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Was Sen. Baucus Drunk? You decide.

Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana spoke on the US Senate floor... drunk?

Grab your popcorn!

Have you seen the latest undercover movie with ACORN? Highlights include “international sex business” and “laundering the sex money into faux political campaign”.  Well if you haven't check it out here

During an exchange between Breitbart and Hannity, Breitbart warned Attorney General Eric Holder he better investigate…. or more tapes will be released. During the election year.

Breitbart: There’s a lot of hypocrisy and the dust has settled for ACORN and at the end of the day they’ve recognized that Eric Holder, the Attorney General, has not initiated an investigation into ACORN after we now have seven tapes.  There were five initially that came out, ACORN was defunded by the Senate, was defunded by the House, lost it’s link to the Census; while all that damage occurred, Congress didn’t come in to investigate them, obviously not the Attorney General’s office, and they’ve now realized let’s get back into business because they realized that the dust settled and they were not being investigated, it was Hannah, James, and me who were being investigated, that’s why we’ve been forced to offer this latest tape.

Hannity: Are you saying, Andrew, that there are more tapes?

Breitbart: Oh my goodness there are!  Not only are there more tapes, it’s not just ACORN.  And this message is to Attorney General Holder: I want you to know that we have more tapes, it’s not just ACORN, and we’re going to hold out until the next election cycle, or else if you want to do a clean investigation, we will give you the rest of what we have, we will comply with you, we will give you the documentation we have from countless ACORN whistleblowers who want to come forward but are fearful of this organization and the retribution that they fear that this is a dangerous organization.  So if you get into an investigation, we will give you the tapes; if you don’t give us the tapes, we will revisit these tapes come election time.

If there ever was an argument for term limits....

56 years, 10 months, and 16 days.... Really?

Retire.

Please. Senator Robert C. Byrd.

Found Here

 

He served in the House of Representatives from 1953-1959 and his current run the Senate began in 1959. This leads to a grand total of 56 years, 10 months, and 16 days. He broke the record previously set by Carl Hayden, the Democrat from Arizona who served in Congress from 1912 to 1969. That means Byrd and Hayden shared the halls of Capitol Hill for 16 years. Byrd, who turns 92 on Friday, has missed numerous votes this year due to bad health. But that has not kept him from casting more than 18,000 votes. Byrd is known in Congress for keeping a pocket-sized version of the Constitution and for his long, heart-felt floor speeches around the holidays. Byrd’s take on his record: “I have strived to provide the people of West Virginia the best representation possible each of the 20,774 days which I have served in the Congress of the United States. The only way for me to close on this historic day is to say that I look forward to serving you for the next 56 years and 320 days!”

Please retire!!

Health Care Updates!!

Health care updates and Help SGP make 100k contacts in the next 24 hours.

HT: Glenn Thrush

The Speaker's office was apparently, ahem, selective about who they let attend Speaker Nancy Pelosi's big health care announcement on the West Front steps of the Capitol this morning. People who showed up were asked for ID and told the bill unveiling was a "private event."

House HCR Bill

Update: Where do they keep these bills?? I mean... Really??

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