In case you had any question about whether Congress is driving our country over the deficit cliff:

See where our money is going and who’s to blame for this bloated spending. 

It’s really a shame that George Bush and the Congress had to run up such huge deficits and double our national debt to $10 trillion during a time of relative prosperity.  So now when economic times are tough, we’re already in such a deep hole that it’s even more difficult to climb out.

Thanks to The Ranter for the graph.

Both the New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as hundreds of news organizations across the country, have wrongly attributed this quote to the Obama administration:

“A midnight rule change by the Bush administration to allow carrying of concealed weapons in the national parks will not have any significant impacts on public health and safety.”

It turns out this statement did not come from the current Justice Department under Obama, but rather from a Department of Interior memo dated November 18, 2008 during the Bush administration.

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“Her skirt was very short, and Josh found himself mesmerized by her perfectly shaped, silken legs with kneecaps that reminded him of golden apples.”

– excerpt from Senator Barbara Boxer’s (D-California) novel, A Time to Run

Editorial review by Publisher’s Weekly:  “The three-term senator from California offers a debut novel to relate ‘a story I had long wanted to tell.’  Aspiring political activist Josh Fischer and aspiring journalist Greg Hunter are best friends and roommates at 1970s Berkeley: Josh is dark, sensitive and liberal; Greg is blond, gregarious and leans right.  When the two meet Ellen Downey, a petite redhead with a steely determination to make the world a better place, romantic entanglements ensue, with Ellen ultimately marrying Josh shortly after graduation.  When Josh dies during his Senate campaign, Ellen assumes his candidacy and scores an upset victory…”

Who knew Boxer had a bit of Jacqueline Susann in her?