Senate votes to prevent Fairness Doctrine, but…

Within the last couple of hours, the United States Senate approved an amendment that would outlaw the Fairness Doctrine. The amendment passed by a wide margin, with only 11 senators voting against. But, another amendment that could effectively cause the same type of issues for local broadcasters who offer nationally syndicated programs also passed by…

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800 Billion Reasons To Be Worried

So who gets the money from the Porkapalooza … Reason on line … did the homework. Ughhh. Make sure you read it all … but here’s a sample. 1. Billions of dollars in spending exclusively devoted to benefit federal employees. $5.5 billion for making federal buildings “green” (including $448 million for the Department of Homeland…

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Dodd-Simmons: Game On?

Here’s the headline from the JI:  Simmons weighs run for Senate And about time. Dodd’s vulnerable … his tenure alone makes him vulnerable. Add to that his reluctance to come clean on his mortgages and his stunning lack of leadership at best and complicity at worst during the mortgage meltdown makes him a liability as…

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Breaking down the current Senate porkapoluza

I don’t remember seeing so many details about a bill being reported in the press. Then again, the stimulus bill is so damn big, I guess it’s not too hard to pick out all of the spending items and create a list or two. We tried it here, but just did not have the time…

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The Porkapalooza Details

The Sound Off Brother sent me this link last night. It is well worth the read. But here’s a sample. • $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient. • A $246 million tax…

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The government never needs a haircut

Take action now. Radio Vice Online and Jim’s show – Sound Off Connecticut – now has a national audience. We’re even getting hundreds of visitors from outside of the United States. As a coalition, we may be able to do get together and burn up some phone lines and keep e-mail servers busy. Why does…

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Kennedy drops out of Senate consideration – sour grapes?

They make for a bitter whine. Hat tip to Hot Air. An update to the original story: From the New York Post … Caroline Kennedy tonight withdrew her name from consideration to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate after learning that Gov. David Paterson wasn’t going to choose her, The Post has learned. Kennedy’s…

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Bailout legislation impossible to read

I don’t have a law degree. I don’t have 12 hours to read the full text of the bailout bill that the Senate is debating right now. The average person should be able to read this crap – or at least use the Ctrl+f key to do a keyword search in the damn thing.

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