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White House Budget Director Portman Resigns (House Majority Ldr Insults Replacement)
The Washington Post ^
| Tuesday, June 19, 2007
| Michael Abramowitz
Posted on 06/19/2007 12:27:15 PM PDT by kristinn
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C'mon, Freepers. Look lively. This news has been out for over two hours and nothing posted on FR about it.
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:27:22 PM PDT
by
kristinn
To: kristinn
Both Hoyer and Nussle are of Danish ancestry.
Ick, I share ancestry with the ‘Rat leader of the House? Ptui.
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:29:14 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(Socialism is NOT an American value.)
To: kristinn
Deck chairs on the Titanic rearrangement. I have lost faith in anything they do.
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:30:12 PM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: kristinn
Is there something bad about Danes that I don’t know?
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:30:19 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
To: Bahbah
![](http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/shakespeare/60secondshakespeare/images/times/hamlet_yorick.jpg)
Must be the whole Shakespeare thing.
To: kristinn
Steny H. Hoyer (RAT, MD) is a real class act, isn’t he? Then, again, he IS a RAT.
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:33:40 PM PDT
by
Polyxene
(For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
To: andy58-in-nh
LOL. Looks good to me...the one on the right, I mean.
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:40:19 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
To: darkangel82
Sounds like it’s time to pull out your trusty dirk and drain your veins of the offending shared substance.
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:42:58 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: kristinn
Administration officials described the decision as motivated by Portman's desire to spend more time with his wife and three teen-aged children. Sounds to me like the same old sugary excuse we always get for "he got his butt canned".
To: SkyPilot
Deck chairs on the Titanic rearrangement. I have lost faith in anything they do. I am beginning to think 4 years of being President is all anyone can take. Wide eyed optimism and passion can only carry you so far against a daily onslaught of personal attack and criticism.
10
posted on
06/19/2007 12:48:28 PM PDT
by
IamConservative
(I could never be a liar; there's too much to remember.)
To: kristinn
Did he really say, “I’m out of here, there is no such thing as a budget in Washington, and wait until you see the impact of the Shamnesty bill!”?
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:50:58 PM PDT
by
samadams2000
(Someone important make......The Call!)
To: Bahbah
I’ve never met a Dane I didn’t like, myself.
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:53:37 PM PDT
by
jpl
To: kristinn
Nussle morphed from paper-bag-headed outsider during the House Check scandal to pork-loving earmark god while head of the House Budget Committee. He’s your typical poisoned Washington insider. What a terrible choice.
To: SkyPilot
"Deck chairs on the Titanic rearrangement. I have lost faith in anything they do." Agreed.
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:55:26 PM PDT
by
TommyDale
(Rudy Giuliani’s candidacy is fading faster than an abortionist’s conscience.)
To: kristinn
With about 18 months to go, presidential appointments jump ship and new ones are added (at this point) more or less to pump up their resume and bloated government pensions.
In short: Nothing to look at folks. It's all over. Move along.....
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:56:17 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(I voted for George Bush - not Jorge Bushjoles!)
To: Dane
Is there something you want to tell us?
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posted on
06/19/2007 12:58:22 PM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(got Danish?)
To: kristinn
Here are Nussle’s and Portman’s House of Representatives rankings for protecting taxpayers during the years that they served together, 1993 to 2004, per the National Taxpayers Union:
003 058 048 044 075 167 068 123 102 108 110 135 Nussle
019 037 049 021 116 027 034 109 057 072 141 112 Portman
Nussle averaged 87th among House members, Portman averaged 66th. Their rankings started out quite well, but worsened over time.
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posted on
06/19/2007 1:02:33 PM PDT
by
mdefranc
To: kristinn
Nussle a hawk on spending. This is good, right?
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posted on
06/19/2007 1:12:27 PM PDT
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: lilylangtree
Nussle once was a spending hawk, but for 2005 his rank was 131 out of 228 Republicans and for 2006 it was 112 out of 227. In other words, today the guy is mediocre.
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posted on
06/19/2007 1:26:56 PM PDT
by
mdefranc
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