Nearly half of the respondents in a recent poll said they dislike Hillary Clinton’s political opinions and Clinton as a person and that she does not appear to connect with people on a personal level.This is not good news for Democrats because Hillary will probably be the standard bearer for the Party in 2008.More than one in five Democrats that participated in the survey said they would not vote for Clinton. Overall, 36 percent said they would vote for the former first lady.
The House bill, which passed last week, exceeded the administration’s request by $21 billion and included money for spinach growers, peanut storage and citrus farmers.
If the Senate bill goes to conference committee as written, the two chambers may find themselves fighting over the best cuts of pork.
Washington lawmakers try to hide some of their pet projects as they are doing with the $100 million for the political party conventions. $50 million for the Democratic convention in Denver, Colorado and $50 million for the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Senate Appropriations Chairman Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., Monday defended the extra spending, describing it as “common sense and good economics.”
Senator Byrd (pictured), former Ku Klux Klan member, is the king of the pork-barrelers.
A good portion of $20 million is for insect infestation control in Nevada, thanks to Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Politicians love to take big chunks of federal money back to their home state to help insure their re-election.
With no term-limits and no line-item veto, Washington lawmakers feast on pork year after year.
Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said the aide was charged with carrying a pistol without a license and possessing an unregistered firearm and unregistered ammunition.
Sen. Webb’s office said it was an oversight. Carrying an unregistered firearm and unregistered ammunition was an oversight?
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Revenue from advertising was in striking decline last month, compared with February a year ago, and were generally weaker than analysts had expected.
What will big city dwellers use to wrap fish if newspapers go the way of the dodo bird? They’ll have to find something else to line the birdcage.
As politically irresponsible as big city newspapers are, I can’t say as I’ll mourn their passing -- if it comes to that.
A link to the New York Times article is here. Some day they may print their own obituary.
Some of the highlights can be found here.Considering the multitude of misleading and inaccurate assertions Gore delivered in the film, Gore is better fitted for a dunce cap.
Inaccuracy is the norm rather than the exception in Gore's movie. He would receive no better than an "F" in any serious course on climatology. The question is, given the current crisis in our public schools, does giving a bad scientist an honorary degree really send the right message?
A complete list of Gore's false and misleading statements would fill an entire book.
None of the elements of the newly minted Democrats' congressional agenda have made it to President Bush's desk, and the prospects of signature bills such as federal funding for stem-cell research or homeland-security improvements becoming law any time soon are doubtful.
Much of the Democratic agenda -- dubbed "Six for '06" -- sailed out of the House with bipartisan support, but all of it has stalled in the Senate as leaders scramble to deal with the Iraq war.
"I don't think they've gotten anything done," House Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio said of the Democrats. "How many bills have they sent to the president? None? Somewhere around there."
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