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The vote was 31-28 tonight in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
John McCormack has the breakdown: “Blue Dogs Bart Gordon (Tenn.), Baron Hill (Ind.), Mike Ross (Ark.), and Zack Space (Ohio) vote(d) yes.”
More from Reuters.
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Melt the phones:
Bart Gordon (Tenn.) – 202 225-4231
Local:
Murfreesboro Office
(615) 896-1986
305 West Main Street
Murfreesboro, TN 37130
Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Cookeville [...]

Come Monday, it’ll be alright

“Cash for Clunkers” — a program that our genius financial managers in Washington had skillfully budgeted to run, appropriately enough, until around Halloween — has been suspended after just a few days. There were many “unforeseen” problems, meaning that nobody who created the program knew anything about what they were doing or the possible pitfalls. [...]

“Daaa profilers!”

Teachable moment.

Headed over to C-SPAN studios to do Washington Journal at 8am Eastern. Watch here.
At 9am Eastern, I’ll be on KHOW talk radio with Peter Boyles.
At 11:15am, I’ll be stopping by in studio to chat with Laura Ingraham.
At 2pm, I’ll be speaking with students at a Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute event here in D.C.

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Dodd and Obama: Corrupt birds of a feather
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Everything you need to know about false Hope and Change can be found in one picture: The image of President Obama embracing embattled Sen. Chris Dodd.
The embattled Democrat is in deep doo-doo over his Countrywide sweetheart home loan deals, corporate bailout cash, [...]

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The feds are shocked that people flocked to take advantage of easy money. Whodathunk?!
Via USA Today:
The government is suspending the explosively popular ‘cash for clunkers’ program at midnight tonight fearing it would go broke before it could parcel out what it still owes dealers for a huge backlog of sales.
The pending suspension was [...]

Instapundit Glenn Reynolds interviewed me on his Pajamas TV show about Culture of Corruption.
Watch here.
We opened with a fun-filled discussion of the liberal racist reaction to the book launch.
In case you missed the background on the joke, read here.
There’s plenty more where that came from — including this most desperate cry for attention from the [...]

“Ah, but the strawberries! That’s where I had them!”

Stimulus money for the National Endowment for the Arts is supposed to be “restricted specifically to job preservation. ”
But a look at the list of NEA stimulus projects reveals that the money is being used instead for sexual titillation. Fox News reported on some of the eye-opening projects here.
Straight from the National Endowment for the [...]

Chapter 5 of Culture of Corruption exposes the shadiest Obama czars. GOP Rep. Jack Kingston has been hammering at the czar explosion and put together a great overview of the overlords on YouTube. Pass this one on:

Healing time for the Fighting Irish

Naming names.

Last week, I noted the murder of Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas.
He left behind a wife and two children.
His community in Arizona has set up several memorial funds.
The website “chipin” has a memorial page set up in honor of Agent Rosas. People can pay via credit or debit card. Proceeds will go to Rosas’ wife [...]

This week, every conservative commentator or Republican politician who appeared on TV got the Birther litmus test. Journalists didn’t care about the issue. Their agenda was embarrassing the Right.
If they cared about wackjobs espousing conspiracy theories, they’d be grilling every liberal commentator or Republican politician who appeared on TV about the wackjob science czar, John [...]

Via Roll Call, House Republicans fight back against the gag rules of the majority:
House Republicans on Wednesday filed a resolution that blasts Democrats for preventing GOP Members from sending constituents a mailing that criticizes the majority’s health care proposal.
The resolution cites the “failure of the Democratic Members of the Franking Commission to ensure that the [...]

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We have the momentum to kill Obamacare.
The congressional recess period is critical.
I’ve joined many grass-roots groups in a nationwide coalition holding a Recess Rally on August 22, 2009.
The Tea Party revolt and the grass-roots counterinsurgency against the health care takeover have taken congressional offices locally and Washington, D.C. by storm.
Now, more than ever: [...]

Regular readers are familiar with Democrat deadbeat Rep. Laura Richardson. (See here for all previous posts.) She’s the Democrat congresswoman who defaulted six times on her home loans and has left a trail of unpaid bills in her wake.
Well, finally, finally, her Sacramento foreclosure scandal is now the subject of a House ethics probe. Via [...]

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I’ve been reading about the federal corruption stings in New Jersey with an extra sense of fascination.
Many of you know I’m a New Jersey girl. So the kind of local graft and pay-for-play schemes involved in the latest probe are nothing new.
My question is — and gee, maybe someone in Washington [...]

Just finished up on the Today Show, where I had a quick chance to briefly expose the Culture of Corruption in the age of Obama. My syndicated column today adds to the dossier with a round-up of fresh Bully Boy moments.
It’s the Chicago way.
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Bully boys: A brief history of White House thuggery
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright [...]

I will be on the Today Show this morning at around 7:14am to talk about Culture of Corruption
Yes, really.
Tune in.
Here’s an open thread. Talk amongst yourselves.
(P.S. The Today Show website has reprinted the intro to the book. You can read it here.)
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Watch the vid here.
Better: Read Allahpundit’s take here.
More: Human Events says, “Lauer loses [...]

Reader Matt S. emailed me tonight to let me know that several hundred activists turned out for an Obamacare protest in Indianapolis outside Democrat Sen. Bayh’s office. More at INteaparty.com
He sent a few photos. My favorite is the first:

Recovery & Reinvestment?

Just finished Glenn Beck TV this evening and am still doing tons of radio interviews for Culture of Corruption .
On a quick break here and wanted to post a quote by SEIU president and Friend of Obama Andy Stern for you to contemplate as the White House bully boys try to salvage Dear Leader’s legislative [...]

Shadow of Hope

Michelle’s book had its “official” release just yesterday, and I just checked Amazon and it’s at #1:

Click the pic of the book and help keep it on the top of the heap where it belongs!
Congratulations to Michelle not only for the success of her book, but that her hard work continues to bring issues everybody [...]

As expected, via Hotline On Call:
Along largely partisan lines, the Senate Judiciary Cmte backed SCOTUS appointee Sonia Sotomayor, Pres. Obama’s first high court pick, this morning by a 13-6 vote.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was the only Republican to support Sotomayor. The Senate cmte’s Dems voted unanimously for the Bronx native.
Full confirmation next.

A date and time has been set for the re-education of Officer Crowley — I mean, some meaningful dialog on race:
A White House official tells ABC News that Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley will have beers with President Obama Thursday at 6 pm ET.
“The president sees this as [...]

Obamacare, or robots — You decide, pops