It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad Federal Government

Four posts in a row from Instapundit illustrating just how broken our Federal overlord is.  Most parasites have inbred mechanisms to limit their damage so that the host stays healthy enough to feed them.  Our fascists?  Not so much.  Break it up.  Break it all up.

DICK DURBIN: Now seems like a good time for an Internet tax.

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds  

SO IS THIS THE HOPE, OR THE CHANGE? US deficit up 15.7% in first half of fiscal 2011.

Posted at 7:57 am by Glenn Reynolds  

U.S. LACKS CREDIBILITY ON DEBT, says IMF.

Posted at 7:50 am by Glenn Reynolds  

WELL, IT’S A GOOD THING WE CHANGED MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS, THEN: Inflation Actually Near 10% Using Older Measure. “Inflation, using the reporting methodologies in place before 1980, hit an annual rate of 9.6 percent in February, according to the Shadow Government Statistics newsletter.” Because if we were using that old system, inflation would bereally bad. Thanks, measurement-system-changers!