Lobbyist showdown..I love it...thanks Obama.

[Winehole23]

So who does that leave? The middle class. You can call it class warfare, making things fair, whatever you want, but Obama's going to this nation's middle class. He talks about protecting it, but his policies are going to result in an upper class and a lower class with no middle in between.

We were already headed in that direction, but that would suck. Rebalancing equities is a .

[clambake]

clambake not recognizing that the costs of Obama's proposals, which will increase taxes on corporations and small businesses, will be passed onto us all (the consumers) is funny.

the is already down the drain and ignorant people are crying about "proposals".

Oh wait, that's right. Obama's going to pay for it all by ending tax breaks for th wealthiest 2% of Americans or whatever it was. Too bad 1) you could take all their money and still not even cover a third of the tab for his socialist bull and 2) they'd either find elsewhere to move their money or get some creative accounting help.

trickle down

Either way, the end result is the costs of it get passed on to the middle and lower classes of this country. Oh wait, the lower class is not paying any taxes, just getting handouts now from Obama (err, "tax cuts for non-tax paying folk").

aggie making 250k a year is funny.

So who does that leave? The middle class. You can call it class warfare, making things fair, whatever you want, but Obama's going to this nation's middle class. He talks about protecting it, but his policies are going to result in an upper class and a lower class with no middle in between.

some people don't know where we are now.

So that piece of and any of you clueless s who think what he's doing is good for this country's future. It didn't work for Rome, didn't work for the USSR, didn't work for China, and it ain't going to work here.

we've already heard from you and your kind, and look what happened.

[Blue Jew]

LOL, he doesn't work for the American people. He's a socialist.

Who cares if he is the grandson of Adolf Hitler? I need a job and medical.

[balli]

Dude, Lockbeard, IDK who you are, but you're a ing moron. You just throw out left and right, with absolutely no factual support whatsoever. You spew dishonest and ed up opinions as if they were fact, but that 's not going to fly. I'd suggest you at least try to get a ing clue.

Answer: Because the far-left liberals NEED conservatives to pay for their . Conservatives would love not to have to even put up or interact with the far-left.

If it's budget time, it's good to be a red state. And it's very good to be Mississippi.

According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense, Mississippi has won the earmark contest in the omnibus budget package.

Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran led his colleagues by raking in more than $470 million in 204 earmarks. Mississippi's junior Republican, Roger Wicker, pulled in more than $390 million. The totals can't be added together because the figure includes earmarks each received solo and with others, so the same earmark could be in both senators' column. Cochran, on his own, pulled in roughly $76 million and Wicker brought home $4 million.

Cochran's $76 million ranks him sixth among solo earmarkers. (Earmarks can be requested individually, with other members of Congress or along with the president.)

Senate Democrats and Republican ate roughly the same amount from the government trough on a solo basis, although Democrats have one and half times as many members. Democratic members secured about $677 million in individual earmarks; Republicans brought home $669 million. Those solo figures, however, don't tell the entire story, because about six billion more was requested by groups of lawmakers.

For solo earmarks, nobody beat out Sen. Bob Byrd (D-W.Va.), last year's appropriations committee chairman. The defender of earmarks took home $123 million. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) came in second, with $114 million. Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) rounded out the top three, bringing home $86 million by himself.

Republican leader Mitch McConnell is bringing $51 million back to Kentucky and Democratic leader Harry Reid earmarked $27 million for Nevada. They ranked tenth and seventeenth, respectively.

Louisiana did well, too. Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu took in the third-most joint and solo earmarks, bringing home $332 million for local projects. Her Republican colleague, Sen. David Vitter, pulled down the fifth-most at $249 million.

The Louisianans straddled Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin, the chairman of the agriculture committee, who brought back $292 million.

Rural and small-state voters were the big winners on an absolute and on a per capita basis, even though it was big states and urban areas that have delivered Congress and the White House to Democrats. Of the top ten earmarking senators, only Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.; $77 million solo; $235 combined), represents a large state and only three of the top ten are blue states. In the top 20, only six blue states are represented.