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And the latest news in madison, the above is calling on the democrat would left the state, calling on them to return to madison. he says democrats should return out of respect for the institution of the legislature and the democratic process and he said their actions are disrespectful to the public employees and taxpayers that they represent. democrats touting stimulus two years after president obama signed it into law but many folks in missouri who were fired for the $8.5 million bridge project...

Hes trying to ridicule the obama administrations stimulus project, the high-speed rail line. bater re-tweeted a message from a brickm. then theres a youtube link -- ♪ yes. in response to a high-speed train program, a nearly all-black group of people dancing to a song called, "come on, ride it, the train." when democrats in the black caucus descended on her racially twinged re-tweet, she deleted it and promptly made it worse by offering this explanation. "i apologize. was just alerted my rt, re...

Project, the high-speed rail line, while the president was in milwaukee. bater re-tweeted a message from a brickm. then theres a youtube link -- ♪ yes. in response to a high-speed train program, a nearly all-black group of people dancing to a song called, "come on, ride it, the train." when democrats in the black caucus descended on her racially tinged re-tweet, she deleted it and promptly made it worse by offering this explanation. "i apologize. was just alerted my rt, retweet, wasnt what i t...

Deposits. no segue here. and our runner-up, lonesome roads beck, who is getting a little, well, messianic is a good word. these are clips from his last three shows. >> the hotels in washington, not all of them, but anything that is right around there, we understand, is gone. theres no more rooms available. its almost like, at this point, youre the baby jesus. sleep in your car. im not kidding you. sleep in your car. if the people show up, i think its going to provide a shock wave to this nation,...

No segue here. and our runner-up, lonesome roads beck, who is getting a little, well, messianic is a good word. these are clips from his last three shows. >> the hotels in washington, not all of them, but anything that is right around there, we understand, is gone. theres no more rooms available. its almost like, at this point, youre the baby jesus. sleep in your car. im not kidding you. sleep in your car. if the people show up, i think its going to provide a shock wave to this nation, i do. i t...

Segment last week on the waste that was in the original stimulus. $1.9 million to collect, photograph and study different species of and i -- of ants in east africa. $363,000 to help the national institutes of health promote the positive impact of the stimulus project. you want more like this? >> im not going to defend those. nor will i defend the millions bush spent to say look at tax cuts i got. this is a tiny amount of money. we need a lot of money. businesses -- its a catch-22. people arent ...

Pump mud from the top down ideally forcing oil back into the reservoir. the obama administration extremely concerned about a deadly clash on the israeli-lebanese border. the sides differ on the details. but our best information indicating that an israeli commander and at least two lebanese soldiers are dead. u.n. peacekeepers are trying to keep the peace. two republican senators are calling out 100 stimulus project that is they consider, and i quote, stupid or inappropriate. they include $50...

11. but it turns out that the stimulus money wasnt actually being spent on the wine train. it was being used on a massive flood project we found out. they had to actually elevate the tracks and move the tracks. so while it looks like a pretty fancy wine train, it was just in the way. so they had to spend $54 million of stimulus money to move the tracks. and we also learned, josh, that the funds actually created 600 jobs, and those jobs were expected to last two or three years. so i dont know how...

Business model but it wasnt about banks and no sense holding up the strongest consumer protection that weve ever had in this country. >> right, but if fannie and freddie were such a big part of our economic downturn, why not include them when they had the chance? >> well, because its gonna take time to walk through all of those details and the housing market, as you know, is in a very fragile spot so if you just impose that on fannie and freddie right now, the fear would be that you would do som...

About it. what theyve gotten the white house to do, theyll get more surrogate travel, more like the vice president, the first lady, cabinet members will go out and campaign on behalf of the house members because they say look, the president is campaigning a bunch for the senate but not so much for the house. also, they want better coordination, the house members do. when you announce a big stimulus project in my district, i would like more than 24 hours notice because right now, in some case, th...