A list and summary of what the brain trust here at Conservative Command is thinking about on this edgy Monday morning:

  • Is it any surprise that the market keeps tanking in light of all this nationalization talk?  This is precisely the kind of market anxiety (and loss of wealth) that occurs when a liberal is in office and socialism is on the agenda.
  • President Obama wants to cut defense spending . . . but he just sent an additional $17,000 troops to Afghanistan.
  • Now we’re begging the Chinese to keep buying our debt?  This isn’t going to end well.
  • It’s encouraging to see Republican governors like Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin not only criticize the recently-passed-and-signed Pig Bill but state that they will not accept the money that is allocated for their states.  These are the kinds of conservative principles we hope they stick to.
  • Obama just appointed Vice President Joe Biden to oversee implementation of the Pig Bill.  Oh Lord.
  • Turns out all these foreclosures in the U.S. are concentrated in five states: Nevada (1 in 73 houses is in foreclosure), Arizona, California, Florida, and Michigan (1 in 314 houses is in foreclosure).  That’s it.  The rest of the country is fine (e.g., in New York, 1 in 2,000+ houses is in foreclosure).  So, under Obama’s mortgage relief plan, the residents of 45 states are being asked to pay for the irresponsibility and bad decisions of some of the residents in five states?
  • Someone told me today that the nationalization of the banks is necessary.  No, it’s not.  Since when is a company so big that it cannot be allowed to fail?  Why is propping up these failing entities such a necessity?  They are going to fail anyway.  It’s just a question of when. 
  • Why isn’t anyone talking about the fact that Obama and Congress are going to let former President Bush’s tax cuts expire next year?  That is a tax increase on everyone.

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