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Oink: Sen. McCain Reads Aloud Some Porky Earmarks in Bill — Maple Syrup & Peanut Research, Oyster Safety, Edgar Allan Poe Visitors Center, Polynesian Voyaging Society, Among the $1.1 Trillion (video)

| December 16, 2010

  They never learn… Wasn’t this lame duck Congress suppose to make a time-is-ticking decision about extending the Bush-era tax rates and the extension of unemployment benefits before the end of the year? On November 2, the American people rose up against Congress and Team Obama’s out-of-control spending by voting out spendthrift incumbents, demanding a [...]

Obama: In the Face of Growing Failures, Says He Would “Do Nothing Differently” (video)

| August 7, 2009

Such unwavering confidence. Such delusions of success. Such audacious hubris. In the mounted face of Pres. Obama’s growing list of failures… continued economic crisis, more bankrupted businesses, socialized health care power grab, rising unemployment, outrageously expensive global warming energy tax bill, dropping approval numbers, failed stimulus package with nearly 9,000 pork-barrel earmarks in it, billions [...]

Just the Beginning of Obama Budget-Busting “Big Cheese” Mayhem: RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,562,568 FOR ‘MOZZARELLA CHEESE’

| July 20, 2009

You don’t have to believe me about the government spending $1,562,568 for mozzarella cheese. It’s all on Obama’s website for the non-stimulus bill, Recovery.gov, with MANY other outrageous “slap me, I’m dreaming” spending gaffes. Obama is slyly trying to hide the budget deficit and ram through the health care vote before the end of August… [...]

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