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Posted at 2:16pm on Sep. 20, 2006 Redstate Advertising & Strayhorn
By heyyou
Oh how it pains me to come to my favorite non-sports site and see an ad for Carole Keeton McLellan Rylander Strayhorn. Good ole Carole is even worse than a RINO -- she's a democrat pretending to be a Republican pretending to be an independent running against an incumbent Republican governor. Evidence you say?
Well, shortly after serving as the Democratic mayor of Austin and as Walter Mondale's campaign chair in Travis County (circa 1984), she switched her party affiliation so she could run against popular Democratic congressman JJ Pickle (i.e., there wasn't room for advancement as a democrat). Now she has become an independent because there wasn't room for her to advance to the governor's chair as a republican.
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Posted at 3:18pm on Jul. 12, 2006 Are democrats consistent?
By heyyou
Of course not. Well, here's another example. In contrast to the Whitewater investigation, when the dems always cried about how much money was being spent pursuing poor Billary, their hero in Austin doesn't want anyone to know how much taxpayer money he's wasted on the Delay witch hunt.
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Posted at 11:19am on Nov. 16, 2005 AIDS Research
By heyyou
The story about the AIDS protest really set me off. Do you know how much money is devoted to funding HIV/AIDS related programs? According to the CRS Report for Congress, Federal government AIDS spending is estimated at $19.7 BILLION in FY2005. "65% is for treatment programs; research receives 15%; income support programs receive 10%; and prevention programs receive 10%."
For FY2006, the federal government-wide request is $21.1 billion. AIDS programs within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) account for 75% of the total amount spent on HIV/AIDS by the federal government. Funding for HIV/AIDS research, prevention and treatment programs within the HHS discretionary budget has increased from $200,000 in FY1981 to an estimated $6.27 billion in FY2005; the administration's request for FY2006 is $6.28 billion. Funding for HIV/AIDS treatment within HHS entitlement programs has increased from $10 million in FY1983 to an estimated $8.6 billion in FY2005. Entitlement spending depends on the number of HIV/AIDS cases that qualify; the estimate for FY2006 is $9.5 billion for HIV/AIDS treatment within HHS entitlement programs."
Source: AIDS Funding for Federal Government Programs: FY1981-FY2006, Updated March 23, 2005 Congressional Research Service: The Library of Congress
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/crsreports/crsdocuments/RL30731032320
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In the last 2 years alone, the feds will spend $40 billion on HIV/AIDS programs. Do you know how many people in the US are living with HIV/AIDS? According to the CDC, at the end of 2003 an estimated 1,039,000 to 1,185,000 persons in the United States were living with HIV/AIDS. (http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats.htm#hivest)
Let's conduct a little comparison. Autism is considered the fastest growing developmental disorder in the United States, occurring in as many as 1 in every 166 births. This means that autism affects over 1.7m Americans today, with the number increasing every single day. Know how much money the feds spent on autism research in 2005? Next to nothing. Indeed, there currently is a bill stuck in Congress that would authorize a whopping $110 million annually over the next five years to combat autism through research, screening, intervention and education efforts. Gee, so autism affects more people and has less than 1% of the funding provided to HIV/AIDS programs. And yet people have the gall to protest the US's supposed lack of funding for such programs? Gimme a break.
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Posted at 1:07pm on Aug. 19, 2005 McCain & Hillary
By heyyou
McCain takes one step forward, then 2 leaps backward. Is doing good things on trying to decrease pork barrel spending (http://www.redstate.org/story/2005/8/18/83448/6968), then goes off to Alaska with Hillary to investigate global warming (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050818/ap_on_go_co/climat
e_change_alaska_2). How is it that Hillary gets invited on a trip with McCain and two other Republicans (Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C)? I can just see the TV ads about bipartisan cooperation now!
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Posted at 9:12am on Aug. 9, 2005 Arlen's True Colors
By heyyou
Silently undermining President Bush's judicial nominees isn't enough for Arlen Specter. No, instead he decides to give the democrats a blanket invitation to pummel Roberts during his confirmation hearing with questions concerning his philosophy and views on specific cases and issues. Why? Because Specter is in a snit that the Supreme Court has actually used its constitutional authority to reign in overbroad federal legislation.
Specter recently sent Roberts a letter stating he would question Roberts on his thoughts about the Court's attitude toward Congress (which Specter referred to as the Court's "disrespectful statements about Congress' competence") and on two cases in which the Court limited Congress' lawmaking ability under the commerce clause (U.S. v. Lopez, where the Court rejected a law that banned possession of a gun within 1,000 feet of a school, and U.S. v. Morrison, where the Court rejected that part of the Violence Against Women Act that allowed rape victims to sue their in federal court). Specter amazingly referred to the Court's decisions "the hallmark agenda of the judicial activism of the Rehnquist Court."
Of course, our democrat friends already have seized upon Specter's gross stupidity as justification for their instrusive questions about specific views that Roberts holds. Chuckie Schumer already has said that "Senator Specter's questions aren't exactly identical to the 80-plus that I've asked of Judge Roberts, but the spirit of asking them and the need for a response is the same."
With friends like Arlen Specter, who needs democrats!
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