U.S. Senate Democrats struck some sort of deal on the "public option" portion of President Barack Obama's socialized medicine plan Tuesday night, but media reports coming out of the nation's capital weren't exactly singing off the same sheet of music when it came to the details of the compromise. For
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The Louisiana (Vote) Purchase
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) is one of four swing votes in the upcoming Senate deliberations on President Barack Obama's socialized medicine proposal. As such, she's "solid gold real estate" for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid - who cannot afford even a single democratic defection if he
Read story »Senate Health Care Vote Looms
Having narrowly been rammed through the U.S. House earlier this month, it's now the U.S. Senate's turn to shove a little socialized medicine up the collective American yin-yang ... Quick, somebody call our proctologist! While we can still afford him! Having introduced his 2,074-page, $900 billion
Read story »Harry Reid Has A Problem
The U.S. Senate may end up adding a multibillion-dollar "health care reform" bill to the staggeringly-high mountain of deficit spending (a.k.a. "hope and change") that's overtaking Washington, D.C., but at what cost? One of the casualties could very well be U.S. Senate Leader (and political mobster)
Read story »Fourth Estate “Serves” Harry Reid
You would think that socialist leaders like Nevada's Harry Reid would be bending over and kissing the rear end of the mainstream media, which more often than not in recent years has bent over and kissed the rear end of all the left-leaning politicians currently running this once-proud nation into the
Read story »Government’s Mob Rule
Millions of dollars included in the pork-laden bureaucratic bailout heading to President Barack Obama's desk could end up going to a "Mob Museum" in Las Vegas, a fitting tribute to the government mentality underlying this $787 billion atrocity. Last week, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) successfully
Read story »The Big Three Got Owned
Yesterday was a bad day to go to Washington with your hat in your hand begging for a multi-billion dollar bailout ... particularly if your preferred method of transportation was a luxurious private jet. We call it "low-hanging fruit" in the business, a political jab that delivers in sheer, emotive
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COBURN STILL FIGHTING MASSIVE "OMNIBUS" FITSNews - July 28, 2008 - We've had some fun with MARTA buses lately (here and here), but another out-of-control bus is screeching toward unsuspecting taxpayers in Washington, D.C. It's called the "Coburn Omnibus," a collection of some forty pieces of unnecessary
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OKLAHOMA SENATOR STANDS UP TO THE BIG, BAD FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FITSNews - July 22, 2008 - If you've never read Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn's book Breach of Trust, you probably don't know the real story behind the so-called "Republican Revolution" of 1994 - namely, that there was no "revolution." Easily
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