Yo, Pete Sessions
Dude, please leave the GOP/Taliban comparisons to the loonies on the far left!
DeMint, NYT: Daschle’s nomination should be withdrawn (MORE: DASCHLE WITHDRAWS)
In light of reports of Tom Daschle’s numerous tax issues (the failure to pay them, to be exact, not to mention the lobbyist angle), the heat is intensifying on President Obama to withdraw the former Senate leader’s nomination for HHS. Leading Republican Senator Jim DeMint called for it today, and even the NYT – known propaganda rag for the Obama administration – is calling for a withdraw as well, citing Daschle’s tax issues.
Flashback: Pelosi on the possibility of pork in the stimulus bill
Watch as she raises her hand and pledges that there will be no pork in the House stimulus bill. That was then:
The good news and the bad news
Obviously, the good news about the unanimous House Republican opposition to President Obama’s stimulus bill means that the Republicans in the House (all of them) seem to have found their way again. Not only that, but it means that Obama’s claims that this will be a “bipartisan bill” are bogus, at least as far as the House is concerned. The Senate, of course is a different matter. Even though Obama is sure to get the token support from enough Republicans in the Senate, in the end he will own this bill, whether he wants to admit it or not.
Bloated stimulus bill passes in the House, “opportunity” awaits
With news of the House’s passage of the earmark-filled “stimulus bill,” it’s made a lot of people, mainly Democrats, happy. No doubt President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who said some revealing things back in mid-November, about the “opportunity” the stimulus package provided Democrats, is especially happy. Click below for a flashback those comments, which Emanuel gave at the WSJ CEO Council in DC: