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The most screwed up political issue of the Bush administration will be returning I imagine very shortly for the Obama administration.  First, I want to make sure people understand where I’m coming from:

The “Bush ban on stem cells” originally was passed in 1999.  Bush wasn’t president, Bill Clinton was.  This was a complete ban on [...]

Tags: barack obama, bush administration, claire mccaskill, conservatives, embryonic, embryonic research, embryonic stem cell, george-hw-bush, harry reid, human embryonic stem cell, human embryonic stem cell research, john-mccain, lie, livescience, manipulation, michael-j-fox, nancy pelosi, NIH, politicization, president, President-Bush, republicans, stem cell ban, stem cells

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This is getting comical to me.  Harry Reid postponed a automaker bailout vote.  This has apparently spooked the United Auto Workers.  Where it gets comical is this part:
Alan Mulally, the CEO of Ford Motor Co., said the company had sufficient cash reserves to make it through 2009.
But:
But United Auto Workers union president Ron Gettelfinger said [...]

Tags: alan mulally, auto workers union, chrysler, domestic auto industry, employee benefits, Ford, ford motor co, GM, harry reid, model-t, ron gettelfinger, uaw, union president, united auto workers

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In 1979 the US government bailed out Chrysler.  It was a resounding success as Chrysler restructured, cranked out new and innovative vehicles, and paid back the loan in four years.
In 2008, Chrysler, GM, and Ford are back at the begging table for another bailout.
In 1979 I was a teenager more interested in babes than parsing [...]

Tags: afl-cio, Al-Gore, automakers, bailout, barack obama, bill clinton, chrysler, concessions, employee benefits, extending unemployment benefits, general motors, GM, harry reid, john-kerry, labor union, oversight committee, uaw, union, union dues, united auto workers

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This is becoming somewhat of a routine it seems:

GM said it will nearly exhaust its cash cushion by year’s end, leaving barely enough for day-to-day operations through the first half of 2009. It said it has ended merger talks with Chrysler, delayed future product plans and cut benefits. But it said those measures may not [...]

Tags: 1979, aig, auto producer, automaker, automotive industry, bailout, barack obama, Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act, Ford, GM, harry reid, jimmy carter, nancy pelosi

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Almost two years ago, I warned Nancy Pelosi what would happen if they jerked around with the minimum wage without adjusting other funding to account for it.  She’s a stubborn old bag and didn’t listen.  They promptly crammed it through Congress.
July 1, minimum wage went up 70 cents.  That’s about a 13% increase.
One month later, [...]

Tags: bush administration, business budget, college diploma, congress, corporations, harry reid, inflation, minimum-wage, nancy pelosi, obama, socialist agenda, tax cut, unemployment

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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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It’s one thing to go around shouting about how Nancy and Harry and the Democrat leadership are failing this country in a time of economic crisis.  Now, I’ll show you exactly how it works:
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey abruptly shut down his committee indefinitely rather than allow Republicans to offer an amendment to open [...]

Tags: barack obama, David-Obey, demand, democrat, drilling, harry reid, nancy pelosi, oil price, poll, production

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Apparently smarting from polls that put his Senate leadership in the single digits, Harry Reid decided to fight back starting with this letter to The Hill Blog:
When our country is in crisis, Congress must be ready to take immediate action. Democrats in Congress have tried to take action again and again. We have proposed both [...]

Tags: alternative energy, congress, democrats, energy, harry reid, minority, nancy pelosi, oil, oil traders, opec, price gougers, republicans, Senate, tax

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In my opinion, 9/11 was largely the responsibility of Jamie Gorelick.  Jamie Gorelick is pure evil. Period. Her name figures prominently in several domestic disasters. Sure, she didn’t break the levees in New Orleans, but it was the climate of non-communication between agencies that contributed to the problems in a substantial way. So yeah, some [...]

Tags: 9/11, able danger, Cheney, duke, fannie-mae, forrest gump, haliburton, harry reid, jamie-gorelick, Katrina, lacrosse, nancy pelosi, new-orleans, Oil Supply, rape, ruby ridge, sandy berger, schlumberger, texas, waco

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The jam we’re in right now was put in place thirty years ago.  In that time, we’ve gone from being an energy exporter to an energy junkie.  It really doesn’t matter where we get our hit, so long as we don’t have to accept any responsibility for it.  For instance:

Oil - The Democrats absolutely refuse [...]

Tags: anwr, coal, democrats, economy, electric, energy, federal, france, gas, global, global warming, GM, harry reid, hybrid, nancy pelosi, nuclear, oil, opec, palo verde, pelosi, reactor, republicans, trash, warming

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