Friday night videos episode 18

Well, well, well…after a three-week hiatus for the holidays I’m back with a bunch of stuff. You thought I’d quit just because the calendar turned? Au contraire.

Let’s begin by pointing out the REAL problem in Washington, at least according to the Center for Individual Freedom.

If the government would stop spending so much they would need less of OUR money. That sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it?

Spending on a state level is the message this protest was scheduled to address. From AFP-Maryland:

It’s going to be cold, but then again most state capitals outside of Honolulu are shivering these days. The national AFP group took a look around the recent global warming summit and this is what they saw.

As I recall, Copenhagen endured cold and snow all during the conference; then again, it’s winter. The Washington News-Observer dragged Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas up to the Capitol roof so his ears could fall off. Actually, he just had his take on Pelosi and climate change.

Now if we need a cool spell this summer, we could have this debate in Washington during the heat of July. Al Gore always seems to bring a chill.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is obviously raking in the big bucks now to up the ante.

Otherwise, it seems like only government has big bucks. But Rep.Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan tells the Washington News-Observer that we can’t spend our way out of a recession.

And he’s right. The only thing taking from the private sector to return it there does is create busy work on the pass-thru and allow government to pick winners and losers.

The folks at Our Country Deserves Better have one idea for a loser come November.

Since the Democrats have already had two of their members decide not to stand for re-election it’s going to be interesting to see if they have the same strategy in mind for Senator Reid if his poll numbers continue to tank as Dodd’s and Dorgan’s did.

The concept of “transparency” has been big in the news lately. The Sunlight Foundation chimes in with their belief that 2009 was a good year for the concept.

But when it comes to health care, the GOP begs to differ.

In truth, not all of the blame for this can be placed on the President because Congress sets their own rules – but he’s sure not showing any leadership on this.

Lastly, we have one of Maryland’s own who shows that she completely misunderstands the purpose of the census. Once again from WNO:

The census is to determine proportional representation for the House of Representatives, period, end of sentence. If I fill out the census form it’s going to say three people live at my domicile and that’s it.

On that contrarian note another edition of FNV comes to a close. I’ll surely have more fun stuff next week.