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发帖数: 2230 | 2 i agree，but it benefit only the constituent of the said congressman and it
hurt the budget.
money, |
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发帖数: 2047 | 4 Now they use this to attack Palin??
http://cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/obama-and-biden-voted-for-bridge-to-nowhere,1628/
Now that Alaska is front and center in the news again, it is a good time to
catch up on a favorite story, The Bridge to Nowhere, using the Washington
Post US Congress Votes Database.
Though Gov. Palin originally supported the earmark spending on the Ketchikan
bridge (“to nowhere), she eventually killed the project, chosing to spend
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发帖数: 2047 | 5 自从佩玲出来后，巴马无数次的试图抹黑佩玲，结果都是反惹自己一身骚
1. Experience牌，搞得所有的人都把佩玲和巴马比，还把巴马比下去了
2. Bridge to nowhere牌，忘了自己投了赞成票
3. Earmark牌，结果被揭露自己弄了10亿
4. 牧师牌？我的天，巴马还怕别人记不住Jeremiah Wright吗？
For decades, Sarah Palin went to church with people who spoke in tongues and
believed in faith healing and the "end times." Her former pastor says the
Pentecostal past of the GOP vice presidential nominee may now be being
downplayed to avoid misunderstanding. But the pastor, Tim McGraw, says he's
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发帖数: 462 | 6 love this comment
Too bad she's never lied. She says she killed the bridge project. The record
shows that she did. Period. No lie from Palin here. Did she support the
bridge at one time? Possibly. No lie yet, as she still killed it. Did she
kill it? Yep. Still no lie. Did she use the funds elsewhere, as non-
earmarked funds? Yep. Still no lie - she didn't say she sent the money back,
only that she killed the bridge and didn't waste the money on it. What
exactly did she lie about, Sentator Obama? |
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发帖数: 6327 | 7 http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/10/report-mccain-a-hero-to-taxpayers/
John McCain is a “hero” to U.S. taxpayers for his lifetime record of
resisting earmarks, while Barack Obama and Joe Biden are “hostile” and “
unfriendly,” a government spending watchdog group has concluded.
In its new report, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste gave
the Republican presidential nominee a 100 percent rating for his votes in
the Senate last year, and a lifetime score of 88 percent.
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发帖数: 112 | 8 Can not believe my eyes... This is on CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/23/biden.earmarks/index.html
DEWEY BEACH, Delaware (CNN) -- Although Democratic vice presidential
candidate Joe Biden routinely mocks his Republican counterpart, Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin, for her onetime support of the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere,"
Biden and his running mate voted to keep the project alive twice.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden campaigns in
Washington on Tuesday.
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发帖数: 7299 | 9 侯赛因坚决抵制老头改革earmark的政策，总想把这个话题轻轻带过。
侯赛因声称米国的企业税世界最低，因为有很多企业利用loophole。这厮逻辑太强了，
我靠。
老头现在咬死cut cost和侯赛因的投票记录，够狠。
侯赛因一扯伊拉克，马上被老头联系上能源自主，侯赛因只能说，我要是总统，那我得
仔细琢磨，make a tough decision.结果又被老头普及了一遍低税促进经济的原理。
老头又开始摆自己的政见和投票记录，这不故意寒碜侯赛因么。
侯赛因又在伊拉克丢脸了，老头说,下任总统要考虑何时和如何撤军，侯赛因说surge肯
定失败，结果事实证明侯赛因失败了。
老头说侯赛因拒绝承认子弟兵在伊拉克的胜利，侯赛因小声嘟囔，not true...
老头把侯赛因绕晕了，侯赛因一急之下，把老头的台词都抢了，现在又扯派兵阿富汗打
拉登了，哈哈哈。。。
侯赛因开始掰手指头数数了，我一，我二，我三。。。
老头給侯赛因普及阿富汗部落势力和战略的常识，侯赛因这时比较安静。
侯赛因这段话比较强，老马，如果你不同意我的意见随时说啊，这个，我完全同意你的
战略。。。而且，这个战略我也完全同意。。。问题是， |
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发帖数: 2416 | 10
Not gonna happen. Bob Nelson's earmarked money
would be the first showstopper to begin with. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Our nation is being strangled with inconceivable, unconscionable, and
massive amounts of debt. Unrestrained political correctness runs amok among
us. Our Congressmen and women are buying and bribing reelection through out
of control “earmark” spending only to satisfy the pleasure and greed of
their local supporters. At the same time they are crafting for themselves
retirement plans that make them instant lifetime millionaires and exempting
themselves from a health care plan they are force feedin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 JOHN BOEHNER
我成长于俄亥俄州辛辛那提一座山丘上的小房子里，有11个兄弟姊妹。我父亲经营着一
家名叫“安迪咖啡”(Andy's Cafe)的酒吧，是我祖父安德鲁•博纳(John
Boehner)在1938年开的。我们不是很富有，但对已有的一切都心存感激。我们对华盛顿
也想得不多。
这一切在我经营一家小企业的时候发生了改变（我最终把它打造成了一家成功的企业）
。我从亲身经历中看到政府是如何阻碍创造就业、扼杀繁荣的。这促使我与政府打交道
，并最终进入了国会。
许许多多美国人也有过同样的体会。他们在华盛顿身上看到了权力的傲慢。他们看到国
会不倾听民声，掌控它的领导人似乎不问现实，不屑理会甚至鄙视美国人对他们政府的
愤怒，以及美国人在就业状况不佳的经济形势下所面临的种种挑战。
过去两年中，政治版图已经被永久重划了。民选官员的贪大求全──体现为庞大的“刺
激”支出，永久性的援助，以及各种强制纳税人补贴不负责任行为的政策──已经唤醒
了我们国民性格深处的某些东西。这导致公民们爆发了要求政府缩小规模、增强责任的
激进运动，并在周二的选举中对华盛顿说不。
那些以往没有或很少参与... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 13 BOEHNER有一点比较好，就是不要earmark. |
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发帖数: 61690 | 14 Boehner不错。在国会20多年，没有要过一次earmark.而且这次当选议长后，不要空军
给他派专机，还是做商业飞机。Pelosi用的专机，等明年一月就还给空军了。可是省一
笔钱。 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/11/bipartisan_group_of_senators_c.html
Bipartisan group of senators calls for ethanol subsidies to expire
By Greg Sargent
In a clear sign of momentum against ethanol subsidies, a bipartisan group of
more than a dozen senators has signed onto a letter urging Senate leaders
to let the subsidies expire during this Congress, a move that could put many
officials in a tricky political spot and could even have ramifications for
the 2012 presidential race.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 民主党控制的伊利诺伊州国会通过加税法案，个人所得税增加67%，商业收入税增加46%
Quinn congratulates Democrats on income tax increase
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Posted by Ray Long and Monique Garcia at 2:15 a.m.
A triumphant Gov. Pat Quinn congratulated fellow Democrats early today after
the Illinois Senate and House sent him a major income tax increase without
a single Republican vote in favor.
Quinn smiled and shook hands on the floor of the Senate around 1:30 a.m.
after the Senate voted 30-29 for the bill, which would raise the personal
income tax-r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com
on January 24, 2011
All the public opinion polls now confirm that President Obama has moved up
sharply and significantly in popularity and job approval since he began to
tack toward the center after the November election. Rasmussen and Zogby
both have him over 50% job approval for the first time in almost a year.
The key event was his high-minded speech in the aftermath of the Tucson
shootings and his clear separation from the blame-or... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHill.com
on January 26, 2011
Henry Kissinger, in his memoir of the Ford administration, Years of Upheaval
, articulated the central rule of governing: "It is a statesman's duty to
bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. If his vision
gets too far out ahead of his nation's experience, he will lose his mandate
. But if he hews too close to the conventional, he will lose control over
events."
Obama has gone from the first of these dangers to the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com
on February 7, 2011
As we canvass the nation to look for good candidates to run against
incumbent Democratic Senators, let's remember that a race against an
entrenched Democrat with seasoned political operatives advising him is no
place for our nominee to get on-the-job training. We need toughened,
experienced candidates who have been through it before.
We have an excellent chance to defeat twelve Democratic incumbents (and to
pick up th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 427 | 22 请知情人祥解
因为实验室以前一直有这个funding,但是据说快没了，和民主党什么的有关，咋回事。
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我不懂。。。 |
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发帖数: 5492 | 24 就是你作为参议员，想要巩固自己的选票，于是给自己的选区捞好处，往议案里面加入
偏向本选区的条款。
Google一下就成了 |
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发帖数: 5476 | 25 这么说你就懂了，议员们兼任驻京办主任，有啥好项目就整到自己州去 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 More than one in three of the unemployed workers in several of the largest U
.S. states have been out of a job for more than a full year.
Across the country, long periods of unemployment have been more prevalent
recently than during previous recoveries going back to the 1940s.
During 2010, long-term unemployment was disproportionately a problem in New
Jersey, Georgia, Michigan, South Carolina, North Carolina, Illinois and
Florida, according to Labor Department data expected to be released later
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发帖数: 3803 | 27 A new Guinness record?
I will protect federal whistleblowers who expose government waste, fraud,
and abuse ......Broken
I will recognize the Armenian Genocide.....Broken
I will have transparency-generals must sign secrecy oath........Broken
I will cut the deficit in half by doubling spending–say what.......Broken
I will change the Washington culture of corruption.......................
Broken
I will reach across the isle (I’m ready to fight Republicans)....Broken
I will have no earmarks in stimu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 尽管支持加税的公立教师工会有20：1的经费优势
Colorado voters make a stand (mostly)
In the only state-wide tax increase on any state’s ballot this year,
Colorado voters yesterday offered a resounding “No!".
Proposition 103 would have raised the state income tax rate from 4.63
percent to 5 percent, and the state sales tax from 2.9 percent to 3 percent,
expecting to extract about $3 billion from Coloradoans over five years with
the money earmarked for public education. The measure’s supporters –
primarily teachers’ uni... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 By Sarah Palin
Updated 5d 17h ago
Thanks to the solid new research and recent revelations in Peter Schweizer's
book Throw Them All Out and the subsequent coverage on 60 Minutes, we have
concrete proof to explain how members of Congress accumulate wealth at a
rate astonishingly faster than the rest of Americans and have stock
portfolios that outperform even the best hedge-fund managers'. (Full
disclosure: Schweizer is employed by my political action committee as a
foreign policy adviser.)
USA... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 Sunday, 01 Jan 2012 09:00 AM
The volatile Republican presidential race in Iowa will come down to which
way an enormous chunk of undecided voters breaks in the coming days.
With the first-in-the-nation voting of the 2012 race for the White House
looming Tuesday, Mitt Romney is contending for victory in a state that
eluded him four years ago, while Rick Santorum — a hero among social
conservatives — surges and libertarian-leaning Ron Paul slides in a contest
that remains incredibly fluid.
With man... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 https://www.judicialwatch.org/corrupt-politicians-lists/washingtons-ten-most
-wanted-corrupt-politicians-for-2011/
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes
government corruption, today released its 2011 list of Washington’s “Ten
Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes:
Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL)
Former Senator John Ensign (R-NV)
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
Attorney General Eric Holder
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
President Ba... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 巴马带来的改变：“只有在今天的华盛顿，才有总统绕过自己宣称的不许雇用游说人的
禁令，雇用游说公司的老板”
By Dana Milbank, Published: March 6
Three years into his presidency, Barack Obama has finally overcome his pesky
, puritanical aversion to K Street.
As a candidate, Obama pledged that lobbyists “will not run my White House.
” But on Monday, the president brought in one of this town’s most
prominent lobbyists to run his White House — or at least a nice piece of it.
Ricchetti achieved this feat — getting around the ban on lobbyists serving
in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 TEHRAN (FNA)- A new survey conducted in post-revolution Egypt found that the
Muslim nation has an increasingly deep trust and admiration for Iran and
wants a replacement of the US with Iran in their country's foreign policy.
An overwhelming majority of Egyptians support replacing US economic aid with
funds from Iran or Turkey, according to new poll results, while a
decreasing number of the subjects view the treaty with Israel as positive.
Eighty-two percent of the Egyptians questioned oppose... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 By GINA CHON And SHIRA OVIDE
Microsoft Corp. MSFT +0.11% is investing at least $605 million in Barnes &
Noble Inc.'s BKS +51.75% Nook digital-book business, as the software giant
pushes deeper into the e-books business and props up a rival to the iPad and
Amazon's Kindle.
Barnes & Noble's stock jumped around 100% in pretrading on news that
Microsoft was investing $300 million in their Nook e-reader. Gina Chon
reports on Markets Hub.
From humble beginnings to a bookselling behemoth, Barnes & Nob... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 35 —By Tim Murphy| Thu May. 17, 2012 6:16 AM PDT
The New York Times won the morning on Thursday with an A1 story on a new
anti-Obama super-PAC, Character Matters, that's planning on spending $10
million on an ad campaign linking President Obama—a "metrosexual, black
Abraham Lincoln"—to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Character Matters is hoping
to get either Jon Voight or an "extremely literate conservative African-
American" to narrate the spots, which would be produced by GOP ad guru Fred
Davis (of "De... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 36
on paper all these look pretty good as far as it goes.
However, the political demography strikes the chord hard.
Once into an assistance system, the beneficiaries will be next to impossible
to be led out! This is the fundamental cause that has already brought down
Greece and without much check in place will certainly destroy America. As
long as each person has an equal ballot at hand, there is no solution that
can be adopted and congress will not pass it. Look at the black mobs. And
ballots do ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
A month ago, we covered the story of Melinda Gates claiming her $4 billion
campaign to bring birth control to poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin
America was not controversial.
Today, I bring you the story of Obianuju Ekeocha, a 32 year old Nigerian
woman who's written a letter to Ms. Gates imploring her to spend the
earmarked money differently:
I trained and worked for almost five years in a medical setting in
Africa, yet I never heard of the clinical te... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 Arizona is hosting several competitive primaries Tuesday, including a GOP
battle for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Jon Kyl and a
Democratic fight for the seat held until recently by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
But Arizona’s big matchup is between two House Republican freshmen elected
in 2010 with tea party support, Reps. Ben Quayle and David Schweikert.
The fight was personal and hard-hitting from the outset, and that harshness
has only ratcheted up in recent days. Supporters of ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 39 明显是在玩弄福利的概念。
Earmark is welfare. That puts AL on top.
Income tax exemption on low income, that put Mississippi on top. |
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发帖数: 12623 | 40 Barry Soetoro: no birth certificate, no college record, "God damn America"
his pastor said…
Barack Obama: national debt tripled, unemployment rate "won't go above 12%
if the Stimulus Plan passes", "those bitter Pennsylvanians cling to their
guns and religion", billions of pork and earmarks, golf, vacation, golf,
vacation, golf, vacation, … oops, and teleprompters
Hilary Clinton: Iran's nuclear project progressed, Benghazi scandle
Eric Holder: Fast & Furious, lie to the Congress |
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发帖数: 12623 | 41 Ron Paul has some "liberal views" that are in conjunction with modern
conservative views on certain issues, such as global military presence and
legalization of prostitution (classic libertarianism). Ron Paul really
represents the classic libertarian and constitutional values and principles
no one else in Washington DC does nowadays. He advocates:
1) Constitutionality
2) individual freedom (and responsibility)
3) free market system and classic capitalism
4) small government, big families
He is a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7063 | 42 【 以下文字转载自 EB23 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: EB23
标 题: Re: Re: house七人帮的bill的一些细节
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jul 8 13:43:09 2013, 美东)
其实过去的美国政客们都是get hands dirty的。因为如果你不给自己后面的金主们带
来利益，你就拿不到钱来选举。如果你不听党的话，你就没法到那些powerful的委员会
里任职，给你的金主捞钱。而且被选下去，或退休后，不和党保持一致，没有人脉，就
很难到DC做说客捞钱。另外当年的earmark什么的都是用来买票的。这就是为什么，议
员们当选前都要change DC.到了DC,就是DC change他们了。
只是2010年以后，共和党的初选把这一切都改变了。初选里极右来挑战，使得议员们不
敢再get hands dirty了。当senator Lugar,senator Bennett初选被击败后，那个刺激
力度是很大的。特别是lugar的败选，在过去是无法想象的。
想当年，议员们选举时候，都会说你看，这什么，什么的都... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 43 这是美国国会的精典通过法律的案例，就是买票。现在没有earmark了，leader们控制
能力降低了很多。 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 44 对一个州，整回来billions的钱，不算少了。其实早年间，一个千万的earmark就能买
到一票。 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 45 McConnell’s office told The Hill on Wednesday evening that the senator was
not responsible for the dam funding authorization increase, instead
referring to the White House and leaders of the Senate committee that is
responsible for appropriations.
“The process is that OMB (the White House) submits a list which is scrubbed
by chair and ranker (Feinstein/Alexander) of each subcommmittee (energy and
water in this case),” said Don Stewart, a spokesman for McConnell, in an
email. “We are not OMB or t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 McConnell courts coal country votes
August 7, 2014 - 7:35 PM
By DAVID ESPO, Associated Press
MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) — Campaigning in coal country, Sen. Mitch McConnell
pinned the loss of thousands of Kentucky mining jobs on President Barack
Obama's Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday and said his Democratic
election rival would be a vote to continue them in Congress.
Rarely, if ever, mentioning Alison Lundergan Grimes by name, McConnell
instead said unspecified "people are against the Ken... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24893 | 48 Trump proposes massive one-time tax on the rich
By Phil Hirschkorn/CNN
November 9, 1999
Web posted at: 6:24 p.m. EST (2324 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has a plan to pay off
the national debt, grant a middle class a tax cut, and keep Social Security
afloat: tax rich people like himself.
By Trump's calculations, his proposed 14.25 percent levy on such net worth
would raise $5.7 trillion and wipe out the debt in one full swoop.
The U.S. national debt decreased by $9.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5309 | 49 Before becoming the controversial campaign manager of Donald Trump's
presidential bid, Corey Lewandowski oversaw the New Hampshire chapter of
Americans for Prosperity, the advocacy group founded by the Koch brothers.
The conservative activist, who was charged with battery on Tuesday, led an
aggressive operation dedicated to slashing government spending—including
earmarks and subsidies—and eviscerating government regulations,
particularly the green-energy agenda of the Obama administration. Yet
L... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 50 If Black Lives Matter, then why have entrenched members of the Congressional
Black Caucus spent more time enriching themselves than taking care of their
neglected constituents?
Too many social justice protesters are busy throwing shade, rocks, bottles,
concrete blocks and vicious death threats at police officers of all colors
trying to keep the peace.
Instead of moaning about "#WhitePrivilege," I invite radical racial identity
warriors to join me in taking on the black political elites selling o... 阅读全帖 |
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