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by Barbara Morrill

Tue Dec 14, 2010 at 07:00:05 PM PST

Their hypocrisy knows no bounds:
The release of the $1.1 trillion dollar omnibus bill, including $8 billion in earmarks, quickly reignited the fight over pork-barrel spending in the final days of the lame-duck session.
Shortly after the Nov. 2 election, Senate Republicans united their caucus and passed a two-year ban on congressional pork. Their colleagues in the House extended their moratorium a couple days later.
But the spending plan contains hundreds of millions of dollars worth of earmarks requested by Republicans, including from Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) himself.
But never mind that because McConnell is ?actively working to defeat? the bill.
Of course we all know that if McConnell actually wanted the bill defeated, he'd simply issue marching orders to his caucus and the bill would be dead. Instead we have Republicans suggesting that if the President doesn't veto the bill needed to keep the government running, he didn't get the message about "runaway spending" the voters sent in November. Neat trick, eh? They'll get the pork they crave without taking responsibility for breaking their own pledge to forego earmarks (including more than $5.5 million for Mitch McConnell) and none of it will be their fault.

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its the american way of doing things.
both sides have mastered it.
whats impressive is how they say the things they do with a straight face.
 
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Both parties are out for just that, their parties,not the american people IN ITS ENTIRETY.

Republicans wont budge on ANY ISSUE until they get whats best for the ultra rich.(2,000 people out of 300 million)
they dont care about the middle class and poor as much as the upper 2%.
they are about the business owners. they cater to them.

Democrats love to build up giant governments.spend enormous amounts of money doing things that dont matter to the people they supposedly represent.
they look out for the"common man" to a fault.

They both seem to not be able to see the forest for the trees once they get elected and start playing the party game of back and forth pissing contests.
They both do what's best for the parties and then put out the spin machine heads.

Meanwhile american citizens are the ones who pay for it in more ways than one.

The same song,sung the same way,by different singers. Nothin gonna change except the rich get richer,and the poorer get poorer.

On top of the idiot politians,you have really vile people like Rush Limbaugh spewing dumb shit all the time. and whats even more astonishing is there are people who will stand by and believe whatever the hell people like him say.Clay heads that cant decide on anything unless they are told by a clown.

There are democrats just as bad as Rush too out there.

The Clinton News Network is almost as bad as Fox News is.
MSNBC has some real goofballs over there also.

Hannity is probably not the guy I want to listen to and watch if I want impartial legit non biased news reporting.
It's become entertainment more than news reporting. Beck is my favorite.He cant hawk his stuff fast or often enough on his show.
Fair play to him. He is a great promoter of himself.

People are like sheep and robots. they act like zombies to people like Glenn Beck.Who if he said Obama was gay, people would actually fight to the death arguing people he is.
It's beyond absurd. and actually entertainingly comical at this point. The messengers and the sheep both.

Lather,Rinse,Repeat. Ad nauseam.
 
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"so many of these people, almost all of them that we see, are so poor and they are so black." CNN's Wolf Blitzer during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Beck had a history of controversial statements made on his radio show, including calling former President Jimmy Carter a "waste of skin", hoping for the deaths of Dennis Kucinich and Michael Moore, and telling a caller who claimed to have tortured foreign prisoners for the U.S. military, "I appreciate your service".
 
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Filibuster this piece of shit bill by reading it! Great idea!

DeMint Pledges to ‘Expose’ and ‘Fight’ Omnibus Bill

By Robert Costa

Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.) is ready to battle over the omnibus spending bill. According to Roll Call, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) has taken notice:
Although Reid had initially intended to begin work on an omnibus spending bill after the tax vote, he is now pushing it off until late Thursday in the face of stiff GOP opposition. Republicans have threatened to filibuster the omnibus, and DeMint said Tuesday that he would force a reading of the bill on the floor, a process that could take 60 to 70 hours, a Reid aide said.

Reid could begin debate on the omnibus bill before Thursday, because Senate rules allow debate on the arms reduction treaty with Russia and the omnibus to occur simultaneously.

However, by delaying the start of the omnibus debate until late Thursday, Reid appears to be trying to box Republican opponents into either voting for the measure Saturday, when the current continuing resolution funding the government will expire, or shut down the government by filibustering the bill.
DeMint warned National Review Online on Monday about Reid’s potential maneuver. “Sounds like they want to dual-track [the START treaty] with the terrible omnibus bill,” he said. “I’m really concerned . . . . I’m not going to be sleeping very well this week.”

Wesley Denton, a DeMint spokesman, tells NRO that despite pressure from Reid, the South Carolinian plans to read aloud the omnibus bill, for as long as it takes. He will point out that the Senate could easily pass a continuing resolution sans pork-laden projects.

“This 2,000-page bill is so packed with pork and objectionable legislative items it could take weeks until we know the policy implications, but Reid wants to ram it through in a few days,” Denton says. “This stampede of spending and bad policy is exactly what voters rejected in November. Senator DeMint will continue working with Republican colleagues to expose the bill’s waste and he’ll fight to stop the rush to pass it on the Senate floor.”
Sen. Jim DeMint: serving platefulls of awesomesauce! :houra 91023i2ndw;l

 

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Senator DeMint will continue working with Republican colleagues to expose the bill’s waste and he’ll fight to stop the rush to pass it on the Senate floor.” maybe he should start by working with his fellow republican senator mc connell!
 
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Senator DeMint will continue working with Republican colleagues to expose the bill’s waste and he’ll fight to stop the rush to pass it on the Senate floor.” maybe he should start by working with his fellow republican senator mc connell!

Here's a thought: Why don't you at least wait till the new Congress is sworn in before making any judgments.

Sen. DeMint has many tea party reinforcements on the way in both chambers, but they won't get there till 2011.
 

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2938u4ji23Republicans denounce earmarks -- even their own

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by Barbara Morrill

Tue Dec 14, 2010 at 07:00:05 PM PST

Their hypocrisy knows no bounds:
The release of the $1.1 trillion dollar omnibus bill, including $8 billion in earmarks, quickly reignited the fight over pork-barrel spending in the final days of the lame-duck session.
Shortly after the Nov. 2 election, Senate Republicans united their caucus and passed a two-year ban on congressional pork. Their colleagues in the House extended their moratorium a couple days later.
But the spending plan contains hundreds of millions of dollars worth of earmarks requested by Republicans, including from Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) himself.
But never mind that because McConnell is “actively working to defeat” the bill.
Of course we all know that if McConnell actually wanted the bill defeated, he'd simply issue marching orders to his caucus and the bill would be dead. Instead we have Republicans suggesting that if the President doesn't veto the bill needed to keep the government running, he didn't get the message about "runaway spending" the voters sent in November. Neat trick, eh? They'll get the pork they crave without taking responsibility for breaking their own pledge to forego earmarks (including more than $5.5 million for Mitch McConnell) and none of it will be their fault.

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When you have uneducated sheep and faux Americans behind you what do you honestly expect?They could tell them they are cutting all pork while loading up on it and the sheep would believe them.Look at how delusional they are on here.Hell one even pretends to be an American... sad but true.
 

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2938u4ji23Republicans denounce earmarks -- even their own

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by Barbara Morrill

Tue Dec 14, 2010 at 07:00:05 PM PST

Their hypocrisy knows no bounds:
The release of the $1.1 trillion dollar omnibus bill, including $8 billion in earmarks, quickly reignited the fight over pork-barrel spending in the final days of the lame-duck session.
Shortly after the Nov. 2 election, Senate Republicans united their caucus and passed a two-year ban on congressional pork. Their colleagues in the House extended their moratorium a couple days later.
But the spending plan contains hundreds of millions of dollars worth of earmarks requested by Republicans, including from Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) himself.
But never mind that because McConnell is ?actively working to defeat? the bill.
Of course we all know that if McConnell actually wanted the bill defeated, he'd simply issue marching orders to his caucus and the bill would be dead. Instead we have Republicans suggesting that if the President doesn't veto the bill needed to keep the government running, he didn't get the message about "runaway spending" the voters sent in November. Neat trick, eh? They'll get the pork they crave without taking responsibility for breaking their own pledge to forego earmarks (including more than $5.5 million for Mitch McConnell) and none of it will be their fault.

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When you have uneducated sheep and faux Americans behind you what do you honestly expect?They could tell them they are cutting all pork while loading up on it and the sheep would believe them.Look at how delusional they are on here.Hell one even pretends to be an American... sad but true.
 
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Republicans Kick the Spending Dope

The GOP passes its first big spending test—barely.

  • By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL


Some Americans might be under the impression that they just watched a lame duck Congress engage in a lame-o budget fight. But Senate Republicans' stunning defeat last night of the Democrats' omnibus spending bill was anything but boring.

What our great nation just watched was the Democratic Party preview its political strategy for the next two years. It also watched a united Senate GOP defeat that approach, though not before a handful of Republicans considered walking straight into the Democratic trap. The whole episode was an early peek at the GOP's biggest challenge going forward.

That challenge is, as it always is, spending. Republicans lost in 2006 primarily because of their profligacy, and they won this year primarily because they swore off that profligacy. It's that simple—and don't think Democrats don't know it. President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi understand that the surest, quickest and most delicious way to undermine their opponents is to tempt them into renouncing their own promises of fiscal responsibility. The added beauty is that Democrats continue to get exactly what they want: bigger government.

This week Democrats unveiled a $1.2 trillion omnibus, legislation as pure an insult to the electorate as it gets. It was a 1,924-page monstrosity that nobody had time to read. It took 11 spending bills that Democrats couldn't be bothered to pass individually and crammed them into one oozing ball of pork and bad policy, going beyond even the obscene budget of 2010.

Yet to this legislative Frankenstein Democrats carefully attached the spenders' equivalent of crack cocaine. To wit, omnibus author and Hawaii Democrat Daniel Inouye dug up earmark requests that Senate Republicans had made in the past year (prior to their self-imposed ban) and, unasked, included them in the bill. He lavished special, generous attention—$1 billion worth of it—on some reliable GOP earmark junkies: Mississippi's Thad Cochran got $512 million; Utah's Bob Bennett, $226 million; Maine's Susan Collins, $114 million; Missouri's Kit Bond, $102 million; Ohio's George Voinovich, $98 million; and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, $80 million.

The effect of this dope—just sitting there, begging for a quick inhale—on earmarkers was immediate. Two seconds into the sweats and shaking hands, nine Republicans let Mr. Reid know they'd be open to this bill.

Democrats were euphoric. An omnibus victory, they knew, would subject Republicans to an ugly PR hit. True, the omnibus would pass primarily with Democratic votes. But the headlines would focus on the handful of Republicans who provided the final votes and undermined the GOP's spending message. GOP support for this bill would also tarnish what goodwill Republicans earned for their self-imposed earmark ban.


<cite>David Gothard</cite>



Better yet, Republican earmarkers would be providing President Obama and Democrats a giant policy victory, undercutting House Republicans before they even got the gavel. Everyone in Washington understands that the most powerful tool that Republicans gained in this election was control over spending bills. The GOP cannot repeal ObamaCare, but it can starve it to death. This is why incoming Speaker John Boehner has been fixated on spending-process reforms that will maximize the GOP's ability to influence administration programs. It's why incoming Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has spent months gearing up for this battle.

It's also why Mr. Inouye made sure his spending omnibus included more than $1 billion to ramp up ObamaCare—including money to enforce the law's new insurance mandates, to implement Medicaid expansion, to fund some of the 159 new entities created under the law, and even to create a public health slush fund. Republican votes would have abetted ObamaCare and tied House GOP hands until September, when the omnibus ran out.

That didn't happen, but only because Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell accomplished a mini Christmas miracle. The Kentuckian devoted yesterday to making the arguments—both principled and political—to the Spending Nine. He was ultimately persuasive enough, and the earmarkers wise enough, to pull back their support. A very unhappy Mr. Reid was forced to yank the omnibus last night. He will now work with Republicans on a short-term funding bill, a process that should give the incoming GOP House far more influence over upcoming spending decisions.

And the lesson for Republicans (yet again)? Unity and principle rule. Mr. McConnell held his members against ObamaCare, and won an election. He held them on taxes, and forced President Obama to help the economy. And this week, by holding together on something equally straightforward—a promise of fiscal responsibility—Republicans turned what could have been a black eye into a bitter humiliation for Mr. Reid and other supporters of an irresponsible spending blowout.

The good news is that the GOP will be even better positioned to reject the lures next year. Mr. McConnell is getting a batch of more fiscally conservative senators whose numbers will give him some breathing room.

And the House is hoping its spending reforms will deny its members even the temptation of pork.

The White House and Democrats will continue to sing the siren song of spending. Every time they do, Republicans would be wise to remember the sweet victory against this omnibus.

Write to kim@wsj.com


 
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why not just get rid of all democrats on the planet.
america would never have to worry about a problem again.
no financial problems.
no unemployment.
no need for welfare.
no jobless americans.
great foreign relations.

every american would be smiling and joyous.
except of course Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.
 
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why not just get rid of all democrats on the planet.
america would never have to worry about a problem again.
no financial problems.
no unemployment.
no need for welfare.
no jobless americans.
great foreign relations.
every american would be smiling and joyous.

That's like saying why not just get rid of Satan.

It will take YEARS to fix this ungodly mess progressives have given us, going all the way back to FDR and LBJ.

We're also still feeling the effects of the 2006 elections, when many conservatives stayed home in a fit of snit and gave Pelosi and Reid the levers of power. Those Democrat Senators still have two years to go.

There's still too much uncertainty for small business to grow and to reinvest, not to mention Obamacare hanging over them. Taxes are way WAY too high, especially corporate taxes. Then there's Government Motors, government public employee unions, outrageous government over-spending, unconstitutional entitlement programs and government agencies and departments as far as the eye can see, the coming government socially engineered student loan bubble (just like the housing bubble)....the list never ends.

Remember that the new Congress includes a Democrat-controlled Senate, and that Democrats also still control the Executive Branch. Sure, the numbers are better for us, but it's still an uphill climb.

Unfortunately, there's just so much a minority party can do. There is no magic bullet and we have to work, VERY hard, with what these infantile progressives have handed us.

Last night was a good beginning.
 
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dems=satan. gotcha./

abortion on demand
militant sodomite agenda
radical secularism and paganism: viscous relentless attacks against people who practice their faith
kooky cults under the guise of 'science and 'reason', such as Darwism, eugenics and global warming
destructive Marxist monetary and economic policies (everything from progressive government education camps to draconian taxes that punish success and reward failure)

What else would you call it? :+clueless
 
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america.

good thing we have the right to balance it out.

texas will be interesting now. wish them luck on the separation from the union plans.

its republicans so it has to be a good idea.
 
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if you could train a squirrel to repeat "Don't mess with Texas" over and over again, it could probably get elected
 

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abortion on demand
Women should have no choice or be able to decide what they can do with their body.Fascist.
militant sodomite agenda
Are you talking about the Catholic church here?
radical secularism and paganism: viscous relentless attacks against people who practice their faith
Always much better to let your Fascist leader decide what religion you should choose right?
kooky cults under the guise of 'science and 'reason', such as Darwism, eugenics and global warming

destructive Marxist monetary and economic policies (everything from progressive government education camps to draconian taxes that punish success and reward failure)
Yes it was the poor people that got together and created the Federal Reserve too right?

What else would you call it?
America with choices.What do you want ....Fascist state?

:+clueless
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Women should have no choice or be able to decide what they can do with their body.Fascist.
Thanks to modern technology, most decent folks who have the opportunity to see an ultrasound (a baby's heart beating as early as 6 weeks) side with my position, not yours. Check the polls: support for baby genocide is dropping significantly. Whatever the eventual legal income, people who support ripping babies to shreds in the womb for their personal gain and convenience should never utter the word ‘compassion' -- EVER. 2938u4ji23

Are you talking about the Catholic church here?
Stupid wisecrack. Let me know when you're ready to make a constructive point.

Always much better to let your Fascist leader decide what religion you should choose right?

Throughout history, it is 'progressives' who have preached and practiced "conquer and control"...from Nazism, fascism, communism, socialism, George Soros Democrats...they all have one thing in common:

Everything
within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state
-- Benito Mussolini


Hardly Jeffersonian democracy. Unlike 'progressives', the First Amendment does not censor nor discriminate against any form speech or religion.

kooky cults under the guise of 'science and 'reason', such as Darwism, eugenics and global warming
Didn't think I would get a constructive response to that one. :+textinb3

Yes it was the poor people that got together and created the Federal Reserve too right?
Progressives. Education is a powerful thing.

America with choices.What do you want ....Fascist state?
I want freedom -- economic freedom, religious freedom, freedom of speech.

Why are YOU always the one siding with top down 'progressive' government command and control, aka fascism? :+clueless
 
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Obama = should never have been elected.
Palin = should never be elected
Repubs/Dems = part of the problem/theoretically part of the solution
America = mirage.
 

tank

EOG Dedicated
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Thanks to modern technology, most decent folks who have the opportunity to see an ultrasound (a baby's heart beating as early as 6 weeks) side with my position, not yours. Check the polls: support for baby genocide is dropping significantly. Whatever the eventual legal income, people who support ripping babies to shreds in the womb for their personal gain and convenience should never utter the word ‘compassion' -- EVER. 2938u4ji23
The only people that side with you are Fascist that want to take choices away from women.Who are you to tell a women what she can or cannot do with her own body or make that choice?Either a Fascist or misogynist you make the choice and I will agree .

Stupid wisecrack. Let me know when you're ready to make a constructive point.
The point went over your head again.America is the only country that has more religions in the world so who in the hell is restricting it and how??


Throughout history, it is 'progressives' who have preached and practiced "conquer and control"...from Nazism, fascism, communism, socialism, George Soros Democrats...they all have one thing in common:
Again you have it backwards.He who has the money has control and right now it sure as hell is not the poor people controlling this country.

Everything
within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state
-- Benito Mussolini


Hardly Jeffersonian democracy. Unlike 'progressives', the First Amendment does not censor nor discriminate against any form speech or religion.
Exactly.The government gives you the right to practice religion anyway you want so what is the problem and what rights are you not getting?

Didn't think I would get a constructive response to that one. :+textinb3


Progressives. Education is a powerful thing.
Yes let's start a No child left behind program like Bush did and blame everyone else when test scores go down like they have.

I want freedom -- economic freedom, religious freedom, freedom of speech.
Since the rich created the Federal Reserve you can forget about economic freedom and what freedom of speech have you lost and explain how your religious freedoms have been taken away.

Why are YOU always the one siding with top down 'progressive' government command and control, aka fascism?
Classic!!I am the one wanting to take away a womens right to choose and questioning why we need to borrow money for the rich to get their take breaks and you are calling that Fascism?Next you will create a strawman trying to claim your religious freedoms and speech have been taken away!!Oh you already have so never mind!!

:+clueless
No fascism here from Joe at all!!I guess we can call him a misogynist know then.
 
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