“Whenever rules are not enforced, you create the opportunity for somebody to believe they have been singled out,” Cleaver said. “You see during late night votes, people stand in the back with jeans and no jackets and no ties.” Really Congressman? You don’t see a difference between members (off camera and in the back of [...]

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“African American unemployment rose this month from 13.6 percent to 14.1….We were pleased when President Obama announced the Summer Jobs Initiative, which will provide $1.5 billion for high-impact summer jobs and year-round employment for low-income youth ages 16-24, as part of the American Jobs Act’s Pathways Back to Work Fund.” –Rep. Cleaver Translation. Stimulus is [...]

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“If there’s a debt, Missouri’s kids and grandkids will pay that debt off” –Governor Jay Nixon (2009) Today marks the 3-year anniversary of President Obama signing his nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill into law.  A report from Obama economic advisors Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein in early 2009 claimed that [...]

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Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com This is embarrassing watching Congressman Cleaver labor through his talking points while trying to explain that deficit spending has helped the economy. As the current Congressional Black Caucus chairman, we’d expect him to be out front explaining away the president’s failures, but he has absolutely no credibility when it [...]

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Hat tip: USRepJoAnnEmerson

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Although President Obama said during a press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper lasatweek, “any effort to try to tie Keystone [XL pipeline] to the payroll tax cut I will reject,” Politico reports today that “to some House Democrats, getting approval for the $7 billion, 1,700-mile pipeline from Alberta oil sands to Texas refineries [...]

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