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White House turns up heat on Arizona senator
apnews ^ | 7/14/09 | JOAN LOWY

Posted on 07/14/2009 7:47:29 PM PDT by Nachum

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is firing back at Sen. Jon Kyl for calling for an end to economic stimulus spending, and they're aiming for where it hurts the most - at home in Arizona.

The White House on Tuesday released letters from four cabinet secretaries to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, citing Kyl's comments and outlining transportation, housing, Indian education and other projects in his home state they said would be eliminated if the senator has his way.

Kyl, the No. 2 Senate GOP leader, has said the stimulus spending hasn't succeeded in boosting the economy and that it's adding to the deficit. He's suggested on his Senate Web site and in interviews that spending not already allocated be halted

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
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The Chicago way.
1 posted on 07/14/2009 7:47:29 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: SumProVita; HardStarboard; BradyLS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; dervish; Twotone; Free ThinkerNY; ...

The list, ping


2 posted on 07/14/2009 7:47:53 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Nice little state you got there, be a shame if anything
was to happen to it, eh?


3 posted on 07/14/2009 7:48:57 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Nachum

But it works..and it’s headline news thanks to the state run media. If people aren’t scared by all of this, we deserve the fate we’re about to experience.


4 posted on 07/14/2009 7:54:27 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: Nachum

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.


5 posted on 07/14/2009 7:54:56 PM PDT by callisto (It's the three T' s: Too Many Taxes, Trillions in Debt, and Transparency)
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To: tet68

Nothing like being bribed with your own money.


6 posted on 07/14/2009 7:55:11 PM PDT by Patrick1 (I'm not calling in sick; I'm calling in gone!)
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To: Nachum
Ok so I'm forced to choose between an anti-American socialist with Marxist sympathies and his Chicago thugs vs. Kyl, the hypocritical scumbag who railed against earmarks but asked for $118 million in earmarks.

Hmmm, I'm going to have to side with Kyl, the hypocritical earmarking scumbag on this one.

7 posted on 07/14/2009 7:55:16 PM PDT by exist
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To: Nachum

obamanomics.


8 posted on 07/14/2009 7:55:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Nachum

And they are doing the Chicago thug thing with OUR money.

How is this not extortion—do as we want or we cut you off from the money teat?

Democrats are the enemy of freedom.

And the reset button needs to be pushed for DC.


9 posted on 07/14/2009 7:56:17 PM PDT by exit82 (Sarah Palin is President No. 45. Get behind her, GOP, or get out of the way.)
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To: Nachum

Mr. President, YOU do NOT decide what is funded and what is not!
You have NO LINE ITEM VETO!
What kind of dictatorship do you think you’re running when you threaten to single out an individual Senator for not cooperating with your agenda?


10 posted on 07/14/2009 7:56:33 PM PDT by G Larry (Obamacare = Dying in Line)
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To: Nachum

Blackmail. Live by the pork, die by the pork.

I remember that they’ve done this overt before but can’t remember when. I’m not talking about how they said if a state didn’t take the stimulus that they would just give it to other states but something directed at one person.


11 posted on 07/14/2009 7:59:17 PM PDT by MontaniSemperLiberi
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I remember that they’ve done this overt before but can’t remember when.

I can't ever remember it being like this in my lifetime.

12 posted on 07/14/2009 8:00:49 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Sarah saw the writing on the wall. She knew he would retaliate against Alaska if she didn’t play his game. Now he has little leverage over her.


13 posted on 07/14/2009 8:01:24 PM PDT by FreeInWV (Have you had enough change yet?)
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To: G Larry
You have NO LINE ITEM VETO!

If Congress plays along, he does. It doesn't have to be codified into law for that to happen.

14 posted on 07/14/2009 8:02:39 PM PDT by squidly
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To: Nachum

Where’s the OTHER Senator from AZ? The one who frequently calls Zero & Company, “My Friends.”


15 posted on 07/14/2009 8:04:53 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: Nachum

This proves that its all PORK!


16 posted on 07/14/2009 8:05:08 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Hildy

The people of Arizona should respond by going in to work tomorrow and upping our exemptions from 2 to 3 up to 25. Bambi wants to keep our own tax money and give it to OTHER states we can fix that by not sending in federal money until April 15th.


17 posted on 07/14/2009 8:08:18 PM PDT by McGavin999 (How's that change old Hopey Dope promised you working out?)
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To: Nachum

Call their bluff.


18 posted on 07/14/2009 8:08:57 PM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: Nachum

I can’t believe there are no “high crimes or misdemeanors” by now.

Where are our reps? When do we say enough?

Something must be done before it’s too late!!!!

Just Damn!!!


19 posted on 07/14/2009 8:09:39 PM PDT by Jeffrey_D. (veritas odium parit)
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To: CPT Clay

Brilliant! Give AZ politicians $$$, then threaten to take it away if Senator tries to give it back.

This is a form of blackmail!


20 posted on 07/14/2009 8:10:52 PM PDT by whitedog57
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