Speculation swirled all over the EIB: Obama asked for ideas to save the economy, Rush had some good ones on Monday, and Tuesday he's mysteriously in Washington… coincidence?  

Rush on Monday: "Now, remember, Obama said, 'Show me what works and we'll do it.' It seems to me, folks, that the simplest, fastest, and most direct way to do this is to bail out the rich. If we are going to save our economy the bailout of the wealthy cannot wait. The rich need further tax cuts. This is what's necessary and I would be willing to personally present this plan to President-elect Obama because it has worked. I'm just offering, a personal trip, nobody even has to know about this." 

"Government never invests for a return on equity. Government invests for a return at the ballot box." -- Jason Lewis

• AT: Labor Aristocrats on the Public Payroll
• WSJ: We're All Keynesians Again

"If you want a stimulus package, you've got to get a return on the investment you make. The return is a tax cut across the board to grow the economy." -- Jason Lewis

• WP: America Hunkers Down: A Nation of Savers?

"We're going to have a malinvestment with this stimulus package, building things that don't add to the productivity of the economy." -- Jason Lewis

• Forbes: The Most Intense Period Of The Recession Is Behind Us

"We don't have a spending crisis, we have an investing crisis. We're spending money like drunken sailors, but as the Gipper used to say, that's not fair to drunken sailors." -- Jason Lewis

• Kudlow: How Big-Government Is He?

"There's no real way out of this if you're going to rely on big government. The best thing we could have done is rely on the marketplace." -- Jason Lewis

• Cohen: Meet Lady Subprime

"Wouldn't it be nice if some state legislator grilled the Board of Regents of your favorite university the same way we grill oil companies? The most massive inflation of any particular sector that we've witnessed in this country over the last few decades has been the greedy institutions of higher learning, if that isn't an oxymoron by now." -- Jason Lewis

• Williams: Beware One-Party Rule

"This was a failure of government intervention. This was a failure of a government stimulus program for housing, and we're recovering from that hangover right now." -- Jason Lewis