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Source: rightwingthinking.info via Robert on Pinterest   On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, let it be known 40 states choose to recognize his birthday.  It’s not a holiday or anything.  It’s just a note that someone very important to this country was born on this date.  Eight states choose to intentionally ignore his birthday.  It’s kind of [...]

There’s campaign rhetoric, and there’s reality.  The campaign rhetoric was “change you can believe in”.  The reality looks something like this: Simply, 3 of the 7 states that have clear Republican majorities on the national level are in the Top 10 biggest pork losers.  Nancy Pelosi controls the House, who sets the budgets ( appropriations [...]

It’s reached an all-time low. The House of Representatives, on the heels of an impassioned and lively debate, voted Tuesday to formally admonish Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., for accusing the president of lying during a joint session of Congress a week ago. The vote was 240-179. Five lawmakers voted “present.” Here’s what they voted on: [...]

Barack Obama made a huge deal out of ending partisanship in DC. He then pretty much slammed the door shut once he was elected. Democrats got all the positions of power. When Nancy Pelosi moved to squelch any chance of open, public debate on any issue, Obama was dutifully silent. Yesterday we got a perfect [...]

Just to prove Nancy Pelosi has a sense of humor, she said this today: “There seems to be a market for saying that I am very partisan, and that I don’t give the Republicans their opportunity. That simply is not true,” Pelosi said in an interview with PBS’ Charlie Rose. “They know in this recovery [...]

Just got the numbers for the Medicaid add-on from the stimulus package.  I don’t deal with Medicaid directly, but it indirectly affects what I do in a large way.  As such, I was interested in the numbers.  However, the bigger picture bugged me more than the dollars I was assigned to look at.  In essence, [...]

This is getting confusing to me.  According to my math, the Democrats have a pretty comfortable majority in the Senate.  Currently they hold a 56-41 majority with two independents caucusing with the Dems as well.  That makes it 58-41.  Very possibly, another seat will be given to the Dems via the Minnesota courts.  In basketball, [...]

During Obama’s campaign for the White House, he preached endlessly about bipartisanship.  As with the rest of his message of “change”, people, and especially media, bought it hook, line, and sinker: You said the time has come to move beyond the bitterness and pettiness and anger that’s consumed Washington; to end the political strategy that’s [...]

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 [...]

A rather bizarre event unfolded Friday.  Basically, the Republicans tried to force a vote on drilling for more oil.  The Democrats stifled it.  Then, the Democrats decided that accomplishing nothing to help the United States deal with soaring gas prices was better than debating, or even worse yet, voting to allow more drilling. It didn’t [...]