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President Obama’s budget director said the White House would consider using a Senate procedural tactic so that only 50 votes would be rquired to pass major healthcare and energy reforms. Peter Orszag, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said the administration would prefer not to use the budget reconciliation process to push through its package. But he added: "We have to keep everything on the table. We want to get these.... important things done this year." Orszag called healthcare in particular "the key to our fiscal future." Orszag made the comments on ABC’s "This Week with George...

Reporting from Washington -- Rep. Grace F. Napolitano (D-Norwalk) has collected tens of thousands of dollars in personal income by charging double-digit interest on money she lent her campaign 11 years ago and soliciting donations from Washington lobbyists at "debt retirement" fundraisers.

Red Envelope Project A grassroots initiative to express moral outrage over President Obama's administration' s promotion of abortion is garnering much Internet attention. Just as American revolutionaries used tea to protest the action's of the British government, those concerned with life are utilizing the power of red envelopes to protest abortion. Supporters have been encouraged to send an empty red envelope to President Obama, symbolizing a single child who died because of abortion. On the back of each envelope, is a handwritten message that reads: "This envelope represents one child who died in abortion. It is empty because that life...

each Rep allowed one minute to speak.

All of the major news outlets are reporting that the stimulus bill voted out of conference committee last night has a meager $789 billion price tag. This number is pure fantasy. No one believes that the increased funding for programs the left loves like Head Start, Medicaid, COBRA, and the Earned Income Tax Credit is in anyway temporary. No Congress under control of the left will ever cut funding for these programs. So what is the true cost of the stimulus if these spending increases are made permanent? Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) asked the Congressional Budget Office to estimate the...

One Ringy Dingy, Two Ringy Dingy's, Three .... Written by Melanie Morgan    Thursday, 12 February 2009 I got an early wakeup call from the East Coast Thursday morning. The alert came from the office of Sen. Arlen Specter, the alleged Republican whose office I stormed on Monday. Specter wanted to talk with me, mano y mano. As I write this, I am still waiting for the Senator’s call. I’m not sure what he wanted to tell me. Lobbying from nonsensical moderates doesn’t work on me. Maybe he wanted to tell me that I shouldn’t barge into his offices...

In a press conference Thursday, the House Republican leadership spoke candidly about being kept out of the House-Senate conference on the Obama-Pelosi-Reid so-called “economic stimulus” bill. They confirmed they had not yet seen the text of the bill as of 4 p.m. <SNIP> The fact that the Demos have now broken their promise to have the public able to see the bill for 48 hours may drive more Dems into the Republican camp. “[I] don’t know, ‘cause they haven’t seen the bill either,” Boehner said. “The American people have a right to know what’s in this bill,” Rep. Mike Pence...

European bank bail-out could push EU into crisis A bail-out of the toxic assets held by European banks' could plunge the European Union into crisis, according to a confidential Brussels document. By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels Last Updated: 3:50PM GMT 11 Feb 2009 “Estimates of total expected asset write-downs suggest that the budgetary costs – actual and contingent - of asset relief could be very large both in absolute terms and relative to GDP in member states,” the EC document, seen by The Daily Telegraph, cautioned. "It is essential that government support through asset relief should not be on a...

ICYMI --- The Senate just killed a THUNE Ammendment which would have replaced the ENTIRE ammount the so called stimulus with a CHECK to every taxpayer.. this would have given about 5,000 bucks to every single taxpayer, and about 10,000 bucks to every couple filing jointly. 61 idiots voted to kill it... if you think this would have been a better stimulous that the pork that is currently being debated than i suggest you call your senator if they are one of the 61

February 3, 2009 Nothing to lose: how Mugabe’s banker turned Z$1,000,000,000,000 into Z$1 Notes with many zeros confused people and computers. So Gideon Gono ordered that noughts be crossed out Martin Fletcher in Harare Gideon Gono, widely regarded as the world’s most disastrous central banker, knocked another 12 zeros off the Zimbabwean dollar yesterday in an attempt to bring the national currency back from the realms of the fantastical. In a stroke, the governor of Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank slashed the street value of the Zimbabwean dollar from $250 trillion to one US dollar to 250, because the computers, calculators and...

General Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon on Wednesday told a female home invasion victim she needs to buy a gun to protect herself. "There should be a law that law abiding citizens with no felony convictions should own a gun," the judge said while setting bond for Colton Dobbins. Judge Moon told Danielle Walker, "I know many fine police officers. But we can't depend on the police to protect us any more." He said Chattanooga is the 57th most dangerous city in the country, and to many criminals "the value of human life means nothing to them." The judge said,...

http://www.angelfire.com/biz4/davidosborne/RNCletter_no_funds.pdf Please feel free to copy this letter and send it in with your POSTAGE PAID envelope to the RNC David

I am posting this, because of recent events. I am very upset with watching our freedoms being signed away by this new "President", and seeing those who are supposed to be leaders in the GOP not even batting an eye over it. I am sick of the spineless way some of the GOP behave when they should be standing up saying, "Heck No we are Not going to let you do this." We voted for these people on the notion that they would carry out the conservative agenda that we sent them there to perform. So far we have yet...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Bearded Hamas leaders on Friday delivered an envelope with five crisp $100 bills to a veiled woman whose house was damaged during Israel's invasion of Gaza, the first of promised relief payments by the militant group. In another part of the territory, a bulldozer cleared rubble and filled in a bomb crater where a week before a top Hamas leader had been killed in an Israeli air strike. Since a truce took hold this week, ending Israel's three-week onslaught, Gaza's Hamas rulers have declared victory and gone out of their way to show they are...

[PREFACE} I am sure there will be plenty of opportunites to provide substantive criticism of President Obama's decisions over the next four years. I encourage folks to provide that substantive criticism without being disrespectful. Over the past 8 years President Bush has been bombarded with personal attacks by his critics. Let us all resolve NOT to follow in THOSE footsteps just because the shoe is now on the other foot. MY PRAYER: Father God, Ruler of All Nations, Father of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is with a grateful and humble heart that I come before you today...

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