HAPPY PRESIDENTS’ DAY: Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, today highlighted pork projects contained in the Omnibus Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2008. This week’s egregious earmarks:
* $750,000 for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York
* $8,000,000 for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts
* $3,760,000 to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas
* $7,432,000 for the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California
“Those are some hefty library fines,” said Flake.
PRESIDENTS’ DAY QUIZ
Here’s today’s question, class: How many US presidents were home-schooled and who were they?
Answer: According to the Christian & Homeschool Resource Center, there have been 12. They were:
John Quincy Adams
William Henry Harrison
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
John Tyler
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
I wonder if that little fact gets taught in the public schools?
PIRATES OF THE REPUBLICAN, THE SEQUEL
“John McCain’s presidential campaign has been likened to a pirate ship: A feisty captain, rhetorical saber in hand, leading a fiercely loyal crew against his Republican primary opponents.”
- Associated Press, 2/18/08
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE CORONATION
“Super Tuesday was Hillary Clinton’s chance to wipe Senator Barack Obama out of the picture, but what happened was shocking and humiliating to the once unstoppable and formidable candidate.”
- Columnist Armstrong Williams
BOSTON HAS BAD FEELINGS FOR HUCK
“The chief songwriter and founder of the band Boston has more than a feeling that he’s being ripped off by Mike Huckabee. In a letter to the Republican presidential hopeful, Tom Scholz complains that Huckabee is using his 1970s smash hit song ‘More Than a Feeling’ without his permission.
“A former member of the band, Barry Goudreau, has appeared with Huckabee at campaign events, and they have played the song with Huckabee’s band, Capitol Offense. Scholz, who said Goudreau left the band more than 25 years ago after a three-year stint, objects to the implication that the band and one of its members has endorsed Huckabee’s candidacy.”
- Associated Press, 2/18/08
HUCK’S OUT AS #2
“Forget Mike Huckabee as a running mate for John McCain, his closest supporters say — there’s no chance he’ll be on the GOP presidential ticket. So writes veteran political columnist Robert Novak, who reports that political insiders close to McCain’s presidential campaign ‘have put out the word that there is absolutely no chance that his last remaining major opponent for the GOP presidential nomination, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, will become McCain’s running mate.’
“Novak explains that McCain personally likes the former Arkansas governor, and his campaign hasn’t wanted ‘to antagonize Huckabee’s evangelical supporters, whose backing will be needed in the general election,’ adding that he ‘is unacceptable to economic conservatives.’”
- NewsMax.com, 2/17/08
THE SCHOOL CHOICE SHOT HEARD ‘ROUND NEVADA
Well, the cat’s out of the bag. Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Molly Ball reports this morning on our anticipated school voucher ballot initiative in Nevada this fall - the initiative many of you helped me craft over the last couple of weeks from all of your EXCELLENT suggestions and recommendations. Thank you all.
Our opponents have already started their disinformation campaign. Read all about it HERE in today’s Muth’s Truths.
THE UNION LABEL
From the Department of the Pot Calling the Kettle Black comes this Chicago Tribune story about troubles in paradise over at the SEIU…
“Sal Rosselli doesn’t think his union, the Service Employees International Union, is all that democratic, and he is making a fuss about it. But he is not your average union-card carrier. As leader of a 150,000-member local in California, and until recently head of the more than 600,000-member SEIU California State Council, Rosselli has wielded quite a bit of union clout. He also belonged to SEIU’s executive committee until last weekend, when he resigned in a blistering letter to union President Andy Stern, accusing him of expanding his powers at members’ expense.”
Over recent years, SEIU has become perhaps the most aggressive and obnoxious band of union agitators in the entire nation. That one union boss is accusing a fellow union boss of thuggery is indeed sauce for the goose.
Wouldn’t it be a shame if these two union bosses divided their own union the way SEIU divided the union movement in general by bolting the AFL-CIO a couple years ago? We can only hope.
Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: National
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