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Even Though Our Guy is President It's Still Bush's Fault
23 hours ago ago from HolyCoast.com
Talking Points Memo gives us a preview of the Democrat campaign plans for 2010 with this headline: 2010 Campaign Preview: Democrats To Say GOP Still Party Of Bush Oh brother. Who came up with that? Do they really want to remind America that Obama is not George Bush? I had to read it twice to make sure it wasn't a satire piece. Bush's approval rating has now gone back up to 44%, just a few points below Obama. While the most ardent Democrats ...
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20 hours ago ago from Crooks and Liars
In October 2008, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan famously admitted during testimony before Congress that he was wrong about regulation of the U.S. financial system. Asked by Henry Waxman (D-CA) if "your ideology was not right, it was not working?" a humbled Greenspan lamented: "I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of ...
Related contentThe Current Debt Is Inherited, But Future Deficits Are Chosen
19 hours ago ago from EconomistMom.com
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued this report this week, which claims that President Obama Largely Inherited Today's Huge Deficits. The headline chart is shown above, which proves the point that President Bush's deficit financed tax cuts and deficit-financed wars account for most of the projected deficits. But the chart also demonstrates CBPP's generous definition of what is in today's huge deficits and that's apparently ...
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10 hours ago ago from Nothing to see here
I'm only getting 2 shifts a week at the bar now, it looks like. That's not enough to let me survive at the current level. *sigh* Does anyone need any proofreading done? That might let me be able to make rent and food. *sigh* Still doing SFX Weekender, obviously, but I'm giong to have to find something almost full time for summer certainly, not to mention cutting down my budget rather severely. Well, I'd been meaning to do a purification fast ...
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16 hours ago ago from Collecting My Thoughts
Only now it's his absence! E.J. Dionne Jr. just can't accept the fact that the health bill is just down and dirty awful. Now it's that the Dems don't have their nemesis and hatred to energize and unite them. Mr. Dionne, there's no there there. This is old, rehashed FDR, early 20th century stuff that has driven Europe to its knees. You've elected a Chicago thug-marxist. Don't be fooled by the Wall Street fat cats he hangs with. Marxists don't ...
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Wrap-Up Bill Clears Senate Hurdle : NPR
14 hours ago ago from NPR
Search hear continuous streams 24-Hour Program Stream NPR News and Shows hear the latest news [4 min 45 sec] Latest NPR Newscast Wrap-Up Bill Clears Senate Hurdle by The Associated Press Enlarge Associated Press House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Va. stacks a copies of bills passed by ...
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1 hour, 41 minutes ago ago from Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) worked Friday to secure the needed votes to pass sweeping health-care overhaul legislation, as Republicans threatened to use parliamentary tactics to drag out debate of the measure. Mr. Reid met with Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.), whose vote could give him enough support -- a total of 60 votes -- to prevent a Republican filibuster of the measure. Mr. Nelson remained noncommittal ...
Related contentA Race to Win One More Vote for Health Bill
16 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON The White House and Senate Democratic leaders seem willing to give Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, just about anything he wants to win his support of major health care legislation. Anything, that is, but the item at the top of Mr. Nelson's wish-list: air-tight restrictions on insurance coverage for abortions. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Senator Ben Nelson is the focus of increasingly intense ...
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18 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics
Senate Republicans said Thursday that they would try to filibuster a massive Pentagon bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an unusual move that several acknowledged was an effort to delay President Obama's health-care legislation. This Story Late into the night, Democrats emerged from a huddle confident that they would muster the 60 votes needed to thwart the GOP effort at blocking the military ...
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16 hours ago ago from FOX News
Wrap-Up Bill Clears Senate Hurdle Friday, December 18, 2009 Print WASHINGTON Democrats in the Senate have beat back a GOP filibuster of must-pass legislation that wraps up the bulk of the remaining congressional agenda besides health care. The measure is anchored by a $626 billion Pentagon funding bill, but it also carries short-term extensions of unemployment benefits, highway funding, and key pieces of the Patriot Act. The timing ...
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