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Last night House Minority Leader John Boehner, together with nine other party leaders, took a pledge to drop the practice of earmarks in Congressional appropriations…
“For millions of Americans, the earmark process in Congress has become a symbol of a broken Washington. We believe the time has come for House Republicans to adopt an [...]

Filed under: 2010 Elections, Congress, Conservatism, Corruption, Harry Reid, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, The GOP | 16922 Comments »http://thehayride.com/2010/03/house-gop-no-new-earmarks-pledge-nice-but-rings-hollow/House+GOP+%22No+New+Earmarks%22+Pledge+Nice%2C+But+Rings+Hollow2010-03-11+15%3A00%3A05macaoidh

America needs to capitalize on her abundance of natural gas.  That subject has been examined numerous times at this site and elsewhere.  It can heat our homes, power our industries, generate our electricity, and fuel our vehicles.  It can create jobs that fuel our economy, and it can completely change the world’s political climate.
 
We import [...]

Filed under: Bill Cassidy, David Vitter, Economics, Energy, Environment, Harry Reid, Haynesville Shale, John Fleming, North Louisiana | 15578 Comments »http://thehayride.com/2010/03/new-allies-in-the-natural-gas-war/New+Allies+in+the+Natural+Gas+War2010-03-02+04%3A01%3A26Michael+Youngblood

As we did before introducing his previous entry, we at TheHayride.com would like to caution the reader that Oscar’s views and statements expressed in this column don’t represent our editorial position other than solely by coincidence. He’s on his own. And he’s a nutria – so please don’t judge either us or him too harshly. It’s [...]

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U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-Baton Rouge) had a piece published at The Politico yesterday putting forth 10 incremental tweaks to the health-care system which he says would likely pass with ease in both houses of Congress and would help to drive down costs.
Cassidy says that the Obama administration has wasted a year with “statist” [...]

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“To stimulate the economy and create jobs at no cost to the taxpayers, and without borrowing money from foreign governments for which our children and grandchildren will be responsible, and for other purposes.”
 

Filed under: Barack Obama, Bill Cassidy, Charles Boustany, Congress, David Vitter, Economics, Energy, George W. Bush, Harry Reid, Jim DeMint, John Fleming, Nancy Pelosi | 12766 Comments »http://thehayride.com/2010/02/david-vitter%e2%80%99s-et-al-stimulus-plan/David+Vitter%E2%80%99s+%28et+al%29+Stimulus+Plan2010-02-09+01%3A25%3A19Michael+Youngblood

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) wrote an op-ed in Roll Call today pushing once again for movement on legislation he authored with a half-dozen other Republican senators to remove barriers to domestic energy production. An excerpt of Vitter’s piece: 
“…Last year I introduced a bill that will achieve what the president has called for — job creation, less [...]

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… when in his  State Of The Union message he said that
 
“to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. That means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country.”
 
But did he mean it?
 

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…because otherwise Barack Obama wouldn’t be apologizing to the people of that recession-beseiged city for statements he made during a Tuesday Town Hall equating trips to Vegas with wasting money.
The offending remark read as follows:
“When times are tough, you tighten your belts,” Obama said. “You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay [...]

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is supposedly a champion of African Americans and advocate of civil rights for all. However, a much different image emerges from the new book, “Game Change.”
Reid is quoted as touting the chances of Barack Obama to win the presidency because he is “light-skinned” and does not possess “Negro dialect [...]

Filed under: Harry Reid, Mary Landrieu, Racism | 8613 Comments »http://thehayride.com/2010/01/landrieus-double-standard-on-race/Landrieu%27s+Double+Standard+On+Race2010-01-16+00%3A04%3A08Jeff+Crouere

It’s going to fail.
Here’s why it’s going to fail…

Filed under: Barack Obama, Ben Nelson, Congress, Harry Reid, Martha Coakley, Mary Landrieu, Nancy Pelosi, Obamacare, Scott Brown | 7746 Comments »http://thehayride.com/2010/01/an-offbeat-prediction-on-obamacare/An+Offbeat+Prediction+On+Obamacare2010-01-13+04%3A55%3A14macaoidh