

He further went on to say this: "If you give incentives or stimulus plans that are unsustainable for too long, they won’t work. On the contrary, if people realize that in two or three years [they] are going to pay for it, and recovery will be very slow because of this, this will be counterproductive."

It looks like those statements are playing out in the American post-Obama stimulus economy.

Muskogee Tea Party on Wednesday

Muskogee Tea Party

Are you tired of the bailouts and other wasteful spending coming out of Washington, D.C.? It's time to say, "Enough is enough!"

To that end, I am organizing a Tea Party in Muskogee, on April 15th.

I launched TeaPartyMuskogee.com this week, and will be posting details about the 'Tax Day Tea Party' there whenever I can nail them down (I will try to post here as well).

I have folks coming from Claremore, Ft. Smith-area, and Southeast Oklahoma, in addition to Muskogee; wherever you live, come and join us on April 15th!

I have created a Facebook group and event for the Tea Party, in addition to TeaPartyMuskogee.com. Invite your friends, and let's throw a big Tea Party in Muskogee on April 15th, coinciding with over 300 similar events across the nation!

Tax Day Tea Party in Muskogee

Anyone up for a Tea Party in Muskogee on April 15th? Join the Facebook group and RSVP for the event, organized by your humble servant.

Check the soon-to-be-unveiled TeaPartyMuskogee.com for more details in the coming week or two.

Is the Obama-Press Honeymoon Over?

Watch this exchange between ABC News' Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.



Is the honeymoon over?

Pelosi: 500,000,000 Americans to Lose Jobs Every Month Without Stimulus

According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D, California), if the monstrous Stimulus/Porkulus is not passed, 500,000,000 (that's five hundred million) Americans will lose their jobs every month.

The population of the US is only 300 million. Maybe Pelosi knows that there actually are more than 12 million illegals in the US... perhaps she thinks there's over 200,000,000 of them...