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Rep. Emanuel Cleaver | Missouri Political News Service - Part 3

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Cleaver Visits Family Farms – To Tell Them They’re Rich?

June 30th, 2011 · No Comments

Under the Democrats tax increase plan, anyone making over $250,000 is considered “rich.” Many family farms are sole propiertorships which means their farm income is counted as personal income. Meet the nouveau rich. Marshall Democrat: Cleaver spent about two hours at Marshall and Fenner Farms near Malta Bend, touring the registered Angus and row crop […]

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Quote of the Day: Rusty: “I Am Absolutely Committed to Winning Reelection in 2012”

June 28th, 2011 · No Comments

Rusty and Lacy shoveling Democrat BS during happier times between them Excerpt from Carnahan fundraising email: “The end of this quarter is less than three days away. You know how important this deadline is and you know that I have a tough fight ahead. Republicans have once again targeted me for defeat in 2012. I […]

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KC’s Green Impact Zone: $200 Million = 100 Jobs!

June 15th, 2011 · No Comments

“Ironically”, the same morning we chastised president Obama’s green jobs initiative and Emanuel Cleaver’s $200 million dollar stimulus boondoggle, The Kansas City’s Star’s Karen Dillon writes a story later in the day attempting to put journalistic lipstick on this pig: Brooks is one of about 100 people who have gotten work through U.S. Rep. Emanuel […]

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Rep. Cleaver & National Media Slam Democrats Pass Nothing Agenda

May 26th, 2011 · No Comments

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver is upset with his fellow Democrats in the Senate over their inaction on addressing the nation’s mounting fiscal problems. The Republican controlled House has passed a budget and other bills but they seem to land in a legislative black hole once they reach the Democrat controlled Senate: “We’ve not done very much […]

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Rusty & FiredUp Missouri Continue Alienate African Americans Political Strategy

May 5th, 2011 · No Comments

Boy, we’re enjoying immensly the Carnahan Blog (FiredUp Missouri) rip on Black Democrats who voted in favor to eliminate Rusty’s district. (here, here, here, and here) You can’t blame though, they’re only following the lead of their boy. Not a great strategy to endear yourself to black community though. Have the Carnahan’s forgotten how bad […]

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Tags: Kansas City · MO Legislature · Rep. Emanuel Cleaver · Rep. Jonas Hughes · Rep. Lacy Clay · Rep. Russ Carnahan · St. Louis

Quote of the Day: Cleaver: ‘Extremely Important to Have Budget Proposal That Comes From the Vantage Point of Poor People”

February 11th, 2011 · No Comments

Speaking of ineffective Congressmen. Check out this classic quote from Rep. Cleaver that is straight from the Democrats race bait/class warfare playbook: “It is extremely important to have a budget proposal that comes from the vantage point of poor people,” said Cleaver, arguing that most budget reports make wholesale spending cuts without considering how they […]

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Quote of the Day: Cleaver: “We Preach Democracy and Then Prop Up Despots”

January 31st, 2011 · No Comments

That’s Rep. Cleaver’s take on the turmoil happening in Egypt. This from an idiot who said last year on his Cuba trip with the Congressional Black Caucus: “If There is Repression in Cuba, We Didn’t See It” The Root: “We preach democracy and then prop up despots,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) chairman of the Congressional […]

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Video: Dana Loesch: Media Getting No Traction Blaming Palin

January 12th, 2011 · No Comments

Hat tip:breitbart [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/lwGf17ISzaI” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Related: Rasmussen Reports: Most Voters View Arizona Shootings As Random Act of Violence, Not Politics United for Missouri: Tragic Events in Arizona No Excuse to Silence Opposing Voices Video:CBC Chair Emanuel Cleaver Leads Prayer on House Steps Hat tip: laurenburke007 [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/y5M6oWY-FW8″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

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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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Tags: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver · Rep. Ike Skelton · Rep. Jo Ann Emerson · Rep. Lacy Clay · Rep. Roy Blunt · Rep. Russ Carnahan · Rep. Sam Graves · Rep. Todd Akin · Senator McCaskill · Senator. Kit Bond

McCaskill Tells Cleaver to Go to Hell; Starts Distancing Herself from Obama

December 15th, 2010 · No Comments

“Any attempt to extricate herself from him [President Obama] will be an act of disloyalty. She will not do that at all.”–Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) Want to put a bet on that Reverend? We all know that the first rule for a politician is self preservation: The Hill: A Democratic senator facing a tough reelection […]

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