Senator Grinch

[Friday]

Not only has the Grinch made it into the U.S. Senate, he serves on the Appropriations Committee.  He's obviously wearing a wig and pancake makeup to cover up his green skin, but I'd recognize that misanthropic sneer anywhere!

http://public.cq.com/
(small photo on left side of screen)

[d_goddard]

I think I found the perfect mate for the Grinch.


Carol Shea-Porter Reversal: Will Vote for Iraq War Funding

[CNHT]

I think I found the perfect mate for the Grinch.


Carol Shea-Porter Reversal: Will Vote for Iraq War Funding

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Meanwhile she is getting an award for 'keeping her word'.

Why are they voting for this? Check out the other pork it contains.....they tacked on money for Katrina victims and other untold numbers of handouts.

That is how they got them to vote for it.

[Dreepa]

Meanwhile she is getting an award for 'keeping her word'.

Why are they voting for this? Check out the other pork it contains.....they tacked on money for Katrina victims and other untold numbers of handouts.

That is how they got them to vote for it.

The way I see it she is voting FOR the war.  Hypocrite is what she is.

[TackleTheWorld]

... And then Grinch got an idea!
An awful idea!
Grinch got a wonderful, awful idea!

[CNHT]

Meanwhile she is getting an award for 'keeping her word'.

Why are they voting for this? Check out the other pork it contains.....they tacked on money for Katrina victims and other untold numbers of handouts.

That is how they got them to vote for it.

The way I see it she is voting FOR the war.  Hypocrite is what she is.

Because they could not pass up the pork, that's why. That is how they got the votes.

I've been saying she's a hypocrite but my posts have been deleted.

[CNHT]

http://www.nhinsider.com/ed-naile/2007/3/24/shea-porter-swett-and-hodes-fund-the-troop-surge.html

You're right Dreep, she did. Read the article to see that not only did she lie, but she also voted to spend more of your money.

[KBCraig]

I've been saying she's a hypocrite but my posts have been deleted.

This is the Childish Board, but it would be very childish of someone to delete your political posts in the political threads. Wonder who would do that, and why?

[CNHT]

I've been saying she's a hypocrite but my posts have been deleted.

This is the Childish Board, but it would be very childish of someone to delete your political posts in the political threads. Wonder who would do that, and why?

Maybe because I called the FBI on the criminals and people here don't like the FBI? I don't like them either, but they are the only ones who will catch and charge the culprits.

[Lloyd Danforth]

No they won't

[CNHT]

No they won't

So who do suggest has the authority to get the server logs?

The host must turn them over in this case as it's a political crime as well as it crosses state lines.

[CNHT]

http://www.nhinsider.com/ed-naile/2007/3/24/shea-porter-swett-and-hodes-fund-the-troop-surge.html

You're right Dreep, she did. Read the article to see that not only did she lie, but she also voted to spend more of your money.

They not only voted to keep funding the war, but they added a lot of handouts in the process....further putting us into spending commitments...

War funding bill covers agricultural, Katrina-related losses
Republicans criticize, calling it political bribery
By Joel Havemann, Los Angeles Times  |  March 25, 2007

WASHINGTON -- The war spending bill passed by the House is officially called the "US Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act." But Republicans would say that it could also be called the "Spinach Growers, Peanut Storage, and Dairy Farmers Rescue Act."

President Bush asked for $103 billion for expenses related to fighting the war on terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. He got that and more: not only deadlines for withdrawing US troops from Iraq, but also $21 billion in additional spending, much of it unrelated to war.

Republicans were quick to accuse the Democrats of buying some of the 218 votes that the bill received, enough to pass by six votes on Friday.
"The sweeteners in this bill are political bribery," said Representative Sam Johnson, Republican of Texas, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam and who delivered an emotional speech to conclude the Republican side of the debate.

Several of the sweeteners were agricultural in nature, mostly to compensate for losses related to the weather or other factors.

Spinach growers got $25 million because the E. coli scare last fall depressed their sales. The shrimp industry received $120 million because of Hurricane Katrina-related losses. Federal support for peanut storage, due to expire after 2006, was extended for one year at $74 million. Shellfish producers were compensated $5 million for their losses to a disease known as viral hemorrhagic septicemia.

"Spinach, shrimp, peanuts, and shellfish?" said Representative Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana. "That's not a war funding bill, that's the salad bar at Denny's."

Democrats were largely content to let Republicans take their shots, although Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey, Democrat of Wisconsin, came to the defense of a $50 million item to clean up asbestos at the US Capitol's special power plant. Working conditions in the plant are deplorable, Obey said, and workers should not have to wait to see improvements.

Republicans complained that the Democrats ignored reforms they pushed through the House in January.

The House adopted rules requiring that legislation "earmarking" appropriations for special purposes identify the authors of the provisions.

But when Republicans tried to object to the special-interest provisions in the war funding bill, they were told that they had to lodge their objections at the outset of the debate, which in this case was Thursday.

"By passing earmark reforms, Congress signaled that it was serious about restoring fiscal responsibility to the budget process," said Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste. "It seems the commitment to reform was short-lived."

Also attached to the House bill is separate legislation raising the federal minimum wage and providing tax breaks for small businesses.
The Senate is following behind the House with a war-funding bill that includes $18 billion in nonmilitary spending.

"Like the House version, the Senate bill is packed with spending items unrelated to overseas military operations," Schatz said. He singled out aid to sugar beet and sugar cane growers.

Representative Paul Hodes of New Hampshire said yesterday that the Democrats' plan to bring US troops home from Iraq next year responds to voters' demand for change.

The Senate is expected to take up legislation as early as tomorrow.

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Yeah Hodes, but it's not soon enough, and we did not ask for the added PORK in the deal either!

[CNHT]

Just in case you wonder what the 'radical' Shea-Porter thinks of the FSP, here is a reminder of the pot calling the kettle black in the CM in 2004:

Benson soft-pedaled ties to Free Staters, CAROL SHEA-PORTER, Durham - Letter
June 25. 2004 8:31AM

In a public meeting in Wakefield on May 18, Gov. Benson lied to me about his close association with the Libertarians and Free Staters.
I was at the Republican Women-sponsored meeting with Gov. Benson, and I asked him about his association with this group. I held in my hands pages from their website which featured pictures of them with Benson and his kind comments about them, including his comment that he probably had more in common with them than with his fellow Republicans.

Benson said that he hadn't seen their website, did not agree with their philosophies about abolishing public schools and legalizing drugs and prostitution and did not invite them here but couldn't stop them.


I told him that on their website they had plans to take over towns and had listed the population of each town in the state so they could target the smaller ones and succeed. Benson just laughed and said that would be impossible.

Now they are trying to take over Grafton, posing as Free Towners so people won't make the connection. I also found out that Benson is the Free Staters' key speaker on Friday at their convention in Plymouth, and that he has placed Free Staters on a committee to find so-called waste and inefficiency in state government.

Benson should be ashamed of himself for misleading all of us. He is entitled to join any radical group he wishes to join, but he should admit that he is either one of them or is a great sympathizer with their cause.

Those of us who believe in public schools and are against prostitution and drug abuse need to express our opinion at the polls this coming election.

CAROL SHEA-PORTER
Durham
This article is: 1004 days old.
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Hmm I guess to her it's a crime to support liberty. I hope everyone she hoodwinked has learned their lesson! She makes it sound like it's illegal to want to 'take over' in a town. And she acts like Benson's welcome meant he agreed with every single thing every FSPer agreed with, which would be impossible.

I guess maybe at the next public appearance I will birddog her and ask her if she supports the new D-Chair and that if that means she support solicitation of little boys.

[Friday]

How the #$%% did my weak attempt at humor on the Childish Board (comparing photograph of U.S. Senator to Grinch) turn into yet another CNHT hate-fest against Democrats?     

[Lloyd Danforth]

It's hard to judge when that is going to happen