Category: Earmarks
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Nov 19, 2011 in Bailouts, Banking Institutions, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Earmarks, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Nancy Pelosi | View Comments
~Bumped Up~ Steve Kroft’s explosive 60 Minutes report on rampant ‘legal’ congressional insider trading last Sunday provoked fury and heartache at an elitist political class spiraling out of control. I cannot claim to have romantic notions about any politician, but this latest disclosure is the final nail in the coffin. For politicians to use access [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jun 3, 2010 in Canada, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Democrats, Earmarks, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Health Care, Mexico, President Barack Obama | View Comments
Recently, we have been focusing on our neighbors to the south as we discuss issues of illegal immigration. But while we have been focusing our energies down there, something has been going on up in Canada. And it’s big. What is it, you may ask? Well, this: Soaring Costs Force Canada To Reassess Health Model. [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Apr 29, 2010 in Bailouts, Bank Bailouts, Banking Institutions, Campaign promises, Credit Card Companies, DNC, Deficit, Democrats, Depression, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, General Motors & Chrysler, National Debt, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises, Obama-Barack & President Barack, Obamatopia, TARP, Toxic Assets, Wall Street | View Comments
President Obama made a visit to Ottumwa, Iowa Wednesday. As reported by Jake Tapper on ABC’s Political Punch: “We’re going to have to make some tough choices” about the deficit and national debt, President Obama said to a crowded gymnasium full of supporters at Indian Hills Community College, after a lengthy riff on how the [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Apr 18, 2010 in Austan Goolsbee, Bailouts, Bank Bailouts, Bank Failure, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Elitism, George Bush, National Debt, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises, President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Toxic Assets, Wall Street | View Comments
CNN’s John Blake posted an article the other day that is just too rich to let pass without comment. CNN, certainly very Obama-friendly, was probably trying to do our President a solid by posting this piece in an effort to prove to the Tea Party activists and others who are not fans of Mr. Obama’s [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Dec 26, 2009 in CNN, Chicago politics, Congress (House & Senate), Corruption, Current Affairs, Democrats, Earmarks, Harry Reid, Health Care, President Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel | View Comments
* Bumped up * To the Health Care Industry, Big Pharma, and a few select states. Yes, in the wee hours of the morning (okay, 7:00 a.m.), the Senate voted to pass the Health-Care-less-what-the-people-and-physicians-say Bill. Oh, yes – what a banner day. The Senate rammed through a bill so fraught with problems it would be [...]
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 | View 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 giving them millions [...]
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 | View 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 finally fighting, alright, [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Sep 10, 2009 in ACORN, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Chicago politics, Crime, Current Affairs, DNC, Democrats, Earmarks | View 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 just [...]
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 | View 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 Boston poll [...]
By Pat Racimora on Mar 19, 2009 in Earmarks, Ted Kennedy | View 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 (representing 7.7 [...]
By American Girl in Italy on Mar 15, 2009 in ACORN, Backtrack Obama, Bamboozling, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, John McCain | View 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 these [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Mar 11, 2009 in Backtrack Obama, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Earmarks, Economy, Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi | View 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 | View 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 | View 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 the streets and [...]
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 | View 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 best clue [...]
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