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Amid Crisis, Senate Sends Fatter Spending Bill To President Bush
Amid all the hyperventilating about the massive cost to the American taxpayers in the Bailout Bill coming down the short pipe, those tasked with crafting it have learned nothing and...
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545 people with too much power…
The Anchoress — Steve at Wizbang says: amid our crisis, the Congress sends the president a big spending bill which contains fakery about offshore drilling Had enough yet? Charlie Reese skipped the part about the press than enables these 545 people, but he still wrote a beaut of a column - apparently back when Reagan was president - in the Orlando Sentinel. I note updates in the parentheses: The 545 People Responsible For All Of U.S. Woes BY Charley Reese (Date of publication unknown)– — - Politicians are the only ...

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