Nothing off the table, including cuts in defense where justified.

Give up on most of the social crap. Let the locals have that slice of the pie to deal with as they see fit..

One of two other planks in the contract should be; we will not take earmarks for our district. The other should be term limits, four terms in Congress and two in the Senate.

JC Watts, during his stay in Congress, was the largest carrier of pork to his district in Oklahoma. The longer they stay in Washington the more corrupt they become.

Geithner and Obama are starting to remind me of animals backed into a corner. The world is changing. China hasn’t decoupled from the U.S. economy yet – but it will. (It’s not obvious yet, but China will recover faster than us in the second half of 2009, and that right there will be an advance in the decoupling.) American is destined to lose its financial position – because of the extreme abuse of the dollar, the extreme deficits and money creation, of the Greenspan-Clinton II-Bush-Bernanke-Obama-Geithner administrations. We need to ride those changes. We need to slash at away our failures and our consumer-debt economy, freeing our entrepreneurs to discover and invent and do all the things the (Communist) Chinese can’t do, in years to come. Obama and Geithner haven’t a clue about that. Their stupid, governmental (but I repeat myself) measures “fight the last war”, trying to prevent or deny the coming changes – as if it’s possible to stop the change. It isn’t.

He claims that everyone except the Federal Reserve created the crisis. No, dude: the Federal Reserve, more than any other actor, created the crisis. By inflating the money supply for years, creating bubble after bubble – the tech bubble, the real estate and credit bubble, etc.

He claims that financial markets are broken. They aren’t: the things markets are doing, or that they would do if the government weren’t interfering, are the things needed to clean up balance sheets, punish the incompetent and the irrationally greedy, and lay the foundation for future growth. *Geithner* is breaking the markets, to the extent they are broken. His actions actively interfere with necessary adjustments.

He claims we need to get the banks lending again. NO. Excessive lending was/is the whole root and nature of the crisis!

Has anyone else noticed that the price of gasoline started going up the same time Chairman 0′s Interior Department canceled exploration in the coastal areas and in the shale deposits of Utah and Colorado?