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RIP. I didn't agree with her politics, and I certainly didn't agree with her tacit decision to deny knowledge of her philandering husband's cheating. That knowledge would have left an American President exposed to blackmail and extortion opportunities had John been able to get elected. Living with such a despicable POS must have been like selling your soul, but getting him elected to POTUS would have been selling out our country
Posted by: Frank G ||
12/07/2010 20:43 Comments ||
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One tough woman. Her son died in a car crash and she kept going. Then she got cancer and she kept going. Her husband cheated on her and she kept going. RIP.
Posted by: lord garth ||
12/07/2010 22:10 Comments ||
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I feel sorry for her children.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
12/07/2010 22:28 Comments ||
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#4
Let us hope her last months were happier for her than recent years.
The lame duck Congress wants to tie the hands of the new Congress, limiting the ability to change government as the voters insisted in November. And just like other legislation such as Obamacare, this plan is being drafted in secret, not in the open.
Circulating on Capitol Hill is a draft measure--written by the Senate Democratic majority in backrooms--to fund all the federal government not only through fiscal year (FY) 2011 but also partially into FY 2012. This 183-page plan would:
* Handcuff the ability of newly elected Representatives and Senators to de-fund Obamacare,
* Restrict the new Congress's leverage to rescind unused "stimulus" and TARP spending,
* Have the outgoing Congress dictate spending for more than the usual one year, and
* Bypass the normal appropriations process of public committee votes, floor debates, and the ability to offer amendments on the floor of the House and Senate.
This is the same outgoing Congress that failed to do its work on time; it should have passed spending bills before fiscal year 2010 ended on September 30. But they didn't want the voters to witness just how much they wanted to spend, despite our trillion-dollar-plus annual deficits, so no appropriations bills were passed by Congress, and all but a couple of spending bills never even made it out of committee.
Simply can't be done in the amount of time the lame ducks have left. That's assuming that the Dems could find 51 in the Senate to do this (I'm assuming it would be rammed through by 'reconciliation'). There are too many Dem senators coming due in 2012 who understand that a vote for such a bill would be used against them.
This is exactly the sort of political chicanery that would motivate the Tea Party for the next two years. Even the dumbest Dem (well, maybe not Maxine Waters) is going to jab the Tea Party with a stick right now.
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