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The Texas-based oil giant’s political action committee made 14 contributions during the month of May, according to a federal campaign report filed Wednesday — 13 to Republicans and one to a Democrat. It was the busiest donation month for Halliburton’s PAC since September 2008.

Of the 10 current members of Congress who got money from Halliburton in May, seven are on committees with oversight of the oil spill and its aftermath.

Halliburton Pours Money Into Campaigns Of Congress Members Who Will Investigate Oil Spill. Gee, I Wonder Why. | Crooks and Liars

Halliburton campaign donations spike - Jake Sherman - POLITICO.com

Cheney's Halliburton donating money like crazy to Senators. Gee I wonder why?

Cheney's Halliburton donating money like crazy to Senators. Gee I wonder why?

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Hey, weren't Republicans whining they don't have any power?

Let me say this again:

Of the 10 current members of Congress who got money from Halliburton in May, seven are on committees with oversight of the oil spill and its aftermath.

And only one Democrat received money.
 
Here is an opportunity for Republicans to clear the air..........

Still waiting.
 
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But I thought Mr Obama was going to change the way things were done in DC?

Seems as though he needs some serious help doing so. Of course he also needs some serious help to get this mess cleaned up.
 
But I thought Mr Obama was going to change the way things were done in DC?

Seems as though he needs some serious help doing so. Of course he also needs some serious help to get this mess cleaned up.

The fact the Bush and the Republicans created a sort of "shadow" budget by leaving out two wars and adding in what they thought would be the benefits of their tax cut, and then Obama made a truly honest budget is an enormous accomplishment.

All this Republican screaming and what are they screaming at? The truth. Bush kept it hidden with what was basically a bold faced lie directly to the American people.

It's a shame really, that someone as honest as Obama is being criticized by a political party as odious as the Conservative Confederate Republican Party of Teabags. Republicans want to believe that Bush's dishonest budget was "real" and Obama's "honest" budget is a lie. What Obama did was "expose" that lie, and they are so blinded by ideology, they can't even see it.
 
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But I thought Mr Obama was going to change the way things were done in DC?

Seems as though he needs some serious help doing so. Of course he also needs some serious help to get this mess cleaned up.

The fact the Bush and the Republicans created a sort of "shadow" budget by leaving out two wars and adding in what they thought would be the benefits of their tax cut, and then Obama made a truly honest budget is an enormous accomplishment.

All this Republican screaming and what are they screaming at? The truth. Bush kept it hidden with what was basically a bold faced lie directly to the American people.

It's a shame really, that someone as honest as Obama is being criticized by a political party as odious as the Conservative Confederate Republican Party of Teabags. Republicans want to believe that Bush's dishonest budget was "real" and Obama's "honest" budget is a lie. What Obama did was "expose" that lie, and they are so blinded by ideology, they can't even see it.

"In 2008, George W. Bush ran a deficit of $485 billion. By the time the fiscal year started, on Oct. 1, 2008, it had gone up by another $100 billion due to increased recession-related spending and depressed revenues. So it was about $600 billion at the start of the fiscal crisis. That was the real Bush deficit.

But when the fiscal crisis hit, Bush had to pass the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in the final months of his presidency, which cost $700 billion. Under the federal budget rules, a loan and a grant are treated the same. So the $700 billion pushed the deficit — officially — up to $1.3 trillion. But not really. The $700 billion was a short-term loan. $500 billion of it has already been repaid.

So what was the real deficit Obama inherited? The $600 billion deficit Bush was running plus the $200 billion of TARP money that probably won’t be repaid (mainly AIG and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). That totals $800 billion. That was the real deficit Obama inherited."

These are the true deficits: Bush $800B, Obama $1.4T - TheHill.com
 
But I thought Mr Obama was going to change the way things were done in DC?

Seems as though he needs some serious help doing so. Of course he also needs some serious help to get this mess cleaned up.

The fact the Bush and the Republicans created a sort of "shadow" budget by leaving out two wars and adding in what they thought would be the benefits of their tax cut, and then Obama made a truly honest budget is an enormous accomplishment.

All this Republican screaming and what are they screaming at? The truth. Bush kept it hidden with what was basically a bold faced lie directly to the American people.

It's a shame really, that someone as honest as Obama is being criticized by a political party as odious as the Conservative Confederate Republican Party of Teabags. Republicans want to believe that Bush's dishonest budget was "real" and Obama's "honest" budget is a lie. What Obama did was "expose" that lie, and they are so blinded by ideology, they can't even see it.

"In 2008, George W. Bush ran a deficit of $485 billion. By the time the fiscal year started, on Oct. 1, 2008, it had gone up by another $100 billion due to increased recession-related spending and depressed revenues. So it was about $600 billion at the start of the fiscal crisis. That was the real Bush deficit.

But when the fiscal crisis hit, Bush had to pass the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in the final months of his presidency, which cost $700 billion. Under the federal budget rules, a loan and a grant are treated the same. So the $700 billion pushed the deficit — officially — up to $1.3 trillion. But not really. The $700 billion was a short-term loan. $500 billion of it has already been repaid.

So what was the real deficit Obama inherited? The $600 billion deficit Bush was running plus the $200 billion of TARP money that probably won’t be repaid (mainly AIG and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). That totals $800 billion. That was the real deficit Obama inherited."

These are the true deficits: Bush $800B, Obama $1.4T - TheHill.com

This was all the way back in 2006:

According to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stieglitz of Columbia University and Linda Biomes, who teaches management at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the ultimate cost of the Iraq war could go as high as $2 trillion.
That figure appears in a paper released last month by Stieglitz and Biomes, and it includes the cost of fighting the war now, caring for the wounded veterans of the war in future years, rebuilding a worn-out military and other economic costs.

OpEdNews - Article: BUSH REFUSES TO CONFRONT THE TRUE COST OF THE IRAQ WAR

One year later:

President Bush Releases $2.9 Trillion Budget

President Bush was quick to say this smaller amount – and the absence of Iraq costs from the budget projections after 2009 – did not imply a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from the conflict.

President Bush Releases $2.9 Trillion Budget : NPR

With no fanfare and little notice, the national debt has grown by more than $4 trillion during George W. Bush's presidency.

It's the biggest increase under any president in U.S history.

On the day President Bush took office, the national debt stood at $5.727 trillion. The latest number from the Treasury Department shows the national debt now stands at more than $9.849 trillion. That's a 71.9 percent increase on Mr. Bush's watch.

Bush Administration Adds $4 Trillion To National Debt - Couric & Co. - CBS News

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And then Bush left office, Obama added the cost of both wars and the cost of the Bush Tax Cuts plus the TRUE cost of the Drug bill "give a way".

I don't understand what it is you don't get. It's all out in the open now. No longer hidden.

The same trick was used to hide the cost of the Vietnam war. History, nothing new.
 
From a summamabatch that has an Avatar of another summamabatch sticking their middle finger up.

LOL!!!!

The Republicans really are TOAST.

ROTFLMBAO!!!!
 
From a summamabatch that has an Avatar of another summamabatch sticking their middle finger up.

LOL!!!!

The Republicans really are TOAST.

ROTFLMBAO!!!!

That summabitch is Harry Reid, Democratic Majority in Leader in the Senate. And yes, he's toast in November.
But you can take the gesture personally.
 
Up yours Rabbi.

Sit on it and rotate.

You and the horse you rode in on.

LOL!!!
 

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