“The people we represent can feel comfortable with what we have included in this package. Regardless of party, we all cast our votes with one hand and crossed our fingers with the other.”- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver after voting for the $787 billion “stimulus” package. Well Cleaver crossed his fingers and taxpayers received this boondoggle that […]

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From Justice at Peabody (union website) U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) today pledged his support for coal miners employed at Peabody Energy Corp. who are trying to form a union, and urged the company to remain neutral in the miners’ struggle for unionization. Peabody is headquartered in St. Louis near Carnahan’s congressional district. “I support […]

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  Full time Nixon ass kisser extraordinaire – and part time KY3 “reporter”- Dave Cantanese has graced us again with his “Week 25 grade” of Gov. Nixon. This week, Mr. Nixon rates a “B+” in the star struck eyes of Mr. Cantanese. (The check must have been late this week.) No mention by Mr. Canatanese […]

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No surprise here that former minority leader  – and now uber lobbyist – Dick Gephardt is schilling for a drug company in the current health care “debate.” And we use the term “debate” loosely here since Republicans are being systematically shut out of the process of – as Gephardt said recently  ” [the] incremental dismantling […]

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Pictures courtesy of our Facebook friend Jenny Kerr.     Related: StLouisTeaParty.com: Tea Party Blogs of Missouri Missouri Matters: “Can you identify sovereignty?” Video: Rich from “Circle of Concern” at 4th of July Tea Party Hat tip: dsm0012 [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/oKznRf8Gm6E” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

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Are we really surprised? From Irregular Times: Yesterday, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver introduced H. Con. Res. 155, a resolution that begins with the complaint that, “Whereas the average person complains approximately 15 to 30 times per day, resulting in roughly 4,500,000,000 complaints spoken every day in the United States…” Yes, it’s a resolution that supports […]

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Political Fix: “Attorney General Chris Koster told a group of Sunshine Law advocates (trial attorneys…our words) earlier this year that he’d take the state’s open records law seriously.“ Conspiracy theorists at the Capitol suspect, that Attorney General Chris Koster’s suit against the predominately African American Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District in St. louis County, […]

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“In February, Rep. Ike Skelton (D., Mo.) and 10 other lawmakers reported that their four-day trip to Hawaii, Guam, Japan and South Korea cost taxpayers $465 a person. Later that month, Rep. Stephen Lynch (D., Mass.) and a delegation of lawmakers went to Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan and Hungry for five days, according to congressional records. […]

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For years, Ike Skelton’s reputation was that of a kind of rogue Democrat and more likely to vote independently.  However, after looking at the data it has become clear that recent years have marked a leftward shift – a definite indication that Nancy Pelosi’s influence over committee chairs has gotten to him. During the 111th […]

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“These dumb rednecks I’ve got in my district that throw it [trash] in the back of their truck, expecting it not to blow out and then they just drive down the road … I think killing one or two of them would be a fine first start and then the rest would fall into line […]

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