Obama’s man in Florida Wexler steps aside—why?

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) stepped aside on Tuesday, and the self-declared ‘fire-breathing liberal’ said after resigning from Congress, he will be heading up the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation. Some conservatives are wondering if Wexler’s decision relates to Gov. Charlie Crist’s call for a statewide grand jury to investigate corruption in Florida. Wexler has had problems before; they were not widely reported as Democrats continued a politically militant march to absolute control of the government. The congressman not only had campaign finance issues, allegedly filing 25 amended FEC reports, he also faced questions about his residency from GOP and independent opponents in the 2008 elections. Gateway Pundit said Wexler “allegedly” filed those amended reports in a one week period in 2008. After the elections, Wexler's issues were submerged in information overload, but questions still remain.

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Earmarks: Obama, GOPers and Dems guilty as charged

I almost dropped my coffee cup this morning when I heard a pundit say Democrats and President Barack Obama are blaming President George W. Bush for overt costs in the massive Omnibus Spending bill. The Democrats have controlled Congress for almost 3 years, and Bush is probably enjoying his leisure time, glad to be done with what is probably the hardest job in the nation for any person. Obama can chide earmarks all he wants to. But if he’s truthful, he will own up to his own astounding earmarks success during one extremely brief tenure in the U.S. Senate.

Conservative and liberal media ignored questionable earmarks, one of which went to a defrocked priest whose organization helped the “most vulnerable” including children. Another earmark, $3 million strong, went for dance movement therapy. And drumroll, please for an earmark Obama co-sponsored: $30 MILLION bucks for the National Writing Project. I’m a writer and I can say that is the biggest waste of $30 million taxpayer bucks I’ve seen yet. We already pay teachers to teach kids to write. You can read about the president’s earmarks at the Barack Obama website. And now for the loaded question: are earmarks constitutional?

The lucky duckies at The National Writing Project are laughing all the way to the bank, $33 MILLION of your taxpayer dollars in hand thanks to President Barack Obama and his earmark co-sponsors.
Look to the Citizens Against Government Waste website for facts on earmarks and how various administrations have justified them. In my opinion, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lied when he said earmarks have been around since George Washington. And two Republicans clouded the truth big-time as well. CAGW said, “[Former] Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) have argued that eliminating earmarks would equate to an unconstitutional delegation of spending discretion to the executive branch.”

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Why do Democrats in Congress get free media pass?

A number of Democrats in Congress have received a free ride despite behavior that many of us consider unethical perhaps even illegal. As a taxpayer, I’m pretty disgusted with the double standard for ethics. Why do Democratic senators and representatives get a complete pass from media? Maybe it's because traditional journalism really is dead. There are a number of questionable situations involving senators and representatives, but no one's asking questions and many of the most questionable culprits are keeping key committee assignments.

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