Anchoress stimulus plan a hit! – UPDATED

Okay, it’s not only my plan…a lot of people are wondering the same thing: Why doesn’t the government just give the citizenry the money and allow us to put it back into circulation and the banks?

Turns out Jon Stewart is wondering about that too.

The answer seems to be simply that the people in power want as much control over everything as they can possibly get. God forbid the taxpayers have some control over their own tax money!

The must-read of the day: Krauthammer

So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared “we have chosen hope over fear.” Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.

That’s just the opening salvo. Read it all. Save it. I also thought it would take 6 months, not two weeks. In my email, I’m seeing Obama being nicknamed “Scary Barry.” He’s not going to like that.

MELT THE PHONES: you need numbers? More numbers here

Confederate Yankee notes that the inflation Obama has inherited is nothing like what other presidents have walked into, and that our doing nothing seems to be working, so far…

Is it all a fraud? Just give us the money.

UPDATED: O/T: I’ve noticed this too: The coverage of Obama is overwhelmingly positive, and yet he whines and complains. Imagine if he’d have to put up with a tenth of what Bush endured.

Losing control of the process. Considering they did not follow the usual procedures, that is not surprising.

Superman don’t need no airplane:

On the economy, I continue to find no one, Democrat or Republican, who has faith that the stimulus bill passed by the House will solve anything or make anything better, though many argue that doing absolutely nothing will surely make things worse by not promising at least the possibility of improvement through action.

Meanwhile, the inquest on President Obama’s great stimulus mistake continues.

His serious and consequential policy mistake is that he put his prestige behind not a new way of breaking through but an old way of staying put. This marked a dreadful misreading of the moment. And now he’s digging in. His political mistake, which in retrospect we will see as huge, is that he remoralized the Republicans. He let them back in the game.

Jonah Goldberg: The great overreach. Pelosi always overreaches. She can’t help herself.

Yes, it’s hard to take them seriously