Posts tagged ‘congress’

House might give Pluto its planet status back

By Tom Chambers • 5:09 p.m. July 28, 2009 • 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks
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HOUSE MIGHT GIVE PLUTO ITS PLANET STATUS BACK • Cause they’re plate isn’t full enough already, and we don’t want to politicize science, or anything. …

Did you read the 1,017 page bill? All of it?

By Tom Chambers • 7:26 p.m. July 24, 2009 • 0 Comments 1 Trackback
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A new ad from The Americans for Prosperity Foundation poses the all-important and easily answered question: Did you read the bill? The answer, of course, …

Whatever it is, we should be for it

By Tom Chambers • 5:57 p.m. July 22, 2009 • 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks
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WHATEVER IT IS, WE SHOULD BE FOR IT • The president isn’t familiar with the bills, Congress can’t tell us how it will work — …

Arrogance

By Tom Chambers • 5:55 p.m. July 22, 2009 • 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks
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ARROGANCE • ‘A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.’ …

More people like Cheney than they do Pelosi

By Tom Chambers • 7:10 a.m. June 5, 2009 • 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks
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MORE PEOPLE LIKE CHENEY THAN THEY DO PELOSI • By three percentage points. Of course, more people dislike Cheney, too. But man, the speaker’s below …

The Jennifer Lopez of congressional travelers

By Tom Chambers • 5:42 p.m. March 11, 2009 • 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks
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THE JENNIFER LOPEZ OF CONGRESSIONAL TRAVELERS • “Fickle, demanding, and notoriously insensitive to the time, costs, and energy needed to accommodate her endless demands.” Michelle …

$1 billion an hour

By Tom Chambers • 5:03 p.m. March 11, 2009 • 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks
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Under our new “Era of Responsibility,” Congress and the president have racked up quite a tab. As Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell noted this morning

America’s coolest congressman

By Tom Chambers • 4:13 p.m. March 11, 2009 • 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks
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Thaddeus McCotter, R-Mich., just might be the coolest congressman — and note that he’s a Republican and chairman of the party’s House policy committee.

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Moderates are the problem

By Tom Chambers • 10:11 a.m. March 2, 2009 • 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks
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MODERATES ARE THE PROBLEM • ‘What’s most remarkable is that this position assumes that congressional Republicans have actually been trying conservatism.’ Amen. Amen. …

Earmark my eye!

By Tom Chambers • 2:45 p.m. Feb. 27, 2009 • 1 Comment 0 Trackbacks
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Just as with the promise to allow the public to review legislation for five days before the hypocrite-in-chief signs it, there’s no real effort to …