Saturday, May 19th “The Patriot Field of Dreams.”

Holts Summit, Missouri (10:00 am – 6:00 pm)

TICKETS ONLY $10 each

Partial List of Speakers: Herman Cain, Alan Keyes, Gina Gentry Loudon, Michelle Moore, Stacy E. Washington, David Roland, Joseph Farrah -CEO of World News Daily and many others.

“I think you’re going to have another opportunity to reconsider your vote for the Hughes group.”

That’s a comment St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley’s Consiglieri John Temporiti made to a St. Louis County councilman a few years ago. We’ve chronicled the many shady and questionable dealings of Mr. Temporiti and Mr. Dooley (here, here, here, and here) so criticism from us is  expected. What’s not expected is this recent criticism form the Carnahan blog.

Polsinelli Shughart law firm announced recently that a host of lawyers, including John Temporiti, paid Rex Sinquefield consultant and former Chairman of the Missouri Democratic Party, was joining their firm.  Temporiti was paid almost $50,000 by Sinquefield from November to March through Rex’s Let Voters Decide committee to “provide a Democratic perspective” Read more…

Remaining beholden to the teacher’s unions and keeping black children in terrible schools outweighs party loyalty we guess. Interesting.

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KMOX.com: Former Metro CEO says Dooley Adminstration Meddled with Contracts

It’s now been over 3 years since the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a budget. Not only has Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said, “There’s no need to have a Democratic budget in my opinion. . . . It would be foolish for us to do a budget at this stage,” Democrats have prevented their own Budget Committee Chairman, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), from even taking one up in committee.

In stark contrast, Senate Republicans will offer several different budget plans this week for senators to vote on. The Hill writes, “Republican senators are expected to force a vote this week on President Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget plan, while Democrats are relishing a roll call on Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) budget blueprint.” In addition, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) will all offer budgets for the Senate to consider.

But, as The Hill notes, it’s worth pointing out that Democrats don’t want to support their own president’s budget. “The GOP initiative is intended to embarrass the White House by painting the president’s budget as so weak on fiscal issues that his own party cannot support it, and to highlight the inability of the Senate Democratic majority to produce a budget. It has been more than 1,100 days since the Senate cleared a budget resolution. GOP aides say that if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tried to rally support for Obama’s budget, he could get a dozen yes votes at best. That estimate may be low, though there is a clear contrast in how congressional Democrats dealt with Obama’s budget in 2009 and this year. Three years ago, the Democratic-led Senate passed Obama’s budget 55-43. Obama’s approval ratings were much higher at the time, which fostered strong Democratic unity on Capitol Hill. Some centrist Democrats, including Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), have said they prefer a budget with deeper deficit cuts than Obama presented. Vulnerable Democratic senators are seen as unwilling to vote for the tax increases detailed in the White House budget. Aides to several Democratic centrists were noncommittal Monday on how their bosses would vote if the Obama budget comes up.”

Last year, of course, Obama’s budget received zero votes in the Senate, and his budget this year received zero votes in the House. Will any Democrat senator vote for it this year? Based on The Hill report, it sounds like Democrats may be getting their excuses ready: “This year, Obama is sticking by his budget, so Democrats are embracing another reason to vote it down. The White House moved Monday to free Democrats to vote no by saying the legislation embodying Obama’s budget is ‘different’ because it doesn’t contain identical policy language.”

This week, no thanks to Democrats, the Senate will finally have the opportunity to vote on at least five different budgets. Will Democrats support any of them, or continue their record of astonishing fiscal irresponsibility?

Related:

Rasmussen Reports: Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans 45%, Democrats 38%

OK, which is worse: switching political parties or political races?

“The gentleman that I’m running against decided that he wanted to be Attorney General about three months ago, after having declared his candidacy for two other federal positions in the nine months prior to three months ago,” he said. “I think that there is a place in this world for consistency and purpose.”

“When Chris Koster left the Republican party in 2007 to run for office in Obama’s Democrat party, he switched positions on the Second Amendment, life, illegal immigration and and he ultimately supported Barack Obama for president”, said Ed Martin. “As he attacks candidates for running for office, Koster himself is taking about his next race for Governor in 2016, even as he fails to answer Missourians’ questions on whether he supports Obama’s switch to support same-sex marriage.  Politicians like Koster and his boss Obama will say anything to stay in power but Missourians want an AG who will stand up and fight against Obama and obamacare and give our state a brighter future.”

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Koster Attends Secret Gay Donor Conference in DC

Chris Koster’s Party Switch Press Conference

Hat tip:dsm0012

Brenda Talent, executive director of the Show Me Institute, speaks at the Your Money, Your Values, Your Vote meeting in Chesterfield, MO. This was a stop on the FRC and Heritage Foundation sponsored Values Bus tour. Brenda talked about the Show Me Institute, a free-market think tank that focuses on driving sound economic policy at the state level in Missouri.

Claire, we’re going to sincerely miss you next year. Your ineptness and  phoniness completes us! All that advertising you’ve been doing the last couple of weeks has only netted you a one point lead???? And to add insult to injury, the poll was conducted by a “Democratic Super PAC.”

The Hill.com:

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), holds a single-digit lead over all three of her Republican opponents, according to a new poll from a Democratic super-PAC.  McCaskill leads former Missouri state Treasurer Sarah Steelman (R) 45-36, businessman John Brunner 46-38 and Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) 44-39 in the survey released Monday by Majority PAC and conducted by Democratic pollster Mark Mellman, a columnist for The Hill.

But McCaskill fails to break 50 percent against any of her potential challengers, suggesting the weakness of the GOP field could have more to say about McCaskill’s advantage in the race than her own popularity among constituents. Read more…
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The Hill: Vulnerable Democratic senators balk at Obama’s gay marriage endorsement

Rasmussen Reports: New High: 68% Would Vote To Replace Entire Congress