Rusty can’t be serious? “Leading the charge for change” while charging lobbyists $2,500 for the honor of watching the NCAA tournament with you? For a guy who probably won’t have a congressional district next year, he sure has been holding a lot of fundraisers lately. (here and here) Related: Rasmussen Reports: Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans [...]
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Picture of the Day: Rusty Carnahan, “Leading The Charge for Change”
March 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment
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Carnahan Fundraising Email Rails on Oil Company Subsidies; Silent on Brother’s $100 Million Windfarm Earmark
March 7th, 2011 · No Comments
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” –Saul Alinsky In Camp Carnahan’s haste to follow one of comrade Alinky’s “Rules for Radicals” (never let a budget crisis go to waste) they forgot to put a working link on their most recent fundraising email: Excerpt: Have you been following the budget debates? The Republicans are [...]
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Cong. Akin: Veterans “Fear For Their Lives” at John Cochran VA Hospital
February 8th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Welcome to the future of government run healthcare! In a letter to veterans secretary Eric Senseki, Congressman Akin tells a shocking tale of how veterans in his district are actually fearful of receiving care at the controversial government hospital: Thank God Republicans are back in control of the House! Hopefully Mr Akin, who is the [...]
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Picture of the Day: Rusty Has “First Event of the New Cycle”
January 11th, 2011 · No Comments
‘Centrist’ Congressman Russ Carnahan is getting an early leg up on defending a seat that will probably be eliminated during redistricting. Related: Rasmussen Reports: Voters Still See Democratic Agenda in Congress As More Extreme than GOP’s Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans 47%, Democrats 36%
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The Choice: 1-Page Short-Term Continuing Resolution Or Dems’ Bloated 2,000-pg Omnibus
December 16th, 2010 · No Comments
Disgusted, The Wall Street Journal editors write today, “The 111th Congress began with an $814 billion stimulus that blew out the federal balance sheet, so we suppose it’s only fitting that the Members want to exit by passing a 1,924-page, $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill. The worst Congress in modern history is true to its [...]
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“Centrist” Rusty Carnahan?
December 15th, 2010 · No Comments
What Chutzpah! This tweet would have been more honest if Rusty would have tweeted this instead: “Proud my bipartisan bill (which probably helps my brother’s wind farm somehow) wasting saving taxpayer $ and energy was signed into law today by @ Bill Clinton BarackObama…” What a great legislative accomplishment to complement the other two bills [...]
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