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May 30, 2011 By Joan of Snark

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When you are trying to get yourself out of credit debt, the first thing every advisor tells you is to sit down and write out a list of your expenses and your income, and from that create a budget that allows you to pay off your debt and live within your means.  For many of us, it’s a bit of a shock to see we exactly how much more we spend than we make but being unable to raise our personal debt ceilings we then gird our proverbial loins and scrimp along on beans and rice for however long it takes us to get out of debt.

And once the credit habit has been broken, most people don’t pick it up again.

The fact that the United States has not had a budget in place since April 29, 20o9 tells us one thing:  Congress critters are not normal people.  They don’t live in the real world but instead think Washington, D.C. is the place where some kind of magic fairy dust turns the sweat of the laboring worker paying their taxes into “federal money” and that federal money can be pulled from thin air.

Even though it is one of Congress’ primary responsibilities to budget America’s money, Senate Majority Leader Harry (the Grinch) Reid told the Los Angeles Times recently, “It would be foolish for us to do a budget at this stage.”  And Kent Conrad, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, told reporters that he planned to “defer” work on a 2012 budget indefinitely.

‘Scuse me?  You are going on the record saying you flat-out REFUSE to do your job?

Oh, no.  That’s not what they meant.  So what we got were games and more games.  A forced up-or-down Senate vote on the House-passed budget (why debate to a legitimate compromise when you can later use the vote to – wrongly – claim the GOP wants to kill Grandma).  A retaliatory forced up-or-down vote on President Walking Eagle’s budget vision to encourage entitlement mentality (one so badly conceived that even the left-wing progressives voted against it and it went down in flames, 97-0).

They are acting like college students who won’t give Mommy and Daddy back their credit card or pay the bill they’ve run up on it.  Not only is this childish, it is dangerous.  If you and I must live within our means while providing our country with the money required to fulfill its Constitutional responsibilities, then those in Congress must live within the means we are able to provide them and apply them first and foremost to those things that fulfill those Constitutional responsibilities.  Like to our military and protecting our borders.  Not using the sweat of our brows to allow more and more of the progressive left’s little pet “victims” to do nothing and allow those directing the flow of money to become rich doing so. 

You cannot deserve what you have not earned.  Congress, and this administration in particular, deserves nothing except a good knock upside its collective head.

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Harry Reid Intends To Make Your Vote Irrelevant

December 29, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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I hope the GOP has some armored cajones and a few hidden IEDs to take down this one.

Harry (the Grinch) Reid, circa 2008, on the thought of Republicans changing the rules of the Senate to create a simple majority requirement to break a filibuster:

“What the Republicans came up with was a way to change our country forever,” Reid stated. “We would in fact have a unicameral legislature where a simple majority would determine everything that happens … the Senate was set up to be different. That was the genius, the vision, of our Founding Fathers.”

Harry (the Grinch) Reid, on the eve of the arrival of that shellacking 112th Congress:

“…Reid held a closed-door meeting last week in which he said he may by a simple majority change the rules, including Rule 22, on the first day of the 112th Congress.”

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Filed Under: Truth In Reporting Tagged With: Constitution, continuing body, filibuster, Harry Reid, hypocritical politicans, Senate Rule 22, Senate Rules

Of Goose & Gander

January 10, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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Obama is a “light-skinned” black man “with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.” 

And so it is that his much-loved closed doors have come back to bite Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) yet again.  Spoken during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign and quoted in a new book about it (“Game Change,” by Time magazine reporter Mark Halperin and New York magazine writer John Heileman), these words reveal a great deal about old Grinch Harry’s mindset and attitude towards blacks; first, that skin color is something by which one judges others and somehow lighter skin means something and, second, that those blacks who are able to speak proper English are either a surprise or useful.

Both of these perspectives, judgement calls, if you will, are troubling.  Particularly when uttered by someone who is now the majority leader in the United States Senate and a highly-visible member of that progressive liberal gang of bleeding hearts who tout that their efforts are always for “the common man” yet are the first to play the race card when confronted with common sense.  They show us eyes that view the world through a lens of class and racism, both of which have no place in a country where “all men are created equal”.  That old Harry sees Obama’s speaking ability as something that is controlled begs the question of just how much old Harry thinks it may be used to some advantage, thereby relegating a human to the status of an object.

Of course, everyone knows and (unfortunately) accepts that Democrats are collectively the lowest of scum-sucking douchebags so a Democrat making racist comments goes pretty much unnoticed by other Democrats.  But when regular Americans took offense at old Grinch Harry’s remark, he apologized and His Transparency, in a show of maintaining some image of party unity or in obeyance to his self-perceived image of magnaminity, promptly accepted it. 

But words once spoken can never be taken back.

And it is through spoken words that yet one more time the blatant hypocrisy of the Democrat double-standard comes bubbling up.  Both old Grinch Harry and His Transparency went after Trent Lott back in 2002.  President Walking Eagle himself had called for Lott’s resignation after Lott mentioned that in Thurmond’s 1948 presidential campaign, a campaign centered on opposition to integration, Mississippi was one of four states Thurmond carried and followed that up with, “We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years either.”

Then-Senator Obama stuck his nose up in the air:

“It seems to be that we can forgive a 100-year-old senator (Thurmond) for some of the indiscretion of his youth, but, what is more difficult to forgive is the current president of the U.S. Senate (Lott) suggesting we had been better off if we had followed a segregationist path in this country after all of the battles and fights for civil rights and all the work that we still have to do.  The Republican Party itself has to drive out Trent Lott. If they have to stand for something, they have to stand up and say this is not the person we want representing our party.”

Even the Congressional Black Caucus  released a statement at the time, calling for a “formal censure of Senator Lott’s racist remarks”.  And after Lott resigned, old Grinch Harry went on the record about it this way:

“He had no alternative,” said Reid at the time claiming, “If you tell ethnic jokes in the backroom, it’s that much easier to say ethnic things publicly. I’ve always practiced how I play.”

Cue the flying pigs.

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Harry The Hypocrite

January 5, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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Harry does another Washington show-and-tell about how to win friends and influence people and properly represent your constituents.  This one is titled:  It’s only wrong when someone else does it.

“Of course, nobody can see the managers’ amendment. It is composed of over 40 amendments. How could anyone vote for a piece of legislation such as that — a managers’ amendment with 42 separate amendments?

“Now, these amendments were not put in in a conference committee. People complain about that. But at least in a conference committee, you have people working together, sticking things in. Sometimes Democrats complain and sometimes Republicans complain — whoever is in the minority here. Well, we didn’t get enough consultation; you cut us out of the process. But at least you had a group of Democrats and Republicans in the process. Here, you have one person making a decision as to what is going to be in the managers’ amendment. There is no way to know what is in it. How could anyone say: ‘OK’? You have taken care of me, but I don’t want to see the other 40 amendments — -because with this legislation, similar to all legislation, you put something in one spot, and you have to take something out someplace else.”

(Senator Harry Reid, 2/9/06)

 

 

Flash forward to October 2009:

But now, as a Senate vote on health-care legislation nears, those negotiations are occurring in a setting that is anything but revolutionary in Washington:  Three senators are working on the bill behind closed doors.

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) sits at the head of a wooden table at his office as he and  Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and  Max Baucus (D-Mont.) work to merge two competing versions of health-care legislation into one bill. The three men will be joined by top aides as well as by members of President Obama’s health-care team, led by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

…after weeks of Senate Finance Committee public hearings, the Senate negotiations are now an invitation-only affair in Reid’s office. The majority leader is unlikely to expand his group, even as some senators unhappy with parts of the legislation, such as  John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), have asked to be in the room.

“Neither I nor any other senator has the luxury of passing a perfect bill — I wish we could — that conforms exactly to his or her beliefs.  But we must act.”
(Harry Reid)

And again in December 2009:

Sen. Dick Durbin’s job as majority whip is to count votes, but don’t ask him for the current tally on the health care bill.

“I don’t know,” Durbin said earlier this week. “Sen. Reid is the one who has been keeping it pretty close.”

Early on in the process — when Reid was still trying to reconcile bills moving through two different Senate committees — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked him about the progress he was making.

Reid pointed both of his index fingers to his head and said: “I got it all figured out how we’re going to do this.” And then he walked away.

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Here’s The Brie To Go With Your Whine, Senator Nelson

January 3, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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Who let the dogs out?

My question is, who let the curs in in the first place?

If Senator Ben Nelson could turn back the clock (or buy his Kool-Aid from the same distributor as Obama), he’d have us all believing that Senator Harry (the Grinch) Reid pulled a fast one on him by slipping that 100% payment-in-perpetuity of Nebraska’s expanded Medicaid costs into the Senate’s health care “reform” bill so Ben would vote for it.

Either he thinks the American people really ARE that stupid or he’s the one who’s so stupid he didn’t understand the terms by which his vote was bought.

Personally, seeing as how old Ben’s a Congress critter with his hand caught in the proverbial cookie jar, I’m going to guess it’s the former.

Politico reports:

According to a copy of a memo sent by McMaster’s [South Carolina GOP Attorney General Henry McMaster] chief of staff to other GOP state attorneys general detailing the call, Nelson asked McMaster to “call off the dogs,” a reference to recent threats by the state AGs to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Medicaid provision in the bill that benefits Nebraska at the expense of other states.

“Senator Nelson insisted that he had not asked for the Cornhusker Kickback to be placed in the U.S. Senate version of the health care bill to secure his vote.  Senator Nelson told the attorney general that it was simply a ‘marker’ placed in the U.S. Senate version of the bill and assured the attorney general that it would be ‘fixed,’ says the memo.

The document goes on to say: “Senator Nelson said it would be ‘fixed’ by extending the Cornhusker Kickback (100% federal payment) on Medicaid to every state.”

Let’s try some math, shall we?  It is estimated that what Reid expects the American taxpayer to send to Nebraska for Nelson’s vote is at least $100 million over the next ten years.  If you simply multiply that by 50 (to cover all the states), that’s a cost of $5 billion.  But we all know that those illegal immigrant-loving states like California and poverty-stricken progressive liberal Democrat strongholds like Michigan will incur higher costs so it’s quite conceivable that such a (stupid) plan would cost tax-paying Americans far, far more.  Billions that rather neatly erase the much-touted-though-double-dipped-savings-false Democrat claims that Reid’s closed-door bill will cut the federal deficit.

So now we’re forced to decide whether Nelson is really so stupid as to think the American people are going to believe that everyone was supposed to get Nebraska’s special Medicaid costs treatment and think that’s a good thing, or that Senator Harry Reid is an even bigger liar than already proven by analysis of his bill.

We’ll have to flip a coin on this one. 

The article goes on to say that:

…the goal of the GOP attorneys general was to remove the Nebraska Medicaid provision from the bill and that “he saw no way that he—nor any of the state attorneys general—will support extension of the Cornhusker Kickback to every state nor be a part of a deal like that.”

At least those busy flying pigs get a rest this time.

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Bribes Beat Facts

December 24, 2009 By Joan of Snark

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He who controls the purse strings makes the rules.  At least that’s how the Senate has handled their version of American health care “reform”.  In the end, it was billions of dollars of taxpayer money handed out as early Christmas presents behind closed doors in the middle of a snowstorm in the middle of the night by Majority Leader Harry Reid that bought the crucial 60 votes the Demons…errr…the Democrats needed for the Senate to pass the bloody bastard.

‘Tis truly a sad, sad day for America.  Those words can’t even begin to do justice to the wrenching ache deep in my gut as it is demonstrated yet again and with such blatant obviousness that this administration will do anything to turn what was once a beautiful beacon of light for the world into just another banana republic where freedom is but a dream and business is conducted through bribes in dark alleyways.

At this moment, I can naught but allow myself to be human and feel absolute loathing towards every Democrat in the Senate.  While truly I wish no one harm, if I could have my way every single one of them would be run out of town on a rail and the only job they would ever again hold would be prefaced with “You want fries with that?”  For such an entry level, real world job is barely all for which they have proven themselves qualified.  They have shown once again that they don’t have a clue about how things work in the real world, the real world that is the source of the wealth they accumulate and toy with like so many cat turds in their little phantom sandbox in Washington.

This morning, they break their arms patting themselves on the back, proudly telling America it’s raining when they’re still just peeing on our leg.  It is all beyond disgraceful, it is all beyond shameful.  Reid said afterwards that “facts beat fears” but the reality this Christmas Eve is that bribes beat facts.

It has been noted that despite all the campaign promises, Obama’s legacy will be seen as that of the great divider.  Senate Democrats have now struck a solid blow to really break this country in half, pitting honest, tax-paying, jobs-creating Americans against those standing in line for their Obama-promised handout.  Rock The Vote’s latest stupidity that passses for advertising telling young people to withhold sex from those who are against the Democrat version of health care reform is but a prelude to the prejudice this farce of a Senate has just set in motion.  At least as I write this piece Americans still have choices and I expect the more savvy will be voting with their dollars against businesses run by Democrats.  I know that I will.

And therein lies America’s last hope.  That this morning’s vote will be historic only by its fatal shattering of the Democratic party.  That it will be a wake-up call to the GOP about the beliefs of the majority of Americans and our expectations of those we send to Washington to represent us; that it will allow true, constitutional conservatives a greater voice and thereby educate the immature in this society that it our Constitutional freedoms that have allowed them to stand here today with their hands out instead of shouldering their fair share.  That our Constitutional freedoms are the only thing that will allow themselves to better their lot in life; for unlike the foundation of freedom given to us by the Founding Fathers, in a progressive, liberal Democratic regime, it is handouts, not opportunity, that are guaranteed to be rationed.

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They OWN This Now

December 23, 2009 By Joan of Snark

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The Senate’s Demon-crats continued to steamroll their plans to enslave the American people via their pork-filled “health care reform” bill today.  Three key scenes played out on the Senate floor and they are extremely telling.

First, every single Democrats voted AGAINST examining the constitutionality of the individual mandate.  It is their learned opinion that requiring every American to purchase a product is not an infringement of their freedom to choose and therefore debate is not necessary.

They then refused to consider whether their legislation infringes upon the states’ rights with regard to regulation of insurance companies.

Just as a reminder, here is the list of those who are putting the chains on you:

Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kirk (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

 And, at the last, they voted to INCLUDE ALL THE BILL’S EARMARKS.  Though in this vote, the Republicans found themselves joined by a handful of Democrats who apparently felt it was ok to vote for the bill until someone else had the cajones to publicly bring up the fact it contains billions of dollars of pork.

YEAs —53
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kirk (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
NAYs —46
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Not Voting – 1
Bunning (R-KY)

The final vote to move this bastard bill out of the Senate is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. EST.  By all rights, every Democratic Senator who voted to remove the pork from the bill should now vote against its final passage since they have gone on record as saying the bill, as is, is wrong.  We won’t even go into the fact that the CBO has now gone on record as saying the Democrats have been arguing financial “benefits” of the bill by double-counting Medicare “savings” and the truth is that is really IS a budget-buster:

The key point is that the savings to the HI (Medicare Hospital Insurance) trust fund under the PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) would be received by the government only once, so they cannot be set aside to pay for future Medicare spending and, at the same time, pay for current spending on other parts of the legislation or on other programs. Trust fund accounting shows the magnitude of the savings within the trust fund, and those savings indeed improve the solvency of that fund; however, that accounting ignores the burden that would be faced by the rest of the government later in redeeming the bonds held by the trust fund. Unified budget accounting shows that the majority of the HI trust fund savings would be used to pay for other spending under the PPACA and would not enhance the ability of the government to redeem the bonds credited to the trust fund to pay for future Medicare benefits. To describe the full amount of HI trust fund savings as both improving the government’s ability to pay future Medicare benefits and financing new spending outside of Medicare would essentially double-count a large share of those savings and thus overstate the improvement in the government’s fiscal position.

But I doubt they have enough conscience left inside of them to avoid the temptation of the billions of dollars of taxpayer money that will eventually be dangled in front of them by Harry (the Grinch Who Stole Christmas) Reid; that seems to be worth more to them than the thought their constituents are planning to figurately roast their nuts over an open fire for selling generations of Americans into slavery.  Perhaps because their nuts are too small to be of any concern?

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The Las Vegas Review Journal Tells Senator Reid To “Shove It”

August 30, 2009 By Joan of Snark

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Still basking in the now-fading glow of “I won”, Senator Harry Reid displayed the attitude that has ordinary Americans looking at politicians like some kind of alien vermin that must be eradicated at all costs.

According to the Las Vegas Review Journal’s publisher, Sherman Frederick, just before last Wednesday’s Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Senator Reid told their director of advertising, “I hope you go out of business.”

The Journal’s response?

“You could call Reid’s remark ugly and be right. It certainly was boorish. Asinine? That goes without saying.

“But to fully capture the magnitude of Reid’s remark (and to stop him from doing the same thing to others) it must be called what it was — a full-on threat perpetrated by a bully who has forgotten that he was elected to office to protect Nevadans, not sound like he’s shaking them down.

“No citizen should expect this kind of behavior from a U.S. senator. It is certainly not becoming of a man who is the majority leader in the U.S. Senate. And it absolutely is not what anyone would expect from a man who now asks Nevadans to send him back to the Senate for a fifth term.

“If he thinks he can push the state’s largest newspaper around by exacting some kind of economic punishment in retaliation for not seeing eye to eye with him on matters of politics, I can only imagine how he pressures businesses and individuals who don’t have the wherewithal of the Review-Journal.

“For the sake of all who live and work in Nevada, we can’t let this bully behavior pass without calling out Sen. Reid. If he’ll try it with the Review-Journal, you can bet that he’s tried it with others. So today, we serve notice on Sen. Reid that this creepy tactic will not be tolerated.

“We won’t allow you to bully us. And if you try it with anyone else, count on going through us first.

“That’s a promise, not a threat.

“And it’s a promise to our readers, not to you, Sen. Reid.”

Spot on, Mr. Frederick.  Spot on.

How about sharing whatever it is you’re drinking with the rest of the mainstream media?

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Filed Under: Truth In Reporting Tagged With: bullying politicians, Harry Reid, Las Vegas Review Journal

The Worm Squirms

July 24, 2009 By Joan of Snark

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With his popularity dropping inversely to the damage he is inflicting on the American people, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is starting to sense the anger building up and, seeing his future reelection prospects slipping away, is now attempting to cover his sorry butt with an “Oops!”

Yesterday he filed amendments to 6 years of financial disclosure reports, airing his vested interests in the 400% profits made on a multi-million dollar property sale of a limited liability corporation of which he was a part. 

Please note that this failure to disclose his splendid results of following the American dream of a free market, capitalist-minded, wealth-building action plan took place while he and his fellow Democrats were bashing the Bush administration.

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