Glory Be!
Steve Manacek ·
Dec 16, 2010 at 5:24pm
Harry Reid has just caved on the Omni-pork spending bill, announcing he doesn't have the votes to pass it, and that he will work with Mitch McConnell to draft a continuing resolution to keep the government going past Saturday. With he exception of a couple of retiring senators like Bennett and Voinovich, it looks like the GOP held pretty firm on this -- which shouldn't be all that surprising, but, alas, is. Good job, guys!
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Wow! This is excellent and most unexpected news. Earlier I watched a clip of Mitch McConnell pushing his one page resolution to simply keep the government open until February. The idea that he could successfully sell the Senate on his alternative struck me as a long shot. But perhaps it isn't such a long shot after all?!
Nov '10
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I'm starting to feel a little bit hopeful here.
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I agree this is good news. However, we must keep in mind the unprecedented arrogance of this Congress as exemplified by Reid and Pelosi's attempt--after historic losses correctly characterized by the President as a "shellacking"--to bypass the usual budget process and lock-in 2010 spending levels for the first half of the next Congress in a cynical act of pre-Christmas brinksmanship.
Now we need to quash the raw deal giving us two years of income tax rate status quo in exchange for yet another quasi-permanent stimulus. And let's make it a trifecta by stopping START.
May '10
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I am utterly and gleefully proved wrong, twice in one season. Apologies to all, and drinks all around.
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Senator McConnell gives an effective and visually arresting comparison of conservative versus liberal governance in this clip.
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Did we just win?
Aug '10
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Good news, yet this is only a successful defense - not a win.
The GOP still has yet to learn how to go on offense and put the ball in the end zone.
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The lesson here for the new congress, and the rest of us on the side of limited government and individual liberty? The Founders were right. Stand on principle and don't blink.
Jun '10
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Edited on Dec 16, 2010 at 7:02pmJul '10
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Well, now let's see if we can kill the DREAM act and START.
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Kenneth! You're against DREAMs and STARTing? Good Lord, man: the names of the bills alone proclaim their bounteous goodness. I suppose you're against People United to Purloin Property In Every Situation (PUPPIES) and the Save Cuddly Pandas Act (which slaps a $4.57 tax on each gallon of gas.)
I don't know how you live with yourself.
Jul '10
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James Lileks: Kenneth! You're against DREAMs and STARTing? Good Lord, man: the names of the bills alone proclaim their bounteous goodness. I suppose you're against People United to Purloin Property In Every Situation (PUPPIES) and the Save Cuddly Pandas Act (which slaps a $4.57 tax on each gallon of gas.)
I don't know how you live with yourself. · Dec 16 at 7:53pm
I like the laws that are named for tragic dead children: The Making Sure Nothing Like What Happened to LuAnn Warchowski Ever Happens Again Act - A Bill to Require Warning Labels on Twist-Ties.
You can pack those suckers full of pork and not even the stoniest paleo-Con will vote agin' 'em.
Edited on Dec 16, 2010 at 8:29pmRe: Glory Be!
That's not funny. I lost a friend to lead poisoning when she pricked her finger on a Chinese-made twist-tie; corporate tax breaks encouraged the company to move the plant to Shanghai where the regulations were lax. She'd be alive today if regulations that required the enclosed-ends twist-ties provision of LuAnn's law hadn't been watered down by Senate Republicans in exchange for agreeing to $750,000 to fund LaRaza's community voter outreach program. But the fault has to rest as well with Wal-Mart; their move into grocery
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. . . stores meant that smaller chains had to cut back, and use cheaper ties. Granted, she was using the twist-tie wires to make homemade tattoos, but still.
Jul '10
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There was no stopping LuAnn's Law. Even after Democrats attached amendments allocating $17 million for the Edward M. Kennedy Memorial Single-Malt Scotch Museum in Chatham, Mass; $142 million for a study of gay lemurs and a billion-two to provide velcro-closure basketball shoes for the blind, the thing was a juggernaut.
Fact was, the YouTube video of little LuAnn choking to death on that twist-tie while her parents Googled "Himlick Manoover" over and over again had stirred the hearts of the electorate.
May '10
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Now you tell me. I was in Chatham a couple months ago and missed it completely!
Jul '10
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Yhea Im gonna need to see the ruby slippers on this thing.