Posts about Politico as of August 1, 2009
08/01/2009
Illustration by Matt Wuerker . Congressman Tim Bishop has been a Rubber Stamp for Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and the rest of the Washington elitists who want to tax and spend this nation to death. The Conservative Society for Action and other angry taxpayers had a little surprise for him at one of his “Town Hall” meetings on June 22, 2009. Watching this video I sat here and cried. Yessss God Bless America!!!!!!! ~ Wild Thing .
08/01/2009
Al Franken feuds with T. Boone Pickens Politico Five years after he put his money behind the Swift Boat ads that helped tanked John Kerry’s presidential campaign, Senate Democrats gave T. Boone Pickens a warm welcome at their weekly policy lunch Thursday. Or at least most of them did. Kerry skipped the regularly scheduled lunch; his staff said the Massachusetts Democrat “was unable to attend because he had a long scheduled lunch with his interns and pages.” Sen.
08/01/2009
According to this article in Politico, our esteemed DC politicians are having a problem grasping what is in that monster of a healt care bill. Democrats cannot deliver specifics because they have not settled on a plan themselves. This is a multi-trillion dollar solution ($n,000,000,000,000) to a problem not yet defined. MN’s Collin Peterson (D) admits frankly, “The members don’t even understand what’s in it [the health care bill].” Americans are getting very nervous about this bill.
08/01/2009
Politico has it: “I’m sure they have their political reasons for doing that, but I think it’s not what quote, hospitality, unquote is all about,” said Letitia Baldrige, who headed Jacqueline Kennedy’s White House staff in the early 1960s. “We’ve got to relax about this. To have people to the White House and worry about the price of things is laughable.” “I don’t know what the menu was, but I’m sure it wasn’t braised pheasant,” she said. The White House did not say what was served for lunch or how much the attendees were charged.
08/01/2009
Yahoo! News: Politics News >> Politics News Source: | Yahoo! News | Politico – E-mails show various components of the military bureaucracy trying to steer clear of the fallout. (full text retrieval failed) … (Read whole news on source site)



