MOST CONSERVATIVE, LIBERAL IN CONGRESS ANNOUNCED BY NATIONAL JOURNAL

National Journal has released it's list of the most liberal and most conservative in Congress for the year 2009:

The 10 Most Liberal Senate Dems/Most Conservative Senate GOPers

1. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) 1. Jim Inhofe (R-OK)

1. Roland Burris (D-IL) 2. Jim DeMint (R-SC)

1. Ben Cardin (D-MD) 3. Jim Bunning (R-KY)

1. Jack Reed (D-RI) 4. Tom Coburn (R-OK)

1. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) 5. Jim Risch (R-ID)

6. John Kerry (D-MA) 6. John Thune (R-SD)

6. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) 7. John Ensign (R-NV)

8. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) 8. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

9. Chris Dodd (D-CT) 9. Richard Burr (R-NC)

9. Dick Durbin (D-IL) 10. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

The 10 Most Liberal House Dems/ Most Conservative House GOPers

1. Rush Holt (D-NJ) 1. Trent Franks (R-AZ)

1. Gwen Moore (D-WI) 1. Doug Lamborn (R-CO)

1. John Olver (D-MA) 1. Randy Neugebaurer (R-TX)

1. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) 1. Pete Olson (R-TX)

1. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) 1. John Shadegg (R-AZ)

1. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) 1. Mac Thornberry (R-TX)

1. Mel Watt (D-NC) 7. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

1. Henry Waxman (D-CA) 8. Mike Pence (R-IN)

9. Kathy Castor (D-FL) 9. Steve King (R-IA)

10. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) 9. Tom McClintock (R-CA)

The 10 In The Middle In The Middle Of The House

(Most liberal to Most conserv.)/(Most liberal to Most conserv.)

46. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) 213. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)

47. Robert Byrd (D-WV) 214. Suzanne Kosmas (D-FL)

48. Bob Casey (D-PA) 215. John Adler (D-NJ)

49. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) 216. Bill Foster (D-IL)

50. Mary Pryor (D-AR) 217. Michael McMahon (D-NY)

51. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) 218. Michael Arcuri (D-NY)

52. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) 219. John Tanner (D-TN)

53. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) 220. Scott Murphy (D-NY)

54. Jim Webb (D-VA) 221. Tim Holden (D-PA)

55. Russ Feingold (D-WI) 222. Zack Space (D-OH)

Most Liberal House Delegations Most Conservative Delegations

1. MA 1. ID

2. HI 2. KY

3. VT 3. SC

4. CT 4. TX

5. RI 5. GA

For complete results, methodologies and more lists -- including the 2 members of the Senate from different parties who have the exact same score -- check out the vote rankings at

the National Journal.

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Video of Glenn Beck's CPAC Speech, Feb. 20, 2010

Beck: "Progressivism is a Cancer"

Conservative Libertarian best selling author, radio talk show host, and TV host Glenn Beck gives the keynote address at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), the nation’s largest gathering of conservatives annually. It is a project of ACUF (American Conservative Union Foundation) and its largest annual conference.

To rousing applause and standing ovations, Beck attacked Progressivism as a "cancer", and said that the Republican Party must "admit that it has a problem". Beck's CPAC keynote address begins at approximately the 5:30 mark in the video above.

Taking place in Washington, DC each year, CPAC brings together nearly 10,000 attendees and all of the leading conservative organizations and speakers who impact conservative thought in the nation. Regularly seen on C-SPAN and other national news networks, CPAC has been the premiere event for any major elected official or public personality seeking to discuss issues of the day with conservatives. From Presidents of the United States to college student leaders, CPAC has become the place to find our nation’s current and future leaders.

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Is George Orwell Writing Obama's Speeches?

George Orwell defined doublethink as "the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

When it comes to war, spending, and more, President Barack Obama's 2010 State of the Union address showed that doublethink is alive and well in Washington, D.C.

Approximately two minutes. Written and produced by Paul Feine of Reason.TV.

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MARCO RUBIO'S CPAC ADDRESS

Marco Rubio, candidate for the U.S. Senate for the state of Florida, addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), on February 18, 2010.

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Rodney Dangerfield's First Economics Class

This is a scene from the Rodney Dangerfield movie, "Back To School", in which Rodney takes his first economics class and gives the arrogant professor some real-world input to his economic theory of starting a new business:

PROFESSOR: First off, by looking at construction costs of our new factory.

DANGERFIELD: Uh, what's the product?

PROFESSOR: That is immaterial for the purposes of our discussion here, but if it makes you happy, let's say we're making tape-recorders.

DANGERFIELD: Tape-recorders? Are you kidding? That's (bleep) gonna kill us on the labor costs.

PROFESSOR: Okay. Fine. Then let's just say they are widgets.

DANGERFIELD: What's a widget?

PROFESSOR: It's a fictional product. It doesn't matter.

DANGERFIELD: Doesn't matter. Tell that to the bank.

SON: Easy, take it easy. It's the first day.

PROFESSOR: On the board you will see a cost analysis for the construction of a 30,000 square foot facility which will encompass both factory and office space and is fully serviced by all utilities, a railroad spur line, and a four-bay shipping dock.

DANGERFIELD: Hold it, hold it. Why build? You're better off leasing at a buck and a quarter, a buck and a half a square foot, take your down payment and put it into CDs or something else you could roll over every couple of months.

PROFESSOR: Thank you, Mr. Melon, but we'll be concentrating on finance a little later in the term. For the time being, let's just concentrate on the construction figures, shall we? You will see the final bottom line requires the factoring of not just the material and the construction costs, but also the architect's fees and the cost of land servicing.

DANGERFIELD: Oh-ho, you left out a bunch of stuff.

PROFESSOR: Oh, really? Like what, for instance?

DANGERFIELD: First of all, you're going to have to grease the local politicians for the sudden zoning problems that always come up. That is the kickback for the carpenters. And if you plan on using any cement in this building, I'm sure the teamsters like to have a little chat with you, and that will cost you. Ho, and don't forget a little something for the building inspectors. Then there's the long-term costs, such as waste disposal. I don't know if you are familiar with who runs that business, but I assure you it's not the Boy Scouts.

PROFESSOR: That will be quite enough, Mr. Melon. Maybe bribes and kickbacks and Mafia payoffs are how you do business, but they are not part of the legitimate business world, and they're certainly not part of anything I am teaching in this class. Do I make myself clear?

DANGERFIELD: Sorry, just trying to help, that's all.

PROFESSOR: Now, notwithstanding Mr. Melon's input, the next question for us is where to build our factory.

DANGERFIELD: How about Fantasyland?

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Obama Budget Would Increase Income Redistribution from Top 1 Percent of Taxpayers by $112 Billion

Bottom-Earning 10 Percent Would Receive an Additional $8.7 Billion in Federal Spending Benefits, According to Tax Foundation Analysis

True to his campaign promise to "spread the wealth around," President Obama's recently released budget targets high-income earners for income redistribution to low- and middle-income families, according to a new Tax Foundation report. The president's policies would redistribute an additional $112 billion from the top 1 percent of taxpayers down the income scale in fiscal year 2012.

On average, the president's budget would redistribute another $101,314 from families in the top-earning 1 percent to the rest of the income spectrum, for a total redistribution of $509,257 per family.

These are among the latest findings of the Tax Foundation's Fiscal Incidence Microsimulation Model, a long-term research effort to include federal spending along with taxes in calculations of income redistribution. The report, "Distributional Analysis of President Obama's Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Policies," is No. 209 in the Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact series.

"Our Fiscal Incidence project asks two simple questions: 'How much in federal taxes does a given income group pay under a given set of tax policies?' And 'How much in federal taxes would that income group pay under a benefit principle system of taxation, in which a family's tax share is equal to its share of government spending benefits?'" said Tax Foundation Senior Economist Gerald Prante, who co-authored the report with Chief Economist Patrick Fleenor. "The difference between the answers to these two questions is our measure of income redistribution."

Higher-income families would lose the most because of the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for high-income families as well as the president's proposed 28 percent value limitation on itemized deductions.

President Obama would increase redistribution from the top-earning 5 percent by $111 billion. The average family in that income group would redistribute an additional $20,304 to lower-income families, for a total redistribution of $141,648.

Families in the bottom-earning 10 percent stand to benefit the most from the president's policies. As a group, they'll receive an additional $8.7 billion in federal spending benefits. On average, a family in the bottom 10 percent will receive an additional $494 in income redistribution for a total of $17,962.

Families earning as much as $107,000 would benefit as well. As a group, families in the 60th to 70th market income percentile would receive an additional $8 billion when accounting for the president's tax and spending policies. This amounts to an average income redistribution of $475 per family in that income group.

For more on the Tax Foundation's Fiscal Incidence project, see Special Report No. 172, "How Much Does President Obama's Budget Redistribute Income?"

The Tax Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that has monitored fiscal policy at the federal, state and local levels since 1937.

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House GOP Leaders Challenge Pelosi and Reid on Reports of Backroom Health Care Deal with Obama

Boehner, Cantor, and Pence: “The existence of any kind of backroom health care deal would certainly make a mockery of the President’s stated desire to have a ‘bipartisan’ and ‘transparent’ dialogue on this issue.”

House GOP leaders today challenged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to respond to news reports that they are working behind closed doors to finalize a health care bill in advance of a proposed bipartisan White House summit on the issue.

In a letter sent to Pelosi and Reid, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH), House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA), and House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-IN) cite news reports showing that Democrats are potentially undermining the President’s stated commitment to have a “bipartisan” and “transparent” dialogue by rushing to finalize a backroom health care deal. Speaker Pelosi’s top health care aide this week outlined the legislative “trick” Democrats would use to jam a final bill through.

“The existence of any kind of backroom health care deal among the White House and Democratic Leaders would certainly make a mockery of the President’s stated desire to have a ‘bipartisan’ and ‘transparent’ dialogue on this issue,” Boehner, Cantor, and Pence write. “To ensure we can move forward in good faith, we ask that you publicly disavow these reports and assure the American people that Democratic Leadership is not putting together any kind of backroom health care deal or plotting any kind of legislative trickery to pass it. Your response will help clarify whether Democratic Leadership is serious about genuine bipartisan negotiations and whether the proposed summit will be a truly open forum or merely an intramural exercise.”

This letter follows one Boehner and Cantor sent to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel earlier in the week.

The text of the letter to Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi follows:

February 12, 2010

The Honorable Harry Reid

Majority Leader

United States Senate

Washington, DC 20510

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi

Speaker

U.S. House of Representatives

Washington, DC 20510

Dear Mr. Leader and Madam Speaker:

As you know, we welcomed the President’s call for bipartisan health care talks. The American people have made it clear that they strongly oppose the comprehensive health care bills you have passed and want them shelved in favor of a step-by-step approach focused on lowering costs for families and small businesses.

Given the President’s statement that he is “open to any ideas” at the proposed summit, it is our responsibility as congressional leaders to see that the views of our Members and our constituents will be heard in good faith. The existence of any kind of backroom health care deal among the White House and Democratic Leaders would certainly make a mockery of the President’s stated desire to have a “bipartisan” and “transparent” dialogue on this issue.

To that end, we were taken aback by a report in the Tuesday, February 9 edition of Politico stating that President Obama “hopes to walk into the Feb. 25 summit with an agreement in hand between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on a final Democratic bill, so they can move ahead with a reform package after the sit-down.”

We were further taken aback by a report in CongressDaily later the same day in which an aide to the Speaker, appearing at the National Health Policy Conference, described the legislative “trick” Democratic Leadership intends to use to jam through a “pre-negotiated” health care bill. It has also been reported that other congressional aides present concurred with this assessment.

Additionally, the Christian Science Monitor reported today that special interest groups are calling for Democrats to finalize a deal in advance of the proposed summit.

To ensure we can move forward in good faith, we ask that you publicly disavow these reports and assure the American people that Democratic Leadership is not putting together any kind of backroom health care deal or plotting any kind of legislative trickery to pass it. Your response will help clarify whether Democratic Leadership is serious about genuine bipartisan negotiations and whether the proposed summit will be a truly open forum or merely an intramural exercise.

We appreciate your immediate response in this matter and look forward to further efforts to foster bipartisan cooperation.

Sincerely,

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH)

House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA)

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-IN)

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Larry Summers Says Raising Taxes Creates Jobs

It's no wonder the economy is in the tank. How can taking more money from American families and businesses (also know as the productive, private sector), and giving it to government bureaucrats (also known as the unproductive, wasteful, "rat-hole" sector), create jobs? This is almost as ridiculous as Obama's V. P., Joe Biden, saying that "we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt".

On February 9th, Obama's senior economics adviser, Larry Summers, appeared on FOX Business to discuss the President Obama’s economic plan, which includes future tax increases, record spending, and record deficits (even after accounting for the tax increase which is very disturbing in itself). Summers, contending that increased taxes reduces unemployment said, “Almost all economists who studied these things have that kind of view.” He can't be serious, can he?

In a state of shock, FOX News contributor Gary Smith replied:

“It’s the biggest bunch of B.S. I ever heard. This is such a political game. Larry Summers thinks everyone is Rockefeller living in their Newport, Rhode Island mansion. These are guys that are starting businesses, investing (those making over $250,000 who will get hurt the most from the tax hikes). You can’t give business people money to hire people, they have to have a reason for hiring these people and that’s because they see sales increasing or costs decreasing. You can’t just say ‘go hire these five people’ because the businesses will go ‘What for? I don’t have the demand!’"

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VIDEO OF DEMOCRATS BLAMING "LACK" OF SNOW FOR GLOBAL WARMING

NOW MASSIVE EAST COAST SNOW STORM CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING TOO?

First, lack of snow is a symptom of global warming, and now record snowfall, which has paralyzed much of the northeast, is caused by global warming too? If it doesn't snow, it's global warming. If it snows, it's global warming. If it's hotter than normal, it's global warming, and if it's colder, it's global warming. I'm sorry, but you can't have it both ways. Temperatures and weather have always fluctuated in great degrees.

Yesterday, (no surprise) Time Magazine joined the fray:

There is some evidence that climate change could in fact make such massive snowstorms more common, even as the world continues to warm.

Watch Democrats Jay Inslee, Barbara Boxer, Amy Klobuchar, Robert Byrd and Dianne Feinstein express deep concern and alarm during years when winters were mild and snow was light, contending that global warming was the cause. These people should be ashamed of themselves:

The massive snow storm, which set all-time records in Washington, D.C. and other east coast cities, ironically caused the The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing entitled, "Global Warming Impacts, Including Public Health", to be cancelled. You can't tell me that God doesn't have a sense of humor!

If there is man-made, or "anthropogenic" global warming (now conveniently redefined as "climate change"), then why did the top scientists find it necessary to "hide the decline" (see climategate)?

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HAPPY 99TH BIRTHDAY TO RONALD REAGAN!

Happy 99th birthday to my hero, Ronald Reagan. My favorite speech of his was at the 1964 convention, when Barry Goldwater was the candidate. Even though it was given sixteen years before his presidency, it is often referred as "the speech that changed everything" or "a time for choosing".

Ronald Reagan changed everything for me. He transformed a country stricken with "malaise" and "stagflation" and made us proud to be Americans again. He resurrected our prosperity by allowing people to keep more of their earnings and decreased the choke hold of government interference in our lives. He won the Cold War and defeated Communism, as Margaret Thatcher said, "without firing a shot".

Watching "the speech that changed everything", shows us how little things have actually changed. Reagan articulated like no one, since The Founding Fathers, that the fight for freedom is continual and must be aggressively fought at all times. I'm afraid that we'd failed in that fight, but that is now changing. The Tea Party movement is exhibit "A".

The growth of government has grown exponentially since President Reagan left office. More government means less freedom, an equation that cannot be avoided. Our Founders warned about this and Ronald Reagan understood it better than any politician of the our lifetime. We need to shout this message from the rooftops!

Below are some of my all-time favorite Ronald Reagan quotes. As was the norm for President Reagan, they are timeless in their wisdom, wit, and application:

• “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction” -- Ronald Reagan
• "Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it." -- Ronald Reagan

• "A government bureau is the closest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth." --Ronald Reagan

• “...I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp." -- Ronald Reagan

• “There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder” -- Ronald Reagan

• “Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.” -- Ronald Reagan

• “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” -- Ronald Reagan

• “One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.” -- Ronald Reagan

• “Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.” -- Ronald Reagan "

• We are never defeated unless we give up on God.” -- Ronald Reagan

• “We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much” -- Ronald Reagan

• “Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.” -- Ronald Reagan

• “Man is not free unless government is limited.” -- Ronald Reagan

• “Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.” -- Ronald Reagan

• "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born." -- Ronald Reagan

• "All great change in America begins at the dinner table." -- Ronald Reagan

• "Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan

• "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." -- Ronald Reagan

• "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away." --Ronald Reagan

• "Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem." -- Ronald Reagan

• “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.” -- Ronald Reagan

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BARNEY FRANK NAMED PORKER OF THE YEAR BY CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has announced the results of its online poll for the 2009 Porker of the Year. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, (D-Mass.) won with 49 percent of the vote. In second place was Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) with 26.3 percent. Third-place honors went to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) with 6.6 percent. Honorable mentions go out to Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) with 5.9 percent and Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) with 5.5 percent. President Barack Obama was the overwhelming favorite in the write-in category, coming in just behind Rep. Abercrombie and ahead of last-place Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood.

Chairman Frank garnered the lion’s share of the votes as a result of his relentless and garrulous role in the failure of the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two mortgage government-sponsored enterprises (GSE), which were taken into government conservatorship in September of 2008 after they began to collapse. The two GSEs, which own or guarantee half of the nation’s $11 trillion home mortgages, have been on life support with $112 billion in taxpayer funds since then and taxpayers could be liable for trillions in bad loans on their balance sheets.

Among GSE defenders, Chairmen Frank is without peer. He safeguarded their lavish franchises and fended off any attempts to establish GSE oversight even when it became clear that GSE executives had manipulated earnings statements, given themselves huge bonuses based on bogus numbers, and steered the companies into such a precarious condition that they threatened the entire financial system. In one of his most outrageous statements, he told The New York Times on September 11, 2003 that the GSEs were “not facing any kind of financial crisis…[t]he more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.” During a 2003 committee hearing, he casually announced that he didn’t want “the same kind of focus on safety and soundness that we have in Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision. I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing.”

In an astounding “Barney-Come-Lately” statement on January 22, 2010, Chairman Frank said that his committee will now recommend “abolishing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in their current form and coming up with a whole new system of housing finance.” Taxpayers should not hold their breath in the misguided belief that the Chairman has suddenly gotten religion on privatization. “The seeds of the GSE meltdown were sown by politicians like Barney Frank. He has no intention of giving up federal control over housing finance. Taxpayers can be certain that he is already cooking up a new and obscenely expensive scheme to permanently nationalize housing finance,” said CAGW President Tom Schatz.

Citizens Against Government Waste is the nation's largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. Porker of the Year is a dubious honor given to a lawmaker, government official, or political candidate who has shown the most blatant disregard for the interests of taxpayers throughout the year.

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AMERICANS REJECT KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS WHILE OBAMA CONTINUES KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS

An encouraging poll today from pollster, Rasmussen Reports, indicates that the overwhelming majority of Americans reject the nonsensical, ill-conceived, imbecilic economic theory known as Keynesian Economics, after the British economist John Maynard Keynes.

Amazingly, since Obama's deficit-exploding economic policies are based wholeheartedly on Keynes theory, 70% reject Keynes' policies, while just 11% agree and think that the government should be spending even more money that it doesn't have. Possibly more surprising, since Keynes' policies are the favorite tool to do what they do best, grow government, is that even Democrats reject Keynesian economics by over 2 to 1 (47% to 21%).

Keynes' debunked, wrong-headed belief was that government should spend, borrow, and print money, ad infinitum; along with keeping interest rates artificially low (preferably at or near zero), would "stimulate" a sluggish economy back to health. Sound familiar?

It's wonderful that average, everyday Americans have more common sense than the arrogant, self-proclaimed "intellectuals" and "experts", who I refer to as the "money grows on trees crowd".

Perhaps the most prominent liberal "economist" is Nobel Prize winner and Keynes worshiper, Paul Krugman, who said today in his New York Times column:

"The point is that running big deficits in the face of the worst economic slump since the 1930s is actually the right thing to do. If anything, deficits should be bigger than they are because the government should be doing more than it is to create jobs."

Americans intuitively understand that continually borrowing and spending money you don't have doesn't work for individuals, families, or businesses. It doesn't work for governments either. The economic history on recessions, depressions, and recoveries are crystal clear.

When government "experts" (politicians and bureaucrats) intervened in prior downturns, with more big government "solutions" to "fix the economy", the economic declines were deeper and longer than when the government did nothing. In fact, the exact opposite of Keynes idiotic theories, reducing government spending, lowering taxes, and reducing smothering regulations (i.e., less government, not more), have a 100% track record of quickening economic turnarounds.

Economists like Keynes and Krugman, the gods of government debt; the professors who promote their policies; and the politicians who hide behind their facade of credibility, have done more damage to the financial health of the United States than any other force. There is no better example of this than FDR's own Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, who said after eight years of New Deal "stimulus" spending:

"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work ... After eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot!"

For more information, please see below an excellent, short, and informative video, produced by The Center of Freedom and Prosperity:

Keynes' theories may make for good classroom discussion in Econ 101 textbooks, but they have never worked in the real world.

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A TRILLION DOLLARS VISUALIZED

You may want to turn down the volume on the first short video above (it's a bit annoying), but turn it back up for the one below. With Obama, Reid, and Pelosi now making trillion dollar (or more) annual budget deficits in vogue, it's appropriate to add some perspective to these once unimaginable numbers. Both of these videos do a good job of helping us mere mortals, in the real world, wrap our minds around numbers only politicians and bureaucrats can comprehend.

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OBAMA'S SPENDING FREEZE IN PERSPECTIVE

President Obama has recently announced that there will be a budget freeze on a significant portion of the next 3 years worth of budgets. This video walks through what that budget freeze looks like and how much money is actually saved by implementing this policy.

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