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The gall and stupidity of Nancy Pelosi never ceases to amaze me.  Today, with arguably the economic welfare of the United States on the line, and for that matter, several other countries of the world, Nancy Pelosi assured the world an agreement to bail out the struggling spec market was at hand.  She’d have it [...]

Tags: bailout, bush administration, community reinvestment act, economic policies, economic welfare, fannie-mae, freddie-mac, house speaker, jimmy carter, nancy pelosi, partisan, political ploy, Politics

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And by stuck, I do mean stuck.  Nancy Pelosi has agreed to take into consideration four bills aimed at energy relief next week.  One item she absolutely will not even debate or discuss is offshore drilling.  Her logic?  Get this:
Pelosi reiterated her position that Republican calls for more offshore drilling represent another chapter in a [...]

Tags: 1988, anwr, bush, california, clinton, committee, congress, demand, energy, failed policies, failed policy, house merchant marine and fisheries, oil, pelosi, supply

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Remember that promise of change in 2006?  You know, the one where the Democrats promised to get rid of the cronyism and corruption in DC?  Well, they had a chance to walk the walk yesterday.  There was a bill in the form of an amendment to eliminate earmarks completely.  Here’s a list of the “changelings” [...]

Tags: Amy Klobuchar, Ben Cardin, Ben Casey, Bill Nelson, change, Debbie Stabenow, earmark, Jeff Bingamen, Jim Webb, Jon Tester, Kent Conrad, Maria Cantwell, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown

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Here’s the news:
House Democrats on Tuesday failed to overturn President Bush’s veto of a bill that would have prohibited the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects.
Good.
First of all, I don’t like the idea of locally politically motivated people determining national defense issues.  War is not a feel-good endeavor.  It’s [...]

Tags: pork, veto, waterboarding

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A lot is being made of H.R. 4279, referred to as PRO IP.  Depending on who you ask, it either makes felons out of anyone who listens to music on the internet.  Or, it does nothing more than create more beauracracy in DC.  After reading it, I tend to side with the latter.  However, it [...]

Tags: download, file-sharing, hr-4279, john-conyers, Legislative Process, mp3, NIAA, piracy, pro-ip

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House Democrats pushed through a $50 billion Iraq war bill that would require President George W. Bush to start bringing troops home in coming weeks with a goal of ending combat by December 2008.
Now, this is where it gets really silly.  Bush was already bringing troops home.  Confused yet?  Let Nancy clarify it for you:
“The [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, constitution, defense-appropriations, harry reid, Legislative Process, nancy pelosi, president, Shock and Awe, troop-reduction, veto

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During the last few years one of the main political footballs has been national security.  Due to many Democrats’ strong anti-war rhetoric, the Republicans accused many Democrat candidates of being soft on security.  And, the Democrats kept shooting back that they weren’t.  Well, here’s what’s happening now that the Democrats are in charge of national [...]

Tags: ABC, border, CBS, cnn, defense, Ethics, fence, harry reid, Legislative Process, lindsay-graham, Media, msnbc, nbc

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Here’s where the congressional budget process has gone wrong the last twenty years or so for those that think Congress spends too much:

Now, the problem I have here is this is a two part issue that sums all the problems in Congress right now:

Spending for Veterans was lumped in with a huge budget for HHS [...]

Tags: bob-filner, budget, charlie-rangel, HHS, Legislative Process, line-item-veto, nancy pelosi, National Debt, National Politics, transparency, veterans

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Dennis Kucinich’s bill to impeach Dick Cheney has made its way to the Floor.  A lot is being made of it in the media.  Naturally.  However, the realities of the situation are not nearly as exciting.
It will die.
Guaranteed.
An impeachment process completely stifles Congress.  Nancy Pelosi et al have things they want to do.  If they [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, Cheney, conyers, impeach, kucinich, Legislative Process, National Politics, pelosi

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I’m not much into mass email campaigns, but this one made sense to me and bears repeating.  So, rather than sending a bunch of people not terribly interested in it, I’ll just stick it up here.
Here they go again — tax-happy Democrats are running out of ways to tax you — so they are turning [...]

Tags: innouye, internet, internet-tax-freedom-act, Legislative Process, mcconnell, mitch, National Politics, tax

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