• CHUCK GRASSLEY SUCKS AGAIN: But… but… maybe he’ll reach a compromise that everyone likes! He could still come around! “Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) — Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, one of three Senate Republicans negotiating on health care, said the soaring federal budget deficit ‘puts a stake in the heart’ of $1 trillion measures being debated in Congress.” Yes, we cannot add to those higher deficit projections for 2009 and 2010 with this health care measure set to launch in 2013. [Bloomberg]

Oh ho ho, read this and you might think our political system has been GRIDLOCKED or something for the last 20 years! “Most Americans continue to want the federal government to focus on reducing the budget deficit rather than spending money to stimulate the national economy, a new New York Times/CBS News poll finds. Yet at the same time, most oppose some proposed solution for decreasing it… MORE »

No one is investing in anything now — even in newspapers or crappy cars! — so it’ll be hard for every state in the country to lure short-term debt investors, since they’re all expected to become insolvent at some point(s) within the next few years. (Ha ha, sucks not being able to print money, doesn’t it STATES?) The state of Illinois, meanwhile, is having an especially tough time selling off its debt, because who wants to buy debt from a state that’s governed by an actual adult retard? MORE »

The new president will get a very special gift from the George W. Bush Administration next year: an all-time record deficit of $490 billion American dollars, or “nine Euros.” Before Bush took office in 2001 — and we do mean “took,” har har! — the federal budget deficit didn’t exist, but there was a surplus of $230 billion in the budget. [Bloomberg]

While you’re not really working and getting ready for the Jesus’ Special Day, people who Hate Our Freedoms (TM) around the world are plotting against Washington. And it’s working. Expect a Great Depression by Super Bowl Sunday: MORE »