How They Voted This Week

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House 2010 foreign-affairs budget. Voting 318-106, the House approved a $48.8 billion foreign-affairs budget (HR 3081) for fiscal 2010 that provides $9.6 billion to operate the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development while funding the hiring of more than 1,300 Foreign Service officers for duty mainly in Afghanistan and Pakistan. MIKE CASTLE voted to pass the bill.

Read All About It In the Sunday Papers: Constitution-Shredding Edition

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"We interrupt this Very Special Larry King Roundtable to bring you this Breaking News. Sources are reporting that former Vice-President Dick Cheney personally instructed the CIA to withhold any and all information from Congress regarding highly-secret programs pertaining to illegally gathering information about, and from, American citizens." "We now return you to "Michael Jackson-Is He in Heaven or in Hell?", featuring Larry's special guests, Brooke Shields, Rep. Peter King, and Bubbles the Chimp."

Insurance Companies worked at discrediting Sicko

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv1FwOCNoZ8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Frawstory.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F07%2Fvideo-insurance-lobbys-secret-plan-to-attack-sicko-and-michael-moore%2F&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]Not that it is surprising at all. Just more confirmation that Sicko was spot on. "They were afraid that they might believe Micheal Moore" "They have used scare tactics for…

Audra Shay Wins Leadership Of Young Republicans

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Remember Audra Shay? She's was the candidate for chair of the Young Republicans groups that had this exchange on her facebook page:
Two minutes later, Piker posted again saying “Obama Bin Lauden [sic] is the new terrorist… Muslim is on there side [sic]… need to take this country back from all of these mad coons… and illegals.” Eight minutes after that, at 2:02, Shay weighed in on Piker’s comments: “You tell em Eric! lol.”
She then de-friended some Republicans who dared to complain. Well, she's now the leader of the Young Republicans.