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I just picked up this tidbit from a Reuters feed on the Big 3 bailout vote in Congress:
"Pushing to convert skeptics in both parties, Democrats agreed to drop at least one unrelated provision that threatened to sink the measure, a congressional official said. They were eliminating a pay raise for federal judges after Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, who represents an automobile manufacturing state, announced she would oppose the carmaker aid unless that provision was removed."
WTF do pay raises for federal judges have to do with a Big 3 stimulus package? Exactly...nothing! You would think this Congress would stop the pork barrel politics during the WORST of Economic Times?!? Heck no! I would love to read that entire bill and see what else Pelosi, Reid and the other Hitler youth are jamming into this one?!? Unbelievable! And "at least one" tells me there are a whole lot more in there.
If we had a biased media the inserters of that provision would have been tarred and feathered by now. Instead, it gets gently swept under the carpet and buried within one line of one article. Truly pathetic, isn't it?
-Dean
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