Ann Coulter lives in New York where she owns an apartment but votes in Connecticut using her father’s address. And that’s illegal. So following a formal complaint filed by coulterwatch.com’s Dan Borchers and a report in the NY Daily News, Connecticut’s Elections Enforcement Commission is probing the faux-comedienne/brassy blonde author.

For all the news of elections and new strategies, civilian casualties continue in Iraq and Afghanistan.

With Geithner set to announce his plan for fixing the banks on Monday it’s time to look at one of the biggest issues in the financial crisis: the fact that no one knows how bad the damage is. Not only is the situation getting worse, but a lot of securities either really have no market (they’re hardly ever sold) or the market price is actually below their probable long term value. If the government is going to take over banks, or insure the securities, or set up a bad bank, they need to know how to value them.

Lieberman noted that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel helped iron out the Senate compromise, saying, “He spoke very strongly in favor of it.”

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz describes the House Democratic leadership’s efforts to include their GOP colleagues in the process of crafting a stimulus bill, and how that effort was rejected. She also schools John King on the Constitutional system requiring a conference between the House and Senate.

Adam Cohen’s prose is a rhapsody in fact. A throwback to historians such as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. or David Halberstam, in an era that issues forth vague tissues of assertions, or declarations of ideology, his are pages stamped with “In Fact We Trust.”

The Senate approved a Coburn amendment 73-24 that states,

None of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for any casino or other gambling establishment, aquarium, zoo, golf course, swimming pool, stadium, community park, museum, theater, art center, and highway beautification project.

For the purposed of a Keynesian stimulus it doesn’t matter if it’s spent on a park or a highway beautification project.

GEORGE: Well you heard Larry Summers right there on the stimulus package. He says that after the last 8 years, your party has no credibility on the economy.

STEELE: Well, I think that’s laugable. I mean you act like we have spent the last 8 years in the mess that we’re currently in.

Democratic members of Congress at their weekend retreat were fuming that the Senate bill was a piece of jerry-rigged garbage that undermined its own objectives just so something could get passed. They report that they were assured by administration sources that it would get fixed in conference.

Presentation of 6 stimulus scenarios and their job creation potentials