Concealed Weapons Amendment to Credit Card Bill May 20, 2009
Posted by Joey in Politicians, Politics.Tags: Credit Cards, Gun Control, Tom Coburn
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In a sign that support for gun control is waning in Congress, Republican Senator Tom Coburn managed to get an amendment attached to the credit card bill that would allow carry of concealed firearms in National Parks.
A minor uptick in freedom in an otherwise socialist credit card bill.
Credit card bill might allow guns in National Parks.
What do guns have to do with credit cards?
Not much. Except they both share space on a bill that lawmakers want to deliver to President Obama’s desk by Memorial Day.
In a surprising move, the Senate voted 67-29 on Tuesday to attach a measure that would allow guns in national parks to a bill that cracks down on credit card fees.
“It’s just wacky,” said Jon Houston, an aide speaking on behalf of Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., the bill’s chief House sponsor who has been pushing for a crack down on credit card practices for two years.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., saw an opportunity to grab on to a comparatively fast-moving target, since lawmakers are under the gun to finalize a credit card bill in the next 11 days. Keeping pressure on Congress, President Obama held a town hall in New Mexico on Thursday inviting consumers who had written or called the White House about their credit card companies.
Specter: Traitor Loses Senority May 6, 2009
Posted by Joey in Government, Politicians, Politics.Tags: Arlen Specter, RINO, Traitor
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Specter betrayed the Republicans and enabled the growth of socialism, and the Democrats treat him like a freshman. What a bunch of wankers.
Specter plays down loss of committee seniority.
Sen. Arlen Specter sought to minimize any political damage Wednesday after fellow Democrats decided against honoring the 28 years’ seniority he accumulated as a Republican before switching parties last week.
In a statement, Specter expressed confidence that beginning in 2011, “my seniority will be maintained under the arrangement I worked out with” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., before switching.
Specter said last week he and Reid had agreed he would be treated for seniority purposes as though he had been elected as a Democrat when he first came to the Senate in 1980. The issue has important ramifications because chairmanships, which come with money to hire large staffs, can be at stake.
Patriotism: Paying Taxes For Bailouts April 12, 2009
Posted by Joey in Bailout, Politicians, Politics.Tags: Bailout, Joe Biden, Patriotism
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Joe Biden redefines patriotism to mean bailouts for failed companies. Kinda makes “last refuge of a scoundrel” a positively glowing definition of patriotism by comparison, doesn’t it?
Quid Pro Quo, Eh, Murtha? February 19, 2009
Posted by Joey in Government, Politicians.Tags: Corruption, John Murtha, PMA Group
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The PMA Group shows how spreading around campaign contributions to John Murtha and his Capitol Hill buddies yield big rewards from Uncle Sam’s wallet. PMA Group’s clients got $300M from the Treasury in exchange for a few million bucks in contributions.
Quid pro quo, eh, John?
Via Instapundit, Firm with Murtha Ties Got Earmarks From Nearly One-Fourth of House.
More than 100 House members secured earmarks in a major spending bill for clients of a single lobbying firm — The PMA Group — known for its close ties to John P. Murtha , the congressman in charge of Pentagon appropriations.
“It shows you how good they were,” said Keith Ashdown, chief investigator at the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. “The sheer coordination of that would take an army to finish.”
PMA’s offices have been raided, and the firm closed its political action committee last week amid reports that the FBI is investigating possibly illegal campaign contributions to Murtha and other lawmakers.
No matter what the outcome of the federal investigation, PMA’s earmark success illustrates how a well-connected lobbying firm operates on Capitol Hill. And earmark accountability rules imposed by the Democrats in 2007 make it possible to see how extensively PMA worked the Hill for its clients.
In the spending bill managed by Murtha, the fiscal 2008 Defense appropriation, 104 House members got earmarks for projects sought by PMA clients, according to Congressional Quarterly’s analysis of a database constructed by Ashdown’s group.
California Closes Government Offices February 7, 2009
Posted by Joey in Bailout, Economics, Government, Politicians.Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California
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Years and years of overspending have caught up with California. Furloughs of government employees are just a stop-gap measure. California will have to make huge spending cuts in order to fix the problem, in spite of having some of the highest taxes in the good ol’ socialist USA.
California is broke, like a lot of the tax-and-spend states. Texas, on the other hand, still has a surplus in spite of having no state income tax. There’s a clue for California.
Furloughs in California Close Many State Offices.
The drivers pulled into the lot of the Department of Motor Vehicles office here, momentarily stymied by the empty parking spaces, then sprinted through the drizzle toward the door, only to be met with one dispiriting word: Closed.
In the starkest example of the intensifying budget crisis befalling most states, more than 200,000 California state workers were ordered to stay home Friday, the first of the semimonthly work furloughs across state agencies intended to trim $1.3 billion from California’s $143 billion budget.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered the unpaid days — which were upheld last month by a county judge — to be taken until June 2011. For most workers, for whom the furlough means a 9 percent cut in pay, the days off will be the first and third Fridays of each month.
Senator’s Business Card Found in Underwear Drawer February 1, 2009
Posted by Joey in Politicians.Tags: Larry Craig
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But, “Laura”, Larry prefers boys, so just how did it get in your underwear drawer?
Wonkette : Priceless Valuable Discovered In Local Underwear Drawer.
Wonkette queer memorabilia operative “Laura” has excavated the D.C. equivalent of a full velociraptor skeleton: “I was just cleaning my room and found Larry Craig’s signed Senate business card in my underwear drawer (along with other mementos from a high school trip to DC).
Robert Reich: OK to Discriminate Against White Male Professionals January 22, 2009
Posted by Joey in Bailout, Government, Politicians.Tags: Discrimination, Robert Reich
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This pinhead says it’s OK to discriminate against white male professionals, on his own blog.
So much for a “color blind” Obama administration, eh?
He must have missed all those “white male professionals” getting laid off at Microsoft, IBM, Motorola, etc.
Here’s an idea: lay off Robert Reich.
The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers
The stimulus plan will create jobs repairing and upgrading the nation’s roads, bridges, ports, levees, water and sewage system, public-transit systems, electricity grid, and schools. And it will kick-start alternative, non-fossil based sources of energy (wind, solar, geothermal, and so on); new health-care information systems; and universal broadband Internet access.
It’s a two-fer: lots of new jobs, and investments in the nation’s future productivity.
But if there aren’t enough skilled professionals to do the jobs involving new technologies, the stimulus will just increase the wages of the professionals who already have the right skills rather than generate many new jobs in these fields. And if construction jobs go mainly to white males who already dominate the construction trades, many people who need jobs the most — women, minorities, and the poor and long-term unemployed — will be shut out.
