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January 26, 2011 /
  • New Documents Detailing Pelosi's Use of Air Force Aircraft in 2010 -Chocolate Covered Strawberries and Grey Goose
    Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained new documents from the United States Air Force detailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s use of United States Air Force aircraft in 2010. According to the documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Pelosi used Air Force aircraft for 43 flights from January 1 to October 1, 2010. According to documents previously uncovered by Judicial Watch, by comparison, Nancy Pelosi logged 47 flights in the prior nine-month period, April 1, 2009, to January 1, 2010.

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    It only gets worse.

    (tags: nancy_pelosi)
  • NEA Gave More Than $13 Million to Advocacy Groups – See the List
    An Education Intelligence Agency analysis of NEA’s financial disclosure report for the 2009-10 fiscal year reveals the national union contributed more than $13 million to a wide variety of advocacy groups and charities. The total was about half the amount disbursed in the previous year, though more than in 2007-08.

    The expenditures fall into broad categories of community outreach grants, charitable contributions, and payments for services rendered. In this list, EIA has deliberately omitted spending such as media buys, or payments to pollsters or consultants that have no obvious ideological component. The grants range from $2.125 million to a California ballot initiative campaign, down to smaller grants to organizations such as People for the American Way, Media Matters and Netroots Nation.

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    List includes the teacher's union in with Big Labor = the organized American Left

    (tags: NEA)
  • Dem. Rep. Loretta Sanchez Proposes to boot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords from Armed Services Committee
    Behind closed doors, California Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez has proposed removing Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords from the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) until she recovers from injuries sustained after being shot in the head on Jan. 8 in Tucson, The Daily Caller has learned.

    The proposal sparked an outrage, according to those in the room — including from those in Sanchez’s own party.

    “It’s not appropriate,” Texas Democratic Rep. Silvestre Reyes told The Daily Caller, adding that there was outrage among some members in the room when Sanchez made the suggestion. “It’s bad for morale during her recovery period.”

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    Yeah, right.

    Good the Dems squelched this political opportunism by Loretta Sanchez

    (tags: Gabrielle_Giffords Loretta_Sanchez)
  • The Politics of Evasion at the State of the Union – By BOTH Parties
    It’s clear that both parties have decided that a period of divided government twelve months before a presidential election is the wrong time to make big moves on entitlements and the deficit. Better to wait, jockey for position, and hope that the correlation of forces after 2012 will be more favorable to their preferred solutions. And it’s clear, too, that they’ve decided (with honorable exceptions) that it’s too risky to even begin building support for the unpopular cuts or tax increases ahead. The bet, on both sides, is that there’s still time to work with, and that the other party will blink, or at least give ground, before the real crunch arrives.

    Let’s hope they’re right.

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    Come on. The American people will demand specific policy direction coming into 2012.

    Obama will not receive a free pass nor will the GOP members of the House.

    (tags: State_of_the_Union barack_obama paul_ryan)