Reportedly, while denying bailout checks to nonresidents, the $819 billion so-called stimulus bill winding its way through Congress allows those without Social Security numbers to receive rebate checks. If true, illegal, aliens without a SSN need only file a tax return using another number, aka “individual taxpayer identification”, to qualify for the handout. (Not even ACORN [...]

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We have had a number of posts here at Monroerising lamenting the failures of the media. Yesterday morning’s Democrat & Chronicle contained a small story which illustrates the mind-set of today’s average journalist. Page 9A of the D&C contained a story about the expansion of SCHIP. The first paragraph reads ” Senate Democrats beat back a [...]

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Gentle Reader Hiram Monserrate has escalated his war of words with NOW NY.  According to Liz Benjamin, Morserrate is actually threatening NOW NY: In a harshly-worded letter, Sen. Hiram Monserrate has accused NOW-NYS President Marcia Pappas of making “false…willfully malicious and mean-spirited” statements about his alleged attack on his girlfriend, Karla Giraldo, for which he [...]

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I have to hand it to El Guapo — he had that 3 part series on deadbeat Democrats — elected officials who like to raise our taxes, but either don’t pay their own taxes or bills.  You can see the three parts here, here and here. The Albany Times-Union did a story on 20 state “leaders” [...]

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Good.  He deserved it. And this piece of crap had the audacity to liken himself to the tens of thousands of hardworking men and women who have lost their jobs due to our bad economy. Bye, Bye Blago!

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(Editor’s note: welcome cmw3755 a new poster on monroerising.com) From the Democrat playbook, Eric Massa campaigned from the center, won the election and promptly moved to the Left, following his pal Barry Obama. Mr. Massa fell in lock-step with his Democrat buddies in the House who voted in favor of the Pork-Laddend Stimulus Bill.  It [...]

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Gentle Reader: It’s a running joke among my friends and I that the National Organization of Women (NOW) should be called the National Organization of Liberal Women (NOLW).  Their tendency to overlook the misdeeds of all liberals hurts their credibility. I’m pleased to inform you that NOW has taken the lead in speaking out against [...]

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I’d say arrogance.  According to the New York Post, Michelle Paige Paterson sent e-mail from her work account urging them to write letters to the editor defending her husband against all of the lies he has recently been caught in. From the New York Post: “Please decide to help in this cause and please spread [...]

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This comes as a major shock — NYS Democrats in control of state government have already missed their first target in their budget frame.  According to the Associated Press: ALBANY, N.Y. – Gov. David Paterson and the Legislature’s Democratic majority leaders will miss the first target date under Paterson’s accelerated budget process to deal with [...]

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Remember when President Bush was in China and walked up to a door that was locked and tried to open it? The Liberal media sure had a lot of fun with that. They tried to imply that somehow he lacked intelligence because a door that he had never walked through before was locked. As if [...]

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