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Rush dumps New York when Governor Paterson channels Schwarzenegger.

Governor Sarah Palin saved John McCain from what would have been an absolutely stunning defeat.
In order to help John McCain, Governor Palin had herself dragged through the mud along with her family.
Governor Palin as of yet, does not know if being on the ticket in 2008 with John McCain will cause permanent political damage.
So, what [...]

Mickey Kaus:
Rick Wagoner = Ngo Dinh Diem? Discuss. After visibly defenstrating GM CEO RIck Wagoner, and moving to replace the board of directors, won’t Obama now “own” the GM problem? If the company shuts down in the near future, costing tens of thousands of blue collar jobs, it will be under executives implicitly or explicitly [...]

John McCain (remember him?):
The last candidate for president of the United States from a major party that will take public financing was me.

And you thought your 401(k) sucked:
Just months before the start of last year’s stock market collapse, the federal agency that insures the retirement funds of 44 million Americans departed from its conservative investment strategy and decided to put much of its $64 billion insurance fund into stocks.
Switching from a heavy reliance on bonds, the Pension [...]

David Broder, congealer of conventional wisdom:
With a bit of bookkeeping legerdemain borrowed from the Bush administration, the Democratic Congress is about to perform a cover-up on the most serious threat to America’s economic future.
That threat is not the severe recession, tough as that is for the families and businesses struggling to make ends meet. In [...]

Are Republicans starting to regain their footing? Will Democrats be hurt by bailout fatigue?
An early indicator will be Tuesday’s special election in a competitive Congressional district in New York. Republican Jim Tedisco says he’s up, but a local college poll says otherwise.

(rescued from the comments at the suggestion of Dr. Dog)
Here are the last couple of budgets (07-08 and 08-09), showing roughly flat revenues, spending, and borrowing (i.e. no spending cuts). The same site has a breakdown of revenues by type of tax.
Here is the Legislative Analyst’s March 13 report on the shortfall that they [...]

I got a call yesterday from a polling company on Prop 1A and the other measures on the May 19 California ballot. It came from the 925 area code, in the East San Francisco Bay Area. I’m still not sure whether it was a legitimate poll or a push-poll. It started off [...]

Earlier this week I wrote, “The less the [L.A.] Times writes, the better-informed its readers will be.” How quickly columnist and tax-increase advocate George Skelton obliges us with an example.
In his March 26 column, Skelton complains that bond rating agencies are being unfair, and claims that California has essentially zero credit risk.
Not only has [...]

Annoyed by EarthHour? Do something about it:
A Web site called EarthHour.org, apparently unconcerned about the carbon footprint of majuscules, urges global warmists to “VOTE EARTH BY SWITCHING OFF YOUR LIGHTS FOR ONE HOUR” starting at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow. We were tempted to make fun of this, as many people in the site’s comment section have [...]

Does it make me a bad person to enjoy this?

… and they really hate the Democratic legislature:
Schwarzenegger’s approval rating has dropped to 33 percent, his lowest ever in the poll, and the Legislature gets positive ratings from a mere 11 percent of likely voters.
Since the only thing of note that Schwarzenegger and the legislature have done recently is the budget deal, I think it’s [...]

Having what appeared to have become the party of no, it was seriously looking like the GOP was heading to further thinning of the Congressional “Elephant Herd” come 2010.
However, a Republican manifesto has now gone into print entitled “The Republican Road to Recovery.”
While the document will need some fleshing out, it is indeed a first [...]