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Remember Mark Penn, of the Hillary ‘08 Campaign?? (Guess Who Got Stimulus Money…)
8 hours ago ago from InsightAnalytical -- Watching Our World
~~By InsightAnalytical-GRL Here's a nugget from The Hill.com : Mark Penn's two firms awarded millions from stimulus for public relations work According to the story, A contract worth nearly $6 million in stimulus funds was awarded by the Obama adminstration to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's pollster in 2008. Federal records show that a contract worth $5.97 million, part of the $787 billion ...
Related contentBoehner Rejects Massive, Earmark-Loaded Spending Bill: “Let’s Stop This Madness”
8 hours ago ago from John Boehner
Just one day after the Wall Street Journal says Republicans “ pushed Mr. Obama to freeze federal spending ,” Congressman Boehner voted against a massive, earmark-loaded “omnibus” spending bill . According to the Associated Press , the $447 billion “omnibus” included more than 5,000 “earmarks” and would increase spending by an average of 12 percent – this on top of several other increases already added this year. From the report: ...
Related contentThe DC Disease of Cronyism: Hillary’s Pollster Gets $6M in Stimulus Funds
8 hours ago ago from The Crabby Constituent
Hillary Clinton's pollster, Mark Penn, received funds for two of his firms from the recent stimulus bill. The same bill that was supposed to put jobless Americans back to work. The evidence that this bill was merely a pay off to all of DC's cronies continues to pile up. Mark Penn received nearly $6 million in funds (From the New York Daily News ): Hillary Clinton pollster Mark Penn is looking at some pretty sweet numbers namely ...
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2 hours ago ago from HillBuzz
The latest Newsweek has a little sidebar listing 10 people who changed the way we think: 1. Steve Jobs (Apple) 2. Jon Stewart (news done as comedy) 3. Larry Page & Sergey Brin (Google) 4. Karl Rove & David Plouffe (campaign managers) 5. Biz Stone & Evan Williams (Twitter) 6. Michael Pollan ( locavore movement , books on food and plants) 7. Malcolm Gladwell (inventor of new genre of nonfiction: engrossing ...
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21 hours ago ago from No More Mister Nice Blog
Jed Lewison has an important piece up at Kos arguing that it would be good politics, as well as good policy, for Obama to get out ahead of his own Health Care Bill and admit its flaws. Its a brilliant essay and should be read in its entirety. But although Obama has been smart enough, and elegant enough, to do essentially that with his own Peace Prize, he won't do it with his Health Care Bill. Lewison's argument is that the bill itself is ...
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Northwest Bio names politics veteran to board
12 hours ago ago from PopEater
BETHESDA, Md. -Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc., which is working on cancer treatments, said Thursday it picked a veteran of Democratic presidential campaigns to serve on its board. The company said Robert A. Farmer served as national treasurer of the campaigns of Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Michael Dukakis and John Glenn. Farmer served as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee from 1989 to 1991 and the Democratic Governors Association ...
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14 hours ago ago from PopEater
WASHINGTON -The House Thursday passed a huge spending measure combining major spending boosts for domestic agencies and foreign aid with more than 5,000 back-home projects sought by lawmakers. The 1,088-page, $1.1 trillion measure would provide $447 billion in operating budgets for 10 Cabinet departments, awarding increases averaging almost 10 percent. On top of that comes more than $600 billion in payments for federal benefit programs such ...
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ASUNCION, Paraguay -President Fernando Lugo withdrew a vaguely written anti-terrorism bill Thursday after critics complained it would give judges too much discretion to limit individual freedoms. Paraguayan law already provides for a sentence of up to 30 years in prison for terrorist actions, and as written, the bill would have enabled judges to interpret "any kind of meeting between three or four people" as terrorist-related if the ...
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