Posted on 09/18/2007 8:03:19 PM PDT by Keyes2000mt
Podcast Notes
People don't take the Constitution seriously (hat tip: Outside the Beltway.) This is why we get grossly unconstitutional ideas such as the proposal to grant the District of a Columbia a vote in the US House. The Constitution says that the US House shall be made up of the people of the several states. DC is not a state, therefore no congressman. What's so hard to understand about that?
Three Democratic Congressmen received a combined$1.3 million in campaign contributions from a lobbying firm that won $110 million in defense appropriations from the new Democratic Congress. As Don Surber points out, this is a 7500% return.
By the way, Senators Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) are declaring that entitlement spending is headed for a clift. Their solution? Form a bi-partisan commission. Yeah, just what I do when I headed for a clift? Whatever the commission's proposed changes, they'll be ignored just as prior bi-partisan commissions were. Time does not make hard choices easier.
Hillary Clinton has come out with a new health care plan (hat tip:Red Sate.) that requires everyone to have insurance, Mitt Romney is criticizing the plan despite eery similarities between it and the plan he pushed in Massachusetts.
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I’ve never heard this term used, so I looked it up:
Clift \Clift\, n. [See 1st Cliff, n.]
A cliff. [Obs.]
That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly roar.
—Spenser.
Clift \Clift\, n. [See Cleft, n.]
1. A cleft of crack; a narrow opening. [Obs.]
2. The fork of the legs; the crotch. [Obs.] —Chaucer.
THE REAL QUESTION IS THIS: WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE REPUBLICANS who voted for this piece of crap.
Orrin Hatch
Robert Bennett
Olympia Snowe
Susan Collins
Dick Lugar
Arlen Specter
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