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Posted at 4:23pm on Apr. 8, 2008 House Dem Caucus restates 100 year lie

By Soren Dayton

The Congressional Democratic Party has lied again. Now that's as new as the sun rising in the east, but let's put a little meat on those bones.

When Rahm Emanuel's House Democratic Caucus sent talking points around to make sure that Democrats are on the same page when they declare defeat, one of them was:

The American people want a new direction in Iraq, not 100 more years of war, as Senator McCain has promised.

Now, the catch is, of course, that this was wrong. How do we know? Independent fact checking watchdogs (here and here) and even the mainstream media (ABC, CBS, New York Times, Politico, NBC, Time Magazine, among others) have demonstrated that John McCain didn't say that.

So what is going on? Read on.

Posted in 2008 | House Democrats | Iraq | John McCain | Smearing And Sliming John McCain — Comments (7) / Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 11:38pm on Dec. 27, 2007 Parliamentary Procedure Tricks

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

The House Democratic Caucus has a problem: It has a number of freshmen members who got elected from conservative districts. Said freshmen members will not long survive if they do not show some "independence" from the House Democratic leadership. It is a political necessity for them to be able to go back to their constituents and say that many a time, they were brave enough to cast votes defying Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Majority Whip James Clyburn and Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel.

So, how do these freshmen pull this trick off? Via InstaPundit, we have our answer.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 4:35pm on Dec. 10, 2007 Steny Hoyer's pork is "good pork"

(Pork Barrel Spending in Nancy's drained swamp.)

By Mark Kilmer

House Dem Leader Steny Hoyer is an earmark kind of guy. According to the Washington Post, the Maryland Congressman is "one of the top 10 earmarkers in the House for 2008," who has singlehandedly "tucked $96 million worth of pet projects into next year's federal budget, including $450,000 for a campaign donor's foundation."

It makes me want to croon a variation on an old song by The Ramones:

Steny is a pork pimper.
Ste-ny is a pork pimper.
Steny is a pork pimper, now-ow-ow-ow-ow.

(Maybe you'd have had to have been there.)

Josh Shultz at The Real Blog zeroes in on one of the most interesting bits of Steny pork, involving a company which isn't sure what it does besides donate to Steny.

But Steny tells us that Steny pork is "good pork."

(Read More for… well, more.)

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