‘1000 days’ button

Posted on January 24, 2012 by ChrisA

From ‘The Hill’

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“I’m on the hill today, visiting with Congressman, and we are finding that many of the GOP members are saying, “It’s against House rules to wear the ’1000 days’ buttons at the SOTU tonight…”

Posted on January 24, 2012 by ChrisA

reports Keli Carendar as posted by Instapundit.

She then points out…

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it “against the rules” to not pass a freaking budget for 1000 days???


If it’s convenient I guess rules means something, if not, well then not so much.

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1000 days part 3 (and 4)

Posted on January 24, 2012 by ChrisA

From Powerline blog:

John Hinderaker: What Can You Do In 1,000 Days?

Lots of difficult and important things, as this excellent video from the Heritage Foundation points out. One thing you can’t do, however–at least, not if you are the Democratic Senate–is fulfill your legal obligation to pass a budget. Today is the 1,000th day since the Senate last fulfilled its legal duty by adopting a budget. The fault lies 100% with Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats, who have been in control of the Senate throughout that time:

Steven Hayward: Footnote to 1000 Days

Further to John’s post below on the shame of the Democratic Senate for failing to pass a budget for 1,000 days, Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, notes that the last time the Senate passed a budget, “you had never heard of the iPad, Tiger Woods was only known for his golfing abilities, General Motors had never declared bankruptcy, you had never heard of Swine flu. And the national debt was $4 trillion smaller than it is today.”


It’s so interesting, when the Democrat’s have problems such as this, once the press finally has to acknowledge it, taking all of a sentence or two on a Friday afternoon before a 3 day weekend, then it’s time to put it behind us and let’s all work together to move forward. Yet, if it’s the Republican’s, no such allowances. Is it STILL George W. Bush’s fault? Just wonderin’.

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1000 days part 2

Posted on January 24, 2012 by ChrisA

“I think they should all wear a 1,000 Days pin on their suits tonight. That would force the MSM to report the issue.”
Yea, I keep waiting to read about this in the local paper. Hah.

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How do I qualify?

Posted on January 24, 2012 by ChrisA

Becoming depending on government. Gotta love it. Lead the way progressives.

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Debate moderators

Posted on January 24, 2012 by ChrisA

“…As long as they can make the Republican debates look like a circus and the candidate chosen seem irrelevant, the better chance their candidate has of squeaking out a second term.” “

More examples here.

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1000 days tomorrow

Posted on January 24, 2012 by ChrisA

Since Democrats last passed a budget.

In other news today, Obama announced that he will not meet the statutory deadline to submit his budget to Congress–again. Of course, no one is holding his breath awaiting the president’s budget proposal. Obama’s last budget was so fiscally irresponsible that it was voted down in the Senate, 97-0. Not a single Democrat supported it.

Democrats like Dick Durbin and Nancy Pelosi have tried to blame their dereliction of duty on the Republicans, claiming that it would be futile to propose a budget since the Republicans would filibuster it. As usual, the Democrats rely on ignorance: under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, budgets pass the Senate by a simple majority and cannot be filibustered.


Oh the spewing vitriol if the Republican’s ever pulled a stunt like this.

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Fast and Furious update: 5th amendment

Posted on January 20, 2012 by ChrisA

Oh, this is a big problem.

It’s every citizen’s right to take the Fifth Amendment in court and Congressional hearings when testifying. When the sitting chief of a criminal investigation division for a US Attorney’s office does it, though, it certainly calls into question what in blazes the Department of Justice has been doing, especially with Operation Fast and Furious:

Budget cut. (yep, I added bold and coloring)

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Obama take down from Canada

Posted on January 19, 2012 by ChrisA

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Obama Admin: Beyond unbelieveably stoopid

Posted on January 18, 2012 by ChrisA

REPORT: State Department To Reject The Keystone Pipeline

Transcanada will however be able to reapply with an alternate route going through Nebraska


I suspect Transcanada isn’t that stoopid. They will do one of two things:

  1. Build the pipeline to Canada’s west coast and export to China
  2. Wait until a new administration.

If there isn’t an new administration this November, it’s option #1. Let’s keep sending our money to our enemies instead of our next door neighbor.

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United States: We have a problem

Posted on January 17, 2012 by ChrisA

Lawmakers Proposed $1 Tril In New Spending Last Year

Despite endless talk of spending cuts and fiscal restraint in Washington over the past year, lawmakers continued to act as though the government doesn’t spend nearly enough.


Imagine that. Don’t worry, as Warren Buffet says, we can print money.

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Elite: Thy name is Kennedy

Posted on January 16, 2012 by ChrisA

Unbelievable.

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How dare this man keep campaign promises, govern soberly, balance the budget, and refrain from raping the taxpayer?

Posted on January 16, 2012 by ChrisA

We’re talking Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker.

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Fastracks

Posted on January 16, 2012 by ChrisA

Fastracks cost projections continue to increase.

Back in 2004 when voters approved FasTracks, they were told the Northwest rail line would cost $565 million. In just four years that figure ballooned to an alarming $894 million because of construction add-ons, materials inflation and RTD’s decision to discard the rose-colored glasses it had conveniently donned for the ’04 election.

Now $894 million looks like the good old days. The latest breathtaking estimate: $1.714 billion.

Just say NO.

Hey… the boondoggle could be worse.

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Vermont delegation rewarded staffers with $236,830 in bonuses

Posted on January 16, 2012 by ChrisA

Can I get a job with these guys?

As demands for fiscal austerity dominated debate in Washington, Vermont’s three congressional lawmakers gave their staffers a combined $236,830 in bonuses last year.

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“…As a Swampscott police spokesman said at the time, “We don’t urge anybody to fight back. We want them to call us.”

Posted on January 13, 2012 by ChrisA

Massachusetts, you have a problem.

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Obama and troops

Posted on January 13, 2012 by ChrisA

“He didn’t want to take pictures with any more soldiers; he was complaining about it,” a State Department official tells me. “Look, I was excited to meet him. I wanted to like him. Let’s just say the scales fell from my eyes after I did. These are people over here who’ve been fighting the war, or working every day for the war effort, and he didn’t want to take fucking pictures with them?”

The future Commander in Chief was only a candidate then. Pathetic.

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Gotta be something more

Posted on January 11, 2012 by ChrisA

Oh yeah….

Sweet.

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SOPA becoming a political liability

Posted on January 10, 2012 by ChrisA

Stoopid politicians getting what they deserve.

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“For those who pay attention, it is astonishing to witness the non-stop, over-the-top efforts of liberal mainstream media like the New York Times to discredit Wichita-based Koch Industries and its principals Charles G. Koch and David H. Koch. “

Posted on January 10, 2012 by ChrisA

Obsessive Koch disorder at the Times

Here’s an excerpt from a January 8th letter from Melissa Cohlmia of Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC to Arthur S. Brisbane, the Times’ public editor, or readers’ representative.

In other words, Times writers apparently must perform contortions so bent-over-backward that it involves medieval references and politicizing children’s Christmas ballets, all to squeeze a disparagement about Koch into their copy. My question to you is: if the paper is going to be indulging a hostile approach that is this far-fetched, then don’t we deserve some explanation from editors for the sheer frequency and the underlying purpose?

Shouldn’t the Progressive wannabees at the Daily Camera wonder the same thing?

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