Card Check Bill in Congress

President Obama, talking about stem cell research, says that he wants to remove politics from science.  Too bad that doesn't apply when talking about global warming, which is more about politics than science.  Also, there is a very easy way to remove politics from science:  stop regulating and funding science and leave it to the private sector.

 

Democrats are pushing the card check bill in both houses of Congress starting today.  Fears over card check led analysts to downgrade Wal-Mart stock from "buy" to "hold," acknowledging the fact that card check will significantly increase labor costs and end up costing up to 600,000 jobs in the United States economy next year.  The only chance to kill this is in the Senate, where a few Democrats might oppose it.

 

Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter is pushing an amendment to eliminate automatic pay raises for members of Congress.

 

For the second time in 6 days, Senators voted yesterday to keep their pork in the omnibus spending bill.

 

Obama had a big speech this morning on education, in which he pushed for "accountability" in education and, of course, more big government plans.  The only real "change" would be getting government out of education.

 

Why should taxpayers subsidize bad decisions?

 

Who will actually pay for cap-and-trade?  Here's a hint:  Obama will still claim that he cut their taxes.

 

A Somali Islamic terrorist group is set to merge with al-Qaida.

 

Obama's call to talk to the moderate wing of the Taliban is useless hippie psycho-babble because there are no "moderate" members of the Taliban.

 

President Obama is considering a second "stimulus" package, and so is Nancy Pelosi.  These peoples' lust for big government will never be satisfied.

 

The number of students applying to state colleges is increasing, fueled largely by HOPE students, while the University System's budgets are dropping.

 

A state legislator is working on stopping a federally-funded expansion of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.  Do you think this same legislator will turn down the federal money for the Montezuma Airport?

 

This ridiculous bill to reimpose the full state sales tax on groceries will probably get a vote in the State House on Thursday.  The sponsor, a South Georgia Republican, needs a primary challenger to kick him out of office.

 

We have the name of another tax cheating state legislator.  Senator Lester Jackson (D-Savannah) says that he hasn't paid $15.78 going back to 2002.

 

Houston County schools will probably furlough some employees as a part of cutting $2.25 million from their budget.  Despite the fact that school boards across the state are having to cut their budgets, a house bill to require testing of student fitness has passed the State House.