Today's Reading/Listening List

Politico - Obama gets into trouble without his teleprompter.The Hill - 1 Rep gives back AIG political donations

Alaska - Palin to refuse 30 percent of the Stimu-Lie

GovExec.com - So-called "fiscal conservative" Blue Dogs release budget guideline
"The group supports Obama's "very ambitious agenda," Rep. Allen Boyd, D-Fla., a Blue Dog leader and senior member of the Budget Committee, said on Wednesday."

So under their rational, it is fiscally conservative to back an unprecedented expansion of the government, as long as you tax the crap out of productivity to pay for it. The media should stop calling them "fiscally conservative," because that is pure BS. They are tax and spend liberals.

GovExec.com - Stimulus oversight panel continues to staff up
Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., agreed that preventing fraud was necessary to ensure that billions of dollars aren't wasted. Citing fraud analysts, he estimated that U.S. organizations lose 7 percent of revenue to fraud and waste annually. When applied to the stimulus package, that 7 percent would amount to $55 billion in lost funds.
"And the sad truth is, once fraudulent dollars go out the door, the federal government historically is only able to collect pennies on the dollar," Towns said.

TaxVox - Taxing AIG Bonuses: Worse Than Paying Them

GoogleBlogoscoped - Gmail gets an undo for sent mail

AP - Macaw photo

Obama's NCAA bracket picks performed on par with his presidency so far - poorly.

When BO gave Brit PM Gordon Brown that DVD box set, lots of people jokingly wondered whether they would work on DVD player, to prevent piracy, DVD formats vary in different regions of the world. Well it turns out they do not work.

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