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GE gets $430 million for an engine nobody wants. Defense Secretary Robert Gates opposes the GE engine as unnecessary and a waste of money.

Oregon voted to raise taxes on the top 2% of earners last year and saw revenues drop by one third.

Wikileaks cables show that Obama and Hillary were aware of Zelaya’s criminal activity and his threat to Honduran democracy and backed him anyway.

Obama is a socialist. Merriam-Webster defines socialism as “any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.” A socialist is “one who advocates or practices socialism.”

The real litmus test for ‘South Dakota’s Sarah Palin’ Kristi Noem will be if she follows John Thune’s lead and drinks the ethanol subsidy Kool-aid.

Corruptocrats tack on wacky tribal gambling expansion in the government funding bill. The bill gives the interior secretary sole authority to recognize new Indian tribes as legit and then allows them to create casino land.

At a cost of nearly $7 billion a year Grassly, Thune and Harkin want ethanol subsidies tied to the tax deal.

The radical leftist group Southern Poverty Law Center has partnered with the Department of Homeland Security in a ‘Working Group’ called Countering violent Extremism.

Fearing to be labeled as Scrooges for not extending unemployment benefits at Christmas the GOP caved on more spending to get the Bush tax cuts extended.

Al Gore said this weekend that tax breaks for corn-based ethanol are “not good policy” and that he only supported these subsidies in order to assist his eventual run for president. Gore was the tie-breaking vote to create ethanol subsidies.