Hurry UP!!! ..........................Change is Coming!!!

Fearful that "change" is coming, congress is working hard in this lame duck session to get as much as they can. Congress is working in a raise in the auto bail out package for federal judges.

The raise — an annual cost of living adjustment, or COLA — would bring U.S. District court judges up to par with members of Congress, who will receive an almost $5,000 boost on Jan. 1. District judges and lawmakers now earn $169,300 a year but are expected to be awarded a 2.8 percent raise next year, said Dick Carelli, a spokesman for the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., insisted that the judicial pay raise go into the automaker loan measure, which is the only item of business on Congress' lame-duck agenda.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081210/ap_on_go_co/judicial_pay_raise


Lead of course by Harry Reid. I am NOT SAYING federal judges don't deserve a raise. I am simply showing how its more of the same in congress. Call some legislation an auto bailout, education, national security etc. bill, and pile on unrelated pork and spending.

TAHL

Ken Blackwell Announces Run for RNC Chair

Ken Blackwell, former Ohio Secretary of State, has announced his run for the position of Chairman of the Republican National Committee. His announcement letter can be found here.

http://www.blackwell2009.com/lettertorncmembers.html

I think Blackwell would have made a fine Governor, and I believe he has a bright future in the Republican party.

TAHL