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Former aide Michael McQueery said his experience with other difficult bosses on the Hill prepared him for how to handle Jackson Lee. Ive worked for two other members. They did the same thing, he said.
Texans ought to dump her and get someone to represent them.
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From what I remember, Jackson is from one of those specially cut out minority majority districts and does seem to reflect the general mentality of her district.
#4
She is just the representative of some of the nastiest, meanest people you can find on planet earth. The people in her district are a lot like thier representative. Rotten to the bone.
Posted by: Bob Unaick2518 ||
03/02/2011 19:45 Comments ||
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The Justice Department require that they gerrymander so as to produce a candidate of a given race and that's where Lee wins - no brains needed, just be of the correct skin color and collect the checks, and be sure to step and fetch for your masters in the Dem party and be a good little house n----r by doling out rewards from the government Massa' to the favored slaves to keep them on the plantation.
Thugs are thugs, and it will come out. Lee is just an idiot and a thug.
Washington, D.C. - Today Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent letters to the Director of Enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan to share records CREW obtained through its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against Education. These documents show high-level Education officials colluded with Wall Street short-sellers, improperly leaking the contents of highly controversial gainful employment regulations in advance of their publication. Click here to read the letters.
"These new documents, combined with others previously uncovered by CREW raise troubling questions about the actions of high-level Education officials, the fairness of the agency's regulatory process, and investors' efforts to manipulate Education regulations for their own personal gain," said CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan. "It is incumbent on the SEC to fully investigate this matter." More and more our government officials, along with their union thugs remind me of the mob. I am really wondering if our government can be fixed or if we just need to deep six it and start over.
In a bipartisan and overwhelming vote, the Senate has passed a House-backed continuing resolution that will fund the government for two more weeks, while cutting $4 Billion in spending. The final roll was 91-9. Some important takeaways:
- Republican leadership and action has once again prevented an imminent government shutdown, without giving ground on spending cuts.
- As we first reported yesterday, Tea Party backed Senators Mike Lee and Rand Paul were leaning towards casting "nay" votes on the CR -- and they both followed through. So did Republicans Orrin Hatch* and John Risch, as well as five Democrats. The Republican opponents' primary quarrel with the stopgap CR was that its spending cuts were not deep enough, and that the measure was not coupled with any meaningful commitment to long-term, structural spending changes. The Democrats, including socialist Bernie Sanders, objected to the cuts themselves.
-The measure now heads to the president's desk, where his signature awaits. The question now becomes: What's next? This action forestalls a government impasse by two weeks, but doesn't resolve the larger issue of further 2011 spending. Sen. Chuck Schumer just called the temporary CR a Republican "stalling tactic." (Rich, coming from a leader of a party that intentionally declined to even offer a budget proposal last year). The White House, the Democrat-controlled Senate, and the Republican House will forge ahead with difficult negotiations. Democrats have made clear that the full raft of $61 Billion in GOP spending cuts (think Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, etc) are non-starters. The real risk of government shutdown will come if Democrats refuse to adopt cuts to programs they cherish (again, think Planned Parenthood, Obamacare).
*Sen. Hatch seems determined to avoid the fate of his erstwhile Utah colleague Bob Bennett -- who was ousted as the GOP nominee at the state's 2010 party convention, which is dominated by conservatives. Perhaps Sen. Lugar should be taking notes.
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Every two weeks, another Republican effort to cut and another Dem effort not to do so.
Every two weeks, another lopsided vote to fund for two more weeks and cut another $4B.
After a half dozen iterations of this, it will be time for dealing w Obamacare, SS, Medicare and Medicaid.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
03/02/2011 13:41 Comments ||
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$4 billion down, $1600 billion to go. The government could zero out all spending except entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare ...) and interest on the debt and the budget still would not be balanced. The USA is headed off a cliff and the old buffaloes leading us are too scared to veer into another course.
Posted by: Pearl Gleaper1127 ||
03/02/2011 14:28 Comments ||
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The house is a raging inferno, and they have thrown a glass of water at it.......and they wonder why America is getting really, really angry, and why we don't trust the republicans to do more than window dressing! Special interests rule Washington, and only a few there really understand that the nation is so close to disaster.
#4
Yes, but this is also the Death of A Thousand Cuts on the Congressional Dems keep this up every two weeks and they will cave after a couple of months, since the cuts are very popular in most districts.
#5
This is being reported like it's a done deal, but Obama still has to sign it. Why wouldn't he veto it for the same reason Sanders voted no, and blame the shutdown on his political enemies? After all, "he won" (in 2008). It's not like he's savvy enough to realize that vetoing it might be a bad move.
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Washington, D.C. - Today Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent letters to the Director of Enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan to share records CREW obtained through its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against Education. These documents show high-level Education officials colluded with Wall Street short-sellers, improperly leaking the contents of highly controversial gainful employment regulations in advance of their publication. Click here to read the letters.
In a bipartisan and overwhelming vote, the Senate has passed a House-backed continuing resolution that will fund the government for two more weeks, while cutting $4 Billion in spending. The final roll was 91-9. Some important takeaways:
