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To: Sully- who wrote (64228)	2/21/2008 4:14:19 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

A Politically Incorrect Glacier In Domestic Issues, Humor, Politics, Asshats Say Anything blog Doesn’t the Perito Moreno Glacier, which was portrayed as melting in Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, know that we’re in a climate change crisis? I’ll bet that glacier is funded by Exxon and voted for Bush too! Please notice how the glacier has grown in the last four years, and ice has sealed the gap and separated the two bodies of water that are clearly joined in the first video from four years earlier. A cycle that can sometimes take decades. see videos here neoconexpress.blogspot.com feeds.feedburner.com

To: Sully- who wrote (64228)	2/21/2008 5:48:31 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 90947

Murtha Wins The Less Than Coveted “Porker Of The Year” Award” He was a deserving winner. See my previous post about Murtha and pork Message 23790466

To: Sully- who wrote (64228)	3/15/2008 11:27:05 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 90947

Home Alone on Earmarks John McCain may be cruising to a presidential nomination, but he holds limited clout in the chamber he has worked in for over 20 years. Last night, the Senate turned back one of his pet projects, a proposed one-year moratorium on earmarks. The vote, which technically was on a procedural motion, wasn't even close, with 71 senators voting against the motion by South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, and 29 in favor. Mr. McCain, who has made opposition to pork-barrel spending a highlight of his presidential campaign, couldn't even sway a majority of GOP Senators to his side. He did bag a surprise supporter in Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a longtime member of the Appropriations Committee, who has traditionally defended earmarks. Democratic Senators clearly are betting that attacks on pork-barrel spending won't resonate with voters this fall. Only three Democrats joined with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, last-minute converts to the anti-pork barrel cause. Senator McCain said the defeat of the moratorium proved Congress was "the last bastion in America that doesn't get it" regarding government spending. "It wasn't the war in Iraq that caused [the GOP] to lose in 2006, it was the wasteful, pork-barrel spending," he told reporters. "Ask any county Republican chairman in America. Ask any Republican operative in America." Senator McCain says he still plans to target outrageous government spending as a campaign issue. He just won't be doing it with much support from his Senate colleagues, which may help him even more easily portray himself as someone who would shake up Beltway practices. -- John Fund online.wsj.com