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February, 2012 | Missouri Political News Service - Part 2

Entries from February 2012

Video: Sarah Steelman – Protecting our First Amendment Rights

February 16th, 2012 · No Comments

Hat tip: SteelmanforSenate [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Related: Video: Sarah Steelman @ CPAC: Hat tip: MoeLaneIII [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/yhgL384uTlo” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Flashback: BREAKING: MHIP Votes Yes to Accept $20 Mil for Health Exchanges

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Editorials Slam Obama’s Budget

February 16th, 2012 · No Comments

Editorial pages across the country today are slamming the budget President Obama released on Monday. USA Today writes, “The best test of a budget proposal these days is whether it reins in the national debt, which is projected to equal a troubling 74% of gross domestic product this year. The last time the publicly held […]

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Tags: Senator McCaskill

Video: Todd Starnes “Dispatches From Bitter America”

February 16th, 2012 · No Comments

Fox News Commentator Todd Starnes was in St. Louis yesterday discussing his new “Book Dispatches From Bitter America and media stereotypes of Middle America.” [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

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Tags: St. Louis · Videos

Quote of the Day: “Romney Surrogate Attacks Santorum for Voting the Same Way He Did

February 16th, 2012 · No Comments

Former Senator Jim talent is taking a little grief from the media on his attack on Rick Santorum’s voting record: The Weekly Standard: Talent continued, pointing to a few votes that show Santorum’s “liberal” spending record. “I want to note that Senator Santorum voted for No Child Left Behind, which was a big expansion of […]

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Tags: Hon. Jim Talent

FLASHBACK VIDEO: Rep. Carnahan: “Protesting ObamaCare is An Attack On Our Representative System of Govt.”

February 8th, 2012 · No Comments

As the Obama Administration moves forward with it’s controversial directive mandating religious institutions provide contraceptives to their employees, we thought we’d take you back to these words uttered by Rep. Carnahan back in 2009. Besides saying that Obamacare opponents were “attack[ing] our representative form of government,” he also said it was nothing more than a  […]

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Tags: Abortion · Healthcare

Republicans Fight For Religious Freedoms

February 8th, 2012 · No Comments

Politico writes today, “Senate Republicans late Tuesday stepped up their assault on the White House’s politically volatile contraceptive coverage mandate, vowing to find some way of striking it if the administration didn’t roll back the rules itself. Using unusually strong language in a floor speech, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called the new policy ‘abhorrent’ […]

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Tags: Senator McCaskill

Video: Rep. Cleaver on Reining in the Deficit

February 7th, 2012 · No Comments

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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Tags: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver · Videos

As “Gas Prices Hover At Record-High Levels” Keystone Pipeline Languishes, While Canada Looks To China

February 7th, 2012 · No Comments

The Los Angeles Times writes today, “Last month turned out to be the most expensive January ever at U.S. gasoline pumps . . . . January is typically a month of falling gasoline prices because fuel demand falters in the slower travel weeks that follow the year-end holidays. Not so this year. In January, retail […]

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Tags: Senator McCaskill

Video: Get To Know Susan “Margarita” Montee

February 7th, 2012 · No Comments

What a slick production! Is this really the real Susan Montee? Hat tip:SusanMontee [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/JQ086Wct6Mo” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Or is this? [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/n44vz91BUL0″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

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With Gas Prices Forecast To Soar, Will Dems Work With GOP To Approve Keystone XL Pipeline?

February 7th, 2012 · No Comments

USA Today reports, “Get ready for another round of pain at the pump: $4 (or higher) gasoline. . . . Prices could spike another 60 cents or more by May. ‘I think it’s going to be a chaotic spring, with huge price increases in some places,’ says Tom Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service. […]

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