Just a note on the expensive new Capitol Visitors' Center mentioned by Jordan. Harry Reid has said that the new Center would thankfully prevent him from having to smell the visitors. Is this guy a douche or what? I think it was Biohazard who mentioned the problem that Congress poses as more detrimental than Obama and Co.

And as I mentioned above regarding the problem of China owning billions of U S debt as potentially dangerous. Not only because they are a repressive regime and potential enemy, but having them as our biggest creditor is certainly not economically ideal to say the least. Now, just today the Chineese are expressing doubts about the viability of U S treasuries and China's reluctance to continue buying them. All this a consequence of a staggering national debt that is now ballooning out of control.

Hmm, thinking about it...

thinking...

ok, it sunk in...

Yeah, before the new center, visitors actually trod the same hallway as the Senator from Nevada. And in the summer visitors' b.o. offended him. Thank goodness he doesn't have to be subjected to the smell anymore.

after reading the full quote he's clearly referring to people who have been walking around doing tourist stuff and are all sweaty and gross which is fairly understandable

that being said, what an enormous dumbass for saying that in public. also, harry reid is a complete piece of shit for wholly separate reasons. people like him are the reason i can't really fully consider myself a democrat

Here for consideration is an analysis of the current buget featuring the apolitical Congressional Budget Office. The article is fairly long but worth the read. ( And easily a better source of information than my ruminations on the subject : )

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090320/D9721GMO0.html

The POTUS is (or has been) a stressful job. And a weekend at Camp David on occassion probably a good respite. But Obama seems as content as can be. A sitting President joking on Jay Leno ? Anyway ...on Sixty minutes...

Kroft to Obama: Are you punch-drunk?

President Barack Obama said he believes the global financial system remains at risk of implosion with the failure of Citigroup or AIG, touching off “an even more destructive recession and potentially depression.”

His remarks came in a “60 Minutes” interview in which he was pressed by an incredulous Steve Kroft for laughing and chuckling several times while discussing the perilous state of the world’s economy.

“You're sitting here. And you're— you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money—’ How do you deal with— I mean: explain. . .” Kroft asks at one point.

“Are you punch-drunk?” Kroft says.

“No, no. There's gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day,” Obama says, with a laugh.....

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20339.html

http://www.tmz.com/2009/03/20/special-olympics-champ-to-barack-bring-it-on/

Following the lead of G 'stupid like a fox' W, maybe?

maybe he's just been hanging around biden and has caught a case of foot-in-mouth?

that "bring it on" article was tight as hell

When the Chineese warn about the dangerous deficit the administration and Dems are pushing, and our friends the English and the socialistic European Union loudly warn about the reckless spend, spend, spend Dem approach, perhaps we should listen. For example :

EU presidency: US economic plans 'a road to hell'
By RAF CASERT, AP
1 hour ago

STRASBOURG, France — The president of the European Union slammed President Barack Obama's plans to have the U.S. spend its way out of recession as "a road to hell," underscoring European differences with Washington ahead of a crucial summit next week on fixing the world economy.

Topolanek, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, told the European Parliament on Wednesday that Obama's massive stimulus package and banking bailout "will undermine the liquidity of the global financial market."

European governments, led by France and Germany, say the focus should be on tighter financial regulation, while the U.S. is pushing for larger economic stimulus plans — but nobody has so far escalated the rhetoric to such strident levels.

Topolanek's remarks are the strongest criticism so far from a European leader as the 27-nation bloc sticks to its position that its member countries are already spending enough to stimulate demand....

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-world/20090325/EU.EU.US.Economy/