Mister No It All

2009-03-29T11:45:00.000-07:00

I had a email question about the term "Blue Dog" Democrat. No, it is not an insult. Blue dogs are the inheritors of the conservative Democrats known as the "Boll Weevils". Their name is a play on the term "Yellow Dog" Democrats. The Blue Dogs named themselves thus because their founding members had the semi-famous blue dog paintings done by a Loiusiana artist hanging in their offices. Blue dogs are not anti-military and do not believe in spending the country into the stone age nor taxing the people into shocking poverty. They are not against the second amendment and like to smoke a cigar once in a while. MR. NO IT ALL.

2009-03-20T12:10:00.000-07:00

We can spend 787 Billion dollars on a "stimulus" bill, which is not a stimulus bill, but all of a sudden people are completely out of thier minds about 165 Million dollars spent at AIG? Spending that was approved by the Government? By the way, AIG got about 45 Billion dollars in TARP money, for which they pay interest by the way. The rest of the 130 Billion dollars or so came from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which is not a government owned institution and does not use taxpayer money.

2009-03-16T06:39:00.000-07:00

Did anybody watch Ben Bernancke on "60 Minutes" last night? Did you notice that he said that the Federal Reserve did not use taxpayer money? Then how come the news media and members of Congress refer to the Fed loans to AIG as taxpayer loans? The Chairman did not admit that Federal Reserve banks are corporations not owned by the U.S. Government, but for him to say that the Fed did not use taxpayer money was a big step. I wonder if anyone in the news media noticed what he said?