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Stepping Right Up! (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
This is a good article in the Wall Street Journal, even if it is news that we do not want to hear.One of the strongest factors promoting recovery from our 10 post-World War II recessions was an unshakable conviction that, regardless of the immediate trouble, the American economy is fundamentally strong. Based on this underlying confidence, recessions and recoveries roughly conformed to the
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myairapplications.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Can Salesforce.com Talk Its Way To Bigger Profits? (CRM) – fool> Boehner blasts decision to kill investment advice rule – investmentnews> Business Sours on Overhaul as Legislation Veers to Left – online.wsj > Jeb Hensarling and Paul Ryan: Why No One Expects a Strong Recovery – online.wsj> Oil continues slide as dollar strengthens – Nov. [...]
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Though Tim Geithner didn't get his chance to spend all $700 billion of allocated TARP funds, he might have a shot at doing so next year. According to FT, officials in the Treasury don't want to let the funds expire in case another disaster shows up in the near future: FT : The [Obama] administration is expected to extend its ability to make Tarp investments until October next year – without...
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Kicking Ass (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The Call 'Em Out series continues this week -- and this time we’re calling out the House GOP . All but one Republican member of the House voted against health insurance reform last Saturday. During the 12-hours preceding the vote, GOP members stood at the podium spouting lie after lie in a last ditch effort to kill reform. Watch our video showing all of the outrageous lies from the House debate...
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
A GOP blizzard of untrue statements By Ruth Marcus WashPost Wednesday, November 11, 2009 I'm hoping, for your sake, that you didn't spend your Saturday night as I did: watching the House debate health-care reform on C-SPAN. Pathetic, I know. The outcome wasn't in doubt, and the arguments were as familiar as an old pair of slippers. Moral imperative! Government takeover! Long-overdue protections! Crippling...
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Deus Ex Malcontent (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Dana Milbank's column in today's Washington Post is required reading, even if you have to sign in to do it. As a service to you nice folks, here's the best of it (and oh how irony can be such a cruel mistress): "Many of the demonstrators chanted 'Weasel Queen,' their pet name for the speaker of the House. Others wore masks of Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.); they...
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The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By (O)CT(O)PUS Notice this poster that equates Holocaust victims with national healthcare reform. Protestors displayed this poster today at a rally near the Capital steps, an event sponsored and organized by House Republicans. More than tasteless hyperbole, it goes far beyond all boundaries of civility and decorum. It is obscene to exploit the Holocaust to score a political point, and it offends me...
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The Modern Left (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I have written previously about how the right is using fear tactics in their attempt to stop health care reform. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), compared health care reform to the threat of terrorism: I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country. Yesterday, protesters at the GOP anti-health care rally were spotted holding...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
At the Capitol Hill rally against nationalized health care on Thursday, talk-radio host and author Mark Levin talked to the press: "These are citizen patriots out here, and I’m tired of them being smeared." Some didn’t get the message. In Friday’s Washington Post, columnist Dana Milbank played the usual game of quoting the wackiest signs and smearing thousands of people...
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DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Yesterday the House overwhelmingly passed-- though not without some tough fights-- Carolyn Maloney's H.R. 3639 , a much needed amendment to the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009. The idea was to establish an earlier effective date for the consumer protections inherent in the original bill. The credit card companies were none to keen to see that pass; and let me come...
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Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
...via Matthew Yglesias , this image of Holocaust victims was on display at today's " House Call " protest organized by Michele Bachmann and the Republican House Leadership: Take a closer look: Keep in mind that this wasn't some Glenn Beck-organized 9/12 stunt. This was an event staged by the House Republican leadership -- actual elected officials, members of the U.S. government. Other Republican...
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Blowing San #1 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
This is macbre. He knows he's killing a human, he prays about it, he thinks it's necessary. Found at www.dfwcatholic.org ; DALLAS - Dr. Curtis Boyd is no stranger to controversy. In 1973, Boyd opened the Fairmount Center, which was the first abortion clinic in Texas. Boyd is the only doctor in North Texas who will perform late-term abortions to women up to six months pregnant. "We see patients...
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Corruption Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Nearly a year after House Republicans created a much-ballyhooed committee on earmark reform, it has done nothing to repair the notoriously unethical—and often corrupt—method of publicly funding pet projects for the politically connected. In fact, eight of the 10 Republicans who serve on the highly touted Select Committee on Earmark Reform have continued to seek earmarks and so have the...
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Red State (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
It is good to see Jeb Hensarling leading the rush to Hoffman this morning. I was more critical than I should have been by Jeb’s endorsement of Scozzafava. The party leadership persuaded too many good guys to go with her and the conservatives trusted the assessment. It’s outstanding to see Jeb leading the tide this morning as those who sat on the sidelines or went with Dede now are free...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Opposing view: End taxpayer-funded bailouts House GOP plan forces managers to face consequences of their actions.By Jeb Hensarling As any good doctor will tell you, if you get the diagnosis wrong, you get the remedy wrong. The proposal from the...
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