Which is the bigger hoax, cap-and-trade jobs or balloon boy?

By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
10/29/09 5:24 PM EDT

This just in - a cap-and-trade balloon carrying millions of new jobs for unemployed Americans has been sighted. Go here for the full report, produced by American Solutions for Winning the Future.

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Mad Monica

Oct 31, 2009

I think history will show the entire Obama in the White House thing to be the single greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. Look at what this guy promised and look what he's delivered. Where I come from that kind of bait and switch is considered a crime.

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Which is the bigger hoax, cap-and-trade jobs or balloon boy?

By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
10/29/09 5:24 PM EDT