Did the Obama Administration ‘Buy’ Votes to Pass Unpopular Legislation? -
The White House may have used its power to “buy” votes from Democrats in Congress via “administrative earmarks,” according to a new report from The Heritage Foundation.
“An examination of ‘administrative earmarks’ around the time of congressional votes on key pieces of President Obama’s agenda suggests the White House used its power to fund local projects as a means to ‘buy’ votes for major legislative efforts,” writes the Heritage Foundation’s Lachlan Markay.
How do “administrative earmarks” work? Simply put, it’s when the federal government shifts funds from its discretionary budget to specific projects. However, this is less “transparent than legislative earmarking,” since, according to the Congressional Research Service, “[t]here is no source that defines and comprehensively identifies Administrative earmarks.”
And, according to the Heritage Foundation, the Obama administration has been doubling down on the practice.
“[An] analysis of grants from agencies during the early years of the Obama administration shows that the districts of moderate Democrats, whose support was so crucial for Obama during the 111th Congress, received large sums right around the passage of three key pieces of legislation,” Lachlan Markay writes.
Care to guess which three pieces of legislation required a little “encouragement” via federal grants? If you guessed “Obamacare,” Dodd-Frank, and the cap-and-trade bill, you’re a winner.
“During the run-up to votes in the House of Representatives for each of those pieces of legislation, the rate of administrative earmarking spiked,” Heritage reports.
The Admiral: ABC News backfire: Most women went to Newt in SC -
Ya gotta love it! ABC and the other Democrat shill media tried their best to derail Newt’s campaign, particularly with women. Kinda looks like it backfired, eh?
Looks like the media is becoming irrelevant to an extent. That’s a good thing.
What do South Carolina’s Republican primary voters, who…
That’s right kids! Members of congress were paid to vote for internet censorship, diminishing your free speech rights. Talk about whores prostituting themselves for the almighty dollar, and in return they take your speech rights. This, my misguided friends is the true definition of greed.
Oh,…
The Admiral: White House, DOJ Supported Vote Fraud Underway -
Is anyone surprised? I told you a long time ago Obama & Company are going to cheat to win. They have to. What’s he going to do? Run on his record?
Nobody in their right mind would vote for this guy again. What? So we can have more, or worse of the same? He’s so bad he makes Jimmy Carter look…
Official List of "Too Big To Fail" Banks -
Do you do business with any of these vampires? If you do, you are a part of the problem.
“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.” — Samuel Beckett (via eternelle-ritournelle)
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“The Hoover-Roosevelt-Bush-Obama do-something-anything-everything approach to economic recovery seems to result in elongated depressions. In the Washington Post, James Grant says we should try the Harding approach instead.” — David Boaz
And how did the administration of Warren G. Harding, in conjunction with the Federal Reserve, produce these astonishing results? Why, by raising interest rates, reducing the public debt and balancing the federal budget.
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Liberals don’t want the 1% to have too much power.
There are approximately 307,006,550 people in America as of 2009.
So…
The liberals don’t want to 3,070,065 people to control the world, they’d much rather have 563 people, the American government, control the world.
Yep, that’s not minority tyranny or anything.
The Admiral: South Carolina Ended the Myth of Romney’s ‘Inevitability’ And Other Lessons -
Here are some of the things to learn from South Carolina.
Evangelicals went overwhelmingly for a twice divorced Catholic in the same percentage that they voted for a Baptist ordained minister in 2008. They haven’t warmed to Mitt Romney and if they haven’t warmed to him after 6 years of a…