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House of Representatives Passes Auto Bailout

This seems to be the thought process of many of the elected officials in DC today…

Step 1: Pass Auto Bailout in the House. Check.

The United States House of Representatives just passed the latest round of government handouts (237-170), this time with the taxpayers money directed towards the troubled automakers.

Step 2: Pass Auto Bailout in the Senate. coming soon.

Step 3: Adjourn Congress, go back to districts and receive praise. Then come back to Washington to find out this “bridge loan” didn’t do as much as they had hoped and start this whole process again.

Step 4: Write a book.

While today’s proceedings were fairly dry, I’m convinced that things in the Senate will definitely be more colorful tomorrow (Thursday). This is probably the last time the GOP will be able to flex some muscle on the Senate floor for awhile, so it could definitely be a good show.

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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Beltway Politics, Government, Spending No Comments

Governor Blagojevich keeps a long-standing Illinois tradition running, political corruption

I’m sure by now you’ve read all the exciting details regarding Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, his arrest, and the pending corruption charges for trying to sell the keys to the United States Senate seat recently vacated by Barack Obama.

While the story itself is exciting political drama, the history of political corruption in Illinois is something that is even more profound.

Here are just a few other examples of political corruption in the state of Illinois over the last few years:

Election Day Countdown; Questions for Obama

As the conclusion of the 2008 Presidential Election appears to be less than 48 hours away (assuming there wont be another relapse of Florida, 2000), there are still many questions that Senator Barack Obama has failed to answer directly on the campaign trail.

Over the next day, we’ll be covering a variety of these questions as asked throughout the election cycle by a variety of organizations an publications. Ideally, we’ll have a new question listed at the top of every hour, so please check back frequently.

If you know that Obama has in fact answered these questions, simply reply to them in the comments section with a link to cite your claims. If in fact Senator Obama did address these questions, we will update the post and give credit where it is due.

Finally, if there are questions that didn’t think Senator Obama answered, please ask them in the comments section, and we’ll try and integrate them into our posts.

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Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Across the US, Activism, Campaign '08, Democrats, Government, John McCain, Obama, Politics No Comments

The Day the American People Bitch Slapped Washington

“Bitch Slap”: The act of unexpectedly slapping someone across the face. Usually done in front of several people in order to humiliate the slappee. - UrbanDictionary.com

Monday was definitely an interesting day in Washington.

The day started with an address from President George W. Bush, urging Members of Congress to pass what he thought was a strong piece of legislation that was designed with the best interest of the American people in mind. This address to the nation was so important that it was held at 7:35am EST (4:35am PST), ensuring that maybe 1% of the population would actually see it. That 1% however, was targeted very carefully to a demographic that is very important to Bush Administration: Wall Street and Politicians.

Following the President’s remarks, the media went into full spin mode, rallying behind the President and Congressional leadership, leading the American people to believe that this bill was expected to pass, and that both sides of the House thought that they had the votes needed to move this on to the Senate.

Of course this is exactly what the spin machines from within the Bush administration and the Congressional leadership wanted the American people to think.

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Unfortunately for them, there was no amount of PR tricks, and no number of feuxservative think-tanks that the White House could sell on this Socialist plan that would lead the American people to trust something that obviously didn’t have the best interest of taxpayers in mind.

Did an Administration with an approval rating of 27% and a Congress with one of 17% really expect the American people to trust them with $700,000,000,000 bailout package? Unfortunately, when you drink too much of the Potomac Kool-Aid, it appears that hallucinations and bad judgment follow.

Luckily, through the efforts of some true free-market, limited government organizations like FreedomWorks, National Taxpayers Union, Campaign for Liberty, and even some groups on the left, coupled with good ole’ American common sense, taxpayers rose up and told Congress how they feel.

I’m happy to be able to say that with one strong backhand, the American people were able to forcefully reach back and bitch slap both the Bush Administration for pushing this bill, and Congressional leadership on both sides for trying to sugarcoat what was obviously a flawed piece of legislation.

Just on one petition alone, NoWallStreetBailout.com (created by FreedomWorks), nearly 30,000 people signed up within days of this bailout being announced.

Even as John McCain and Barack Obama jumped on board with something they obviously didn’t understand, the American people said they weren’t going to stand for it.

Throughout the day on Monday, Congressional switchboards were jammed by phone calls coming in from all corners of the United States, with the overwhelming majority having a similar message to their Members: Hell No.

I’m going to have a lot more on this as it all unfolds, because it obviously isn’t over it yet. But the very fact that a traditionally apathetic American public rallied against this legislation in overwhelming numbers, on both sides of the aisle, sends a strong message to Congress.

Their games are over.

 

Blogs also discussing the bailout:

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Across the US, Activism, Campaign '08, Congress, Conservatism, Economy, Government, John McCain, Liberals, Obama, Politics, Spending 5 Comments

Random Pictures from Monday at the RNC

Now that’s power

The two storms influencing the RNC

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That’s all for now, I’ve taken over 700 pictures, I’ll get them up eventually.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 Across the US, Activism, Campaign '08, Conservatism, Government, Liberals, Politics, RNC 2008 1 Comment
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