Monthly Archives: July 2009

With reports that people are using this program to buy Lexus and other foreign cars, “cash for clunkers” is already broke down.

The US government will suspend the popular cash for clunkers program after almost four days, telling Congress they’ll burn through the $950 million budget by midnight. UPDATE: The Freep claims White House sources tell them the program’s not been suspended.

Holy flip-flop, Batman! If the numbers the Department of Transportation claims they received from NADA are true, it would mean over 21,000 work trucks and 242,000 cars were potentially sold. But that flies in the face of the Freep now reporting White House official denying these reports late today that the program was suspended, and claiming all valid deals would be honored. Officials at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are now seeking ways to send additional money to the program; the U.S. House was set to adjourn Friday for a month-long break.

The decision to suspend the plan came after auto dealers warned the government today that it was in danger of losing track of how many trades had actually been made.

Gee, how much fraud and abuse do you think this program will incur? One of the stupidest things about it is they want the old cars to be destroyed. This administration is insane. They define a clunker as any car getting less than 18 on the highway. That covers most of the cars out there.

One of the creepy things proposed in the new Health Care bill is a Behavior Czar. Yes, they want a Behavior Czar to monitor our energy use  and correct it, because they don’t want us using so much energy. Time to get people back into the caves, it seems.

What does this has to do with Health Care reform? Nada. It has everything to do with the ridiculous ideology of this administration which is obsessed with the dying argument of AGW.

We already have something like 35 Czars. More than any administration in history. The point of all these czars is they are created from the Executive branch and therefore aren’t answerable to Congress. They are like a parallel government. To many people it looks like a power grab. Obama has czars for almost everything. And keeps adding more all the time. At least the Behavior czar seems to be under a department. Not that it isn’t monumentally Orwellian.

If the “Behavior Czar” doesn’t creep you out, there’s another provision in the health bill where they can come to your house and tell you how to raise your kids. Yeah.

It’s a good thing Obama’s poll numbers are dropping so fast. The Democrats are also on the ropes. Hopefully the voters will pummel them during the summer break and they will back out of this nightmare bill.