There has been some interest in the jobs bill and the 13 Republican Senators who crossed the aisle and voted for the measure. The most prominent of those Republicans is probably Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, but Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma also voted for the legislation. While I am not sure I agree that...
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Two years in the making, great hopes were held out for the climate change talks that are taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. Much ado was made about how badly the world needed an international climate change treaty, at how urgent the situation was. Global warming was ruling the day and many small island nations...
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As the news story of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court continues to progress, the reactions from both sides of the political spectrum are as I expected. The Democrats are lauding it as a masterful nomination by President Obama and for the most part, Republicans are sounding cautious optimism. As I pointed...
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At the risk of beating a dead horse to a bloody pulp, here we go again. The House of Representatives passed the economic stimulus package that isn’t and now the United States Senate has reached a compromise on a stimulus package of it’s own. After first ballooning to over $900 billion, the compromise package...
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As I suspected they would do, the United States Senate has just approved giving Barack Obama the remaining $350 billion of the TARP bailout money. As I mentioned in a previous article, I would have been very surprised if the approval had not passed. It appears our political leaders are determined to squeeze every...
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With the first half of the $700 billion spent and no tangible results to show, the Senate is set to decide if Barack Obama will get the second $350 billion of the Wall Street bailout. With a vote set for Thursday, the Senate faces a a veto threat by Obama, if he doesn’t get...
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Just when it looks like the bailout for the Detroit automakers may have stalled, the United States Senate is negotiating into the night, trying to hammer out an agreement that would give the automakers $14 billion in emergency funding. From The Associated Press: Labor, lawmakers and the auto industry bargained in unprecedented private talks...
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It’s not surprising that Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe has once again came out strongly against any further bailouts by Congress and the Secretary of the Treasury. He was very much opposed to the original bailout plan and now that we have $350 billion down the tubes, he is trying to prevent the rest of...
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Thanks to Tam, over at Bare Thoughts for alerting me to this article. When President Bush, Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, and Congress first got together and decided some of these companies needed a bailout, at our expense, there were very few people who stood up and said no, this isn’t the way...
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I haven’t written a lot about our senior Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe, even though he is running for relection this year. It may be, I suppose, because his challenger, Andrew Rice, isn’t posing much of a threat and I have focused so much of my attention on the race between John McCain and Barack...
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