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Kentucky Senate candidate Grimes shown to be lying about support for coal to fool Kentucky’s largely Democrat voters who have had some of the lowest electric rates in the US thanks to coal. Recent EPA policies have cost Kentucky thousands of jobs in coal and related industries and made the cost of electricity skyrocket just as Obama promised he would do in 2008.

Senate Majority Leader elect McConnell, Senator Jon Kyle, Speaker elect Boehner, and Rep. Cantor all signed a letter sent to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke expressing their concern about the Fed plan to print more money to buy US Treasuries.

Unless people like me show the American people that we’re willing to follow through on small or even symbolic things, we risk losing them on our broader efforts to cut spending and rein in government. That’s why today I am announcing that I will join the Republican Leadership in the House in support of a moratorium on earmarks in the 112th Congress.

If Obama should veto laws repealing the health care overhaul, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says, the House should cancel funding for its programs.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky nails it on Obama and the Dems’ plan to spend the debt so high and then demand a tax increase. McConnell introduces a bill to limit tax increases.

“I think cap-and-trade, which is also known as the national energy tax, is dead in the United States Senate,” McConnell said. McConnell warned the audience that the Obama administration could attempt to mandate some cap-and-trade policies through the executive branch, but said that was unlikely in an election year.

The Republican leader in the Senate says President Barack Obama is trying to ‘politicize’ financial reform. Why not he politicizes everything else?