Yesterday I wrote that Democrats planned for an economic stimulus package designed to make the Democrats feel good about themselves rather than actually help the economy. John Kyle, Arizona Republican stands in their way, according to S.A. Miller and Jerry Seper of the Washington Times;
Author: Jonn Lilyea
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Latest non-scandal poops out
The Democrats, eager to prove something…nay…anything, against this administration may have run out of luck once again. In the destruction of CIA “torture” tapes, it appears that CIA officials did it against orders from higher, according to an Associated press story in the Wall Street Journal;
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Democrats urge economic stimulus package
Susan Lueck in the Wall Street Journal writes that Democrats are demanding an economic stimulus package;
“Hopefully, by the time we go to that meeting, everyone will be ready to come to terms,” said Ms. Pelosi, just before meeting with top House Republicans today. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland said it would be possible to get a stimulus package completed in the next 30 days.
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High gas prices? You ain’t seen nuthin’
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Christopher Conklin writes “Bridge Safety Stirs Funding Debate“;
A congressionally mandated panel yesterday recommended more than doubling the tax, which since 1993 has been set at 18.4 cents a gallon for gasoline and 24.4 cents a gallon for diesel, over five years to boost funding for transportation projects. The panel of public and private experts is hoping that states also will opt for big gas-tax increases.
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Hillary: Obama is Bush
Since attacking Obama for being Black isn’t working, Hillary decided to make voters think he’s like president Bush (Washington Times link);
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Clinton: Bush begging pathetic
Firmly detached from reality, Hillary Clinton called the President pathetic for “begging” for lower oil prices among the OPEC nations last week. (Breitbart link);
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Melanin in Politics
The Washington Times reports this morning that Hillary Clinton is losing support of Black in her bid for another eight years in the White House;
Black voters have been deeply loyal to the Democratic Party and to the Clintons, but they are more devoted to the dream of having a black president for the first time.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has been engaged in racially tinged political banter with Sen. Barack Obama since her win in New Hampshire, is losing ground in polls with black voters nationally and in South Carolina, where about half of Democratic primary voters will be black.
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“A Mockery of the War on Terror”
Photo from the Miami Herald
Yesterday, I read on Babalu Blog about the Code Pink Demonstration on Miami’s Calle Ocho Saturday afternoon. More interesting were the comments on that particular post on the delicacies involved in the Posada issue. Although the Left likes to paint with a broad bush, the discussion in that particular thread proves that the Cuban American community is not a homogeneous vote.
