The 2008 election year gave rise to the phrase "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig".  This year, I will make it my personal challenge to put the phrase "If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then it must be a duck", on the lips of Americans who are now choking on the poisonous elixir that Washington has been dispensing for decades.We are now being told by the Washington brain trust that this new stimulus plan will create three to four million jobs and "jolt" the economy out of our economic malaise.  While this drink appears to be more Kool-Aid dispensed in a sippy cup, it is, in reality, arsenic with a hemlock chaser-being administered with a siphon hose (disguised as a must to save the economy).   Our leaders, professionals at political spin, have perfected the Jekyll and Hyde ruse.  While Jekyll broadcasts to the world that we will no longer accept corruption and opaque government transactions, Hyde is...(Read Full Post)