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Republicans talk may not match walk
Or, at least, match their desire to take responsibility. According to Politico, many prominent Republicans are turning down the opportunity to serve on the House Appropriations committee, where they would presumably be casting votes to cut spending.
“Anybody who’s a Republican right now, come June, is going to be accused of hating seniors, hating education, hating children, hating clean air and probably hating the military and farmers, too,” said Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), a fiscal conservative who is lobbying to become chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. “So much of the work is going to be appropriations related. There’s going to be a lot of tough votes. So some people may want to shy away from the committee. I understand it.”
Kingston said he’s approached Bachmann, King and Westmoreland about the committee, and they all told him they weren’t interested.
That leaves Republican leaders in a dilemma: How do they live up to the tea-party-driven effort to slash spending if the committee that controls the purse is still dominated by old bulls and senior lawmakers who are only grudgingly giving up earmarks?
Answer: They won’t. Because while there’s big talk about responsibility and cost containment, the real goal is power. New boss, old boss, etc. I’ll believe different when I see different. Hopefully they’ll prove me wrong, but I think it’s more likely we’ll see a lot of gridlock, and the same ‘blame the other party’ strategy the Democrats used while they had an overwhelming majority.
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Where do I send my application?
Here’s a list of all the organizations who have applied for and received their ObamaCare Waiver.
Interesting how many unions are on the list.
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DREAM Act
I’m hoping someone smarter than I reads this and can answer it:
It’s my understanding that the DREAM act provides a path to citizenship for the children of illegal aliens. If these children either complete a 4 year college degree (I assume a BA, BS, BSc, or equivalent), or serve two years in the US armed forces, they become citizens.
The act doesn’t spend any money to encourage the behavior, it doesn’t provide free education or health care or anything else.
Why would anyone be against that?
(Link to the Wikipedia entry with more details here. Still don’t see anything wrong with this)
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Plain and Simple
The government should not be able to make this happen. The government has no right to make you sell only products they approve. They have no right to regulate what your product is, only that the states don’t inhibit it’s trade.
Somehow that stopped mattering some time ago.
By the way, y’all do know that rum/whiskey and Coke has caffeine in it, right? HFCS, too. I guess that’s next?
(Kids: when I was younger, we made our own Four Loko: Southern Comfort and Mountain Dew. I believe that is still legal. Don’t forget who is looking out for you.)
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Groundbreaking and Earth Shattering Journalism
Or, why I don’t read Slate any more. I’m late to seeing this (because I don’t read Slate any more), but stumbled across their shocking revelation that someone censors comments on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page.
Wow.
These daring scribes found that nearly 10% of all comments are deleted for being mean, racist, or otherwise damaging to the Palin brand.
Again. Wow.
I don’t have 2 million followers on Facebook, I have about 220. I am not a politician and those 220 people are actual, you know, friends, so there isn’t much Paul bashing on my Facebook page. But you better damn well believe I have and will delete comments that can damage my reputation, or comments that want to start an argument that I don’t want to have in public.
10% of my comments? Nope. But somewhere between 1% and 5% for sure. And I do it quickly, too.
I wonder why they didn’t do this analysis on a Democrat.
Link via Permdude
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Training, 11/9/10
Bench Press
2×15 @ 45
95×5
135×3
155×3
8 sets of 3 @ 175; each set starts on the minute, speed great.
225×1
245×1
265×1
All fastDB Incline Press
3×12 @ 50Pulldowns (neutral grip)
5×12 @ 100Face Pull
4×15 @ 100Felt great today.
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