REPUBLICAN MILLIONAIRES earn their money; Democrat millionaires ... well, read on.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: The Buck Never Stops With Them. White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew on Sunday television:

On MTP: “Well, one of the things about the United States Senate that I don’t think the American people realize is that it takes 60 not 50 votes to pass something.

On CNN: “We also need to be honest. You can’t pass a budget in the Senate of the United States without 60 votes and you can’t get 60 votes without bipartisan support.”

That is simply false: “The budget resolution…requires only a majority vote to pass, and its consideration is one of the few actions that cannot be filibustered in the Senate.”

Confusion when it comes to the budget law is nothing new for this Administration. The President’s budget request tomorrow is already past the deadline set by the 1974 Congressional Budget Act, the latest in a lengthy string of violations of their legal obligations.

Has the White House bothered to ask their party’s leaders in the U.S. Senate the real reason they refuse to prioritize the American people’s tax dollars? Is it that they can’t admit to how much more they want to take from hardworking American families in order to fuel their spending appetite?

Not can't admit; won't admit.

BUMMER: Pollution Related to Electric-Cars May Be More Harmful than Gasoline Cars.

Linked from Instapundit.

TRUE LIES: the Obama budget.

JUST PEACHY: my tax money being spent to pay for an 'Occupy' protest in favor of raising my taxes.

WELCOME TO THE 2013 BUDGET: Mr. Obama, we don't have a tax problem, we have a spending problem.

Obama just won't take "No!" for an answer. In 2013, he won't have an option.

COMPROMISE? What compromise?

EXPLAINING WHY ObamaCare is an abomination.

[T]he individual mandate inevitably leads to full-blown socialized medicine.... When the government mandates that you have to buy health insurance, then it has to specify what health insurance is required to satisfy the mandate. This means politics is involved in deciding what must be included and covered by that insurance.

And once politics is involved, that means you can't leave anything out, as that would be taken as an offense and a slight to both the consumers and the providers of the excluded service. Mental health benefits and counseling, drug rehab, maternity benefits (even for men and seniors), abortion -- everything must be covered.

Some related thoughts here.

CRONY CAPITALISM: Corruption ... is not a byproduct of big government; it is its essence.

CUT SUBSIDIES -- just not my subsidies.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane: the ‘obesity epidemic’ is proof that Americans are telling the nanny-staters to mind their own business.

IF MY CATS COULD TALK, they’d tell the author to stick her opinion where the sun don’t shine.