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17 hours ago ago from Lexington Libertarian
Senator Harry Reid who told us before the Surge that the Iraq war was lost while American soldiers were dying on the battlefield, has again stuck his foot in his mouth. This pathetic little man consistently lies, warps the facts and runs down this country. He is intensely partisan and continues to denigrate Republicans at every opportunity. His latest misinformation was delivered on the Senate floor and reported by FOX News: "Instead of ...
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19 hours ago ago from Thoughts of a Conservative in California
News Story : FOXNews.com Administration Warns of Command-and-Control' Regulation Over Emissions : Here is a novel idea . Why doesn't the Congress create a bill that would remove the EPA from being able to make laws without Congressional or Presidential approval. And while they are at it, bring each and every one of these agencies back into the control of the Congress 's bills and the President's signature. Right now they can create ...
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14 hours ago ago from Musings and Their Meanings
Not likely but possible, so says Karl Rove : "Democrats began the year as masters of the political universe, winning the White House and increasing their majorities in Congress. But the year is ending badly for them. Their top initiative, health care, is deeply unpopular. Congress's approval rating is 26%, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's is 28%, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's is an anemic 14%. Political currents are running against the ...
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16 hours ago ago from The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
I bet we all feel real good about all that money we donated to the Democrats last year and the year before, right? Wrong: A group of Democrats friendly to the interests of Wall Street forced a delay in consideration of the landmark financial regulatory reform bill scheduled to hit the House floor on Wednesday, Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told reporters in the Speaker's lobby. Frank accused the ...
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16 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
By Brody Mullins As part of their pledge to change Washington, Democrats promised to clamp down on earmarks. A new report shows that to some degree they are succeeding, but remain far from eliminating most of them. The nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense reported today that there are 5,224 earmarks home-state spending provisions added by individual lawmakers totaling $3.9 billion in the latest five government-spending bills. Thats ...
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10 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
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9 hours ago ago from The New York Times
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7 hours ago ago from PopEater
WASHINGTON -As Mark Kirk campaigns for the Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama, the Republican congressman casts himself as a scourge of the pork-barrel, special-interest congressional spending known as "earmarks." It wasn't always that way. Just two years ago, the four-term congressman secured more than $30 million for 19 pet projects in and around his congressional district. They included an aquarium, a planetarium and a church ...
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A group of centrist and conservative House Democrats forced a last-minute delay of a sweeping financial regulatory reform package scheduled for debate on the House floor Wednesday, sparking a flurry of negotiations before a compromise cleared the way for the legislation to move forward. The key point of contention was a proposed amendment by Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.), vice chair of a centrist coalition called New Democrats, that some party ...
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