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Expect the numbers to continue downward as the spendathon advances and the public realizes they've elected a personality rather than a president.
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Norquist painted the recent elections as a referendum on the "Obama spendathon," and said that battling budgets is exactly "what people were sent to Washington to do" in a recent interview with Politico in which he expressed his belief that bringing federal proceedings to a standstill during an upcoming showdown on taxes and spending could benefit the GOP.
Grover Norquist: GOP Must Be Willing To Force Government Shutdown In Battle Against Federal Spending The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Eager to cement Labor's economic credentials, Ms. Gillard Saturday ruled out any "election spendathon," promising to offset any campaign spending with savings.
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Norquist painted the recent elections as a referendum on the "Obama spendathon," and said that battling budgets is exactly "what people were sent to Washington to do" in a recent interview with Politico in which he expressed his belief that bringing federal proceedings to a standstill during an upcoming showdown on taxes and spending could benefit the GOP.
Grover Norquist: GOP Must Be Willing To Force Government Shutdown In Battle Against Federal Spending The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Their spendathon hasn't ended poverty, or made life easier for their constituency either - rather it's lined the pockets of various advocacy groups and members of the "state sector", which no longer includes anything that could be called productive industry.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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It is not my intention to get all philosophical and use the fallout from the economic crisis as a platform from which to deliver a homiletic address on how the current bleak outlook is part of some Old Testament – style revenge on humankind for our recent sybaritic spendathon.
The Pizza Principle 2009
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The $3 trilliion spendathon is on for us. yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'SHOPPING SPREE!
SHOPPING SPREE! The $3 trilliion spendathon is on for us. 2008
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These days, political leaders promise poor during the campaign ( '' it will be very lean '') and go on the spendathon after it.
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These days political leaders promise poor during the campaign ( "above all else it will be very lean") and the spendathon comes after it.
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These days political leaders promise poor during the campaign ( "above all else it will be very lean") and the spendathon comes after it.
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