Bob Deaton, 73, who wore a “Fair Tax” baseball cap, was surprised to hear that there were tax cuts in the $787 billion stimulus bill, which was wildly unpopular with many at the rally even though roughly a third of it was in the form of tax cuts.
“Tax cuts?” he asked. “Where were the tax cuts?”
Rep. Pete Sessions, the firebrand conservative from Texas, has relentlessly assailed the Democratic stimulus efforts as a package of wasteful "trillion-dollar spending sprees" that was "more about stimulating the government and rewarding political allies than growing the economy and creating jobs."
But that didn't stop the Republican lawmaker from seeking stimulus money behind the scenes for the Dallas suburb of Carrollton after the GOP campaign against the 2009 stimulus law quieted down.
Sessions wrote Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in February urging him to give "full and fair consideration" to the affluent city's request for $81 million for a rail project, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Center for Public Integrity. His letter suggested that the project would create jobs, undercutting his public arguments against the stimulus.
David Bartholomew, the (now ex-)chair of Virginia Beach's Republican party, resigned late last night, only hours after his racist dog joke email surfaced and everyone got all mad at him. Here's the joke, in case you want to send it to your buddies:
MY DOG
I went down this morning to sign up my Dog for welfare.
At first the lady said, "Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare".
So I explained to her that my Dog is black, unemployed, lazy, can't speak English and has no frigging clue who his Daddy is.
So she looked in her policy book to see what it takes to qualify...
My Dog gets his first check Friday.
Is this a great country or what?
Makes me want to bang my head against a brick wall.God made Adam And Eve NOT Adam and Steve... I believe gay marriages should be banned. It’s not right. I am a christian and I believe whole heartedly that being gay is just as bad as someone commiting a murder because it is all the same in the eyes of the Lord. Isnt that why Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed? If God meant for men to be with men or women to be with women he would have just made one or the other not both...
Think about it a man and a woman fit perfectly together,thier curves thier bodies everything... but a man and a man do not niether does a woman and a woman...
They say that AIDs was passed though men having sexual relations with other men, of course a monkey bitting them is what spread the disease to man, but i mean come on if that was ok to do why would God punish them in that way...?
Because no one of any other faith has ever used their religion as reason to kill someone. He's also wrong about him being the only Muslim in congress."Should Muslims be denied the right to run for office because of their religion? No," Phillips wrote, according to the letter, posted by the Minnesota Independent. "The Constitution specifies that no religious test can be used to exclude someone from public office. But when someone adheres to an ideology that says kill people who disagree with you, that is something voters should seriously consider when they vote."
Clint McCance is a board member in the Midland school district in northern Arkansas. Responding to a call to wear purple last Wednesday to support LGBT youth, McCance wrote the following message on his Facebook page: "Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers killed themselves. The only way im wearin it for them is if they all commit suicide. I cant believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. We are honoring the fact that they sinned and killed thereselves because of their sin. REALLY PEOPLE."
McCance was again challenged on his statements — and his Christianity. Wrote one commenter: "YOU NEED TO STOP AND THINK FOR A SEC GREAT YOU BIG CHRISTIAN MAN ! SO KEEP ALL OF YOUR THOUGHTS TO YOUR SELF YOU DONT WANT PPL TALKIN ABOUT YOUR FAMILY SO DONT TALK BOUT OTHERS."
McCance responded with, "I would disown my kids they were gay. They will not be welcome at my home or in my vicinity. I will absolutely run them off. Of course my kids will know better. My kids will have solid christian beliefs. See it infects everyone."
Or not.Palin publicized the recording Sunday during an interview on Fox News Sunday. She told host Chris Wallace that the reporters, whom she identified as CBS reporters for local affiliate KTVA, favor Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski for Senate and will "stop at nothing" to see their candidate win.
Todd would go on to build a 14-foot fence between the properties to limit McGinniss' ability to peer in to her property -- an act privacy protection that Sarah sees as a symbolic foundation for solving the immigration debate. "I thought that was a good example, what we just did," she says. "Others can look at it and say oh this is what we need to do to secure our nation's border."