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That’s gotta be a helluva big hopper that this bill was placed into.

(It would be better for the entire country and our posterity if it had been dumped into a trash can instead.)

S. 1796 has been filed. The Senate’s version of “health care reform” is one thousand, five hundred and two pages long.

What the hell is inside that thing?

Here’s the link to a PDF file of this monstrosity if you’re so inclined....

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Awright, I’m prepared to go ahead and say it: the Obama Presidency is already a disaster. And this legislation is gonna be about as successful as the Smoot-Hawley Act.

Word out of D.C. tonight is that a tentative agreement on the “stimulus” package has been reached in the Senate. It’s probably going to be enacted law over the weekend or soon afterward.

Said “stimulus” is going to cost me and you, Fellow Taxpayer…

$780,000,000,000

According to one senator, James Inhofe out of Oklahoma, the bill is only 7% stimulating and the rest of it is just more spending.

I remember the big budget battle in 1993. It’s what really started opening my eyes on all the waste that goes on in the federal government. And I never thought that I would see anything that outrageous again.

If the phone lines to Washington D.C. don’t burn up with ...

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Al Franken has been declared the winner of the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota.

You know, I’ve been known for pulling a stunt or two for sake of politics. But that picture of Franken is just wrong…

Think about it: this man is about to be granted the same esteemed privileges that in more enlightened times were only granted to great orators such as Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, and Henry Clay.

And it looks like Caroline Kennedy is going to become Senator from New York, based on nothing but her “royalty”.

Now do you people understand why I believe the Seventeenth Amendment was one of the most horrible things to ever happen to the United States Constitution, and should be repealed in favor of letting the individual state legislatures elect the senators?!?...

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“Leaders at all levels seek power ahead of justice”.

I won’t quote the entire letter here but this part of it warrants special mention:

I live in Rockingham County. For months I’ve watched elected officials in my own backyard trample on the Constitution: from a school board member suing citizens for practicing the right to petition, to a city council banning new churches.

I’ll give you three guesses who is being referred to here šŸ˜›...

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