As Congress prepares to make deep spending cuts, an army of lobbyists is gearing up to fight back. In an e-mail obtained by ABC News, a top staffer for the key Senate Appropriations subcommittee called for a meeting of lobbyists and interest groups that would be affected by expected cuts to the Labor and Heath and Human Services budget. The Jan. 24 meeting was attended by approximately 400 people, sources told ABC, and served as a "call to arms" for those determined to fight Republican budget cuts.
"One thing everyone should be able to agree on now is that a rising tide lifts all boats, and that a higher [Labor, Health & Human Services] allocation improves the chances for every stakeholder group to receive more funding," the committee staffer for Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, wrote in an e-mail inviting people to the meeting.... In plain language: the more the government spends, the more goodies we get!
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"'One thing everyone should be able to agree on now is that a rising tide lifts all boats,' the [Democrat] committee staffer said."
That's funny - y'all didn't think that way when Reagan said it. (Though JFK supposedly said it first. Of course, y'all don't like his fiscal policies either and pretend he didn't have them.)
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...I didn't get a harrumph outta that guy.
Mike
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I really think that McCain's behaviors with respect to conflict with the likes of the political opposition stem from his POW days. I hate to say that, but when the chips are down, he goes into this "can't we just get along?" mode.
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I think he's a decent and honorable man and a well-intentioned patriot. He came from a long line of decent and honorable military officers, and grew up in an environment and culture that stressed service and sacrifice for something bigger than yourself. He seems to think of the Senate as a rough equivalent to the Navy officer corps, and I suspect he just can't, in his heart of hearts, bring himself to believe that anyone in political office or public life at the level of the national government isn't on the same side as him, and isn't acting in good faith for a higher cause than himself. Consequently, he gives people like Obama and Searchlight Harry and the New York Times editorial board the benefit of the doubt in situations where us more cynical folks wouldn't--and Obama and Searchlight Harry and the New York Times editorial board know it and know how to push his buttons and play into that tendency.
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The Senate is still controlled by the Democrats, just as the POW camp was controlled by the VC. He acts like a POW, powerless, and trying to gentlemanly appease his masters in return for some sort of legitamcy and survival.
Just the world he personally, traumatically experienced and it carries over into his politics.
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And then there's his faux valley girl daughter touring the liberal talk shows trashing Palin.
McCain has decided not to endorse any Trunk candidates for the Republican Presidential nomination. Anyone getting his endorsement would be playing Russian Roulette with an automatic pistol.
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I think he's a decent and honorable man and a well-intentioned patriot.
You've obviously never met him, or spent any time around him. John McCain is an unmitigated ass, with an enormous sense of superiority.
After he was cleared to return to duty upon release by North Vietnam, he landed as CO of VA-174 at NAS Cecil Field, Florida. Simply put, McCain is a buddy f*cker. I've had the unpleasant experience of seeing this turd up close. He deserves every bit of enmity that comes his way.
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And then some. He's a ringknocker, his daddy and grand daddy were 4 star Admirals. To say that the man considered himself as Naval Royalty is an understatement.
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McCain says Obama now a centrist, stretches across the aisle to give him a big wet kiss
Had to wait till DADT was repealed to do that.
McCain had been in a hissy fit any way because the legislation was referred to as Obamacare and not McCainCare.
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He's as close to naval royalty as they come. And, as I understand it, there is good reason why the Navy did not make him a 4-star, even after his stay in the Hanoi Hilton.
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McCain let his people attack Palin during the '08 campaign. He chose her, then freaked when actual Republicans got excited about having an actual Republican on the Republican ticket. It was all supposed to be about *him*. He did that to his own running mate. What would he be willing to do to you?
Dear John: Thanks for your service, now die in a fire.
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McCain let his people attack Palin during the '08 campaign. He chose her, then freaked when actual Republicans got excited about having an actual Republican on the Republican ticket. It was all supposed to be about *him*. He did that to his own running mate. Dear John: Thanks for your service, now please just go away. (a better way of putting that comment)
The Senate voted Wednesday for the first time to repeal a piece of President Barack B.O. Obama's health care overhaul, rolling back a new tax reporting requirement that's been universally panned by business owners. The amendment to repeal the 1099 reporting requirement passed 81-17 with broad bipartisan support.
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But they still haven't read it. Do you think they maybe wonder what other sorts of krap are in the law?
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The 1099 reporting requirement dropped in the bill really had nothing to do with 'Health Care®' and everything to do with a VAT or National Sales Tax. It allowed the IRS to monitor a company's accrued 'payments for goods and services' in excess of $600 per 'payee'. They are afraid that your printer ink supplier, your lawn service or your snow plowing guy isn't paying his/her 'fair share'.
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The amendment to repeal the 1099 reporting requirement passed 81-17 with broad bipartisan support
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And completely ignored the Judges ruling that the entire Obama care "Law" was unconstitutional and void compltely.
No need to "Tweak" it, it went Bye-bye yesterday.
Just ignore the federal Judge,No judge can overrule GODbama.
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It was included in the health law because it would have raised about $17 billion in previously uncollected taxes.
The Senate Democrats obviously had no problem suspending the "Pay-go" rules. What's more, the OMB can't possibly manipulate $17 bill in mythical "waste, fraud and abuse" numbers. Not only did their boondoggle go further in the red they didn't get their mitts on all those Petroleum bucks. Damn...that's gotta sting.
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And completely ignored the Judges ruling that the entire Obama care "Law" was unconstitutional and void compltely.
Redneck Jim, I believe that there have been four different cases before federal judges -- in two the judge ruled in favour of the government, in two the judges ruled against on Constitutional grounds. They're breaking new ground with this one -- ground that should have been broken long ago, but never mind that -- and things are not as clear cut as appears to us non-legal types, as far as I can tell.
The two-track approach -- relentless pressure in both houses of Congress by the Republicans, separate from suits wending their way through the courts -- is the best way to ensure that the Democrats don't get their way on this by sheer momentum.
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The Virginia AG is trying to bypass the Federal Appeals Court and fast-track a decision out of SCOTUS. Holder and company have not had the courtesy to respond to the Virginia AG's inquiries and seem to be employing delaying tactics hoping that ObamaCare will get so far down the road with regards to implementation that it can't be turned back.
It is the worst legislative process I have ever seen. The legislation coming out of this process has got to be the worst legislation I have ever seen. The whole process was dictatorial and tyrannical--something that one would expect out of some third world Mideast country.
The Obama Administration acted in contempt by continuing its deepwater-drilling moratorium after the policy was struck down, a New Orleans judge ruled.
Interior Department regulators acted with "determined disregard" by lifting and reinstituting a series of policy changes that restricted offshore drilling, following the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, U.S. District Judge, Martin Feldman of New Orleans ruled yesterday.
"Each step the government took following the court's imposition of a preliminary injunction showcases its defiance," Feldman said in the ruling.
"Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the re-imposition of a second blanket and substantively identical moratorium, and in light of the national importance of this case, provide this court with clear and convincing evidence of the government's contempt," Feldman said.
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Ok, the Obumble Interior department is in contempt. Go all the way with this, and throw the top ten levels into jail for contempt of court for, let's say a time equivalent to the blatant disregard for the court - about 30 years. YANK INTERIOR OUT FROM UNDER OBUMBLE, AND PUT IT IN RECEIVERSHIP. That would put a burr under Obumble's saddle fast enough. Maybe the EPA should get the same treatment.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Jonathan Karl & Matthew Jaffe, ABC
The Senate voted Wednesday for the first time to repeal a piece of President 
The Obama Administration acted in contempt by continuing its deepwater-drilling moratorium after the policy was struck down, a New Orleans judge ruled.
