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Senate votes to keep spending millions on stimulus signs
Ever since the “American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009″ kicked in, it was obvious that a major part of the stimulus would be paying people to design, manufacture and put up signs alerting taxpayers where their “stimulus” money was going. You’d have to spend a fortune on an investigation to find a better example [...]
Schumer opposed flu pandemic funding in stimulus, too, you morons
Sorry to interrupt all the liberal blogosphere’s unhinged GOP-bashing over conservative opposition to flu pandemic funding in the porkulus bill, but…
Well. Just an inconvenient reminder:
“All those little porky things that the House put in, the money for the [National] Mall or the sexually transmitted diseases or the flu pandemic, they’re all out,” Schumer said.
“Porky [...]
$8 million radar to nowhere
Your tax dollars at work thanks to King of Pork John Murtha. Pennsylvania, why did you put this hog back in office. Why? (h/t William Amos):
A state-of-the-art radar system that has sat idle for years at a local airport has never been used because there has been no one to operate it, officials said.
The Digital [...]
Corruptocrat skates, but he’s still guilty as hell
Ugh.
The Justice Department filed court papers this morning asking a federal judge to toss out the conviction of former senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) on corruption charges.
The move comes as a federal judge was preparing to conduct hearings to probe allegations of prosecutorial misconduct by the team that tried one of the most powerful Republicans [...]
TARP = Taxpayers’ Accounts Recycled to Politicians
Swallowing the Crap Sandwich.
Look beyond the bogus bonus smokescreen
My syndicated column today tallies up all the craptacular spending that’s been going on while the AIG-bashing hypocrites on the Hill crow about $165 million in corporate bonuses none of them bothered to stop before they rushed to fork over billions to AIG in the first place. I mention the little-noticed $6 billion GIVE Act, [...]
Photoshop contest: Obama Fingers; Updated with new entries
Shake and bake.
Joe Biden to preside over “RAT board”
Sinking ship.
Earmark-zilla: FutureGen boondoggle grows even bigger
The FutureGen near-zero emissions “clean coal” plant earmark championed by corruptocrat Rod Blagojevich and Democrat No. 2 Dick Durbin was the largest single earmark in the porkulus package. Sen. Tom Coburn fought to strip it out. He lost.
Now, we learn that the project has ballooned in cost to an estimated $2.3 billion.
Hey, good thing [...]
Fun fact of the day
Well, ok. Not really “fun.” Depressing, actually:
More than one out of every five dollars of the $125 million Massachusetts is receiving from a federal spending bill is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.
I call it Hyannis Pork.
Business-as-usual Obama: Ok, now “let’s end to the old way of doing business”
What a laughingstock.
He signs 8,500 earmarks into law (out of camera’s view), sinks American deeper into a gazillion-dollar spending hole, then faces the public to declare that now, now, now he’ll clean up Washington, D.C. I smell swine odor!
Acknowledging it’s an “imperfect” bill, President Barack Obama said he will accept a $410 billion spending package [...]
Liveblogging omni-pork debate in Senate; Meet the Republicans against school choice; Omni-pork passes
Scroll for updates…7:09pm Eastern…motion to invoke cloture passes 62-35…and…omni-pork sails through the Senate on voice vote…$410 billion soon to siphoned away from taxpayers to bolster congressional re-election prospects…they should have said “Oink” instead of “aye…”
Just watched Jeff Session’s E-Verify amendment to ensure that omni-pork spending only goes to legal citizens get tabled.
Vote was 50-47. Here’s [...]
Let them eat pork, part 9,999: Senate at work
Fry it up in a pan.
Lifeline: Congress passes temporary spending patch
Desperate times, desperate measures.
Via Wash Times:
Congress Friday passed a temporary spending measure to keep the government open through Wednesday as lawmakers struggled over an omnibus appropriations bill for the remainder of the fiscal year.
The House passed the bill by a 328-50 vote; the Senate acted by unanimous voice vote. President Barack Obama was slated [...]
Cube-steak Americans vs. the Wagyu-beef White House
My syndicated column today spotlights the return of thrift in individual American households — a phenomenon that stands in stark contrast to the unmitigated profligacy embraced by Barack Obama’s White House.
Opposition is growing to the confisctory spending train: Witness the Senate Republican success in delaying the omni-pork, coupled with the aggressive House GOP call [...]
House Republicans push for spending freeze; Update: Measure fails
Scroll for updates…
Excellent idea: On the heels of the successful Senate GOP move to slow down passage of the $410 billion omni-pork bill, House GOP leader John Boehner is pushing for a freeze on government spending that would hold federal spending at current levels and strip the omnibus of all 9,000 un-scrutinized earmarks:
The top Republican [...]
Finally, a show of cojones: Senate GOP forces delay on omni-pork bill
Some encouraging news breaking tonight: Senate Republicans forced a delay on consideration of the $410 billion omni-pork spending bill. Harry Reid canceled the vote after confessing that he was one vote short of the 60 needed to shut off debate and move forward.
A Hill friend says Reid had to walk out 20 minutes after the [...]
Correction/update: Coburn anti-earmark vote now; competitive bidding amendment fails, 38-57; earmark ban fails 43-52
Hog wild. (Photoshop credit: Reader Matt)
Eh: McCain and Feingold together again
So, there’s some Beltway buzz about a line-item veto proposal introduced today by Sens. John McCain and Russ Feingold and Rep. Paul Ryan on the House side.
Pardon me while I suppress my gag reflex at another Feingold-McCain partnership — and at the Kabuki theater from the White House:
A bipartisan group is giving the line-item veto [...]
Omni-pork lives! Senate protects $7.7 billion worth of earmarks
Sooooiiiieee.
A golden opportunity to tell Schmucky Schumer you care
Oink, oink.
Let’s get this Tea Party started; Update: DC Tea Party now at Lafayette Park
It’s really on. Tomorrow, thousands of sick and tired taxpayers on the ground and online will participate in “Tea Parties” across the country. Go here for links and locations. Chuck Simmins also has a handy thumbnail guide, as does Little Miss Attila, whose list I’m reprinting below the Tea Party Twitter widget, with as many [...]
Oh, where is the omni-pork in your neighborhood?
Map it!
House roll call vote 245-178: Another $410 billion down the drain
The House passed Porkzilla 2.0 — the $410 billion omni-waste spending bill – this afternoon.
The roll call vote is here.
Drink the Kool-Aid and repeat after me: There are no earmarks.
In one of many untold, underhanded maneuvers, the House bill had a measure buried in it that will kill school choice in the rotten public [...]
Tea Party USA Watch: Party planning continues; Sen. DeMint: “People have to show that they’re not going to take it anymore”
R.S.V.P.
9,000 earmarks in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill: Gang tattoo removal, Maine lobster, La Raza & more!
Soooiiiie.
Tea Party USA Watch: Taxpayers coming together
(Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti)
Tons of groups and individuals are stepping up to the plate in the wake of last week’s anti-stimulus/anti-entitlement protests and the call for a nationwide Tea Party.
PJTV’s clearinghouse for protests is here.
The New American Tea Party page from “a coalition of citizens and organizations concerned about the recent trend of fiscal recklessness [...]
Photoshop of the day: Schmucky says “Let them eat pork”
L’Jerk c’est Moi .
The Murtha quagmire: Who greased earmark wheels for the Pork King?
Squeal.
Tell Chuck Schumer you care; Update: Send him a bag of pork rinds
Speaking truth to Schmucky.
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