Maryland: Congress

This is disturbing:

It is now 7 PM and the Democrats in Congress have yet to give their Republican
counterparts a copy of the final Stimulus Bill for them to read. Steny Hoyer
says that the House is going to move toward a vote starting at 9 AM tomorrow.

Today’s version of the bill clocks in at 1,434 pages and that’s not the final version. What Congress will likely vote on tomorrow (because President Obama has practically demanded that he sign it on Monday) is likely going to be larger.

There is no chance in the world that any member of Congress is going to be able to read the bill by morning unless they are a trained speed reader.

The White House has just issued a new state-by-state estimate on the number of jobs that will be saved or created over the next two years under the $789.5 billion economic stimulus package now nearing final approval in Congress. The...

Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski said she is worried that a tax break for new car buyers could be watered down or eliminated from the massive stimulus measure that cleared another hurdle today in Congress. The Maryland Democrat is urging voters...

So if -- if you want to get -- if you want to buy a house, then putting zero down and buying a house that is probably not affordable for you in case something goes wrong, that's something that has to be reconsidered. So we're going to have to change our -- our bad habits.

--President Barack Obama, February 9, 2009

Bad habits encouraged by ACORN and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Of course some in Congress--not named Barack Obama--tried on multiple occasions to reign in the GSEs and possible stanch the looming meltdown.

Where was our President then? Raking in over $126,000 in campaign contributions from Fannie and Freddie, and paying ACORN 800,000 to get out the vote. And now ACORN stands to rake in billions of taxpayer money from his "stimulus bill"

But somehow tax cuts, which increased tax revenue is responsible for the financial crisis.