Reading the Tea Leaves: Shutdown Near End?

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Friday October 04, 2013 · 5:01 PM PDT

2013/10/04 · 17:01

Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-CA 25th District) ceased to by my Congressman when I escaped the far outlying suburbs of Los Angeles 6 years ago, but I still get his constuent emails. About 2 hours ago, he sent the following:

What We've Achieved...
With all the frustrating gridlock in Washington, it is important to remember what we've achieved in our battle for a more effective and efficient federal government:

• For the first time since the Korean War, total federal spending has gone down for two years in a row.

• The most significant spending reductions in modern history – more significant than Ronald Reagan and more significant than BillClinton and Newt Gingrich.

• The Budget Control Act (BCA) was the largest spending reduction bill of the last 25 years (and perhaps ever) - $630 billion in savings over five years all from the spending side.

• The BCA was the largest deficit control bill since 1981 not to contain a penny in tax increases.

• Successfully protected 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase on a permanent basis, and ensured that almost all of the Bush tax policy was made permanent, including the death tax and lower rates on capital gains and dividends.

I will continue to keep you updated on information and developments coming out of Washington.

Sincerely,

Buck

Setting aside the question of whether or not the content of his email is accurate, doesn't it seem like he's sort of saying "well, I know we haven't really acheived anything with this latest attempt of ours to... whatever it was we were trying to do, but look at all the stuff we did do"? You know, the kind of thing one says when one is getting ready to give up?

At any rate, fingers crossed.

A Call for Mirrors

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Wednesday September 07, 2005 · 1:14 PM PDT

2005/09/07 · 13:14

I'm going to purchase a small hand mirror, wrap it nicely for shipping and send it to the following address:

President George W. Bush
ATTN: Probe to investigate Hurricane Katrina response failures
FORENSIC TOOL ENCLOSED (FRAGILE).
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW Washington, DC 20500 Read More

Ben Stein Must Go

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Friday August 05, 2005 · 11:31 AM PDT

2005/08/05 · 11:31

You know how celebrities and entertainers who exercise their freedom of speech by voicing opposition to the failed policies of the current administration are so often vilified and subsequently censured (e.g. Dixie Chicks, Danny Glover, Linda Rondstadt?) Well, it bugs me every time I see Ben Stein on a ClearEyes ad -- especially since I really like the product. (Nothing clears up the ocular after effects of a long night and too many manhattans on the rocks like a couple of drops of ClearEyes.) So I decided to send the following letter to the President and CEO of Prestige Products which manufactures ClearEyes:

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Friday October 29, 2004 · 1:34 PM PDT

2004/10/29 · 13:34

Thurday, October 28, 2004

My husband Alan and I begin our journey to Florida to help get out the vote and assist with the Election Protection organization's efforts to prevent voters' rights from being infringed upon. We leave the house at a little after 5am for our 8am flight at LAX in our Toyota Camry which sports one American flag sticker along with a "Kerry/Edwards" bumper sticker. I mention this because as we are sailing south on the 405 freeway in the early morning darkness at little over 70 miles per hour, with plenty of room on either side of us for faster vehicles to pass, the car behind us suddenly speeds up until it's very close on our tail and turns on it's high beams. Read More

Kerry's Draft Policy

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Friday October 15, 2004 · 10:53 AM PDT

2004/10/15 · 10:53

I've been involved in an intense grassroots voter registration drive organized by our local democratic club. So far we've registered over 2500 new democrats in our small city. This is our last weekend of voter registration in California, and lately we've had a growing number of young first-time voters approach us hoping to learn details about John Kerry's plan for increasing military troop size without enforcing a draft. They want specifics. So, I've been trying to get specifics from the Kerry campaign this week, but so far I've been met with a certain amount of hostility and defensiveness on the part of the phone workers I've spoken with. They've repeatedly directed me to Kerry website articles which haven't been at all illuminating with regard to a specific plan to increase troop size. They just say he will, they don't say how. I want to be able to give these young people the information they want. Can anyone reading this help me out?

Anti-Bush Billboard

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Thursday August 12, 2004 · 11:14 AM PDT

2004/08/12 · 11:14

I have the extreme good fortune to be employed by a very rich, very smart and very liberal television executive. Recently he asked me to look into leasing billboard space in a swing state (preferable Ohio) for an anti-Bush statement. If I could figure out how to import the artwork into this diary to show you what it would look like, I would. But I can't. So, I'll describe it to you. Read More

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