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That’s the teaser on CNN.  Here’s some of the meat:
A Democratic point man on the budget, Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, blasted the administration for its “reckless fiscal policies,” blaming the president’s tax cuts for driving the government into deficit and saying Bush “will be remembered as the most fiscally irresponsible president in our [...]

Tags: barack obama, budget, bush, clinton, cnn, committee, deficit, democrat, economic, economy, harry reid, legislation, nancy pelosi, Senate

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That’s the headline on CNN.  The headline NOT on CNN is:
Unable to pay bills, London, Ky. YMCA closes
And, the reason they decided to give up?
Director Don Burgin said the London-Laurel County “Y” struggled with $6,000 monthly utility bills and its budget was further stretched by an increase in the minimum wage.
And of course, who do [...]

Tags: budget, bush, closing, cnn, kentucky, london, minimum, nancy pelosi, non-profit, pelosi, unfunded mandate, wage, wages, ymca

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According to Congressional Quarterly, the House is on its way to passing an Alternative Minimum Tax patch to keep things the way they are right now.  Apparently the Republicans, who initially raised the limits, support it, the Democrats want those exemptions gone.  That’s good news to me.  According to the Democrats over the last few [...]

Tags: alternative minimum tax, budget, democrat, earmark, Government, pelosi, peter welch, pork, republican, tax and spend

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Last year Kentucky elected a new governor to replace the one we had. The one we had had been accused of inappropriate hiring practices. That never was resolved since the person making the charges decided to drop the charges so he could run for governor, and lose.
So, Kentucky ( not me ) elected a guy [...]

Tags: budget, constitution, democrat, donation, Ethics, governor, impeach, kentucky, lawyer, steve beshear, veto

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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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Seems the federal budget deficit dropped.  Again.  Seems all of a sudden hardly anyone really seems to care.  Wasn’t that an issue last fall?  Didn’t people totally ignore the numbers of a shrinking deficit and decide to buy the rhetoric that the budget was out of control?  Why did they do that?  Now, what’s getting [...]

Tags: bias, budget, deficit, Fed Policy, federal, nancy pelosi, The Media

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The Democrats haven’t even officially taken over the government yet, but they are already tossing out anything Republican as fast as they can.  Along with that, I guess we can totally dismiss Bush’s "conservative compassionism":
��It��s not just committees our influence within the House Democratic caucus will grow enormously,�� Mr. Rangel said in an interview.
To [...]

Tags: budget, budgets, bush, campaign, caucus, cities, city, committee, corruption, demand, democrat, democrats, federal, forces, Government, gun, guns, hell, housing, interview, job, john, kennedy, owned, party, pelosi, plan, republican, republicans, Senate, tax, veto

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