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	<title>Comments on: Congress workin&#8217; on the weekend: Energy, FISA reform, defense appropriations, and earmarks aplenty</title>
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		<title>By: Right Voices &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Rules? What Rules? Thank Murtha And Pelosi For The $226 Million That They Racked Up!</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/04/congress-workin-on-the-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-113035</link>
		<dc:creator>Right Voices &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Rules? What Rules? Thank Murtha And Pelosi For The $226 Million That They Racked Up!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Michelle Malkin:  Jeff Flake is on the floor lambasting the 1,300 earmarks in the bill: “There’s an earmark in here for a ‘cold-weather hand protection system.’ We’re givin’ an earmark to a private company to sell gloves!” [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Michelle Malkin:  Jeff Flake is on the floor lambasting the 1,300 earmarks in the bill: “There’s an earmark in here for a ‘cold-weather hand protection system.’ We’re givin’ an earmark to a private company to sell gloves!” [...]</p>
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		<title>By: leepro</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/04/congress-workin-on-the-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-112981</link>
		<dc:creator>leepro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;#10 Mr_Conservative_Cat said:
Thye [sic] Republicans have been scared and the Democrats arrogant because of it for decades. Somehow, some way, we need to give the Republicans in Congress a good, hard boot in the pants of their staid Brooks Brothers suits and get them to understand that being our representatives doesn’t mean being our representatives the way the Democrats would like them to do it.

They had more guts - and more shame - when Gingrich was in charge of the crowd. They’re back to a pre-’91 mindset, and it is really up to us to get them out of it. They listened on immigration, but we had to get loud as hell for them to do it. I guess we’re simply going to have to get loud - and plain spoken - alot more, A LOT MORE - in the months to come if we want to salavage anything of ‘08.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
You are &lt;strong&gt;SO RIGHT&lt;/strong&gt;! But it&#039;s not just the dems who are getting arrogant. Some of our own (e.g. Trent Lott) are showing their contempt for the electorate, too!
&lt;strong&gt;GET LOUD, PEOPLE&lt;/strong&gt;! On pork, on ethics, on the war on terror, and yes (still) on immigration, on socialized medicine, etc., etc., etc.
&lt;strong&gt;We did it before, and we can do it again! Do not give up and do not give in!&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>#10 Mr_Conservative_Cat said:<br />
Thye [sic] Republicans have been scared and the Democrats arrogant because of it for decades. Somehow, some way, we need to give the Republicans in Congress a good, hard boot in the pants of their staid Brooks Brothers suits and get them to understand that being our representatives doesn’t mean being our representatives the way the Democrats would like them to do it.</p>
<p>They had more guts &#8211; and more shame &#8211; when Gingrich was in charge of the crowd. They’re back to a pre-’91 mindset, and it is really up to us to get them out of it. They listened on immigration, but we had to get loud as hell for them to do it. I guess we’re simply going to have to get loud &#8211; and plain spoken &#8211; alot more, A LOT MORE &#8211; in the months to come if we want to salavage anything of ‘08.</p></blockquote>
<p>You are <strong>SO RIGHT</strong>! But it&#8217;s not just the dems who are getting arrogant. Some of our own (e.g. Trent Lott) are showing their contempt for the electorate, too!<br />
<strong>GET LOUD, PEOPLE</strong>! On pork, on ethics, on the war on terror, and yes (still) on immigration, on socialized medicine, etc., etc., etc.<br />
<strong>We did it before, and we can do it again! Do not give up and do not give in!</strong></p>
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		<title>By: tim zank</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/04/congress-workin-on-the-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-112952</link>
		<dc:creator>tim zank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What&#039;s really maddening is how blatant Murtha and his fellow legislators are. They don&#039;t even try to conceal the pork.

Talk about brass ones....

Term limits!!!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s really maddening is how blatant Murtha and his fellow legislators are. They don&#8217;t even try to conceal the pork.</p>
<p>Talk about brass ones&#8230;.</p>
<p>Term limits!!!!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian Congress workin’ on the weekend: Energy, FISA reform, defense appropriations, and earmarks aplenty &#171;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian Congress workin’ on the weekend: Energy, FISA reform, defense appropriations, and earmarks aplenty &#171;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] reform, defense appropriations, and earmarks&#160;aplenty August 5th, 2007 &#8212; budsimmons   http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/04/congress-workin-on-the-weekend/   Posted in Democratic majority, Democrats and Earmarking, Democratic traitors, Democratic [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] reform, defense appropriations, and earmarks&nbsp;aplenty August 5th, 2007 &#8212; budsimmons   <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/04/congress-workin-on-the-weekend/" rel="nofollow">http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/04/congress-workin-on-the-weekend/</a>   Posted in Democratic majority, Democrats and Earmarking, Democratic traitors, Democratic [...]</p>
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		<title>By: ajmontana</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/04/congress-workin-on-the-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-112917</link>
		<dc:creator>ajmontana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Update 1:13am Eastern. House is adjourned until Sept. 4.&quot;

 Now what are we going to do for levity around here... :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Update 1:13am Eastern. House is adjourned until Sept. 4.&#8221;</p>
<p> Now what are we going to do for levity around here&#8230; <img src='http://michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: WisCon</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/04/congress-workin-on-the-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-112916</link>
		<dc:creator>WisCon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Democrats (no surprise) have turned out to be not at all interested in reforming pork spending, and they are at least as corrupt as the Repubs they castigated last year.  Do you think the media will go after them for this?  Will there be a 60 Minutes expose on how they lied to America?  Not bloody likely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Democrats (no surprise) have turned out to be not at all interested in reforming pork spending, and they are at least as corrupt as the Repubs they castigated last year.  Do you think the media will go after them for this?  Will there be a 60 Minutes expose on how they lied to America?  Not bloody likely.</p>
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		<title>By: calamityville</title>
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		<dc:creator>calamityville</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A million here. A few million there. Big deal. THIS IS CHUMP CHANGE TO THESE IDIOTS. They have no clue what real life is like.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A million here. A few million there. Big deal. THIS IS CHUMP CHANGE TO THESE IDIOTS. They have no clue what real life is like.</p>
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		<title>By: Pajamas Media</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/04/congress-workin-on-the-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-112904</link>
		<dc:creator>Pajamas Media</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Up All Night in Congress:...&lt;/strong&gt;

Michelle Malkin liveblogged the late-night Saturday earmark-fest in Congress before they broke for summer recess at 1:13 AM.......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Up All Night in Congress:&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Michelle Malkin liveblogged the late-night Saturday earmark-fest in Congress before they broke for summer recess at 1:13 AM&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: DanME</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/04/congress-workin-on-the-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-112902</link>
		<dc:creator>DanME</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As I have said before, part of the solution to this mess in DC is TERM LIMITS. We need to put an end to career politicians ! WE need a constant change of faces in DC and that will give us a better chance of a citizen congress which is closer to the people.
Until we do this, I can&#039;t see much changing in DC. These career politicians will always find ways to manipulate the  system and hide the truth from the public. 

I&#039;m also a CSPAN junkie and watched much
of the debate last night. Yes, Murtha is a slime ball. He never even tried to defend these pork project earmarks. He knew the dems would win and so he just said I oppose the objection and sat down. That guy is a creep.

The dems continue to show their true socialist/pacifist colors of late: 

* Lack of support for FISA
* More and More Taxes
* Incremental movement towards national
  health care
* An energy plan which has no
  near/intermediate term solution for 
  reducing our high useage of imported
  oil
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I have said before, part of the solution to this mess in DC is TERM LIMITS. We need to put an end to career politicians ! WE need a constant change of faces in DC and that will give us a better chance of a citizen congress which is closer to the people.<br />
Until we do this, I can&#8217;t see much changing in DC. These career politicians will always find ways to manipulate the  system and hide the truth from the public. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m also a CSPAN junkie and watched much<br />
of the debate last night. Yes, Murtha is a slime ball. He never even tried to defend these pork project earmarks. He knew the dems would win and so he just said I oppose the objection and sat down. That guy is a creep.</p>
<p>The dems continue to show their true socialist/pacifist colors of late: </p>
<p>* Lack of support for FISA<br />
* More and More Taxes<br />
* Incremental movement towards national<br />
  health care<br />
* An energy plan which has no<br />
  near/intermediate term solution for<br />
  reducing our high useage of imported<br />
  oil<br />
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		<title>By: zorro</title>
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		<dc:creator>zorro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just received a flyer from our congressman, Altmire.  There&#039;s a tear off on which to check off what topics are most important to we the people.  The tear off is titled &quot;What Should We Be Working On?&quot;.  The choices are:

Job Security
The Cost of College Education
Small Business Growth
Jobs Leaving Pennsylvania
Our Young People Leaving Pennsylvania
Other

I have emailed Rep. Jason Altmire(D)asking what section of the constitution allows this socialist congress to tax us for the above projects.  I reminded him that tax dollars can be used to defend our citizens.  I doubt he will respond.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just received a flyer from our congressman, Altmire.  There&#8217;s a tear off on which to check off what topics are most important to we the people.  The tear off is titled &#8220;What Should We Be Working On?&#8221;.  The choices are:</p>
<p>Job Security<br />
The Cost of College Education<br />
Small Business Growth<br />
Jobs Leaving Pennsylvania<br />
Our Young People Leaving Pennsylvania<br />
Other</p>
<p>I have emailed Rep. Jason Altmire(D)asking what section of the constitution allows this socialist congress to tax us for the above projects.  I reminded him that tax dollars can be used to defend our citizens.  I doubt he will respond.</p>
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		<title>By: blues</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/04/congress-workin-on-the-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-112889</link>
		<dc:creator>blues</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Swimmer detection sonar network&quot;-a bunch of people standing around a pool listening for water farts?   &quot;Atomospheric water harvesting project&quot;I&#039;ve got one in my back yard ,I call it a hole in the ground.It didn&#039;t cost me anything-Nature put it there.J.Cass Murtha has such a way with words,that silver-tongued devil is the rep for my district,aren&#039;t I lucky?Time for a Thorozine Cocktail and a case of duct tape.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Swimmer detection sonar network&#8221;-a bunch of people standing around a pool listening for water farts?   &#8220;Atomospheric water harvesting project&#8221;I&#8217;ve got one in my back yard ,I call it a hole in the ground.It didn&#8217;t cost me anything-Nature put it there.J.Cass Murtha has such a way with words,that silver-tongued devil is the rep for my district,aren&#8217;t I lucky?Time for a Thorozine Cocktail and a case of duct tape.</p>
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		<title>By: blacktygrrrr</title>
		<link>http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/04/congress-workin-on-the-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-112883</link>
		<dc:creator>blacktygrrrr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congress is taking a vacation? How can you tell? 

Thankfully, the troops will have an uninterrupted month to actually do what they do best while congress does what it does best...nothing.

We can now say we supported the troops by sending congress home.

http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/06/20/the-troops-should-support-congress-by-sending-them-home/

http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/liberals-and-sopranos-a-buildup-to-nothingness/

eric  :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congress is taking a vacation? How can you tell? </p>
<p>Thankfully, the troops will have an uninterrupted month to actually do what they do best while congress does what it does best&#8230;nothing.</p>
<p>We can now say we supported the troops by sending congress home.</p>
<p><a href="http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/06/20/the-troops-should-support-congress-by-sending-them-home/" rel="nofollow">http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/06/20/the-troops-should-support-congress-by-sending-them-home/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/liberals-and-sopranos-a-buildup-to-nothingness/" rel="nofollow">http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/liberals-and-sopranos-a-buildup-to-nothingness/</a></p>
<p>eric  <img src='http://michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Bill's Bites</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill's Bites</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Index To Today&#039;s Posts, Quick Hits, Open Post...&lt;/strong&gt;

Some things worth knowing about that I didn&#039;t devote separate posts to: ...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>A Quick Index To Today&#8217;s Posts, Quick Hits, Open Post&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Some things worth knowing about that I didn&#8217;t devote separate posts to: &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: DesertLover</title>
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		<dc:creator>DesertLover</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Watching Congress these days is like watching Emeril because in both cases &lt;em&gt;Pork Rules&lt;/em&gt;

I still say the Constitutional amendment we need is the one that states that:

&lt;blockquote&gt;No amendment shall be presented or attached to any proposed law or bill that does not directly pertain to the purpose and subject of the law or bill being considered&lt;/blockquote&gt;

At least one of my AZ reps (Jeff Flake) is out in the front on this one.

We need to be sure that we all work at getting these &lt;em&gt;P O R K E R S&lt;/em&gt; voted out of office.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Watching Congress these days is like watching Emeril because in both cases <em>Pork Rules</em></p>
<p>I still say the Constitutional amendment we need is the one that states that:</p>
<blockquote><p>No amendment shall be presented or attached to any proposed law or bill that does not directly pertain to the purpose and subject of the law or bill being considered</p></blockquote>
<p>At least one of my AZ reps (Jeff Flake) is out in the front on this one.</p>
<p>We need to be sure that we all work at getting these <em>P O R K E R S</em> voted out of office.</p>
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		<title>By: swj719AWG</title>
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		<dc:creator>swj719AWG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I so need to get the retiring local Rep. to endorce me.  I&#039;d show up in jeans and a Foamy t-shirt.

And a &quot;honk if you&#039;re horny&quot; baseball hat...

Hey, if they won&#039;t take the business of running this country seriously, I won&#039;t.

Fridays will be &quot;Clown suit&quot; day...

C-SPAN would have to install a &quot;bleeper&quot; button too...  Their rating would sky-rocket.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I so need to get the retiring local Rep. to endorce me.  I&#8217;d show up in jeans and a Foamy t-shirt.</p>
<p>And a &#8220;honk if you&#8217;re horny&#8221; baseball hat&#8230;</p>
<p>Hey, if they won&#8217;t take the business of running this country seriously, I won&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Fridays will be &#8220;Clown suit&#8221; day&#8230;</p>
<p>C-SPAN would have to install a &#8220;bleeper&#8221; button too&#8230;  Their rating would sky-rocket.</p>
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