This WIR is a little short (or it was supposed to be), due to all the work we've been putting into pay for congress' spending. April 15th is just around the corner, and after the Treasury Secretary's problems, I hear TurboTax fixed all it's bugs - so I'll be paying more this year. Oh wait, I paid the right amount, even when I used the same software, and was employed the same way. Weird.

The New Math
One plus one equals two, and seven hundred billion (bailout) plus one trillion (stimulus) plus four hundred billion (spending bill) equals a couple hundred politicians just getting started. Or, if you really want to know, that's over two trillion.

Of course here's another little government trick - big numbers are hard to figure. How much is a 2 trillion dollars? If you were given a dollar every second you would have eighty six thousand dollars by the end of the day, and over a half million in a week. But it would take over sixty three thousand years to reach two trillion. That just shows how big these number are.

Does the government need that much? Can they manage that much? Is this reasonable? With a population of around three hundred million people (with five hundred million loosing their jobs), it's only sixty five hundred per head. But there's only about one hundred fifty million workers, making it thirteen thousand for every job holder.

Think of it as a fee to be part of the greatest 'club' around, where those that make more than you, pay part of your share - and you pay for those making less, claiming less, or just working less than you. Maybe that makes is sound better, but still, it seems like it's time to forget who the club president is, and get rid of the dead weight on the board of directors.

Omnibus Spending
That's right, in case you missed it those tricky politicians are at it again. This time their spending money and disguising it as some kind of unified public transportation. And it's back to those earmarks - remember when the stimulus bill didn't have a single one? John Kerry wants $22 million for the JFK library. Robert Byrd is looking for $2.6 million for wood education - we do need smarter trees. Someone somewhere wants $200,000 for tattoo removal.

Both parties have called for this to be vetoed - because, let's face it, they can't even control their colleagues. We've been promised a line by line inspection of spending, then told we need to tax the rich more and been encouraged to consider cutting back the military budget. Seems like that line by line thing could work well here.

The blame falls on both parties, but the responsibility falls to a single individual - the promises of hope, change, responsibility, openness and transparency are debts being called in, the question is if President Obama has the moral currency to pay up.

He Said, He Said
Believe it or not, the people at Caterpillar (the heavy machinery company, not the fuzzy little crawly thing) didn't support the stimulus bill. Last month, before the bill was passed, President Obama said:

Today, the chairman and CEO of Caterpillar said that if the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan passes, his company would be able to rehire some of those employees.

Well, kinda. Turns out he said there could be rehiring if a responsible stimulus bill was passed, and if it succeeded in restarting the economy. Sounds like 0 for 2 to me.

Babies R Us
Not satisfied with creating an octuplet pregnancy? Now you can have your child custom made. Dark eyes, light eyes? Brown or blond hair? It's up to you. The LA Fertility Institute expects the first custom baby next year. I'm not sure if this is the advancement of a woman's right to choose or just a new low for science. Either way, Hitler would be proud.

So, what's the return policy?

That's Debatable
Only a week into his new radio show, Fred Thompson's trophy wife takes on the Rush Controversy, the Fairness Doctrine, and Liberal Condescension all in one blog post.

But since democratic (as in the party, not the process) loudmouths everywhere are calling Rush the defacto leader of the Republican party - in an attempt to somehow scare Republicans away from supporting conservative philosophies by equating them with 'extremists' - a debate between the two leaders would be interesting. I'm sure ratings would agree.

And to every self-aggrandizing actor out there who simply gets paid to play dress-up and pretend, I got some news for you: every time you refer to Rush as simple, uneducated, stupid, drug addict, or whatever else you can come up with, realize that you're insulting every one of us who listens to and appreciates his views and his program. And there's a lot of us.

Read It And Weep
Maybe this is why the debate will never happen, I doubt you could fit a teleprompter in Rush's studio. Teleprompter good? Bad? Who cares as long as it's real. It is real, right? Because if it isn't, who exactly is writing this script?