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• If he gets the job, will it count as “saved” or “created”?

  —Cold Fury

  THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT KNOWS Candidate Grant Bosse: The Double-Zero are without a voice in Congress. Well, that’s unacceptable. Today, I am announcing the start of my campaign for Congress in New Hampshire Double-Zero District! The Double-Zero is a magical land. A mythical land. And place that only exists in the buggy databases of [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:56pm EST
  by Noel

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• What Evil Could Replicans Do If They Were Ever In Power?

  —snapped shot

  According to the left, the most atrocious thing that could ever happen, besides the warming of the planet and the sight of polar bears resting on ice caps, would be if the Republicans gained power in the People's Congress of the USSA.

  How bad [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:13pm EST
  by captainfish

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• Paul-Grayson Amendment Passed. [JHoward]

  —protein wisdom

  From Market Watch:

  A key congressional panel on Thursday approved legislation introduced by the Texas congressman that - for the first time in the central bank’s 95-year-history — would require government audits of Federal Reserve monetary policy, as well as how much the central bank has lent and will lend [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:47am EST
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• If You Like the Government Reducing Your Ability to Get Mammograms, You're Gonna Love ObamaCare!

  —Ace of Spades HQ

  Silver bullet, AHFF Geoff says. Under health-care reform legislation pending in Congress, the task force's recommendations would be used to help determine the basic coverage that insurance companies would need to offer for preventive services. But task force officials said... [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:01pm EST
  

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• Obama: "Save or Create Jobs With Stimulus" Fine, But Where?

  —snapped shot

  

  You will never guess where the latest jobs Obama attempted to "save-or-create" were at.  No, they were not in some fictitious congressional district.  No, they didn't involve a shoe salesman or some processed cheese.

  You are going to have to click through to find out the answer....

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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:23pm EST
  by captainfish

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• Where Is The Medias “Racism Patrol”

  —Garnering Right Ideas

  If a white man were to say the following “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a white man” would the media report this as racism? The Reverend Jesse Jackson addressing the Congressional Black Caucus said “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.” Where is the [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:07pm EST
  by garneringrightideas

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• Purple Heart for Fort Hood Victims?

  —This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

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  You may have heard that Representative John Carter of Texas, the Congressman of the Fort Hood district has introduced a bill to Congress which would award the Purple Heart to the victims of Major Hasan’s shooting spree a few weeks ago. The bill reads; For purposes of the laws specified below, [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:18pm EST
  by Jonn Lilyea

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• Dionne: moderates are bad except when they’re good

  —This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

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  Remember the good old days of the Bush Administration when moderate Republicans were praised by the media for holding the line against Bush extremism and a rubberstamp Congress? It seems like only yesterday, doesn’t it? Well, suddenly, Democrat moderates are blocking a rubberstamp Congress and Washington Post’s EJ Dionne doesn’t [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:51am EST
  by Jonn Lilyea

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• Rep Pete Hoekstra on KSM Terror Trial, Fort Hood Shooting.

  —Nice Deb

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  I just got off the phone from a bloggers conference call with MI Rep Pete Hoekstra, ranking member of the Select Committee on Intelligence, who started off by mentioning that he was among the first in Congress to come out and identify the Fort Hood shooting as a terrorist act, [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:52pm EST
  by nicedeb

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• Gun Control - A Public Health Issue?

  —The Jawa Report

  Not a big surprise.In a very quiet development last month, the National Institute of Health (NIH) began studying gun violence after a 13 year ban on the topic. In 1996 Congress stripped the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)... [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:41pm EST
  by Mike Pechar

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• Smartest VP ever explains why Congress can’t do anything

  —This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

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  Joe Biden, that smartest Vice President in the history of our country explains to Jon Stewart why Democrats can’t get anything done in Congress - the question comes at about 4:15. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:13am EST
  by Jonn Lilyea

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• Should Congress Investigate Hasan?

  —The Jawa Report

  Part of me says yes for the reasons given by Ed Morrisey -- namely that Congress has a duty to find out on what grounds Hasan was declared "not dangerous" by someone in the FBI; why information that he was... [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:22pm EST
  by Rusty

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• Fictional Congress, Fictional Congressional Districts

  —Cold Fury

  SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW COALITION Pres. Silky Hussein Unicorn saves and creates several new and previously unknown districts…so that’s where the jobs went! Mark Steyn: I like to think of it as somewhere up around the Fourth Connecticut Lake or the Indian Stream by the old bootlegging routes in from Quebec. I drive [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:12am EST
  by Noel

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• Well, Obama did say “57 states” [Darleen Click]

  —protein wisdom

  Maybe that explains his administration’s “Recovery.com” reporting phantom jobs in phantom Congressional districts??
  Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:38pm EST
  by Darleen

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• The Fierce Urgency of “Later”

  —Cold Fury

  DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL-TERRORISM The King has commanded Congress to stand down, and not to turn the Ft. Hood investigation into a political circus, because the one already being conducted in New York’s courtrooms is already enough. Rep. Peter Hoekstra: In the days after the Fort Hood shooting, I was denied the [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:59pm EST
  by Noel

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• Tyranny happens

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  This is about the size of it: When I recently asked Congressman James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the House, to tell me “Where in the Constitution the federal government is authorized to regulate everyone’s healthcare,” he replied that most of what Congress does is not authorized by the Constitution, [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:02pm EST
  by Mike

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• Shocker: Based Just on Limited Media Evaluations Conducted So Far, At Least 10 Percent of "Saved or Created" Stimulus Jobs Are Simply Made-up and FictitiousBonus: Jobs Being "Created" In Congressional Districts That Themsleves Don't Exist, Either

  —Ace of Spades HQ

  And, again, that's only so far. The media is looking into this, tepidly, but only in scattered reports. Bear that in mind: These are just the "jobs saved, created, or fabricated" that the media has found thus far in 11... [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:57pm EST
  

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• Soooo....About That Recovery And The Reporting Of It

  —doubleplusundead

  Thanks to this tweet from an intrepid Missouri dude, I decided to look for myself at the recovery.gov site to see if, indeed, jobs were being saved in a Congressional District that didn't exist. Well, lookie here. Sure enough, the O-bots are claiming that five jobs were saved in the' [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:27pm EST
  by eddiebear

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• SEIU Beating Up Congress For Better "Health"

  —Invincible Armor

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  We are privileged to be entertained by ads on television asking people to call Rep. Pat Tiberi and ask him why he wants people to die. The voice over is joined with cute, heart-wrenching and homey pictures of kids and the elderly that just make you want to run out [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 9:25am EST
  by mRed

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• Great: Obama Doesn't Want Fort Hood Probe

  —The Jawa Report

  So, if the Fort Hood massacre isn't worth investigation by Congress then what is? Bush-hitler, of course! UPDATE: Good point in the comments that I hadn't thought of:Yeah right Congress would do its usual great job in investigation. PUHLLEEEZE NOOOO!!... [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:10am EST
  by Rusty

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• Could Doug Hoffman Still Win NY-23?

  —Ace of Spades HQ

  A Premature Concession? Very unlikely. Extremely unlikely. It's virtually impossible...but, uh, yeah, it technically seems like he could. Conservative Doug Hoffman conceded the race in the 23rd Congressional District last week after receiving two pieces of grim news for... [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:17am EST
  

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• Chris Dodd Is Getting His Butt Kicked In Latest Poll

  —Ace of Spades HQ

  It's a year away from election day and a lot can happen so don't get cocky but do take a moment to enjoy this. Former Connecticut Congressman Rob Simmons has an early lead in the Republican primary race for the...' [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:16am EST
  

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• Tremor: Republicans Now Have Same 4% Edge in Generic Congressional Ballot They Had in 1994

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  Actually, the "same" edge is misleading but it's close enough. Depending on what month you look at, Republicans were either tied with the Democrats (near the elections) or had some 1-5% advantage running up to the elections: The pattern, as... [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:57am EST
  

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• Gallup: ummm...yea, what Rassumussen has been saying all along

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  Extremist white supremacy hate group Gallup's polling propaganda has Republicans beating Democrats 48/44 on the generic congressional ballot, with independents breaking 52/30 to republicans.Gallup will not begin to model likely turnout until much closer to the 2010 elections...prospects for a... [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:47am EST
  

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• Jack Reed Opens His Mouth To Predictably Laughable Results

  —doubleplusundead

  Recently, Sen. Jack Reed (Dipshit-RI) tried to justify the Obamacare Provision that requires enrollment or jailtime. I wish I had more time and energy to devote to this mindles drivel, but just savor this stupidity. When asked where specifically the Constitution authorized Congress to mandate that individuals buy health insurance, [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:25am EST
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• Random happy thought

  —Mrs. Peel's Words of Wisdom

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  I read a comment from someone over at AOSHQ that “King David” Petraeus could never be President, because he wouldn’t be willing to kiss butt.  Apparently, Petraeus hates reporting to Congress and having to “explain things to his intellectual inferiors,” or something to that effect. Does that make anyone else really [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  by Mrs. Peel

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• Dem Congresswoman Threatens IRS Retribution Against Catholic Church for Supporting Stupak Amendment

  —Ace of Spades HQ

  The Democratic instinct to crush free speech is surpassed only its sister predisposition to crush religion. So it really is no surprise that Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey is suggesting that the IRS revisit the Catholic Church's tax-exempt status. In her own... [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:14pm EST
  

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• New "Contract with America"

  —doubleplusundead

  Republican chairman Michael Steele today unrolled the GP's effort to recapture the House and Senate in the 2010 mid-terms by revealing his "Contract with America", a revival of the 1994 document that Newt Gingrich used to wrestle Congress away from the Democrats. "We are promising a new dawning of politics" [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:16am EST
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• Happy Birthday To The United States Marine Corps

  —Ace of Spades HQ

  234 years of fidelity to each other and America. During the American Revolution, many important political discussions took place in the inns and taverns of Philadelphia, including the founding of the Marine Corps. A committee of the Continental Congress... [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:45am EST
  

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• The Great Uniter Speaks; Dives Into The Gutter

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  In a pep rally for health care President Obama achieved a new low for President’s. The great uniter said the following, as reported to the New York Times by a Democrat Congressman in attendance. “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 3:24pm EST
  by garneringrightideas

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