Senator Bond proposed Monday for a “car czar” to oversee the auto industry while it tries to recover from its woes: STL Post Dispatch: (12/08/08) “Bond said that the outgoing and incoming administrations quickly agree on a ‘car czar.’ According to a copy of the draft legislation obtained by the Post-Dispatch, the car czar would […]

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 More time for fishing in Kit Bond’s future? From the “Senate Guru” blog:   “Bond faces the prospect of squaring off against Democratic Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, who is not only a fellow statewide election official and a scion of one of Missouri’s most well-known political families, but, in her 2008 Secretary of […]

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“The K.C. Star, St. Louis Post Dispatch & Columbia Daily Tribune” “I don’t remember any conversation like that from four years ago.”– “Political Pygmy” Jason Van Eaton The news media often forgets that people outside of their insular liberal newsrooms do still read their publications. Case in point is the Missouri media’s obsession with the […]

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More fallout from the Steelman/Bond feud in yesterday’s Columbia Daily Tribune. Looks like ‘Ol Kit is finally throwing Mr. Van Eaton under the bus! If you read the article, it appears that political pygmy Jason Van Eaton was foolishly telling people that Senator Bond was instrumental in former U.S. attorney Todd Graves dismissal. Here’s an […]

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Good news for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Respected polling firm Rasmussen has found that Congress’ approval ratiug is at a six month high since the rejection of the automakers bailout –  a whopping 12%! From Rasmussen Reports: Just days after the legislature rejected an initial proposal to bailout the […]

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While Mr. Bond is on an almost one man quest to give taxpayer money to the auto industry, the junior senator from Missouri is co-sponsoring bi-partisan legislation to provide greater oversight over the “bailout” money that has already been allocated for financial institutions. There have been calls to use part of the $700 billion to […]

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From TPM Muckraker: Justice Docs Suggest Identities of Team Abramoff Lobbyists Who Bribed Aide “Blackann is said by his lawyer to be cooperating with prosecutors as they seek to build other cases. As for Bond and Blunt themselves, the office of the former said yesterday he had “no knowledge” of Blackann’s illegal activities.” Related: STL […]

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Private jet with one of the three automobile executives landing in Washington. “If Washington bails them out, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye.” – Mitt Romney In what could only be further bad advice from the “political pygmy,” Senator Kit Bond has jumped head first – and has actually taken the lead – […]

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“Talks over Smith also are said to have involved GOP consultant (and longtime Bond protege) Jason Van Eaton…” – Political Fix Almost spit my coffee all over the computer screen when I read the above excerpt from Jo Mannies this morning. Mannies is being retired retiring at the end of they year, right? For anyone […]

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What a historic and strange year we’re having in politics! First, an African American is elected president of the United States. And now we have Democrat Claire McCaskill not supporting a bail out of the Auto industry and her UAW constituents, (“We are going to have to do more to protect tax dollars for me […]

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