The Club For Growth’s Depressing Study: Failure and Lies of the Tea Party Congresscritters

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 16th, 2012 at 06:26 AM |

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“If the tea party is not much more successful in primarying Republican candidates and then having those guys practice what they preach, the GOP is within a decade of going the way of the Whigs.”

There have been many studies out on the “tea party congress” and just how tea party it actually is. One study last year noted that 70% of candidates who went to Congress under the tea party banner were voting just like the Republican Leaders they ran against.

Probably one of the best places to get a sense of this is the Club for Growth. Why? The Club ignores social votes and focuses only on fiscal votes — spending issues more than anything else. The tea party candidates went to Congress not just to repeal Obamacare, but were really motivated by out of control government spending, bailouts, etc. Remember, it was Rick Santelli of CNBC on February 19, 2009, who predicted this grassroots army of activists would rise up and say enough to out of control government spending and bailouts. Santelli said, in part,

The government is promoting bad behavior. Because we certainly don’t want to put stimulus forth and give people a whopping $8 or $10 in their check, and think that they ought to save it, and in terms of modifications… I’ll tell you what, I have an idea.

You know, the new administration’s big on computers and technology– How about this, President and new administration? Why don’t you put up a website to have people vote on the Internet as a referendum to see if we really want to subsidize the losers’ mortgages; or would we like to at least buy cars and buy houses in foreclosure and give them to people that might have a chance to actually prosper down the road, and reward people that could carry the water instead of drink the water?

…

We’re thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July. All you capitalists that want to show up to Lake Michigan, I’m gonna start organizing.

Things sort of spiraled from there sending a wave of candidates to Washington embracing the concerns of the activists who showed up to the tea party.

They wanted to cut spending because of out of control debt, stop Barack Obama, end Obamacare, and they were willing to primary Republicans to do it. A number of Republicans lost. In some open primaries, the candidates who were supported by the GOP out of Washington went down in flames.

But what of the candidates who actually went to DC on a wave of tea party support. Turns out some of them were liars and a lot of them behaved like the pigs in Animal Farm with some of them deciding they were more equal than others.

The Club for Growth’s new study of this Tea Party Congress paints a rather depressing picture. You can see how the freshman of the Tea Party Class of 2010 preformed by clicking right here.

If you want a more in depth look at the Congress as a whole, one of the best places to go is Heritage Action for America’s comprehensive score card. What you’ll find is not much better there.

I’m afraid if the tea party is not much more successful in primarying Republican candidates and then having those guys practice what they preach, the GOP is within a decade of going the way of the Whigs.

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http://teapartisan.wordpress.com Loren Heal

I’ve been saying the GOP is likely to have a party split ever since Romney became the front runner. Not that he’s the impetus, but just sort of the last straw.

We’ve got to pay attention to the Congress, and to the leadership fights that are already going on. They are going to start in earnest November 7, but John Boehner is already campaigning to retain the gavel, and Mitch McConnell must be doing the same in the Senate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Jacobson get2djnow

And I don’t deny I’m in a manic phase, but THIRTY PERCENT of the elected TEA parties were NOT liars? Outstanding! Sure, there’s room for improvement, but the system is designed to ensure conformity and that some of these men & women were able to resist the seduction is wonderful.

The rest are scum and need to face primary challengers ASAP.
michaelbowler

As with many politicians, some of the TEA candidates were just challengers waiting in the wings for a chink in the armor. The TEA party movement was just an opportunity to slip in. Let’s face it, all that was necessary was to promise this rising tide of newcomers what they wanted.

Now that so many have proven their stripes, they must also be primaried. This is expensive, but necessary. Not just to ensure persons with the right credentials get into office, but far more importantly to prove we mean business.

It is also essential to ostracize the turncoats and ensure their future political failures. The process of taking control of the situation is going to be decades long, anyone who didn’t think so is naive.
gmscan

The federal government can’t spend a penny unless the House approves it. The House should vote on a spending cap and stick to it. It doesn’t even have to have an opinion about what should be cut. Let the Senate figure that out. All it needs to do is say –”We ain’t spending more than $XX.”
malvernpa

From the very beginning of the Tea Party it was understood that the issue was that the Democrats (progressives, socialists, communists, Marxists, they are all the same in the current Democrat party) cannot be rehabilitated from their big spending ways. The question was can the “Republicans” be rehabilitated. The Republican party is a vehicle not the goal. The damage that the left has cultivated has 80 year old roots and it will be slow work to correct that damage. The Tea Party is intelligent, mature, skilled, tireless, well informed and well connected. Know this, what happens in Washington is no longer hidden from view. The votes are noticed and the irresponsible, those incapable of controlling spending will lose their election and be replaced. The Tea Party will get America back on the road to financial stability and looking in the rear view mirror the road will be littered with the failed careers of those politicians that do not get the job done.
radicalrighty

They are all, or at least the ones I remember having the Tea Party backing, near the top, behind my personal favorite man in DC, Jim DeMint.
http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php kralizec

Our job is to elect the most conservative candidates we can in the primaries and to defeat the Democrats in the general…we are not going to be able to change the leadership in the GOP without a greater influx of conservative candidates…and I don’t care if they are Tea Party or No Party…but newer blood is needed. The issue of the GOP surviving in its current form as a result of this effort is not my concern…it will adapt and become more conservative as per the desire of the electorate, or it will wither and die under Ruling Class indifference and conservatives will go elsewhere and/or form a new entity that meets their needs.
sigmasix

I would add that the Republican leadership has never been on board with spending cuts. Period! The Tea Party freshmen were setup to fail from the start.

Remember this comment:

This is really not the time or place to pick this fight! John Boehner Dec 17, 2011 on the house floor regarding spending cuts
renl57

TEA Partiers were *not* elected as Independents. They were elected as Republicans. And the GOP has a platform that contains things that the TEA Party may not like.

It takes time to make major changes to a party’s leadership and platform. It takes many years for an ideological movement to become mainstream. (16 years passed between the candidacies of Goldwater–who lost–and Reagan–who won. And another 12 years passed before Gingrich was able to win the House.)

Give the Tea Party another twelve years or so, and things may be much better.
Change Jar Conservative

They have a few things that they deem important that I think hurt the country even if they help business, but I would be interested in the details of their ratings.

We have always said this would be a multi-cycle process.

Holding our own accountable in the primaries is important especially given how many of the districts that we own are always going to go Republican because of how they are drawn.
hayekwasright

Now if we can just help congress find the fortitude to do it. Without a radical change in the Congress (either attitude or personnel or perhaps a little of both), this isn’t happening. but it certainly should.
jakee308

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hayekwasright

Sorry, Erick, I’m not convinced we have a decade of buffer left. And for that matter, I am much more concerned about losing the country than the party.
But as radicalrighty has pointed out, there are some signs of life in the Senate conservatives. I would add that the Senate primaries have been pretty encouraging so far. Hopefully we can get Ted Cruz in here in Texas(early voting started this week), and a few others across the country.
We are in desperate need of a tipping point where sanity begins to spread in Washington.
funwithknives

But we live in an enlightened age of Instant…Everything.

Note how many pronouncements and solutions must be done “…quickly…”, even though the problem addressed has festered for quite a long while.

Part of the process we call advancement, has some downside and your header puts a light on a forgotten positive.

My question is: Can we wait? Will the Majority of dis-affected?
tnguy

Those who are calling for “patience” are, in my opinion, underestimating the problem. Not just the problem of big government republicans running the party, but the problems of the nation. I do not believe we have a decade to make sweeping changes, thus being patient about expecting immediate change is a non-starter where I’m concerned.

Look at Greece. There is no reason to expect that we’re on a course for anything different. Except the entire world lacks the resources to bail out America.

And as far as this notion of supporting the party, nonsense. People who have a pair, a spine, principles, conviction, integrity, whatever term you want to use, simply couldn’t be supporting this garbage. There is no party loyalty that could force me to support ruinous legislation for what John Boehner and Eric Cantor perceive as the good of the party, and I expect no less of our representatives.
funwithknives

that is America, we are weeks away from seeing the results of the latest mix in the petrie dish.

Are there enough Citizens who just want to live in Freedom & Liberty ,and do what ever is peaceful? Who want to be left alone, when/where they choose?
I know this sounds trite, but sometimes I really DO Feel like a Motherless Child…………,and despair creeps in.

What will it take, for Citizens to see they already have The Gift, their Creator gave them?
When, will it occur, if ever?
How much of their Gift is already gone and not coming back ?

I’m done now. Thanks to this site, once again.
chbroussard

It IS a leadership problem. Not sure we’d be having this problem if someone like Jim DeMint was the Speaker of the House rather than spineless Boehner. Imagine being a freshman legislator trying to go up against someone in their party who’s been in DC for 20+ years. No support for you, no money for you unless you tow the party line.

Until we have enough reps that are willing to stand together and vote these wimps out of their leadership positions, the status quo wll continue.
naraht

The funny thing is that I looked up 1932 in law and found…

The Revenue Act of 1932 (June 6, 1932, ch. 209, 47 Stat. 169) raised United States tax rates across the board, with the rate on top incomes rising from 25 percent to 63 percent. The estate tax was doubled and corporate taxes were raised by almost 15 percent.
The provisions of the act applied to the taxable year of 1932 and all subsequent taxable years.
It was signed into law by President Herbert Hoover.
chriser

I did a (very) quick analysis of the results of this “study” and I think the results aren’t as bad as they first appear. The average score for the 87 freshmen is 71% (if you can get 87 congressmen to vote your way 71% of the time, you are probably doing pretty well), 22% of them voted “correctly” 90% of the time, and about 1/3 of them scored over 80%. Only 14% of these freshmen scored less than 50%, and all but 1 of them scored over 40%. It seems to me that these (“Tea Party”) guys are moving in the right direction, but is it too little and too late given the dire straits this country is in?
Common_Cents

The real failure: not enough Americans getting involved in local parties and remaining somewhat involved

Many are looking around pointing fingers of what other people should be doing, when all along, the power of real change resides in each of us, yet we don’t take personal action.

A couple small crops of tea party representatives in DC is a good start, but they need much more reinforcement. this shows how powerful the culture of pressure and assimilation is in DC. We have to change the culture of DC or it’ll crank out the same sausage no matter what “inputs” it gets.

Hopefully the tea party representatives can maintain a beach head there until more recruits arrive.
edintexas

Hoover was a Progressive Republican, as was Roosevelt (well, both Roosevelt cousins, just different parties – but both Progressives). So what’s your point – that there were Progressive Republicans? We all knew that.
texasref

voted against the Club for Growth on the most important issue of all: the continuing appropriations. I also don’t like how CFG gave the critters extra credit for signing a letter. Signing letters is irrelevant. How they vote matters. When the rubber met the road, these folks rolled over and voted with leadership. Even the 90-something percenters.

That vote should have been 50% of the weight or more.

The Club was being generous, and still so many managed to earn failing grades. And what’s with Allen West and Benishek scoring so dismally? Benishek of all people should know better given who he took over from,–the worst hypocrite in Congressional history–Stupak .
naraht

That’s the first argument that I’ve heard in a long time minimizing the difference between Hoover and FDR…
tnguy

Allen West, Paul Ryan and a lot of other “conservatives” really aren’t. Look at West’s record. Sarah Palin praise aside, he has frequently cast votes in favor of big spending.

There are a lot of people in both houses of congress who pretend to be like Jim Demint, but the truth is they’re phonies.
http://conservativemormonmom.blogspot.com ew88

Such as Paul Ryan’s budget proposing massive cuts and a return to baseline budgeting. This is more important than it seems at first, if only because such a budget would have been laughed off the floor in any other decade.

Ever since the 1974 Budget Reform Act, all federal budgets have increased automatically by 10% each year, regardless of revenue or necessity. No wonder the deficit and spending are out of control! No wonder the Washington DC housing bubble hasn’t burst yet. We need to keep calling out the Dems (and the Republicans) who want to keep spending and deficit on the back burner or worse, or cry “Draconian Cuts!” whenever that 10% increase is proposed to be shrunk to something smaller.
ntrepid

As a wise Redstater mentioned just a couple of month before the 2010 mid-terms (1):

??It should be understood that this will require completely dismantling large portions of the federal behemoth that will be openly hostile to the movement every step of the way. There will be many casualties and turncoats among the elected ranks along the way and, while the immediate electoral needs in the upcoming midterm are obvious, a continuous grooming of and planning for replacements and improvements needs to be well underway before all of November?s ballots are counted. We want our guys in there now but, as a local car dealer advertises, we ?aren?t married to none of them?.

As you say, some were liars and some were pigs. This is certainly true. But I suggest some were weak and some were never meant to be anything more than the first wave of the attack. Bring on the replacements.

From the same insightful post:

?History needs to record the next half decade or more as an American political tsunami to the right. Certainly the period since between late last March and the approaching November, if not actually beginning a year before that, should in retrospect be viewed as the drawback when it was clear to all what was coming next and the midterms will be the first waves crashing over the beach. The relentless onrush should peak in November 2012 and the surging tide needs to continue through the following midterm. That is the type of persistence?active support for and positive pressure on our elected representation?required to battle the entrenched evils already codified into the bureaucratic monstrosity that aims to choke the liberty out of the American dream. I hope the Tea Partiers are up to the task.?

We?ll soon find out if the movement shows enough persistence to complete the next step in a long journey.

Ntrepid
Proud Redstate Member since April 2006??
(1) http://www.redstate.com/ntrepid/2010/08/14/a-tsunami-not-an-eruption-and-the-coming-push-for-co-presidents/
conservativerock5

Allen West, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, etc. are NOT real conservatives. They DON’T uphold their oaths to the Constitution, and they are FAKES.

We have a few good one’s, and they need help.
texashistorian

but in the end it was a difference of approach, not goals. Hoover was a big government man and paved the way for the New Deal. After all, how hard was the big government sell of FDR to people who had seen the GOP do the same exact thing? I think Ed is correct in minimizing the differences here. Hoover vs FDR is merely a difference of scale, not philosophy.
bobmark

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sns-pod-1934-cartoon-pic,0,7114709.photo
mixplix

The congressional people backed by the Tea Party were like Adam in the Garden of Eden. Once in the frat house of government there is no sin and no one there will hold you to the law of the land. And what a surprise to find over eleven thousand staff members to welcome you. Here’s my source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_staff
davesinsanantonio

potential politicians that we demand integrity and will dump anyone without it. Eventually the sleazies will not even bother, but will look for easier pickings elsewhere.
davesinsanantonio

get rid of those who don’t!!! Eventually, only the truly righteous will be left, and only the truly righteous will even try. Of course, there will always be the ego-driven who think they are smarter than everyone else who may be able to scam their way into office, but once their true colors are showing, we MUST successfully primary them.

We can no longer afford the luxuries of taking politicians at face value, and then letting them do their thing in all levels of office without close scrutiny and supervision.

“WE THE PEOPLE are still in charge of making it work!”
davesinsanantonio

a time or a place for this fight. So, we need to send fighters who will remove him from leadership and then take the fight across the aisle.

We are not really fighting to beat the Dims or to win majorities. We are fighting for the survival of this country. Beating the Dims and winning majorities are just stepping stones to get to the battlefield. We must keep the end goal in sight. Save the country, and then put on the right track again.
davesinsanantonio

we are making progress, and if we are true to the principles we espouse. They will not give us any more time if we lie or wimp out, and rightfully so. We cannot save this country by dishonesty or lack of will. We must find what the necessary correct principles are, embrace them completely, and then fight for them wholeheartedly. We can no longer accept reaching across the aisle or other forms of compromise with those who want to lead the nation to what will prove its destruction! We must develop integrity and find candidates who already have it. We must successfully primary even our own who do not maintain integrity. I am not looking for perfection, just the best a human being can do.
davesinsanantonio

that they cannot afford to just leave the government alone. Actually, just leave their elected representatives alone. Why? Because there are many who are bound and determined to not leave any of us alone. The goal of progressives of all stripes is for the government to control every aspect of everyone’s life. So, those who just want to be left alone must be politically involved or their cause is lost forever.
davesinsanantonio

are, say, below 60%, then the others will pay attention and their scores are likely to rise. If they think we are not carefully watching what they do, all of their scores will slowly drop, because that is the nature of the beast that is D. C.!

“WE THE PEOPLE are still in charge of making it work!”
tanstaf1

While one can agree with the 10 general pro-economic growth goals, it would be nice to know the exact bills or amendments used to tally pro or con votes and whether the votes were for amendments or just the final bill.
funwithknives

but look at the other side of the page: Who in their right mind,and what passes for average morality in this age, Wants to be involved with such a sticky, gooey mess. {the one we call politics}

When the registered who do not vote see this process as-is ,why would they WANT To get involved? Many ,seing this mess ,would just scrape it up with a ‘dozer and haul it away To a dump. {metaphorical, of course}

You ,myself and everyone here Knows non-engagement is futile.”If you do not engage, it catches up to you and runs you down..” , is a mantra I espouse constantly. {…and sends many fleeing…}

How to get them to engage has no set formula. The One Thing I find that is constant, is to take a personal example [affecting them] and make the engagement totally Their Idea. Once this occurs, more often than not ,they’re off to the races.

Then, you watch them for your old foibles, burnout……
givemefreedom

The way to MAKE/FORCE politicians to perform as they promise is to take away the lifetime job guarantee and limit the house members to 4 terms and the senate to 2 terms!
The discussion about all the resultant positives of TERM LIMITS can start in another blog.
givemefreedom

If not NOW WHEN, if not by the newest members of congress then who?
PowerToThePeople

it is called elections. Get involved and quit crying for something so stupid.

PS Term limits will not stop one bit of the problems in politics and to claim otherwise is moronic. The only thing that will cause politicians to tow the line is an involved electorate. It is a lazy fool who calls for forced term limits.
2warabnvet

for “Boner” & Co. when these newbies arrived in Congress was to force them into line.
johninohio

because the incumbent always has the advantage in name recognition and financial backing. And let’s be real–too many of the electorate are easily fooled. Something has to be done to break the cycle of corruption. Especially in the Senate. Six years is too much time for corruption to go unchecked.

Unfortunately though, the SCOTUS has already declared term limits for federal congressmen (not state congressmen) to be unconstitutional. There would need to be a Constitutional amendment.
johninohio

The word is ‘toe’ the party line. The image is that everyone in the party stands shoulder to shoulder in a straight line by standing with one’s toes on a line.
ihateliberals

I have been a Republican all of my life since i learned about politics while in high school. It took me no time at all to understand the the Democrats wanted everyone to be equal. what that meant to me was equally poor. Then I went to War in Vietnam after that I lived in Germany. I know what the free market is all about and I made my fortunes and raised my family to appreciate this country. I raised five children and somehow they are all conservatives. One thing I have learned in all my travels is that a Progressive is an evil person.

What some people can?t get through their heads yet is that there are Progressive Liberal Republicans. A Progressive is a dangerous person and an enemy of freedom as we have known it for the past 236 years. Progressives have to be stopped no matter what their party. They have been infiltrating the Party for many years now and slowly taking it over. Both of the Bush Presidents, Karl Rove, Boehner, McConnell and McCain just to name a very few of them.

As I said in my banner The time has come for a Party of and for The People. We need a WTP party ?We the people?. This needs to happen soon or it may be too late. It may already be too late.
PowerToThePeople

term limits that already exist via the election all because of name recognition and stupid voters? Humm, lets look at that lazy thought process for a sec and see if it makes any sense……….

Name recognition. So no new candidates would have name recognition? No one who has served in another branch or is well known through the state would run? How about name recognition via tons of commercials……… This argument is really absurd.

Stupid voters. So somehow term limits will make the voters smarter? Are you saying they will not fall for the new cons lies? Come on……..

And you say it will break up corruption. How is that going to be achieved? So somehow replacing everyone every 6, 8, 10 years is going to make them not be corrupt while they are in office?

Absurd, absolutely absurd.

There are term limits, they are called elections. And if someone needs fired, we need to be educating the voters and making them understand the need for change. Term Limits do nothing to stop the bad stuff and only remove the good ones we have such as DeMint. Term limits are a stupid idea backed by lazy people unwilling to work for what is right.
hayekwasright

But another luxury we don’t have is that of time. Unfortunately given the sheeple nature of the voters, it is going to take a long time to replace all the wimps. I do think if the replacements we are able to make now are really strong ones (like Ted Cruz for Kay Bailey Hutchison) we may be able to reach critical mass a little sooner. If the go along to get along crowd realizes that they need to go along with the likes of Jim DeMint and Mike Lee, we may be able to make headway while some of them are still there. Then we can dump them later and replace them with genuine good folks for the future.
hayekwasright

either by ballot box or by regulations, there needs to be a restructuring of the value placed on seniority in both houses. Those with seniority pretty much have the power to keep this from happening. Therefore we are mostly back to dramatically changing the tone of both houses before we can make many of the other changes that are needed. We are making good progress with the current Senate primaries, I just hope we can reach the tipping point this November.
PowerToThePeople

seniority means nothing, “tone” means nothing, if the people want to get rid of you. Lugar is a prime example of a very powerful politician who learned that the hard way.

All the talk about corruption, tone, term limits, seniority means nothing when the electorate gets involved. If people want real change in politics, they need to spend the time, money, and effort waking voters up and educating them. Nothing else will ever work.
brojohn2

the second conservative. The liberal arm of the Republican Party can soon join the Democrats, that is really what they are anyway. McCain talking with Dems about Campaign finance reform RINO!

The conservative Republicans can keep the name of Republican, but call it the Conservative Republican Party, and then lets go kick some liberal butt. Reinstate the Constitution as the REAL law of the land. Put the election of Senators back into the State Senates not the popular vote, make these jokers responsible to someone who will do something about them. NO MORE career politicians. TERM LIMITS on the pack of these jackals. I don’t care if they are good conservatives or not. I remember when Ron Paul first ran for office, no more than 3 terms he promised, and no raises either. He even returned money for office staff. What happened to him?? CAREER politicians are automatically CROOKS!

Rid us of all of them with term limits, get them out with no more than 2 terms for Senators and 4 for Representatives. Make them go back and live under the laws they stick us with.
ihateliberals

The problem is that we conservatives have already tried and failed at taking the GOP back. The elites ate our candidates alive once the were with in the Party that is why a mew party has to be formed and Quash, get rid of the Liberal Republicans. Notice I said Liberal Republicans. These are the dinosaurs like Boehner, McCain etc that have somehow gained control of the Party. while they are exactly the same kind of liberal as a Democrat there isn’t really much difference. They are all ready claiming they want ot keep portions of Obamacare. They don’t seem to get it. We The People don’t want nor need Obamacare in any shape or form. We want and need insurance reform not government controlled Healthcare. There is a big difference. WE need a two party system for sure and that needs to be Conservatives and liberals. What we have now is a three party disguised system. We have a Party of Progressive Liberals and one Party that contains both Progressives and Conservatives and that isn’t working. As long as we keep sending soldiers into the lions den they wil destroy them unpon arrival just like the did in 2010. They only way we can fight them and win is on our own terms. Once we go into the Den it turns into their rules.
hayekwasright

You are correct in that seniority means nothing with regard to getting re-elected if the electorate wants someone out. What I meant was that seniority currently has a lot to do with leadership positions, committee chairs, and the like. As things stand now, these folks with the power positions have been pretty effective at shutting down the noble efforts of some well meaning junior members to serve the nation. In recent history, we have not done a very good job of voting out legislative leaders that wielded power in their respective houses.

The “tone” of leadership acting in this way for their own short-term political benefit, rather than doing what is best for the nation and future generations is a huge problem. That tone will change instantly if they begin to believe that the voters will throw them out on their ears if they keep it up. Again, there is a startling tendency for voters to re-elect their Sen. or Rep. if he/she holds committee chairs even when the person clearly needs to go.

You are also correct in that a real key is to wake-up and educate voters. Sadly, history teaches us that many are very sound sleepers, perhaps even comatose, though still somnambulating to the polling places. On the bright side, this primary season is looking pretty encouraging, at least in the Senate.
rightlane1111

Do you think that all those regulations of Sustein’s were free to we the taxpayers? I think not. Obama can spend plenty of money on our dime also…foreign affairs, wars, etc. And let us not forget…Michelle’s 20 something aides and her expensive vacations…oh and his too.

How’s that for not needing the Congress.
checkmate2012

O comes out constantly & says he’s putting 80B for this and 20B for that.. It seems like the stimulus plague never ends. Yet if you look at the gov’t stimulus website, it’s all been spent or pledged. How does he keep coming up with money in his pocket if the House hasn’t appropriated it? Are we just giving him blank checks?
rightlane1111

and remember this…Spain is in mega trouble today and while some on the board say “not to worry” because a Spanish company has now been given the responsibility of counting some of our ballots…it makes you wonder…doesn’t it.
chbroussard

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