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65Earmarks in Disguise
When is no more not no more? When it comes to anything Washington is doing these days. David Copperfield would be proud of the illusion Congress is doing to circumvent the no more earmarks rule.
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59Getting The Pigs Out Of The Water - Part 2
On the first amendment offered up they torpedoed term limits. Pat Toomey brought the next amendment on permanently banning ear marks forward and you can probably guess where that went too. Part 2 of the series.
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84Getting The Pigs Out Of The Water
Capitol Hill has become a cesspool of career politicians. Don't speak of term limits to that crowd. They just voted down an amendment that would have allowed new ideas and fresh faces to become the norm rather than the exception.
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58Memory Lapses And Obama - Part 2
Part 2 in the series about memory lapses. Obama has his teleprompter to rely on but those, not being his words, he has the perfect ability to forget after he reads the,
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81Ron Paul is Right: Earmarks are a Good Thing
See why we need more Congressional Earmarks - Ron Paul is right earmarks are a good thing. They make Federal spending transparent
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67The definition of an earmark
In President Obama’s speech the other night the word earmark came up in his presentation. The statement made is no more earmarks. Understanding what constitutes an earmark puts the statement by President Obama in perspective. The question...
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58Washington, D.C. Republicans: IT IS GUT CHECK TIME
I hope to compose a coherent hub, but as I type, I am seeing through a red-hot haze of anger. It is a HUGE disappointment to me that the newly republican-controlled house is beginning to waffle and show some disturbing signs of the republican...
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71President Barak Obama delivers the State of The Union speech
President Barak Obama delivered the State of The Union speech to Congress and the nation on Jan 25,2011.The Obama speech lasted 52 minutes in reporting to the nation on his accomplishments and goals for the remainder of his presidency. The...
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60Fruit Pizza and the State of the Union
Good morning breakfastpoppers. Today is Wednesday, January 26, 2011. I watched the President's speech last night and between jumping up and down in disbelief and falling asleep I felt kind of disjointed. Now...
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77Earmarks and Riders
We are now ready for big changes in Congress. We have a new class of freshman representatives that intend to fix Washington. They want to go back to straight forward governing and to cut out all of the crap...
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