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Reid Flak Insults Top Blue Dog
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amandacarpenter/2009/02/09/reid_flak_insults_top_blue_dog
– Heath Schuler's record as an NFL quarterback while responding to Shuler's concerns about the lack of bipartisanship on the Hill." … Manley proceeded to talk about why Reid believed the stimulus bill was good.Schuler was one of the 11 Democrats who voted against the…
How a Bill Becomes Law
https://townhall.com/columnists/richgalen/2009/02/09/how_a_bill_becomes_law
– Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States has to do with the Legislative Branch. … There are seven Articles in all, but you'll have to look those up if you want to know what they are. … But only one bill can go to the President for his action so what's the Congress to do?…
Citizenship and suppression in Jefferson's Virginia
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/2009/02/08/citizenship_and_suppression_in_jeffersons_virginia
– This is against the law for public officials, and it irked (to put it mildly) the people who had voted them in. … But because not all of them had been sworn in, the state’s open meetings law could be said not to apply to them. … Norment have submitted bills to prohibit judges from penalizing activists who petition to remove officials.…
Protecting the Obama brand
https://townhall.com/columnists/salenazito/2009/02/08/protecting_the_obama_brand
– How does President Obama live up to the hype/hope that so embodied him as a candidate? … What he needs to do is to demonstrate that somehow things will be different. … “When it comes to lobbyists, politicians need to stop acting holier than thou,” said Bert Rockman, Purdue University political science…
Hurray For Hollow-Wood?
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2009/02/07/hurray_for_hollow-wood
– Celebrities aren't expected to make sense, they're only expected to be famous. … How would Hollywood respond to 9/11? They don't have to have a clue. "All you need is love" is about all they have to offer. … But the stars' desperate protests -- and Cher's devastating logic -- weren't enough to convince L.A. officials, who voted 11-4 to finish…
Over-Stimulated
https://townhall.com/columnists/richtucker/2009/02/06/over-stimulated
– Wait -- this bill is supposed to put people to work, not send them to school. … Maybe the idea is to get the unemployed out of the cities and put them to work in the fields? … The group was supposed to develop liberal -- or as they prefer to call them, “progressive” -- policy prescriptions.…
Comrade Obama Sticks It To The Foreign Proletariat
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelmarsden/2009/02/06/comrade_obama_sticks_it_to_the_foreign_proletariat
– But that base is strictly limited to America. … Listen, you lunatics, does it really have to be explained to you, yet again, how America got into this whole bailout mess in the first … Then it proceeded to tinkering with the auto manufacturers, forcing them to make cars that no one wants to buy and exporting them against…
Aborted Baby Born Alive, Treated Like Trash
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/erickaandersen/2009/02/06/aborted_baby_born_alive,_treated_like_trash
– When a young woman delivers her aborted baby alive, the clinic refuses to help her save the baby's life. … It is a true story and speaks directly to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which President Obama voted against. … The pro-choice culture contributes to the de-valuing of human life as a whole. …
The Distemper of the Times
https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2009/02/06/the_distemper_of_the_times
– That John McCain, who led the effort to put illegal aliens on a path to citizenship, got less than a third of the Hispanic vote shows … And the 70 percent of New Yorkers who rejected Eliot Spitzer's proposal to give driver's licenses to illegals, forcing Hillary Clinton … To oppose the Times' agenda on social or moral issues is ascribed to mental illness or moral sickness.…
Fired Up About the TV
https://townhall.com/columnists/mikegallagher/2009/02/06/fired_up_about_the_tv
– This week, the House voted 264-158 to postpone the shutdown of analog TV signals to June 12th. … What better way to do that than making sure the taxpayers are forced to pay for every television set that needs to be converted from … analog to digital?…
Bipartisanship is Not the Right Thing
https://townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/2009/02/06/bipartisanship_is_not_the_right_thing
– The point isn't to be obstructionist for its own sake. … The economic crisis is merely an excuse to do what they've always wanted -- spend more on everything from education to mass transportation … When a private company gets into economic trouble it can't simply raise prices to suit its need for profits -- it cuts expenses to
Be Like Mike: Defend Free Expression
https://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/2009/02/05/be_like_mike_defend_free_expression
– uphold Wilders' right to free speech, they fail to notice the threat to it. … It was left to the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations to point out that the resolution objects to efforts "pursued by extremist … Mayor, it's one thing to declare that the slippery slope exists; it's another to figure out what to do when we are already on one.…
Obama's Misleading, Partisan Appeal
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2009/02/05/obamas_misleading,_partisan_appeal
– -- an idea that's anathema to a Democratic Party that's intent on using an economic crisis to solidify their hold over America's free … economy.President Obama notes that when Americans went to the polls last November, they "voted resoundingly for change."  … Or if there isn't a $600 million grant to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids?Please. …
Obama's Hypocrisy at the National Prayer Breakfast
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dwaynehorner/2009/02/05/obamas_hypocrisy_at_the_national_prayer_breakfast
– How could a man who voted to deny medical treatments to babies who lived, despite a botched abortion, even utter these words. … It will simply be to work on behalf of those organizations that want to work on behalf of our communities, and to do so without blurring … They had to have known what they were doing.…
Do We Really Want To Go 177 Million Dollars Further In Debt For Art?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/johnhawkins/2009/02/05/do_we_really_want_to_go_177_million_dollars_further_in_debt_for_art
– community theater. ...Such criticism has revived memories of how the GOP-led House in 1997 voted to eliminate the NEA. … It's going to get increasingly difficult and expensive to finance our national debt and the amount of interest we owe is going to take … . .....Which brings us back to this article.…
Right Directions
https://townhall.com/columnists/cliffmay/2009/02/05/right_directions
– Nor did they manage to stage terrorist attacks to disrupt the voting. … My guess is that President Obama will stand up to those on the Left who are pressuring him to withdraw more precipitously. … If Obama didn't intend to listen to them, why would he keep them on?…
Obama's First Two Weeks
https://townhall.com/columnists/janiceshawcrouse/2009/02/04/obamas_first_two_weeks
– the federal government, Nancy Killefer, had to withdraw her candidacy due to tax issues relating to her handling of unemployment compensation … “make exceptions” to the pledge. … Ironically, some of the pro-life people who voted for President Obama because they perceived him to be an evangelical Christian or…
Keynesian Fallacy
https://townhall.com/columnists/dickmorrisandeileenmcgann/2009/02/04/keynesian_fallacy
– Keynes felt that people would react automatically to a few dollars in their hands. … According to the Federal Reserve Board of St. … They gave it right back to the Fed to hold in its vaults. They didn't lend it out. They didn't use it to stimulate the economy.…
Waste This Crisis, Mr. President. Please.
https://townhall.com/columnists/maggiegallagher/2009/02/04/waste_this_crisis,_mr_president_please
– President Obama doesn't know for sure what to do to avert economic collapse. … So we have to do something. … matter how worthy that end seems to you and to your advisers.…
My Eight Minutes With Jimmy
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelmedved/2009/02/04/my_eight_minutes_with_jimmy
– I could have thanked him, for instance, for helping to make me a Republican – confessing that I voted for him (somewhat reluctantly … in California, decided to retire to Jerusalem. … Carter avidly studied prior to his service on atomic submarines) and that my dad actually voted for Mr.…
Tax Cheats Put White House on the Defensive
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2009/02/04/tax_cheats_put_white_house_on_the_defensive
– Failure to report it can be a crime. … that assists the Medicaid program and dispenses advice to drug companies. … The third nominee to run into income tax trouble Tuesday was Nancy Killefer, nominated to be a deputy director of the Office of Management…
A Sham "Stimulus"
https://townhall.com/columnists/edfeulner/2009/02/04/a_sham_stimulus
– Crying “stimulus,” Congress intends to spend money it doesn’t have to accomplish things that don’t need to be done on a scale never … In other words, it’s not a jolt to the economy, it’s pointless as stimulus, and the lawmakers who voted for it must know that. … Their real goal seems to be to expand the government.…
Blue Dog Says Pelosi Treats Members Like 'Mushrooms'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amandacarpenter/2009/02/03/blue_dog_says_pelosi_treats_members_like_mushrooms
– Jim Cooper (Tenn.) vented to Air America about the way Speaker Nancy Pelosi was treating members who wanted to do things like read … the bills being voted on. … If members actually had to read the bills and figure out whether they are any good or not. We’re just told how to vote.…
From Africa With Love
https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2009/02/03/from_africa_with_love
– implied inferiority are coming to an end. … That may explain the odd statement made to me by Africans: They have told their sons that they can grow up to be like Barack Obama. … to his white predecessors’?…
From the Desk of an Eternal Optimist: An Open Letter to Conservatives
https://townhall.com/columnists/tomprice/2009/02/03/from_the_desk_of_an_eternal_optimist_an_open_letter_to_conservatives
– According to exit polls, one-in-five self-identified conservatives voted for Barack Obama, clearly illustrating the Republican Party … But Republicans seem to have lost the ability to intelligently or ideologically define these principles and convey them to the American … Failure to do so will relegate the party to permanent minority status. My letter ends with a direct appeal to you.…
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