Jul 25 2009

$24 Trillion!

Mind boggling lack of “unprecedented transparency” by the Obama administration:
The Special Inspector General for TARP, Neil Barofsky, made headlines this week when he estimated that the Obama administration had committed itself to spending as much as $24,000,000,000,000 to fix the American economy. The Treasury fired back at its own SIGTARP, saying that Barofsky inflated [...]

Jun 19 2009

How to Succeed in Politics Without Really Trying

As the Tribune Company reports (in nearly identical articles by the same reporters in the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times), and as noted by my old blogboss Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, President Barack H. Obama’s firing of Gerald Walpin, Inspector General of AmeriCorps — without the required notification of Congress 30 days [...]