Today brings yet another revelation about the faulty promises of the White House and Democrats in Congress about their unpopular health care law. Earlier this week, the CBO director Doug Elmendorf announced that contrary to the claims by President Obama, the law won’t reduce government health care expenditures.  “In fact,” Elmendorf wrote, “CBO estimated that […]

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Graphic: opensecrets.org According to opensecrets.org, Rusty Carnahan is one of the biggest spenders in Congress of your money. In fiscal year 2010, Rusty has sponsored or co-sponsored 15 earmarks totalling well over $41 million dollars, or, $41,532,00 to be exact. That comes out precisely to $2,768,800 per earmark! Isn’t that about what we’re spending per […]

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Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft delivered an address at the Heritage Foundation on Wednesday, emphasizing the importance of China’s role in North Korea. Hat tip:talkradionews [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/gDIpV9v2rhg” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Related: CNN: Ashcroft: BP criminal investigation should have come sooner TRN: Ashcroft Opposed To Closing Guantanamo

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Another day, another promise from Democrats about their unpopular health care bill is exposed as mere rhetoric as reality shows the opposite to be true. Throughout the health care debate last year, Americans were assured by President Obama and Democrats that their health care plans would lower health care costs and reduce government spending on […]

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Remarkably last week during a one minute floor speech, hapless Rusty Carnahan made it sound like the country had turned the economic corner and that good times and prosperity were right around the corner. Those of us not in political dynasties who have connections to government stimulus funds for relative’s businesses know that this is […]

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A profile in failure? Related: The Hill: Morris: Obama doesn’t have a clue Q1 2010 Ratings: CNN Sees Double Digit Drop from Year Ago GOP’s ‘Weakest’ Candidate’s Lead Widens Over Carnahan

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Related: AP: GOP Senate candidate Purgason gets new look

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We’ll go into the similarities after this excerpt from Post Dispatch political reporter Jake Wagman’s piece: On paper, Gov. Jay Nixon and Mayor Francis Slay seem like an easy match. The two lawyers are centrist Democrats born just a year apart. Each charted a methodical path through the ranks of government — Nixon kicked off […]

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Photo credit: robincarnahanforsenate Where’s the crowd? Where’s the diversity? Maybe a better use of Team Carnahan’s time would be getting more people to attend their meetings instead of producing campaign videos filled with misinformation! Just a thought. RedState.com: This past week, the campaign for Democrat Senate candidate Robin Carnahan released a hit video criticizing Republican […]

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Throughout the year-long debate on President Obama’s massive, unpopular health care bill, opponents were lectured repeatedly that concerns about it resulting in rationing and decreases in the quality of care were ill-founded. Those are well-known hallmarks of the health care system in Britain, the National Health Service. But we’re now learning about the views of […]

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