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Andrew McCarthy told Mark Levin that ‘Allahu Ackbar’ doesn’t even mean ‘Thank God’ at all. Rather it’s a war cry that means ‘god is greater’ and Muslims believe that when they go into battle they will win because their ‘god’ is greater, thus they keep chanting it. And it comes from Muhammad who first used it when he waged war against Khaybar where he brutally eradicated the Jews from Arabia. So yeah McCarthy said McCain did more for non-intervention into Syria with that idiotic remark than the actual non-interventionists.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision Thursday evening to pull the 1,924-page, $1.27 trillion omnibus spending bill may indeed be a “seminal moment,” as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said, in the fight vs. earmarks and swollen government spending in general. For McCain and fellow budget hawks such as Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint who fought the long, lonely battle vs. pork-barrel politics, I can imagine they had the same mix of relief and satisfaction as everyone’s favorite rebel:

Democratic leaders scrambled Monday to peel away the Republican votes they need to bring a Wall Street reform package to the Senate floor this week -- an effort hampered by sharp partisan divisions. Both sides are attempting to exploit a lingering resentment toward Wall Street in the election-year debate. Democrats have seized on the attempt to curb reckless investment practices as part of an effort to depict the GOP as out of touch with the concerns of average Americans. On Monday, Democrats sought to use a lawsuit brought against financial giant Goldman Sachs by the Securities and Exchange Commission as...