Not even MSNBC is buying the Democrats BS anymore and from the polling I shared with you this morning, neither is the American public.

From Mark Steyn at The Corner...

This line from Representative Cantor caught my eye:

You can't even dignify this squalid racket as bribery: If I try to buy a cop, I have to use my own money. But, when Harry Reid buys a senator, he uses my money, too. It doesn't "border on immoral": It drives straight through the frontier post and heads for the dark heartland of immoral.

They're allocating taxpayer dollars as if those dollars belonged to the senators. It borders on immoral. Just look at the way Senator Landrieu put her vote up for sale. Senator Nelson did the same.

Disgusting. One of my biggest complaints about Democrats is their belief that taxpayer dollars belong to them rather than to us. It's our money and it shouldn't be wasted and it definitely should not be used to bribe elected representatives.

The earth has a fever, yet it is covered in snowCopenhagen was a failure. The "science" of climate change, at least the "science peddled by western governments and the UN, has been discredited. Anthropogenic global warming (aka warming caused by man) is just another fad like "heelys" or eugenics (a popular belief among liberal/progressives in the early 20th century).

From the UK Telegraph...

If there were not $45trillion of Western citizens’ money at stake, this would be the funniest moment in world history. What a bunch of buffoons. Not since Neville Chamberlain tugged a Claridge’s luncheon bill from his pocket and flourished it on the steps of the aircraft that brought him back from Munich has a worthless scrap of paper been so audaciously hyped. There was one good moment at Copenhagen, though: some seriously professional truncheon work by Danish Plod on the smellies. Otherwise, this event is strictly for Hans Christian Andersen.

A bunch of buffoons indeed.

Update on Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 5:16PM by Jeff

I found this image a few minutes ago...

According to the IRS, federal employees and retirees owe over $3 billion in back taxes.

WASHINGTON - At a time when the White House is projecting the largest deficit in the nation's history, Uncle Sam is trying to recover billions of dollars in unpaid taxes from its own employees.

Federal workers owe more than $3 billion in income taxes they failed to pay in 2008. According to Internal Revenue Service documents, 276,300 federal employees and retirees owe $3,042,200,000.

The story goes on to say that the IRS is the only government agency where employees can be terminated for not paying their taxes. Question: Shouldn't that be true for all government employees?

Then again, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was a tax cheat and he oversees the IRS.

Via Glenn Reynolds

From Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review Online...

A Republican Senate aide points out that on the same day that Congress announces there will be Comcast-NBC hearings, Comcast's CEO endorses Reidcare.

It's getting ugly out there. Perhaps stories like this one should be called "Revenge of the Porkulus."

From the local Putnam County (NY) Courier...

In fact, the number of jobs that should appear on the report is not 60, but just 1.54, and those one and a half jobs are actually in New Paris, Indiana. Whether by bureaucratic error, or deliberate maneuvering, the administration has inflated claims of job creation based on Putnam County stimulus spending. Other stimulus-funded projects in Putnam County are riddled with reporting errors and inaccuracies.

Recovery.gov reports that Putnam County has received $1,092,595 of stimulus money for projects, $319,000 of which was dedicated to purchasing five new Paratransit vans, manufactured by Turtletop Busses in Indiana. Lynch told the Courier that the inaccurate number of 60 jobs created by the purchase of vans “counted both the second and third fiscal quarters, when it was only supposed to count the third quarter.” Putnam County officials tried to correct the number before the third quarter report was issued, but were “frozen out of the system” according to Lynch.

Read more at the Putnam County Courier website.

From Christopher Booker's column in the UK's Daily Telegraph:

A week after my colleague James Delingpole, on his Telegraph blog, coined the term "Climategate" to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, Google was showing that the word now appears across the internet more than nine million times. But in all these acres of electronic coverage, one hugely relevant point about these thousands of documents has largely been missed.

The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

You can read more at the Daily Telegraph's website.