If there’s one thing Saturday Night Live is good at in an election year, it’s lampooning politicians—whether it’s been Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford, Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton, or Dan Akroyd as Bob Dole. But last weekend, SNL offered up an unusually insightful bit of non-presidential social commentary—this time taking a swipe at America’s coddled, self-esteem-driven, success-less culture. You’d be better off watching the clip from the show (it’s much funnier than this summary), but in the interest of keeping it simple, a skit last week featured two talk …
At last night’s All Star game, President Barack Obama told Joe Buck that the federal government couldn’t bailout the National League because “we’re out of money.” This is not the first time Obama has used that phrase. He told CSPAN the same thing on May 23rd. And yet earlier today, President Obama praised the House Democrats’ health care bill which creates $1.3 trillion in new entitlement spending in just the first ten years. Perhaps Obama needs a little refresher on the principles of finance:
