Category: Earmarks
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Oct 6, 2009 in ACORN, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Crime, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Louisiana, New York Times, Unions, Valerie Jarrett | 88 Comments
Oh, boy. This doesn’t look good for ACORN, not that much does these days. You may recall that Dale Rathke, one of the two founders of ACORN, had embezzled $1 million dollars, according to this NY Times article. That became the widely accepted amount, not that that embezzlement stopped our government from [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Sep 27, 2009 in ACORN, Chicago politics, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Earmarks, Harry Reid, President Barack Obama, Tax stimulus package | 31 Comments
Harry Reid has finally grown a backbone, it seems. His timing for it, though, is disturbing, to say the least. When he was first picked for Senate Majority Leader, I thought that maybe he really would be a stand up guy, a fighter, as his former boxing career would suggest. Well, he’s [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Sep 10, 2009 in ACORN, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Chicago politics, Crime, Current Affairs, DNC, Democrats, Earmarks | 151 Comments
You are simply NOT going to believe this undercover discovery of just what you can get from ACORN on the Taxpayer Dime (do a search for ACORN at No Quarter for reminders about this organization,a s well as ACORN’s connections to Obama and the DNC, especially Barney Frank). Intrepid reporter James O’Keefe found out [...]
By Truthteller on Mar 26, 2009 in Backtrack Obama, Barack Obama, Campaign Gaffes, Campaign promises, David Axelrod, Democrats, Deval Patrick, Earmarks, Economy, Flip Flopping, Governance, Hillary Clinton, Obama Administration, Obama Comrades, Obama's Broken Promises, Obama's Budget, Obama's Cabinet, Obama's Priorities, Obama's Thugs, Plagiarism | 65 Comments
David Axelrod manufactures commodities, not politicians: they don suits; they read teleprompters; they promise something new and unprecedented; but these newfangled objects cannot govern. No, I am not referring to Barack Obama, although this news does not bode well for Axelrod’s latest product; I am discussing Deval Patrick, who according to a 7News [...]
By Pat Racimora on Mar 19, 2009 in Earmarks, Ted Kennedy | 46 Comments
I’ll be honest upfront with my opinion. I see them as little parasites made from hijacked taxpayer dollars that members of Congress attach to totally unrelated bills for the purpose of impressing their own constituents. President Obama rallied against the considerable flab involved, but signed the 2009 omnibus spending bill anyway, with 9,309 [...]
By American Girl in Italy on Mar 15, 2009 in ACORN, Backtrack Obama, Bamboozling, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, John McCain | 59 Comments
At the end of last summer, John McCain stated, “The fundamentals of the economy are strong.”
“You know,” said McCain, “there’s been tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street and it is — people are frightened by these events. Our economy, I think, still the fundamentals of our economy are strong. But [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Mar 11, 2009 in Backtrack Obama, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Earmarks, Economy, Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi | 40 Comments
That’s what Nancy Pelosi thinks our Air Force is - her personal taxi service. Yes, the Watchdog group, Judicial Group, has found some mighty information out about Speaker Pelosi’s personal of Air Force personnel and equipment in THIS article. The information obtained was through a Freedom of Information Act request.
By RobWarrior on Mar 10, 2009 in Barack Obama, Cuba, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Harry Reid | 33 Comments
ABOVE: Senator Robert Menendez is ready to deck who ever amended the omnibus spending bill to include a provision relaxing trade and travel sanctions with Cuba
By Old Grumpy Guy on Mar 3, 2009 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Nancy Pelosi | 51 Comments
The eruption of street protests around the country against the “stimulus bill”, as depicted in this video, certainly took me by surprise. I never expected anything like this so soon, if at all.
So what happens next? Is this the start of something that is likely to snowball? Will others take to [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Feb 26, 2009 in Banking Committee Hearings, Banking Institutions, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Bernie Mac Scandal, Bernie Madoff, Christopher Dodd, Congress (House & Senate), Democrats, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Franklin Raines, Hoodwinking, Nancy Pelosi | 48 Comments
But Paul Krugman is. And he had this to say about the team Obama has put together to deal with the economy: All the President’s Zombies. Nice title, eh? Pretty much sums it up, but Mr. Krugman does go on to explain:
Ben Bernanke’s testimony over the past two days gives us our [...]
By Larry Doyle on Feb 21, 2009 in American Consumers, Bank Nationalization, Banking Institutions, Bernie Madoff, Congress (House & Senate), Credit Card Companies, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Tax stimulus package, Wall Street, Workers | 59 Comments
With the market making new lows for the year, global economies showing increasing signs of distress, and new programs emanating from Washington, where does one find some sanity around here??
We’ll be departing from “LD’s Central Station” on Saturday at 9:00 am EST until 12 noon to attempt to put some clarity into this madness!! [...]
By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 14, 2009 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Emperor's Clothing Syndrome, Nancy Pelosi, TARP, stimulus tax package | 22 Comments
In Uppity’s earlier piece on “You’ve Been Stimulated” she presents John Boehner’s video about the indecent speed with which the “stimulus package” was passed.
No doubt I will have the Obots screaming again about being partisan in siding with a Republican spokesman about the “stimulus package”, but GOP Congressional leader John Boehner raises [...]
By Uppity Woman on Feb 14, 2009 in American Consumers, Banking Institutions, Congress (House & Senate), Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Housing & Housing Crisis, President Barack Obama, stimulus tax package | 81 Comments
The giveaway bill to special interests Porkulus Stimulus Bill has been passed.
I would especially like to congratulate all the young Obama supporters, because you are all going to be paying this bill off for the rest of your lives, except for the part you pass onto your kids. Mom and Dad won’t [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Feb 14, 2009 in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus | 31 Comments
With so much hooey going on - the stimulus package that is primarily a laundry list of every pet project people could conceive, as well as paybacks for all of the “help” given Obama to get into the White House, I thought we could all use a little comic relief. Here, then, is Jon [...]
By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 13, 2009 in Current Affairs, Democracy, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Nancy Pelosi | 229 Comments
This video, featuring Congressman Jack Kingston from Georgia, would be very funny if it wasn’t so scary. In it he talks, among other things, about Nancy Pelosi’s $30 million earmark to save California rats!
For those who are suffering economic hardships, Kingston suggests you go to Los Angeles and borrow some money from [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Feb 12, 2009 in ACORN, Arrogance, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Emil Jones, Illinois senate, Indiana, US Senate | 38 Comments
You don’t have to be a Yankees fan (which I am) to have heard the recent brouhaha over Alex Rodriquez (I’m a Derek Jeter fan myself), and his acknowledgment that he used steroids back in 2001 - 2003. It is disturbing, of course - I deplore the use of steroids in baseball (though at [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Feb 10, 2009 in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Breaking News, Current Affairs, Democrats, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Harry Reid, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, South Carolina, TARP, Tax stimulus package, Tom Daschle | 59 Comments
So says my governor, Mark Sanford, of SC in this interview with John King on CNN (MAJOR H/T to SusanUnPC at No Quarter for this story):
Embedded video from CNN Video
A “Savior-based” economy. Well, Heaven knows, Obama has certainly been set up as The Messiah, so it makes sense that this would be the kind [...]
By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 9, 2009 in Current Affairs, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Employment, Energy Policy, Iran | 78 Comments
I have to confess that I was very impressed by Obama’s handling of his first Press conference and by what he had to say.
One sentence that really got me onside was when he stated that the country could not afford to let Congress “play political games” as was its usual tendency. I immediately thought of [...]
By SusanUnPC on Feb 9, 2009 in Allison Davis, American Consumers, Cullen Davis, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Tony Rezko | 52 Comments
Updates: The Senate vote is at 5:30 p.m. ET on C-Span2.
Breaking News via WaPo: Stimulus Bill Clears Procedural Hurdle in Senate : “Senate votes to move forward on a compromise version of the bill crafted last week to attract a handful of GOP votes. Even if the Senate approves the measure in a subsequent vote, [...]
By Larry Doyle on Feb 7, 2009 in American Consumers, Bank Nationalization, Banking Institutions, Credit Card Companies, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Housing & Housing Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Real Estate, Tax stimulus package | 56 Comments
We will have our regularly scheduled 9:00 a.m. Saturday departure from Central Station.
The tracks remain steeply sloped with many curves along the way. With all eyes and ears and hearts focused on the wide range of developments in the economy, the markets, and the world of global finance we have added a few extra [...]
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