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...On Fox News on Sunday, Manchin said, “If I can’t go home and explain it to the people of West Virginia, I can’t vote for it. I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t. I’ve tried everything possible, I can’t get there.” “This is a no on this legislation,” he added. White House Press Secretary Psaki admonished Manchin for his announcement. In an interview with radio host Hoppy Kercheval on West Virginia MetroNews on Tuesday, Manchin blamed the White House for his opposition to Build Back Better. Manchin said that the issue from the White...

House Republicans on Monday night offered a detailed critique of what they called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “socialist wish list” in House Democrats’ $2.5 trillion proposal for responding to the coronavirus outbreak. “Speaker Pelosi unveiled legislation aimed at exploiting the COVID-19 public health crisis by attempting to force the inclusion of a socialist wish list of policies that have nothing to do with the public health and economic emergency,” said House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, Louisiana Republican. After poring over the 1,400-page proposal, Mr. Scalise offered his characterization of Republicans’ objections to the following items: Under the heading of “Union...

House Democrats are being criticized on Monday for allotting expenses in their proposal of an emergency stimulus bill that has nothing to do with the coronavirus outbreak, including $35 million meant for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. Following the Senate Democrats derailing the pursuit of a bipartisan-drafted stimulus bill, the House led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., offered their own version of a bill meant to save the economy as the pandemic has pummelled the stock market. However, buried inside the over 1,100-page emergency proposal is money meant to upkeep a popular destination at the country's...

OK, Obamautomatons, explain this. The Sweetness & Light blog has a YouTube clip of Obama making a series of promises and assurances about the stimulus package pork bill. In 1 minute and 58 seconds’ time, Obama makes seven distinct promises, all of which were subsequently broken: 1. Make government open and transparent. NOPE!2. Make it "impossible" for Congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects. NOPE!3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public. (Even Congressional Republicans shut out.) NOPE!4. No more secrecy. NOPE!

These wise words are from the mouth of El Rushbo from Friday’s show. First, he exposes the liberal hypocrisy, namely, that the Generational Theft Act that’s on the verge of passing in the Senate this week is the exact opposite of everything Barack Obama promised during his campaign: President Obama says his administration is going to be the most transparent in our nation’s history. … One of President Obama’s statements was, “All of you are committed to building a more responsible, more accountable government, and part of what that means is making sure that we’re spending precious tax dollars wisely...

It’s good to be left out sometimes. A couple of weeks ago, Republicans unanimously pulled themselves out of the fun of passing Obama’s stimulus bill in the House. Yesterday, save for three legislative wastes of space, Republicans said “no” to the Senate version. Now, comes the word that Republicans are being left out of the House-Senate negotiations on finalizing the bill by the all-inclusive, unity-happy, postpartisan Democrats.Politically, I say “good.” Let them have it. All of the credit for a bill that everyone with at least a few working synapses knew would pass know matter what Republicans did can stay...

In 2001, the lib media was criticizing George W. Bush for bad-mouthing the recession economy that he inherited from Bill Clinton. They said Bush’s pessimistic tone was not “presidential.”Eight years later, President Golden Calf is bellowing down to us from on high that we have a CRISIS that’s about to become a CATASTROPHE unless Government Acts Now! (The minute a politician tells you that Government has to do something right now or else disaster’s going to strike, hide your money, hide your children, hide your belongings, and break out the shotgun.)And the lib media is agreeing with him.Overt, blatant, unequivocal,...

Robert Stacy McCain, who blogs at The Other McCain, has some economically founded criticism of the stimulus plan pork bill and offers a prescription for Republicans if they’re plannng on keeping the Democrats’* feet to the fire. It Still Won’t Work American Spectator By Robert Stacy McCain on 2.9.09 … The real problem with the stimulus bill is not that it is too big (although it is too big) nor its various objectionable ingredients (although many are objectionable), but rather that it is based on a false economic theory. “The American people … did not vote for the false theories...

Mark Steyn is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated political pundits in this country. Seriously, he should be a household name. First of all, last week El Rushbo was away from his golden microphone. This usually elicits feelings of disappointment in his regular listeners, myself included. Don’t get me wrong; Rush’s substitutes are good too. But there’s something about the author of America Alone that sets him apart from all the rest—who subbed three days last week. 2:59 on Wednesday, I was actually sad that it was the end of Steyn’s radio stint. He was that good. Just...

I've tried both Boxer and Feinstein, but get nothing but busy signals or "mail box full" messages. That's a good sign. That means citizens are burning down their switchboards. But they also have forms on their websites to send messages. Click the link above to contact your senators. Here is the message I sent to both of my senators: Please vote no on the pork package. If you want to stimulate the economy, stimulate business investment and hiring and give people more money to spend NOW, cut the taxes. Cut business and investment taxes. Cut the payroll tax. Cut the...

The recent debate over the nearly $900 billion economic stimulus plan and revelations of tax problems by three Obama administration appointees have voters angrily jamming phone lines on Capitol Hill to air their frustrations to their elected representatives. Voters are calling several congressional offices, complaining about stimulus negotations. Their reactions are putting pressure on Congress and benefiting watchdog groups on both sides of the political aisle. Capitol operators tell CNN Radio that phone lines have been jammed for the past two weeks, sometimes prompting busy signals. A spokeswoman for Sen. Jim Webb, D-Virginia, said calls on the sweeping stimulus plan...

The President is warning of an impending “catastrophe” in the event his ever-swelling “stimulus” bill doesn’t pass in the Senate. Yet, only 37% of Americans like the spendulous plan, which has now gone north of the $900 billion line.Gee, I don’t know why.Doesn’t the senatorial addition of cash for medical research and tax breaks for car purchases make a bad spending bill a little better?Even support among Democrats for this hideousness has slipped ten percentage points since last week.And now, a posse of so-called Senate centrists have hop scotched over to the White House to voice their objections to the...