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Obama's 510 Campaign Promises
Club for Growth — This website is tracking Obama to see if he makes good on his 510 campaign promises.

Weekend Linky Dinks
UpsideTrader — [image] The major indexes averaged about a 3% decline for the week as we got barraged with more gloomy news. Here are some links of interest. First off, thank you to 24/7 Wall St. for including me on their "Top 25 Financial Blogs for 2009" Some stocks that could be headed to zero . Maria Bartiromo does an hysterical interview with Prince Alaweed. Not really. Freddie Mac is back to the well for $35 billion. Already? The Obameter , if you want to track his promises. Louise Yamada was canned by Citigroup, so they could push further into toxic matter, maybe they should have ...

I Warned You
Coyote Blog — In any number of posts, I warned that, based on past precedent, Presidents almost never roll back executive power, even if they promised to do so in the election campaign.  For example, I wrote on innauguration day this year: …thoughtful people already on day 1 should have evidence that things are the same as they ever were, just with better PR.   For God sakes, as his first expenditure of political capital, Obama is pushing for a trillion dollar government spending bill that is basically one big pork-fest that might make even Ted Stevens blush, a hodge-podge of every wish-list of leftish lobbyists that ...