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• Cash for Cloture

  
  DYSPEPSIA GENERATION — Authority: 157
  Mark Steyn reacts to the best Senate that money can buy. You can’t even dignify this squalid racket as bribery: If I try to buy a cop, I have to use my own money. But, when Harry Reid buys a senator, he uses my money, too. It doesn’t “border on immoral”: it drives straight through the frontier post and ...
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• We interrupt this Christmas break with a quick post

  
  Blue Like You — Authority: 518
  I’m sorry but I just had to point out Lorrie Goldstein’s column published in yesterday’s Sun – Copenhagen sure was a gas. Goldstein at his best, IMHO.He’s packaged all the Copenhagen hypocrisy into one zinger of carbon-spewing roast:Now that the enviro nuts have finished handing out their “Fossil of the ...
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• Military Spending Sucking Money from Domestic Programs

  
  Got Shares? (GotShares.com) — Authority: 131
  U.S. Senate passes $626 billion defense bill that does not include Obamas $100 million request to close GTMO. The Senate measure also includes $2.5 billion to fund 10 C-17 cargo planes assembled in Long Beach, Calif., which were not requested, and money for nine more F-18 Navy fighters than Obama requested. Where ...
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• Who won in Copenhagen?

  
  Blue Like You — Authority: 518
  When sifting through the aftermath of the so-called deal in Copenhagen, it’s hard to decide who won.Environmental groups are calling it a ‘failure’, which logically means that they lost right? But Brian Lilley says that those on the other side of the equation are equally dismayed if not more so.Lilley explains ...
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• House Passes Measure to Regulate TV Commercials

  
  Proof Positive — Authority: 544
  Have you heard about this? Congress is considering a bill introduced last year, sponsored by Anna Eschoo, a California Democrat, with 63 co-sponsors, to regulate how loud TV commercials can be! The act is called CALM (for the laid back California lifestyle I presume!), the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation. ...
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• The Federal Govt is completely IN control of:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  1. A sustained assault on the Middle Class via taxes, regulations and class warfare 2. A criminal debasement of the dollar 3.A malignant concentration in wealth and power 4.A monstrous misallocation of national resources 5. A craven global retreat from the values and ideals of America and a depraved attack on ...
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• 29% Credit card rate is insane!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  It’s almost mathematically impossible to pay off a card charging 29%. It is seldom noted that consumer debt interest is paid with after tax dollars. So, it effectively costs someone 50% of a debt - per year - just to keep up with interest. That is what Tony Soprano would call a point (i.e. a percent per week.) ...
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• Will you continue to be a global warming patsy?

  
  Blue Like You — Authority: 518
  It’s funny how some folks think that being green is ‘the right thing to do’ until they have to pony up for the costs.A local radio talk show host prides himself on being green. But yesterday when Kevin Gaudet explained that his family would have to pay $3,000 a year under the agreement that is [...]
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• The Copenhagen Shakedown Con is on

  
  Blue Like You — Authority: 518
  Kevin Gaudet from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation was on Rutherford this morning explaining the cold hard realities of what the environmentalists are trying to wring out of us in Copenhagen (H/T Bec).[Update:  Link added to CTF after publication. Much of the info  is also available there - Blog Admin]Please, ...
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• Unbelievable! Seven Workers And Five Of Them Are Actually Working…

  
  There, I Fixed It — Authority: 570
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• What is the breaking point.

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  What is the breaking point. Carolyn Hileman It’s not much they are asking for you know, just our values and beliefs, to compromise on the things we believe in for the better good. Compromising is like lying once you have done it a couple of times it gets easier and before long you find you can compromise on just ...
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• Disbursements

  
  respublica — Authority: 140
  Keeping a promise she made some time back, Speaker Nancy Pelosi now has the House disbursements on line for all to see. Unfortunately, the file is a PDF which is unwieldly, hard to read and not very searchable.  Its a start, but youd think with all the talented webmasters in Washington DC, thered be someone who ...
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• Congress Travels More, and the Public Pays

  
  DYSPEPSIA GENERATION — Authority: 157
  Read it. Well, yeah. Can’t expect the government to cut back just because the economy is in the toilet.
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• Congressman John Yarmuth (D-KY) Introduces Major New Legislation to Move TARP Funds From Wall Street to Main Street

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 138
  C ongressman John Yarmuth Representing Kentucky’s 3 rd Congressional District PRESS RELEASE        FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 14, 2009    MEDIA CONTACT Trey Pollard 202.225.5401    The “Give Main Street ...
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• A Video from Congress.org: How Does Cap and Trade Work? A Video from

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 138
  
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• Final Tally of the House Vote on H.R. 4213: Tax Extenders Act of 2009

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 138
    FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 943 (Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic ; Independents underlined )    H R 4213   RECORDED VOTE   9-Dec-2009   3:17 PM    QUESTION:   On Passage    BILL TITLE:  Tax Extenders Act of 2009 Ayes Noes PRES NV ...
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• In Case You Missed It: The U.S. House of Representatives has Approved the Tax Extenders Act of 2009

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 138
  (These extenders mainly consisted of the tax sweeters in last years bailout; Source: Thomas.Com) H.R.4213 Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-15] (introduced 12/7/2009)  Cosponsors (None) ...
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• House members eat up tax dollars

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  A new report shows that lean economic times didnt stop members of Congress from splurging taxpayer dollars on food and drink, including a $6,090 meal tab racked up in a single day by Guam Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo during a visit home with members of the House Natural Resources Committee. The meal bill that Mrs. ...
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• New NYC Anti-Soda Ad is Somewhat Stupid and Extremely Disgusting

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 674
  Hey fatass, in case you didn’t know, drinking soda pop is bad for you. So, just to remind you, here is the new commercial released today by the City of New York showing a man drinking a glass of fat. Your tax dollars at work ladies and gentlemen! This’d be a hell of a lot more effective if the dude weren’t ...
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• A chicken in every pot and a golf cart in every garage

  
  Blue Like You — Authority: 518
  John Stossel explains how to get a free golf cart – all in the name of bolstering the economy and fighting global warming of course.More from Fox Business:
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