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Omnibus Bill: Congress Lame To The Bitter End

December 16, 2010

A recent Gallup poll showed Congress had only a 13% approval rating. I am shocked. 13% actually approve of Congress ??? Who are these people ??? Have they been living under rocks ??? This is a Congress that increased federal spending by trillions during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Tax revenue will [...]

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Another Government Failure Magnifies Oil Spill Disaster

May 4, 2010

Something I think people of all political stripes can agree upon is this – a primary responsibility of the federal government is to keep us safe, to provide national security. Yet, it seems the federal government has become involved in so many different areas that it has lost sight of it's legitimate and primary focus. [...]

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Enemies Of The People

July 31, 2009

Barney Frank (D-VT) wants the federal government to decide how much Wall Street executives (and all other executives of private companies) are paid. Barney also wants the government to decide how they are paid. Legislation to ban incentive-based pay for private corporations has been approved by the House Financial Services Committee. I don't know where [...]

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What A Difference A Day Makes

February 26, 2009

During tuesday's speech to Congress, President Barack Obama spoke of the need for fiscal responsibility, eliminating wasteful government spending, and cutting the deficit in half, among other things. Republicans and Democrats alike cheered. Sitting directly behind Obama was Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who appeared positively ecstatic with our new President (was I [...]

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Another Day, Another $275 Billion

February 20, 2009

President Obama met with 85 mayors today to tell them to spend their stimulus money responsibly. This strikes me as roughly equivalent to giving 85 alcoholics each a fifth of Jack Daniels and then telling them to drink responsibly. Right. Like that's gonna happen. The last I heard, the partisan breakdown of the group of [...]

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Be A Patriot, Stick 'Em Up

February 9, 2009

Moderate Republican Senators Arlen Specter, Susan Collins, and Olympia Snowe are indicating they will defect from GOP ranks and vote in favor of President Obama's $825 billion porkulus bill ($1.1 trillion counting interest), thus giving Obama the 60 vote supermajority he needs to pass it. That makes the Congressional Republican tally on Obama's porkulus package [...]

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All Spending Is Stimulus Now

February 6, 2009

Listening to the Democrats defend their $1 trillion pork-filled stimulus monstrosity, I feel like I've entered a parallel universe. They are literally making it up as they go along. Repubicans object to the bill, saying it isn't a stimulus package, it's mostly a Democratic wish-list spending bill, the largest in history. Then Democrats counter by [...]

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Obama Abandons Reality

May 21, 2008

I want to stop talking about Barack Obama so much, I really do, but the man just won't keep his mouth shut, and every time he opens it lately, garbage pours out. I couldn't ignore this. Listen to this stuff he said about John McCain, from the Associated Press: "Just look at what he said [...]

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Vote For The CAGW Porker Of The Year !

January 25, 2008

It's time again to vote for the Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) Porker of the Year. The public outcry over the tens of billions of taxpayer dollars thrown at special-interest, pork-barrel projects reached a fever pitch in 2007. But who truly stood out as the worst custodian of your hard-earned money last year? Cast your [...]

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John Murtha, Distinguished Gentleman

January 15, 2008

I'm sure you all remember Nancy Pelosi saying she was going to clean up the "culture of corruption" in Congress when the Democrats took control in 2006. Nancy was referring to the culture of corruption in the outgoing Republican Congress, of course. It was a big campaign issue for the Democrats, and it worked. The [...]

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