I CALL CONGRESSIONAL SHENANIGANS!!!

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GOP embarrassed by tax returns measure (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/20/tax.returns.ap/)

Congress passed legislation Saturday giving two committee chairman and their assistants access to income tax returns without regard to privacy protections, but not before red-faced Republicans said the measure was a mistake and would be swiftly repealed.

Well, at least we don't have to worry about Republicans getting drunk with power.........

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I watched about two hours of this shit on CSPAN today. Ted Stephens with his richeous indignation that anyone would suggest that it was anything but an accident that a 3,300 page bill that the Senate had only hours to review before voting on contained language giving him and his staff broad authority to access and publicize anyone's tax returns. What a fucking joke. Then, when Conrad proposed a vote to remove the ammendment Stephens blocked it. He feigned more richeous indignation that the Democrats wouldn't just take him at his word that he wouldn't use the authority that they were about to pass into law "by accident." Even McCain stood for 20 minutes reading off stupid shit that was snuck into this bill at the last second. When he was talking about this IRS records ammendment I thought his jowels were going to explode.

But in the end, the democrats will have some independent investigation that will mean nothing and the republicans will pretend it never happened and nobody will be held repsonsible. Welcome to one party government.

Oh by the way it looks like republicans want to fuck up Iran now too. We're in good hands.

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Oh by the way it looks like republicans want to fuck up Iran now too.


Iran was fucked either way.
Any action there should be far from unilateral.

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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/politics/21spend.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=" target="_blank">WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 - Toward the bottom of the 16-inch stack of paper called the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2005 is a list of grants for communities in Alaska: $950,000 for a recreation center and $150,000 for a botanical garden in Anchorage, $300,000 for a senior center in Fairbanks, $1 million for housing upgrades in the Kenai Peninsula, $900,000 for an aquarium in Ketchikan, $525,000 for a quarry upgrade in Nome and many more.

No one on the outside knows for sure how grants for special projects like these - called earmarks in the Congressional lexicon and pork barrel by critics - got into the $388 billion spending bill that cleared Congress on Saturday. But it is a safe bet that Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, in his final year as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, was responsible for most of these.</a>

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[Dudeman]

red state update...

for the sister story, look up: delay, tom AND PAC, Texans for a
Republican Majority AND felony charges

i'm so glad we've got the "values" politicians running things

the comforting thing is that the values voters will understand,
read about, and discuss these actions and act and vote
accordingly. expect the born again preacher types to really lay
out these issues to their congregations, like they did for the
stem cell research, anti-abortion, and anti-gay issues.


-I'll log off now, and listen to your
response.-

This message was edited by Dudeman on 11-21-04 @ 7:50 PM

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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/politics/21spend.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=" target="_blank">WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 - Toward the bottom of the 16-inch stack of paper called the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2005 is a list of grants for communities in Alaska: $950,000 for a recreation center and $150,000 for a botanical garden in Anchorage, $300,000 for a senior center in Fairbanks, $1 million for housing upgrades in the Kenai Peninsula, $900,000 for an aquarium in Ketchikan, $525,000 for a quarry upgrade in Nome and many more.

No one on the outside knows for sure how grants for special projects like these - called earmarks in the Congressional lexicon and pork barrel by critics - got into the $388 billion spending bill that cleared Congress on Saturday. But it is a safe bet that Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, in his final year as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, was responsible for most of these.</a>

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The Ranking Member of the Appropriations Committee (Senator Robert C. Byrd) is also notorious for bringing home the bacon (as it were). That is why there is a Coast Guard facility in West Virginia. After all, there is a LOT of coastline in West Virginia.

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Oh by the way it looks like republicans want to fuck up Iran now too. We're in good hands.



Iran to halt nuclear enrichment (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4031055.stm)


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