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Congress: Stop with the empty “what we need to do” mantra and DO IT!
June 1, 2011
Ever noticed how the only thing you ever hear a politician say anymore is what “we need to do”? I can’t remember the last time I heard any politician, on either side of the aisle, plainly state what HE or SHE *WILL* do or *IS* doing about any problem you could name. And remember, *ALL* […]
Cantor balks at tornado relief; tells Missouri “Them’s the breaks”
May 23, 2011
The No. 2 House Republican said that if Congress doles out additional money to assist in the aftermath of natural disasters across the country, the spending has to be offset by cuts in other domestic spending. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) — the living embodiment of the term “number two” — said “if there […]
GOP & Paul Ryan: The party of no answer.
April 11, 2011
In September 2006, the House of Representatives passed what they called earmark reform. The legislation was co-authored by Congressman Paul Ryan. The legislation was meant to require lawmakers to identify the special projects that they slip into legislation. Now Ryan is trying to play a track from his greatest hits album by proposing almost identical […]
Spending isn’t the only thing Obama’s budget is full of
February 20, 2011
It fascinates me how the right wing so fiercely attacks Barack Obama as being a “Marxist, Commie, Leftist, Liberal” when his actions so clearly dictate that he is anything but. Take, for example, the president’s 2012 budget proposal. A true “America-hating Liberal” would have started with a budget that presents a demand for absolutely everything […]
Gary St. Lawrence
July 26, 2011
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