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New Math
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The House returned from vacation to pass a $26 billion bail-out for the dues paying, campaign funding, men and women who educate our children. According to USA Today, federal workers make more than you. Teachers aren’t federal workers but neither is the city manager of Bell, California (pop 40,000). He earned even more vacation and sick time than teachers, clocking in at 28 weeks, and way more in salary - $800,000 per year! He lost his job when word got out thanks to the LA Times. Now he has to make do with a $600,000 per year pension. Bail-out for California, anyone?
Rangel Rant
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Nancy Pelosi called Congress back from vacation to vote for the teacher bail-out bill. Famed vacationer, Charlie Rangel, took the opportunity to dare his colleagues to throw him out. Jon Stewart wonders how he morphed into an old Jewish guy.
Campaign Slogan Tryouts
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Robert Gibbs said Republicans could win the House. Pelosi slammed Gibbs. Joe Biden claimed, “we’re going to win the House and the Senate”. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D., N.J.) felt compelled to announce ”…an end to a growing rumor that the president doesn’t want the House, only the Senate, and feels he can get more done with a split Congress…” . Jonathan Weisman and Naftali Bendavid have the story in the WSJ.
It’s a Surprise
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Chris Dodd and Nancy Pelosi explain here that you have to pass their 2000 page bills to find out what’s in them.
William Saletan has an interesting piece in Slate detailing how Kagan, while working in the Clinton White House, doctored a report on partial birth abortion by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynocologists. He points out that the report was taken as expert opinion in court rulings. If she gets on the Supreme Court and overturns a ruling because it was based on her original lie, would that make her an activist judge?
Supporting Cast
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Process
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The president insisted it was important to pass Obamacare and not get hung up on “process” when Bret Baier asked him if he supported “deeming” the Senate bill into law. Here’s a Peggy Noonan column about the process of getting answers from Obama.
Strange Bedfellows
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Pelosi is considering a plan put forward by Louise Slaughter, chairwoman of the House Rules Committee . It would allow the Senate Health Care Bill to be “deemed” to have passed. Then the House would make amendments to it and pass the new bill. They would be able to pass 2 bills with one vote. Kind of like using the same dollar twice for medicare and the health care. Here’s a Washington Post story explaining the gambit.
Rationing
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Here’s a column by a radiologist in Human Events that says later breast cancer screening saves money not lives and that it’s a preview of government healthcare.
Cry Babies
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Nancy Pelosi took a page from the Glenn Beck play book a few days ago and got weepy while expressing her fear of violence from Swastika wearing right wingers.