Back during the campaign, then-candidate Obama famously told an obscure plumber that he wanted to “spread the wealth” around a bit, that it would be good for the country overall to take more money from those who are successful and give it to those who aren’t. Tito dug up the video from the archives. I’ll wait while you go watch.
…When looking at this photo, you haven’t got one.
Gotta dash to a meeting, but I wanted to point you to this item by Ed Morrissey: OMB directs executive branch to cut ties to ACORN.
So, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the Baucus health care reform plan will shave a whopping $81 billion off the federal deficit by 2019. The Left is crowing with joy and the Right is quaking in its boots at the prospect nationalized health care with all the progressive trimmings.
Hey y’all – I’m feeling a lot under the weather tonight and so far, the chicken soup and the Dayquil aren’t really helping. Maybe a good night’s sleep will.
Liberal Matthew Yglesias, on the various stories hitting the MSM about how Obama doesn’t appear to be making a whole lot of time for his generals on the issue of Afghanistan strategy (via Mark Hemingway):
