Your U.S. elitist Senators selfishly voted today to destroy job opportunities for U.S. citizens and legal immigrants. In a surprise move, Sen. Patrick Leahy motioned to table Sen. Sessions’ E-Verify Amendment, and the motion passed by a narrow margin, 50-47. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Amendm...

The Senate passed the $410 billion omnibus stimulus package tonight after a week of widespread grandstanding and feigned horror over $7.7 billion in earmarks — which is simply a means of allocating streams of existing funds — split between 95 Senators. And yet here’s John McCain, g...

Hold up a bill long enough and politicians might actually read the damn thing. I am sure this is the only lesson Senate Majority leader, Harry Reid, will have learned from the whole $410 billion omnibus spending bill fiasco. Instead of gaining the one vote Reid was short to get 60 votes, the little ...

I pulled a 12 hour non-stop day yesterday dealing with a frozen up piece of environmentalism gone expensive worthless pain in my ass. More on that later, but let’s say I was dog tired when i did finally get home last night round 9PM. And I am up early today for a CD6 Rules Committee meeting, s...

Republicans trying to find solid ground for opposition to the Democrats in Congress are criticizing what they call wasteful spending. When they actually do find wasteful spending, that criticism is justified. Often, though, they’re criticizing reasonable spending that benefits a lot of people....

The $410 billion dollar omnibus bill that passed the House has stalled in the Senate, one vote shy of the 60 needed to get it to Barack Obama's desk. This bill, as we told you previously, has almost 9,000 earmarks aka pork, for politician's pet projects and the Republicans with a handful of Democrat...

I got this off Senator John McCain’s Twitter (yes, he now tweets). Over the last few days, the Arizona lawmaker has been tweeting his version of “The Top Porkiest Projects� in the Omnibus spending bill. Here are science/genetics projects that Sen. McCain consider earmarks or pork-barrel: “$8...

Everyone has been harping incessantly about bipartisanship. But finally that glorious day, when the pols could pull in their claws, has arrived—if they're even half-way serious. It is also a wonderful opportunity for the president to keep one of his campaign promises that does not involve spending...

we did that blood typing lab today in anatomy. i found out i'm b-. i guess it's the "rare" one. oh fun. "if you ever wanted to donate blood to a blood bank, you're one of those people they would love." greaaaat. eta: so i just decided to do some research on b- and according to the american red cross...

While campaigning for change, Barack Obama said, “We need earmark reform, and when I’m President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.” But now the President is about to sign a huge 2,697 page spending bill with over 9,000 unnecessary and was...