Today's Reading/Listening List

Washington is all in outrage over the AIG bonuses. Some Members are contemplating a punitive tax on the recipients to get the money back. Will they consider giving back all the campaign contributions they received from TARP-corporations through the years of the bubble?

For example, Obama received $101K from AIG.

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Michelle Malkin -The Kabuki Theater of AIG Outrage

Washington Times - Obama climate plan could cost $2 trillion
Tax Foundation - Cap-and-trade average annual household burden would be $1,218

AP - Health care overhaul cost may reach $1.5 trillion

More change you can believe in!
MSNBC - Obama Budget Strategy Breaks Bipartisan Pledge

No wonder Obama wants to run the 2010 census directly from the White House:
Fox News - ACORN to Play Role in 2010 Census

SkyNews - The Teleprompter President's Teleprompter Blunder

"Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address in Washington when he realised it all sounded a bit too familiar.

It was. He was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just read from the same teleprompter.

Mr Cowen stopped, turned to the president and said: "That's your speech."

A laughing Mr Obama returned to the podium to take over but it seems the script had finally been switched and the US president ended up thanking himself for inviting everyone to the party.

Mr Obama is an accomplished orator but is becoming known in America as the "teleprompt president" over his reliance on the machine when he gives a speech.""

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Obama is trying to cram a lot of government expansion through Congress this year. Some Democrats are concerned that the Hill will be overloaded, but Obama's Teleprompter defends tackling many problems at the same time.

Taxpayer Rallies Continue!


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Paste - Demetri Martin's 224-Palindrome Poem

Lisa de Moraes - Idol's Twangy Grand Ole Opry Week

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Steve Reich - Nagoya Marimbas


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The major piece that was on my listening list today was Glenn Branca's "Symphony No. 5" and I will have to channel Simon Cowell by declaring it to be self-indulgent, vapid rubbish. On to Arvo Part's De Profundis to clear my head.