Gimmick It Up
Using Fake Money To Offset Real Cuts

Remember that windfall of cash you got from graduating college and finally being able to do something with that extra tuition money?  Or when you hit the real jackpot by staying home that one weekend your friends went out to Vegas?  No? You need to check your Overlooked Contingency Fund.  That’s where all that real money goes – just waiting to be accessed and spent.  

 

Harry Reid Has Located The Overseas Contingency Fund:

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I know that Obama said that his primary concerns for his second term were major immigration reform and gun control.  It’s probably just a coincidence, but despots often feel compelled to deal with those two issues.  They usually deal with guns by confiscating them, while their immigration policy generally involves box cars headed off to Siberia or Auschwitz.

But, now, thanks to sequestration, he has to put those plans on the backburner so he can terrify Americans into believing that a tiny r...

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I did a post on Wednesday of last week, “How to fix a broken U.S. Government,” which emphasized the importance of negotiating, a lost art from the days of Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson.  During those periods, an old hand at the job, and Johnson and Rayburn were not only well-entrenched but also well respected, could talk to his or her fellow legislators and somehow come to a reconciliation that was favorable for both side.  This mastery of politics has been gone for, let me see, a...

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