Instead of passing the governor's bill, they passed a phony bill that would delay any independent redistricting until 2022.
A man and his two sons were arrested yesterday and charged with operating a counterfeit money ring that passed an estimated $9.5 million in phony bills over the last six years, the police and federal authorities said.
In New Hampshire in January, Mr. Kerry said, "If I'm president, we're going to repeal that phony bill" and "pass a real Medicare prescription drug benefit" more helpful to consumers.
With the arrogance of successful con men, they now want to sell us the same phony bill of goods again: more oil and food and "safe" reactors in return for more empty promises of shell-game inspections.
In the 21st century, where even the most recent immigrant or youthful drug dealer can recognize a phony bill, they are simply out of the game.
This latest cinematic crack at "Gatsby" certainly gives us much to criticize, but the way in which reviewers have impatiently dismissed the film, adopting the tone of aggrieved consumers sold a phony bill of goods, is disappointing.
The debut of this phony bill Friday is the latest installment in Republicans' long-running campaign to make the health care system worse for anyone who has ever been sick while loudly proclaiming they are doing the opposite.
And that there is no evidence of manipulation nor undue speculation in the trading of oil contracts on the commodity exchanges, citing the findings of the that toothless "see,hear, and speak no evil" watchdog the Commodities Futures Trading Commission CFTCC) thereby selling the beleaguered American consumer a phony bill of goods.
In Tampa, Fla., the local energy company, TECO Energy Inc., told MSNBC that 2,000 customers had tried last week to pay their bills with phony account information, which they tracked back to the Obama utility bill scam within 24 hours.
