None other than SLU alumni and TKE EA Alumni Rep. Quico Canseco R, TX-23!
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Those silly subjects of the Queen have hacked my sister’s facebook page.
Ali, don’t worry. I’ve already reached out to my friends at facebook and the New Scotland Yard.
This one is kind of funny. A “Think Progress” staff/intern goes to CPAC and tries to ambush O’Reilly’s producer. What he should have said is this: “Hey, did you see the blog post some of my liberal pals published over at Media Matters? They got a disgruntled former Fox News ‘employee’ (who remains anonymous) to dump on their former employer? Is it accurate? Yes or no?”
All of that aside, way too many “bros” for my taste.
H/T to David Rokeach.
Today I experienced some very odd traffic. There’s never usually anyone on the roads on a Friday in DC. Here might be one reason, military helicopters doing flyovers the freeway. And yes, I expect my filming it didn’t help things.
First, check out this video.
Rep. Ryan and Rep. Maloney are arguing about budgets. I looked at the last budget the President submitted (a new one comes out next week) and made these two charts. Pretty much, Federal outlays are the highest they’ve been in my lifetime. I love taking data back to 1983 since it was the year of my birth. In total outlays, I do not think the numbers are inflation adjusted, for full disclosure. The second chart is as a % of GDP. Obviously, if they predict the GDP to be bigger next year, or significantly bigger, even increases in spending can be a smaller percent of GDP. I also realize that my black “freeze” line can move as GDP moves. But what if GDP doesn’t move? What if Congress cuts spending? The line moves too. Just things to consider.
So, spending’s pretty much as high as it has been in a long time, and we’re freezing it now? That’s the debate. Imagine if Paul Ryan proposed cutting spending by the largest amount in history, and told Rep. Maloney that he was going to then propose a 5 year freeze on further cuts. How do you think she’d react?
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