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Obama Votes Against His Own Plan Andrew Roth This was in The Politico before yesterday's votes: "Sen. Wayne Allard, a Republican from Colorado, has crafted a massive budget amendment that claims to fund every policy proposed by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on the presidential campaign trail. Allard's amendment — doomed

Psshhhh... Sen. Wayne Allard, a Republican from Colorado, is proposing a $1.4 trillion budget in an attempt to embarrass Barack Obama, because apparently that's the amount of money Obama's budget would be. However, Obama's budget would be over an eight years period, not all at once. Hilarious Wayne.

With all the brutal rhetoric on campaign trail, Barack Obama still seems to have a sense of humor —even for colleagues looking to embarrass him on the Senate floor. In what was a purely political exercise, Senate Republicans proposed a $1.4 trillion budget amendment that essentially takes every campaign proposal by Obama and puts it into the budget. Tapped to carry the water for the GOP in this bit of theater was Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.), who’s leaving office at the end of this year. The point of the

This was in The Politico before yesterday's votes: "Sen. Wayne Allard, a Republican from Colorado, has crafted a massive budget amendment that claims to fund every policy proposed by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on the presidential campaign trail. Allard's amendment — doomed

has promised, if elected president, to give so many new government entitlements that his audiences literally swoon in anticipation. Tonight, however, senators from both parties gagged at the price tag -- $ 300 billion a year in new taxes. Republican Senator Wayne Allard, who is retiring, called Obama's bluff by offering an amendment to raise enough taxes to pay for everything that Obama has promised. The Allard amendment, according to Politico, includes $1.4 trillion in spending over five years by proposing

income taxes on lower income seniors ($10 billion a year). This is an old Senate trick during budget season, where senators take campaign rhetoric and pump up the theoretical budget numbers behind the proposals then force a vote on the matter… Click here to read the entire article by Martin Kady, Politico.com

most serious instance of internal fraud in partisan political history. MEDIA John Gibson's show "Big Story" on FOX News is being canceled. CONGRESS Republicans in the Senate are trying to mock Barack Obama's spending proposals by putting them all onto one bill, amounting to $1.5 trillion in new spending. Of course, Obama's proposals are supposed to happen over an eight-year span, not all at once. The Republican maneuver is designed to scare voters on how much Obama is proposing to spend to fund universal

Hope turned into reality already!!! And evidence of significant Republican support!! Is this the dawn of the new Barackracy, even before he is elected? Why even have an election--let's just have an anointing! Tears of joy, no doubt from Barack. The Politico: Sen. Wayne Allard, a Republican from Colorado, has crafted a massive budget amendment that claims to fund every policy proposed by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on the presidential campaign trail. Allard's amendment _ doomed to fail by a significant

The Philadelphia Black Clergy backs Obama, something that now seems automatic, though it wasn't six months ago. The Jed Report claims that racial division has become a central plank of the Clinton's electoral strategy.The GOP unfurls a $14 trillion budget amendment to mock Obama. The Tennessee GOP, still punching, chooses The National Enquirer as its weapon of choice. Steny Hoyer worries that the primary could push the party into an abyss of identity politics.

The Philadelphia Black Clergy backs Obama, something that now seems automatic, though it wasn't six months ago. The Jed Report claims that racial division has become a central plank of the Clinton's electoral strategy.The GOP unfurls a $14 trillion budget amendment to mock Obama. The Tennessee GOP, still punching, chooses The National Enquirer as its weapon of choice. Steny Hoyer worries that the primary could push the party into an abyss of identity politics.